On Feb 8, 7:50 pm, "Dean A. Markley" wrote:
dott.Piergiorgio wrote:
Ed Rasimus ha scritto:

And, don't even get started on the one engine versus two engine
aircraft business. Single engine fighters have been doing quite nicely
for decades....ooops, make that more than a century.

More a century, yes, for *aircrafts* ; for *fighters* I guess we're
still 5-7 years prior of a century of Fighters.... (depend on one's
interpretation of what bird was the first Fighter...)

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.

So what was the first "true" fighter plane? I am not even going to
attempt to set limits on this. Let's just let 'er rip.

Dean

SNIP

Wright Model B pusher of the US Army in 1911. One Lewis gun pointed by
the gunner (CPT Raymond Chandler) while the other guy drove.

http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%...0Model%20B.jpg