British and Empire Aces of World War 1 - 9781841763774

British and Empire Aces of World War 1Author(s): Christopher Shores, Mark Rolfe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Osprey Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781841763774, 978-1841763774\nSynopsis\nAn illustrated history of how the British fighter developed, both single- and two-seaters.\n\nAt the outset of World War I the British had some 110 assorted aircraft, used mostly for the visual reconnaissance role. With the advent of faster and more agile single-seaters, the Allies and their adversaries raced to outdo each other in the creation of genuinely effective fighters with fixed forward-firing machine gun armament. It was not until 1917 that the British developed a truly effective interrupter gear, which paved the way for excellent single seaters such as the Sopwith Triplane Camel and the RAF [url] later joined by the Bristol [url] - the war's best two-seat fighter.\n\nThis volume traces the rapid development of the fighter in World War I and the a.