Duks in Royal Serbian Air Force

The Duks factory was founded in Moscow in 1893, and it was initially a machine workshop for the production of metal products, with a dozen employees.

The Habsburgs’ Wings 1914 vol 1

The Great War (World War I 1914-1918) has been in the public consciousness for many years in the shadows of the heavily traumatized World War II (1939-1945).

Fokker E.V/D.VIII

n the summer of 1919 journalist Jan Przybyła published a small booklet titled Z Orlich Bojów Lotników Lwowskich (Eagle Battles of the Lvov Airmen), which covered the first six months of fighting for the city of Lvov – or rather, the airmen’s part in it.

[3d by Marek Rys]

Fokker D.VII – the lethal weapon

So long as a strong man fully armed guards his own home, his goods are undisturbed; but when someone stronger than himself attacks and defeats him, the stronger man takes away all the weapons he relied on and shares out his spoil. /Luke 11, 21-22/.

S.E. 5a

Steadily, the body of scouts rises higher and higher, threading its way between the cloud precipices.

Nieuport 1-27

The aerial combat during the Great War1 gave life to numerous legends about flying machines and the men who flew them. It was a result of passion for flying. For to fly into the sky had been the man’s dream for ages.

SPAD S.A1-S.VII.C1

The memoirs of Janusz Meissner, the famous Polish pilot and writer, contain the following lines: “Some time ago the stench of castor oil began to drift through the air of the service hangar.

Richthofen’s Eleven Jasta 11

The beginning of the Allied offensive was expected any day. Escorted by fighters, German reconnaissance planes were busy chasing, over the front, from dawn to dusk.

Albatros D.I–D.Va Legendary fighter

“The Albatros D-III popularly known as De-drei is a sleek single-seat biplane fighter armed with two machine guns shooting through the propeller arc.

Kaiser’s Aces

As WW1 began in August 1914, military aviation was still in its infancy. Headquarters in all the European countries that had commenced warfare were very skeptical as to possibility of military use for aircraft.