The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Royal Aircraft Factory FE2b is a two seat aircraft with a pusher propellor and equipped with two Lewis guns, one forward and one backward firing. FE2b aircraft were initially successful over the Western Front until the autumn of 1916 but were subsequently outclassed by improved German aircraft. Many FE2b aircraft were transferred to the night bombing role and continued in service until the end of the war.
A crashed DH2 aircraft. The Airco DH2 was a single seat fighter aircraft which was powered by an engine fitted with a pusher type propeller designed by Geoffrey de Havilland, and fitted with a forward
The Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 was first delivered to units of the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front in November 1916 as a better armed alternative to other types already in service. It was equi
UNITED KINGDOM. C. 1917. A ROYAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY FE2B PUSHER TYPE BIPLANE WITH A 120 HORSE POWER BEARDMORE ENGINE. DESPITE THEIR FLIMSY APPEARANCE THESE MACHINES WERE VERY EFFECTIVE WHEN FIRST INTROD
A De Havilland DH2 aircraft in the desert, with skull and crossbones painted on the nose in front of the engine. The Airco DH2 was a single seat fighter aircraft which was powered by an engine fitted
The Royal Aircraft Factory FE8 equipped with a single machine gun in the front cockpit, arrived at the Western Front in August 1916, at a time when pusher aircraft were outclassed by German fighters.
Japanese Aircraft World War Two. Watanabe ‘Shinden’, Prototype short-range interceptor fighter (only two aircraft were completed before the end of the war), rear mounted wings and nose mounted “canar
