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Fokker FodderThe British BE2c, built for reconnaissance due to its stability, but slow and unmanoevrable, and consequently known as the Fokker Fodder. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Antoinette MonoplaneAn Antoinette monoplane flies over the fields at Chalons, France. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Philips MultiplaneHoratio Phillips Venetian Blind Multiplane, possibly the first aircraft ever to fly in Britain, albeit without any control. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Goupy llLouis Bleriots Ambroise Goupy ll, first flown in 1909. It served as a forerunner to the classic World War I biplane fighter. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Langley AerodromeAviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss flying a modified version of Samuel Langleys Aerodrome over Kenka Lake, New York. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Bombs AwayThe captured German battleship Ostfriesland being bombed by US Army Air Corps aircraft, during tests on the effects of aerial bombing on warships. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Caught LandingSquadron Commander E H Dunning in his Sopwith Pup making the first landing on a ship whilst underway, with the help of crew members on the deck of HMS Furious
Gotha GV bThe German Gotha GVb bomber, used in raids against Paris and London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Lefebvre At ReimsEugene Lefebvre flying one of six Wright Fliers during the Gordon Bennett Trophy Race at Reims Aviation Week, 1909, the worlds first air show. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Le PlantinAn aerial reconnaissance photograph of trench networks at Le Plantin, Windy Corner. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Washington FlightAviation pioneer Claude Grahame-White takes off from Executive Avenue, outside the White House, Washington DC, in a Farman III biplane. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Spad VIIThe Anglo-French SPAD VII, with synchronised fire and fast turn of speed, this aircraft helped to restore the allied position suffering under the might of German Fokkers
Sopwith StrutterThe British Sopwith Strutter 1.5, multi purpose, the first British plane to be built with a propeller - synchronised machine-gun. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
DogfightObservers in the back of two bi-planes taking pot shots at each other with revolvers: aerial warfare was born from this approach. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Hindenburg LineAn early aerial reconnaissance photograph taken at 8, 000 ft showing deep trenches, mine craters and shell strikes on an important sector of the Hindenburg Line. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Bombing MissionAviators and navigators on a bombing mission from a Handley Page 0/400. The four man crew would have to spend up to seven hours sitting in an open-air cockpit at a maximum speed of only 97mph
Sopwiths On DeckSopwith 2F1 Camels on the deck of HMS Furious. Seven of these aircraft were flown off the carrier in July 1918 to bomb two Zeppelins in their sheds at Tondern. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Nieuport 11French built Nieuport 11, also known as Bebe. The Nieuport 11, also used by the British was integral in the fight against the might of the German Fokker warplanes
Morane Saulnier LFrench built Morane Saulnier Type L, used by British and Russian airforces, and credited with the first air-to-air Zeppelin kill. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Voisin PusherFrench built Voisin pusher, originally built for reconnaissance, but later developed as a bomber. The Voisin is credited with the first air-to-air kill. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Fokker E-IIIA German Fokker E-III, the first warplane to be equipped with a synchronised machine-gun. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Zeppelin & ShedA Zeppelin airship outside its shed at Friedrichshafen, Germany. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
DogfightBritish SE-5s locked in aerial combat with German Fokker D7s, circa 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
R. A. F. BirthdayA Bristol fighter of 22 Squadron flies over Vert Galand aerodrome, France, on the inauguration day of the British Royal Air Force, 1st April 1918