WW1 Colours

[Splitpin]

Seems you could paint your aircraft anyway you liked.














There are heaps more , but I wont bore you just now.

Sim is Rise of flight united (steam) paints are a combination of the official skins , and community (ROF) skins .
There are literally hundreds of them and all free .

[hasegawa]

Another point of view Line Engine against rotary engine.. Line Engine faster aircraft but rotary engine more maneuverable... on one side...

[Fozzer]

Love the oily-look of the old Tri-plane!

Total loss lubrication system! (Like my Yamaha 2-stroke Motorcycle!).

Lovely shots, Marty!

My dear old Dad (1900-1989) was in the British Army whilst all that lot was going on....>>>>

https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/un ... -regiment/

Paul..... ...!

[Charl]

#4 immediately brought Terry to mind

[Splitpin]

Thanks for looking ... I know its a bit boring, but it will wear off soon

It's just the huge variation of aircraft and colour schemes that fascinates me ....the constant development that was going on... this was aviation in its fetal stage (a time of exponential growth)
Which of course has never stopped ...WW2, and all the other conflicts.
Civil aviation gained a lot from these early years.... and indeed from the later years, and possibly today.

Like it or not, history shows us, that conflict, in certain areas actually advances technology that benefits us all.
I'm sure there is some pacifist based ideology that would attempt to debunk the former statement but without conclusive proof .... I will file it with the flat earth files.

Charl ....I had almost forgotten dear old Terry
Fozzer ...what an interesting link. I think I have relatives who were involved as well .... but maybe on the "wrong" side, but that depends on which way your looking

[Adamski]

#5 works for me!

Adam.

[Splitpin]

That was for you Adam ... I had no idea the Poles were involved that much in WW1 (Air)

[hasegawa]

This is not correct... The Polish Air Force and the state of Poland are created after WW1.

Wikipedia: 1918–1930

"Albatros D.III (Oef) fighters of the Polish 7th Air Escadrille at Lewandówka airfield in the winter of 1919-1920
Military aviation in free Poland started even before the officially recognised date of regaining independence (11 November 1918). Poland was under German and Austro-Hungarian occupation until the armistice, but the Poles started to take control as the Central Powers collapsed. Initially, Polish air force consisted of mostly German and Austrian aircraft, left by former occupants or captured from them, mostly during the Greater Poland Uprising. These planes were first used by the Polish Air Force in the Polish-Ukrainian War in late 1918, during combat operations centered around the city of Lwów (now Lviv).[2] On 2 November 1918 pilot Stefan Bastyr performed the first combat flight of Polish aircraft from Lviv.[3]

When the Polish-Soviet War broke out in February 1920, the Polish Air Force used a variety of former German and Austro-Hungarian, as well as newly acquired western-made Allied aircraft. Most common at that time were light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, among most numerous were French Breguet 14 bombers, German LVG C.V reconnaissance aircraft, British Bristol F2B scouts and Italian Ansaldo Balilla fighters.[4]


American volunteers, Merian C. Cooper and Cedric Fauntleroy, fighting in the Polish Air Force as part of the Polish 7th Air Escadrille, known as the "Kościuszko Squadron" " ...



Tail insignia of the Kościuszko Squadron
After the Polish-Soviet War ended in 1921, most of the worn out World War I aircraft were gradually withdrawn and from 1924 the air force started to be equipped with new French aircraft. In total in 1918-1924 there were 2160 aircraft in the Polish Air Force and naval aviation (not all in operable condition), in which there were 1384 reconnaissance aircraft and 410 fighters.[4] From 1924 to 1930 the primary fighter of the Polish Air Force was the SPAD 61 and its main bombers were the French produced Potez 15 and the Potez 25, which was eventually manufactured in Poland under license from Aéroplanes Henry Potez.

The first Polish-designed and mass-produced aircraft to serve in the country's air force was a high wing fighter, the PWS-10, first manufactured in 1930 by the Podlasie Aircraft Factory....

This is in short... There is a book on the market about Flying in Poland.
https://www.amazon.de/Kosciuszko-We-Are ... +in+Poland

[Splitpin]

Thank you Andreas .... very interesting post