Nieuport 11/16 Bebe vs Fokker Eindecker - Western Front 1916

The appearance in July 1915 of the Fokker E I heralded a reign of terror over the Western Front that the Allies called the ''Fokker Scourge''. The French Nieuport 11 was one type desperately thrown into action to counter the Fokkers. The swirling dogfights between this fighter - and its more powerful but more unwieldy stablemate, the Nieuport 16 - and a succession of improved Fokkers, the E II, EIII and E IV, came to symbolise air combat in World War I. This book gives a detailed look at the developmental history of thefighters, contrasting the interrupter gear-equipped Fokker withthe more improvised solution incorporated in the Nieuport - amachine gun fitted to the upper wing to avoid the propeller entirely. The Germans went on to abandon the monoplane in favour of a new and deadly generation of biplane fighters, based on the lessons learned from these vicious engagements and influenced by the success of the French Nieuport.>

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• Authors: Jon Guttman, Guttman Jon
• Assisted by: Jim Laurier (Illustration), Jim (Illustrator) Laurier (Illustration), Laurier Jim (Illustration), Mark Postlethwaite (Illustration), Mark (Cover Illustrator) Postlethwaite (Illustration), Postlethwaite Mark (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2014
• EAN: 9781782003533
• ISBN: 978-1-78200-353-3
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 242 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Duel; Duel
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; France, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / World War I, military history, Military vehicles, Air forces & warfare, Warfare & defence, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Air forces and warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Military aircraft, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)