Okay — most beautiful fighter aircraft of the WWI era

[Oeditpus Rex]

Spad 13?





Albatros D.V?





Nieuport 17?

[Blue-Jay]

1. In terms of beauty, it's gotta be the Fokker DR.1

[ironflange]

2. Fokker D.VIII

Not well known, saw little if any actual service.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. I forgot about the 'Eindecker redux'

An engineering marvel for its time. :thumbsup:

[Aristus]

4. I don't know if it was that one, or another plane, possibly French,

that had a single cantilevered wing. Beautiful machine, with a look that was way ahead of its time.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. I can't think of a French monoplane of that era

Though I think Nieuport were first to eliminate bracing wires on biplanes.

[Aristus]

6. I'm pretty sure there was a French monoplane from WWI.

I had a model of it when I was a kid. Can't remember the name or manufacturer, though.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Found a couple

Coupla high-wings, that is. I know of the mid-wing Morane-Saulnier N "Bullet," built as a racer before the war, and the shoulder-wing Bleriot XI, which was adapted for recon use. But I didn't know Morane-Saulnier also built two high-wing recon/scouts, the L and the P.

http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft/france/morane_l.php

http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft/france/morane_p.php

[Swede]

8. Pfalz D.III.

I remembered this one from an old Enemy Ace comic book.