On Feb 8, 7:30 pm, "dott.Piergiorgio"
wrote:
Ed Rasimus ha scritto:

And, don't even get started on the one engine versus two engine
aircraft business. Single engine fighters have been doing quite nicely
for decades....ooops, make that more than a century.

More a century, yes, for *aircrafts* ; for *fighters* I guess we're
still 5-7 years prior of a century of Fighters.... (depend on one's
interpretation of what bird was the first Fighter...)

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.

Morane-Saulnier, Roland Garros used a set of steel wedges to deflect
the rounds that hit the propeller. He eventually shot down, by a
rifleman, and landed behind the German lines. The Germans looked at
the idea and rejected it, turned the problem over to Anthony Fokker
who had been working on the problem of forward-firing machine guns and
came up with synchronized firing using an interrupter cam.

The EI and EII generally used a single Spandau MG with 500 rounds, the
EIII eventually added a second gun.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWmorane.htm