Uploaded November 2007 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Designflaws and leaking fuel tanks caused many deadly problems especially in the Nieuport 28. American volunteers created the LaFayette-squadron and for lack of better planes they bravely flew the Nieuport 28 on many reconnaisance flights.
Things turned bad from 1915, when the planes were armed with maschineguns,
and bad went to worse later in 1915, when the germans Fokker Eindecker had the gun syncronized with the propeller and litterally shot the allied planes out af the sky. The true fighter aircraft was now a reality.
Carl Vendler
Designflaws and leaking fuel tanks caused many deadly problems especially in the Nieuport 28. American volunteers created the LaFayette-squadron and for lack of better planes they bravely flew the Nieuport 28 on many reconnaisance flights.
Things turned bad from 1915, when the planes were armed with maschineguns,
and bad went to worse later in 1915, when the germans Fokker Eindecker had the gun syncronized with the propeller and litterally shot the allied planes out af the sky. The true fighter aircraft was now a reality.
Carl Vendler
