On Feb 9, 7:38*am, Jack Linthicum wrote:
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 mythology that we are taught here in America is that he was
blipping his motor during an attack on a railway station and he
couldn't get the engine to 'un-blip. What followed, I imagine, was a
pregnant silence, then a blast of French vitriol, and ultimately a
hand-delivered war prize. Fokker's reply resulted in the most radical
advance in air warfare to date. I may have the details convoluted; I
suffer from "too many books read", with too many variations between
them - and you can never tell which version is really giving the right
story.

Gordon