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Caudron G3
Reconnaissanve from 1914 to 1916, 108 km/h with a 80 hp rotary Gnôme-Rhône. |
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Bleriot XI
Louis Blériot crossed the Channel in 1909 at 58 km/h with a 25 hp engine. |
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Nieuport 17
Small and manoeuvrable fighter from 1916, with a 110 hp rotary Gnôme-Rhône engine. |
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Breguet 14
Best of the WW I bombers, |
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... small for a bomber and as fast as a fighter, carried 300 kg of bombs.
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After the war, was used for the Aéropostale by Mermoz and St Exupéry, among others. |
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Fokker Dr.1
Inspired from the Sopwith Triplane, |
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... made famous by Manfred von Richtofen from 1917. |
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Junkers Cl.1
From 1918 fast ground attack plane, 160 km/h with a Mercedes 180 hp |
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Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a
Formidable fighter, from 1917, bettered the Sopwith Camel, with a water cooled Hispano-Suiza 200 hp engine. |
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SPAD S.XIII
Fast and powerful but difficult to fly, was flown by many of the famous aces including Georges Guynemer and Eddie Rickenbacker. Hispano-Suiza 235 hp engine. |
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Morane Saulnier Ai
Roland Garros crossed the Mediteranean in 1913 with an H version. The Ai was used from 1917 by US air forces. |
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