Over the Front

1986: Volume 1, Number 1

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Ltn. d. Reserve Hanns Rabe(left) and pilot Feldwebel Peter Johannes (center) stand in front of their Hannover Cl.IIIa 2714/18 with Unteroffizier Noll, their mechanic while stationed at Pont-?-Marque, France, summer 1918.

Over the Front

1986: Volume 1, Number 2

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Over the Front

1986: Volume 1, Number 3

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Sopwith Camel F4017 of Special Flight, No. 204 T.D.S. at Eastchurch, October 1918. Flown exclusively by Capt. L. P. Coombes, DFC and Lieut. Gerald Hudson. (From the L. P. Coombes album)

Over the Front

1986: Volume 1, Number 4

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The Riesenflugzeug (Giant aircraft) Linke-Hoffman R.II 55/17 seen under construction at the Linke- Hoffman Werke in Breslau. This aircraft is purportedly the largest single airscrewed aircraft ever built. (The wheels were 5ft. in diameter!) Four 260 h.p. Mercedes D.IVa engines were mounted in the nose section of the fuselage in tandem, and drove a massive propeller at 545 rpm. The design philosopy was based on the successful C type aircraft design and enlarged upon. The aircraft was finished after the Armistice but flew and fulfilled it's design expectations. (photo via the W.R. Puglisi collection.)