First Fighter Plane?
On Feb 11, 12:06*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
(Richard Casady) wrote :
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:50:44 -0500, "Dean A. Markley"
wrote:
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.
So what was the first "true" fighter plane? *I am not even going to
attempt to set limits on this. *Let's just let 'er rip.
I think about the first really decent fighters were the ones that
could fire two guns through the prop. Two seat aircraft with a guy in
back with a single gun just didn't make the cut.
I bet you wouldn't say that if you were in an unarmed airplane nearby.
Bertie
Among the blind, the one-eyed rules?
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