Favorite WW I Aircraft

Bristol Fighter probably still the best multi role combat aircraft. It could do virtually anything a single engine bird could do. Fighter, Night Fighter, Recon, Bombing and Ground Attack.

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Macchi M5 because it was so beautiful and Italian. Also it was in one of my favourite films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porco_Rosso

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The Macchi M5 is less Italian than one might think, being patterned after the Lohner L, of Austrian origin. On the other hand, Celestino Rosatelli dulled his pencil on the romantically titled Ansaldo "SVA5", powered by the powerful and very loud SPA engine. The aircraft was free to fly recce over Vienna without fear of interception, a Mosquito of its day. Its construction quality put furniture makers to shame. Too bad it couldn't turn well, or it might have made a good fighter aircraft. CR did learn to make fighters later. Hitchhiker's Guide fans would know the name of that a/c.

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The Macchi M5 is less Italian than one might think, being patterned after the Lohner L, of Austrian origin. On the other hand, Celestino Rosatelli dulled his pencil on the romantically titled Ansaldo "SVA5", powered by the powerful and very loud SPA engine. The aircraft was free to fly recce over Vienna without fear of interception, a Mosquito of its day. Its construction quality put furniture makers to shame. Too bad it couldn't turn well, or it might have made a good fighter aircraft. CR did learn to make fighters later. Hitchhiker's Guide fans would know the name of that a/c.

The Italians did make copies of the Lohner L but the M5 was several generations further on and was a dedicated single seat fighter not a 2 seat Recon plane of fairly typical design for a small WWI Seaplane. Inspired by the Lohner might be a better description than patterned after.
 
The Italians did make copies of the Lohner L but the M5 was several generations further on and was a dedicated single seat fighter not a 2 seat Recon plane of fairly typical design for a small WWI Seaplane. Inspired by the Lohner might be a better description than patterned after.

A better description might be that Lohner set the pattern for small seaplanes, and Macchi copied and then developed it in their own way, beginning with a captured example. Somebody has to design and build something first for it to become typical.
 
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