The idea gave rise to immense dogfights between fighter planes of the time, and militaries experimented with ideas to garner an edge with their aircraft. Naturally, many of these ideas didn't stick.

An early attempt to keep WWI fighter aircraft from blowing their own propellers to bits when firing was to simply add armor plating to the props, which did keep them from being shredded, but also ...

This World War I Plane Has Two Claims to Fame: It Was One of the Deadliest Fighter Aircraft of Its Time, and It Was Flown by Snoopy The Sopwith Camel was challenging to fly but also successful in ...

The plane is a Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, a biplane (a type of aircraft with two stacked wings) fighter aircraft the British designed in 1914, built in 1915, and tested in 1916 in response to Germany ...