The second part of the Hanriot HD.1 preview (click here to see the Part 1) presents the pilots of the three versions of this fighter featured in the WW1 Wings of Glory Airplane Packs: the Belgian ace Willy Coppens, and the Italians, Mario Fucini and Silvio Scaroni. Willy Coppens Belgium’s leading fighter ace, with 37 victories credited, and the champion “balloon buster” of World War I, …
The Hanriot HD.1 was a single-seat biplane fighter. Despite its development in 1916 by the French company Hanriot, the HD.1 was not adopted by the French squadrons, but equipped the Belgian and the Italian air forces. It was a highly successful design, piloted by WWI Aces such as Willy Coppens, Mario Fucini, and Silvio Scaroni. While Hanriot began the 1900s developing several pre-war monoplanes, they had mainly …
Inkognito, designed by Alex Randolph and Leo Colovini, was first published by MB in 1988, and soon established itself as a classic deduction game, with millions of copies sold across the World. The game is set during a Venetian carnival, in a romantic age of spies, microfilms, hot-air balloons and fast speed-boats. As a secret agent, you will have to collect clues, use your deduction skills …
In our previous article, we presented the Messerschmitt Bf.110C aircraft. Now let’s learn something more about the pilots of the three versions included in the WW2 Wings of Glory Airplane Packs: the German aviators Georg Christl (LW), Günther Radusch (LW), and Fritz Schupp (LW) and his unit, the Zerstörergeschwader 26 (ZG 26). Georg Christl Georg Christl was born on 3 October 1913 at Pfaffenberg in Niederbayern. …
The twin-engine Messerschmitt Bf.110 Zerstorer (or “Destroyer”) was initially designed to meet a German specification for a “high-speed bomber and heavy fighter”, but entered service as a bomber escort and bomber destroyer. Even if the Bf.110 did not match up to Luftwaffe expectations, it served Germany throughout the Second World War in a number of roles: Long-range escort fighter, fighter-bomber, reconnaissance, ground attack and night fighter. …
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