WWI, German and British Dogfight

Dogfighting first emerged in World War I. Ever since heavier than air flight became a reality in 1903, people had been trying to figure out how to use this new technology for warfare. Once machine guns were mounted to the airplane, either on a flexible mounting or higher on the wings of early biplanes, the era of air combat began. Pilots achieved firing position while avoiding the threat of enemy guns by maneuvering behind the enemy aircraft, a type of combat that became known as dogfighting. Oswald Boelcke, a German fighter ace during World War I, was the first to publish the basic rules for aerial combat maneuvering in 1916, known as the Dicta Boelcke. He advised pilots to attack from the direction of the sun (toward which the defending pilot could not see), or to fly at a higher altitude than the opponent. Caption: Composite picture of a dogfight between fighter planes (film of this period was not fast enough to capture action like this)

Restrictions Only for Ireland and United Kingdom

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