Flying the Airco DH.2

Great footage and close-ups from flying an AIRCO DH.2.

The pilot says that the aircraft was better in left turns than in right ones.
Makes perfect sense, as the engine is rearwards, and the prop therefor turns
in the other direction than on a Sopwith Camel, which had an amazingly fast
right turn, but a very bad left turn.
And this, although this pusher here is "only" driven by a radial engine -
I guess with a rotary, where the whole engine revolves with the prop, the
torque effect would be much higher.
Enjoy!

Spitfire & Hurricane in flight - Multi-Cam

Needs no words, I guess - just listen to the music by Rolls-Royce...

Oh, one thing: the swastika on the Hawker Hurricane is not the German emblem.
Swastikas are much older, they were/are good luck charms in several cultures,
or religious symbols.
This blue swastika on white ground was the national air force emblem of Finnland
in WW2 (...and maybe still today - Hasse? ).
Finnland had fighter aircraft from several countries back then; the Brewster Buffalo,
the Morane-Saulnier 406, the Bf109 G-2 and G-6, the Gloster Gladiator and Gauntlet,
the Fokker D.XXI, the Fiat G.50 Freccia, and the Hawker Hurricane (among others).

Cheers Olham for sharing - they have made my day!

Flying with the Spitfire

This early model Supermarine Spitfire was recovered from a beach in France,
where it's pilot had made an emergency landing after getting hit by German ground fire.
The craft had sunken into the sand, and when you see the images of the corroded wreckage,
you wonder how they could have ever made it an airworthy fighter aircraft again!

But I guess it's like with building a good air combat flight sim like WOFF:
countless hours have to be invested, and a huge amount of love and devotion.
In both cases, the outcome was more than worth it, don't you think?

Watch this beauty in flight - enjoy!

The famous "Tripehound" - Sopwith Triplane in flight

A fighter even the "Richthofen Gang" had to respect - enjoy!

Sopwith Camel with original rotary engine in flight

If the WW2 Supermarine "Spitfire" had a mother (or grandma?), it must have
been the Sopwith Camel, wouldn't you agree? Enjoy this good quality video!

"Dogfight": Fokker D.VII vs Bristol Fighter F2b

Watch these fighters manoeuvering - and these are not even the extreme manoeuvres
which some combat pilots might have performed in these aircraft!

The Fokker Dr.I - "...climbs like a monkey!"

Watch this climb right after takeoff (from the cockpit!) -
Together with the Camel, the Fokker triplane is the most famous WW1 fighter.
Enjoy

Wow, this is great stuff! Will have to watch them all. Thanks for sharing.

Regarding the blue swastika, it became the emblem of the Finnish air force already in 1918, so you're quite correct in that it has nothing to do with Hitler and the Nazis. However, by popular request (ie. Uncle Joe and the Soviets), the Finnish air force stopped using the emblem in 1945. Since then, Finnish military aircraft have had blue and white cockades as their emblems.

However, the swastika survives in air force unit flags even today. A different kind of swastika is also part of the design of the crosses of the Order of the Cross of Liberty, which is the highest military order of Finland.

Thank you for the details and info, Hasse!

Halberstadt D.IV

Had posted this video before, but it somehow belongs in here.
The Halberstadt was maybe the first serious answer on the Entente fighters
in summer 1916; until in September to same year, the Albatros D.I and D.II
outclassed it and set new standards.

Fokker E.III Eindecker

It was hard to find a video with a full scale Fokker E.III replica in flight;
so excuse the low quality - it may give us an idea of the wingwarper, still.

Two Nieuport 24 - one with the paintjob of Charles Nungesser

I cannot say anything much about this aircraft; maybe someone else can?

Great Videos!
You're on a heck of a roll here

Don't know why, but I find the Halberstadt fighters wonderfully appealing. Maybe because they are a transition between the primitive Fokker E.III era and the sophistication of Pups and Albatri. They're kinda boney and awkward looking, like adolescents.

Haha, yeah, not really beautiful - as the next one definitely is - at least for "Albatros Man":

Albatros D.Va (and R.E.8 and a glimpse of a Nieuport 17)

Okay, you won't be surprized, when I tell you, that I like the E3 Video best
I remember, someone wrote, that a modern Test Pilot, who once had the Opportunity to fly an E3, said, that this was some life-threatening Experience, and that it permanently felt, like the Back of the Plane wants to overtake you... maybe that's the Reason, why so few Replicas of them exist...

Well - ll... aerh - ...and what about the BEAUTYful Albatros???
Of course I am surprised...!
But okay - so the wingwarper has at least one fan here!

Yeah, I know... I'm the only one, here LOL

Naw, I admit I once flew in the Alsace region with Ernst Udet in the Eindeckers (in the later Jasta 15),
and I got used to handling it well enough that I even landed hits on two Nieuport 11 and got away alive.
Well, Ernst helped me there...

any Taubes?

They look so much like a bird