10 Fastest WW1 Aircraft Recorded (2020)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- " 10 Fastest WWI Aircraft Recorded" World War I was the first major conflict involving the large-scale use of aircraft. Tethered observation balloons had already been employed in several wars, and would be used extensively for artillery spotting. Germany employed Zeppelins for reconnaissance over the North Sea and Baltic and also for strategic bombing raids over Britain and the Eastern Front Airplanes were just coming into military use at the outset of the war.
Initially, they were used mostly for reconnaissance. Pilots and engineers learned from experience, leading to the development of many specialized types, including fighters, bombers, and trench strafers.
Ace fighter pilots were portrayed as modern knights, and many became popular heroes. The war also saw the appointment of high-ranking officers to direct the belligerent nations' air war efforts. While the impact of aircraft on the course of the war was mainly tactical rather than strategic, most important being direct cooperation with ground forces (especially ranging and correcting artillery fire), the first steps in the strategic roles of aircraft in future wars was also foreshadowed.
The fastest World War 1 plane was the single-seat biplane, called “Sopwith Dragon”, which was used by the United Kingdom Royal Air Force. It could achieve a top speed of 150 mph (240 km/h). By the way, an interesting list of the WW1 airplanes, ranked by speed may be found here:
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A lot of missing aircraft and a lot that shouldn't be included
I feel like I'm watching a high school freshman's report.
But you did _watch_ , which is the point.
@@Twirlyhead Watched for about 40 seconds. "The Point" in on top of his head. DUNCE!!!
a lot of errors....some planes never been in dogfight in WW1...
where is The red baron
@@TacticalVIHI red baron is a person not a plane :D
@@TacticalVIHI the red baron was a pilot, his aircraft was the Fokker Dr.I but its speed was low because of the third wing's mass and drag, also because of the rotary engine
I'm not typically a grammar Nazi but "more slower" grates my ears.
AI commentary... The one that pushed my buttons was the "Henry-ette" for Han-ree-OH... (AI doesn't do accents (well, apart from crappy American ones is seems) The Hanriot was a Belgian aircraft as well.
if the Hanriot HD6 entered service in 1919, it missed the war. If the Hanriot HD7 consisted of a single plane, #'s 10 and 6 are represented by one plane. Good idea to take the video down.
Nieuport 28 was as fast as any front line fighter used in combat.
“More slower”... Jesus.
i love this era of aviation
@Yuri DeKhed no lol
ME TO
Totally. It's the coolest era.
This is possibly the most inaccurate list I've ever seen...on any topic!
It is ridiculous to distinguish between a plane with a top speed of 143 and a plane with a top speed of 145. They are indistinguishable in terms of speed. You might as well ask which plane has had a tune-up most recently.
I couldn't agree more. A few of their choices never saw combat (but that wasn't the video criteria). To say that number 10 maxed out at 143MPH and number 1 maxed out at 150MPH is just plain stupid.
more generally, all these rankings are stupid…
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It is so pointless🤦🏻♂️
I am sure that a lot of aces who fought in the war are crying.
“Much more slower” ...
the fastest planes IN COMMON USE were probably he spad and se5. the most capable was probably the fokker DVII
Yes, you are right. This video is inaccurate and spread lies about real facts. Even the drawing of the Sopwith dragen is that of a Sopwith camel. Since I was young I had a lot of interest in this plane and I won’t sea I am an expert but I know enough to conclude that this video is not based on research, and the real facts will lost in time, only by this kind of videos and people who don’t tell the real facts.
The German Fokker, yaap.
@@hitt8632 Question, how do you spread a lie about a real fact, when its a real fact.
I would say that the main countries using the Spad XIII were France and the USA, not the UK.
So many errors in this video. Most egregious is probably getting the pictures for the DH 4 and the SVA the wrong way around.
The Royal Aicraft Factory made many models of airplanes, the fastest in WWI was the SE5a, it should have been correctly named because it's the one present here...
In WW 1 the climb rate was way more important then the speed, the Fokker planes had a superior climb rate and were because of their ability to turn sharp and steep angles feared by the Allies.
I wouldn't say that. German doctrine definitely favored climb rate over level speed, but Allied doctrine generally preferred the opposite. Especially towards the end of the war Allied fighters tended to have significantly higher dive and level speed than their central powers contemporaries and their tactics tended to take advantage of this. The Germans for example tended to pitch their propellers to favor climb and turn rate as opposed to later allied doctrines of using what we would consider boom and zoom tactics tailored for higher speed aircraft like the SE.5, SPAD XIII, Sopwith Dolphin, and so on. Not ALWAYS the case but definitely the trend by 1918.
You've got the SVA 5 and DH4 the wrong way around.
Well done, I never heard of half those aircraft before. I will look them up.
SAMES FOR ME IM WHATS THAT ??
Your O4 'DH4" drawing is NOT a DH4. It is an Ansaldo. I strongly suspect you have got the 05 and 04 drawings confused.
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That was my observation too. I've built models of both planes and that drawing is not a DH4.
I like the narrators accent 😄. Where is she from?
You got the DH4 and Ansaldo pics the wrong way round and where was the Fokker DIIV?
Disappointing.
Riddled with errors.
