So where's our WWI section on WIX! ...

[Mark Allen M]

I got a lot of WWI stuff to post ...


Anyone here know this guy?

... But first start here for those interested. Absolutely Outstanding photos from our good pals at the SDASM archives. Enjoy! enjoy!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarch ... 3423211165

[robkamm]

Sure do. post away. I like it.

[Champ driver]

Please post away, I love that stuff too!

[airnutz]

Warbird Information Exchange...regardless of which wars, conflicts, etc. Post away!

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[Mark Allen M]

PfalzDXII


FokkerDVII


Nieuport27C1


Nieuport17sandNieuport24satBailleulc1917


SPAD


SPAD


SPAD


SPAD's


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[FAR148]

Very Cool, Keep them coming!



Steven L

[Randy Wilson]

Mark - I too am interested in The Great War (WWI) aircraft, partly because my father served in France 1917-19, and also because I have flown and even owned WWI fighter replicas. Of course, the first image is of leading American ace Eddie Rickenbacker with his Spad XIII (13), while most if not all the other Spad images are Spad VII (7), the earlier model. One easy ID point is the 7 carried only one forward-firing gun but the 13 had two. I'll try and add some other WWI warbird images when I get home in a day or so. I also have a few photos of my father in uniform in France. More on that soon. Keep up the fine posts and all the best.

Randy

P.S. On my last visit Friday to the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, where my old Fokker Dr.I replica has lived for some time, I noted they had acquired a Pfalz D.III and Halberstadt D.II replica which are now on display. They look to be possible fliers with upright Ranger engines. I'll get some more info from Doug on my next visit.

[Mark Allen M]

Thanks Randy and everyone else, I too have an interest in this period in history. fascinating stuff. This next batch comes from the SDASM archives as well ... This is a special collection on Philip R. Babcock and the 88th Aero Squadron of WW1. Photos taken from France in 1917-1918.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarch ... 0113936146

[old iron]

That last photo is interesting. Obviously a SPAD (VII?), but there are German aircraft elsewhere on the field and in the hangers. So a captured aircraft? I would say not a crashed aircraft judging by the lack of damage to the top wing.

[Pogo]

Mark, now that's a picture thread after my own heart, hope you keep 'em coming! If you run across any close-up shots of the Germans' Spandau LMG 08/15 machine guns I for one would be especially interested, as I constantly strive to make our presentations ever more accurate at the Pioneer Flight Museum at Old Kingsbury Aerodrome.

Jenny shots too -- I'm one of the few who has actually spent a bit of time in one ... well, a Canuck in our case. Nothing like an OX-5!

Since there's interest, I'll plug our upcoming bi-annual airshow and fly-in coming up on May 3. Here's a preview (I'm the guy in the derby):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/72186373@ ... 600922834/

http://www.pioneerflightmuseum.org/

[Mark Allen M]

You bet Kurt, glad to do it. We'll make this the "mother load" of all WWI photos. As long as you help explain what the heck we're looking at in some of these photos. I sure can't do it.

BTW very cool photos, thx

M

[Baldeagle]

That is Guynemer's famous SPAD VII, S.254, at the Hotel des Invalides possibly just after the war.
Seen also here:


It still survives, and in later years was restored, recovered in a lightweight fabric with the original fabric glued back on over that, so almost 100 per cent original, hanging at the Musee de l'Air at Le Bourget just outside Paris:




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[Baldeagle]

SPAD B9913, shown above in Mark's post in WW1 (or maybe postwar, can't quite read the date at the bottom right), also still exists, at least in theory, as there wasn't much left when it was "restored" in the 1970s, and in fact what few parts were left over after the first rebuild were used to "restore" another SPAD, with both claiming to be B9913! Not sure which came first, but here's one at the Virginia Aviation Museum in Richmond, VA:



And here's the other one at the Canadian Aviation Museum in Rockliffe:



Good thing that never happens with P-51s.........




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[Baldeagle]

Also, the replica Pfalz D.III and Halberstadt Cl.II at Cavanaugh were built by a guy named Ron Kitchen in Nevada, the Pfalz flew a bit in the '80s when it was finished, but I don't think the Halberstadt ever flew before Ron died a few years ago. His estate put the airplanes up for sale, and that's how they ended up at Cavanaugh.



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[over/out]

Cool! Any of one of my fav.s, the Fokker D VI (6) ? You know, the "2" wing dr1 triplane!