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Description: | 18th June 1919.
Image taken in a display shed at the Royal Air Force Aircraft Exhibition held in Roundhay Park between May and June 1919. These exhibits are German planes. The A.E.G. armour plated plane in the foreground is a two-seater trench fighter brought down in the First World War. The armour plating offered protection from rifle fire as the planes were "used for flying at a low altitude over the British trenches, causing much destruction amongst the troops therein, by means of the two machine guns pointing through the bottom of the Observer's cockpit" ((Quote from the souvenir programme and guide). Behind the aircraft in the foreground is the tail of a Fokker Biplane, type D-VII which was fitted with a 200 h.p. Mercedes Engine. It is a single seater scout and was brought down on the 8th July 1918. It had been manufactured in the April of 1918. This machine was one of Captain Baron Von. Richtholen's Circus. To the right is the skeletal frame of an Austrian Berg, fitted with a 200 h.p. Austro Daimler engine. It was also brought down in the Great War. At the time, Roundhay Park hosted the most complete collection of British and German aircraft ever exhibited. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Royal Air Force Aircraft Exhibition Roundhay Park | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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