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Old February 10th 08, 12:46 AM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval,sci.military.naval
Corey C. Jordan
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Default First Fighter Plane?

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 06:19:15 +0200, "David Nicholls"
wrote:


You are defining it rather strangely (it counts out the F15!!!!) - the FB5
fired its gun forward, it was a "pusher" design, as were several early
fighters. The Fokker E.1 that was the devastating first fighter that could
fire through the propeller (had a deflector plate on the propeller - not an
interupter gear) had only got 1 machine gun.

David



The E-1 used an interrupter gear. The Morane of Garros used deflecter plates.

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