Fighter PLANES

      During WW1, planes were armed with machine guns and weren’t very accurate or effective, but everybody used them.  Towards the end of the war, they built bomber planes that could hold two to three bombs each. So, to have any effect they had to build a lot of these types of planes.

There were about 70 different types of planes used during the war.  Some of these are the Aviatik D.I, 5 different types of Junkers, Fokker E.I, Martinsyde G.100, and the Curtiss.

Air Ships     Later in the war zeppelins were used by Germany to do most of the attacking.  The Germans would have huge fleets and at night they would attack London with them.  But zeppelins werenít always used for attacking.  They were used for transpiration too.  After World WWI there was a famous zeppelin called the Hindenburg.  The Hindenburg was a huge zeppelin that carried several hundred people but unfortunately, it exploded and crashed.  There were very few survivors.  This resulted in the end of these large airships being used for passenger service.
There was also one type of trainer plane that the US invented and let its allies use.  It was called the Curtiss JN-4

Funny Facts About Planes In WW1

     The Aviatik would shed its wing fabric.  Another plane the Junker J.l took hours to get off the ground and sometimes would fall over.  Though a lot of fighting was done in the air it didn’t change the outcome of the war.

 

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