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 …
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. …
In our previous article, we presented the Bristol Beaufighter aircraft. Now let’s learn something more about the pilots of the three versions included in the WW2 Wings of Glory Airplane Packs: the British Archibald McNeill Boyd (RAF), the New Zealand Michael James Herrick (RAF), and the Paul Yettvart Davoud (RAF). Archibald McNeill Boyd Archibald Boyd attended Trinity College, Oxford, where from January 1938 he served with …
The Bristol Beaufighter, also called simply the Beau, was a British long-range heavy fighter derived from the earlier Beaufort torpedo bomber design. The name Beaufighter is a merge of “Beaufort” and “fighter”. Unlike the Beaufort, the Beaufighter had a long career and served in almost all theatres of WW2, first as a night fighter, then as a fighter bomber and eventually replacing the Beaufort as a …
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