WWI Planes Project

Eddy Tak Project

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[meatisdeliciouse]

@roadstarman58 Yes, more practical radios only came out at the end of the war when it was all drawing to an end, I wonder if the planes with radios actualy saw any action during the war? The titanic should have hade planes on it, then they could have evacuated more passengers and got help a lot quicker. I heard that the ther ship was equiped with radio but they hade just shut it down for the night.

[roadstarman58]

@meatisdeliciouse Radios were quite big and cumbersome in those days. I remember reading about Heinz Guderian being a young communications officer in the very early days of the war. The radio was in a horse drawn wagon and was very heavy. Probably because of the batteries. It probably could only transmit a few miles at best. How technology has changed!

[meatisdeliciouse]

@roadstarman58 Also I think there were several un-succesful attemps to make ahelicopter around WWI and your right it wasent until the 30's until they managed to get them to work well.

[meatisdeliciouse]

@roadstarman58 Your right about the first airborn radio, I looked up my Enciclopidia and it says that there indead was a new radio invented in 1919. I also descovered they did have some more basic radios and radio braodcasting started in 1906, so I thi k there was radio in WWI just not as syphysticated as the 1919 model. The very first radio comprised of a very basic on off type machine only able to send out clicks.

[roadstarman58]

@meatisdeliciouse I recall a show on Discovery Channel in the 80's called Chabo Solo. It was about a man who was turnig 100 years old, and was flying before WWI. He told of flying in 1919 and trying out the first airborn radio, so that meant there were never any radios in planes until after the war. Morse code transmissions would basically have required a 'wireless' set of some kind also, so I can'tt imagine there was any capability of that either. Hand signals between pilots was about it.

[meatisdeliciouse]

@roadstarman58 I see, What was the radio technology like back then, could you send voice commands through the air or was it just clicks like on the Titanic? I try to find this out online but I can't seam to get a straight answer off the internet.

[roadstarman58]

@meatisdeliciouse I would imagine the maximum altitude would have been around 10,000 ft considering there were no superchargers for the engines or oxygen for the pilots, plus the general low performance capability of the engines at that time. Helicopters, or rather the autogyro was invented in the 30's by Sikorsky with the 'modern' helicopter after that, so no, definitely no helicopters in WWI.

[meatisdeliciouse]

How high could WWI planes go? When was the first helicopters? Did they have any helicopters at all in WWI?

[Basilisk195]

This is the film music of "Top Gun" - and in their time these a/c all was top guns .... also the blurred museum Nieuport Ni.17 of the Escadrille Lafayette. The intro and credits in this video was made in better quality than some of its scenes.

[DNenter]

ok did you have to ruin this video with this music ! come on now!