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Pretty crazy to think of the shit we've come up with just to kill each other.
My first thought as well. Less than a decade after man has our first success with powered flight and we've figured out how to attach machine guns and drop bombs.
Let's build an ICBM ... it can kill everyone in an entire city
Wow, that's crazy
Yeah, let's build a few hundred of these things just to make sure
Written on the plane:
Empty weight: 10(?)60 kg (Could also be 1660 kg, the white line makes it difficult to tell)
Payload: 480 kg
Maximum allowed weight: ?
Nice facekini
The plane looks the most like a Fokker D.VI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_D.VI.
There were only 60 made, so that makes this a rare photo. I like the different colored flares, likely for communication to the ground. Can anyone who knows guns give some more info in the side-mounted piece?
I think it might be a flare gun.
That big mofo on the opposite side of the pilot?
Sorry, thought you meant the one hanging off the edge nearest the pilot. XD
I think the one in back is an MG14, but I'm no expert.