Planes

Question 1

Sopwith Camel

Answer 1

Most reliable British fighter
Designed in response to air raids
Introduced Jan 1917

Question 2

British Braemar Mark I

Answer 2

Bomber plane designed to retaliate the bombings
Retaliation never happened

Question 3

Handley Page Bomber

Answer 3

Another bomber plane designed to respond to civilian bombings
Only 42 were ever built

Question 4

BE2

Answer 4

Reconnaissance plane
Relatively stable, cameras mounted on the sides

Question 5

Bristol F.2 Fighter

Answer 5

Two-seat fighter biplane
Also reconnaissance
Over 5,000 built

Question 6

Fokker Eindecker

Answer 6

The ‘scourge’ of the air in 1915 due to its new interrupter gear, designed by Anthony Fokker
- Synchronised the propeller with the gun
- Meant the pilot could fire more accurately
Allowed the Germans to dominate the skies until the summer of 1916
Allies finally recreated this with the Vickers-Challenger

Question 7

Sopwith Triplane

Answer 7

First in Feb 1917
147 built
Copied by the Fokker company, creating the Fokker Drei

Question 8

Fokker Drei

Answer 8

German Triplane, its design copied from the Sopwith Triplane
Made famous by the fighter ace, the Red Baron, Mannfred von Richtoffen

Question 9

Se5a

Question 10

Se2a