Airco DH.2 - Looks Like A Half-Built Aircraft
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One of the early successes of the First World War, the Airco DH.2 is a 'pusher' with the engine at the rear of the aircraft. This design was to provide the pilot with the ability to have a forward firing machine gun attached to the aircraft, in the period before anyone had invented a mechanism for guns to fire through the propeller arc.
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Half-Built more like *PERFECTLY* built. Absolutely adore this beast
Love the Airco DH2 an amazing aircraft
Great footage! The DH2 did solve a lot of the problems of the time. It would be great to have more replicas and UL models flying around as they do look very interesting. Thx for sharing!
Fantastic clips!
Glad you like them!
Recordemos que un ingles, enemigo de manfred von richtoffen, volaba uno de estos. Manfred quiso derribarlo pero le costo grsn trabajo!. Manfred siempre recordaria este combate enseñando siempre: el hombre y su habilidad y no la maquina, es la que marca la diferencia en combate.
The original skeletonized super light
Wow, neat, so why was it a "pusher",non synchro gun? How many were produced??
453 were built. "Pusher" because his engine was behind pilot and was pushing forward entire plane. British planes were not synchronized till 1917 i guess
@@PunkinsSan Thanks,I knew what a pusher was, but I was just confirming it was due to a non- synchronized gun. Neat design though!
@@trob0914 The type was instrumental, along with the French Nieuport scouts, in ending the so-called Fokker Scourge as, despite not having a synchronised gun it was superior to the Fokker Eindecker in performance and much more maneouverable. Initially the Lewis gun was on a flexible mount and the pilots were ordered (by those who didn't have to fight in the type!) to manually aim the gun at the enemy while piloting the aircraft. Pilots knew, of course, that this was completely impractical and that it was the aircraft itself which needed to be 'aimed' at an enemy plane. Despite this the order was maintained but, thankfully, the gun had a mount which could fix the gun rigid (for transit reasons) so pilots simply 'forgot' to release the mount. Despite the aircraft's success it soon became obsolete with the arrival of better German types, such as the Albatros series of fighters, but it soldiered on in the Middle East for sometime after its withdrawal from the Western Front.
@@paladin56 Thanks, I need to study more about the WWI aircraft!
In WWI gun synchronisation was not an easy thing to achieve, and it didn't really exist until around halfway through the war anyway. Until around 1917 most countries found it easier to just use pusher aircraft or mount the gun on the top wing, clear of the propellor.