I appreciate the attention too the subject but not detail. You guys are about to learn a hard lesson- we history buffs are very particular and we love calling out mistakes. There were lots but i can see how you mixed the DH.4 as it looks close to the SVA 5. Anyways, it was entertaining so ill leave a like.
this is so full of mistakes it's comical. you kids ought to learn how to learn. (oh, but look at the zillions of likes I got, I MUST be AWESOME !)
😂😂😂
Neuport 28 and albatross d3 2 that should have been in the running as actually used fighters in great numbers
You got #4 and #5 mixed up. Pictured #5 is the DH-4, and #4 is the SVA.
10 times more slower??????
plane4 is the Airco DH. Plane 5 is the Ansaldo SVA.
Let's get it right
'Didn't take part in the war'.......'Fastest WWI aircraft recorded'.........Buzz off.
That image you used for number 1 is actually a Sopwith Camel, not a Sopwith Dragon.
No hump at guns, not a camel picture. Sopwith pup with that tail. Sopwith Dragon was made from the Sopwith Snipe. Changing the Snipe with longer fuselage to off set the larger Dragonfly 360hp motor. Snipe production model had Bentley BR2 230hp engine. Dragonfly engine had it's break down issues they were working out so no planes went to the front squadrons. Never saw combat.
First & Main part of WWI fighters were using 80hp to 110 hp rotory engines. Inline 6 185hp Damiler Albertoss DII & 200HP DIII. SNIPE'S Bently 230hp gave it 121mph and better climb rate than the 130hp camel. The dragon's 360hp improved climb rate over the snipe.
Wwii 1939 most planes had 800 to 1100hp. MId to late 1944-45 most planes were 1,800 hp to 2,200 plus. (Depending on octane & water injection) Plus, wing design changed. There is no comparison.
@@ptcoronet 3000 plus??
Really? Which ones?? Neither the end-of-the-war Hawker Sea Fury, Grumman F8F Bearcat, Supermarine Spiteful nor any other fighter had that output. In 43? Not a chance. Dont exaggerate.
OK I changed it to what the average R-2800 give or take what aircraft.
you reversed the Ansaldo SVA, with AIRCO DH4.
No German Fighters...
The fastest biplane in ww1 was pretty much as fast as a Jet GTA V
lol, yes, I thought the same when playing through that part... I was like "how is this possible? That thing wouldn't even stay airborne at a speed which this biplane would catch it!"
A WW1 pilot with a parachute!
I found an error between the Airco dh 4 and the Ansaldo sva they are crossed.
sooo many videos u do present wrong information
The Sopwith Camel was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft that was introduced on the Western Front in 1917. It was developed by the Sopwith Aviation Company as a successor to the Sopwith Pup and became one of the best known fighter aircraft of the Great War. Wikipedia
Wingspan: 8.53 m
Top speed: 182 km/h
Range: 350 km
Introduction: June 1917
Engine type: Clerget 9B
Manufacturer: Sopwith Aviation Company
Designers: Herbert Smith, Leslie Frise
The Camel used several different engines the main one was the Bentley rotary of 150 up the highest scoring British aircraft, unfortunately it was difficult to fly killing almost as many British pilots in accidents as enemy pilots in combat.
@@johnshufflebottom7907 it needed fly by wire it was so unstable in the air
N.4 picture is that of an Ansaldo SVA.
Some aircraft that weren't used in the great war
And many detail mistakes
Quite a poor video
Who made this can not identify many aircraft correctly.
Proč máte u vyobrazení Sopwithu Dragon obrázek Sopwithu Camel?!!! Rovněž máte prohozené vyobrazení Airco DH 4 a Ansaldo SVA 5☝️
Celému videu ani neprospívá to, že všechny bokorysy jsou zrcadlově převrácené. Je to vidět hlavně na číslech a písmenech...
You have the Airco at 3.68 feet long. That should have been 30.68 feet based on the 9.35 meters.
Should rename the video "top just after WWI was over fastest not produced aircraft" 😂
They had the red baron, So that's why red baron died..
Who produced this hot mess?!!
The RAF factory was better than the spad S13. Not only were they the exact same speed, but it also had a longer range, so how come it is rated lower in this video?
the Airco DH5 was a two seater ,the aircraft you have here representing it is an Italian Ansaldo shown earlier as no 5!!.
The Airco Dh5 was a single seat fighter...the Dh4 was a two seater and much faster
"More slower than...". Where did you pick up such bad English?
Sopwith Dragon, 276 kg :D :D :D. Stay out of WW1 planes, please.
Spad 13 had a v engine not inline
V8 hispano Suiza was an inline engine of v configuration😊
The photos of the 05 and 04 are switcheed
Thats a Sopwith Camel at number 1,the DH 4 was a two seater so not sure about that one you have shown,
Most of the planes in this list did not see action so why are they in the list?
The "Royal Arcraft Factory" was actually an SE5 built by the Royal Aircraft Factory. And "more slower"? Yikes! Poor effort.
The drawing of the number 1 is a Sopwith camel, maybe you have to do a little more research before you present this. And the Fokker DV II was the most skill full plane of the First World War, they even prohibited Germany in the treaty of Versailles to make or even use them.
they kinda prohibited germany to have an airforce so yeah bruh
still silly comparisons .. the Spotwith dragon never participated in the ww1 fights, it was only a prototype .. the best allied plane was the french plane Spad 13, the plane of the most victorious and the biggest allies, french , American, Italian ..
Not a lot of research gone into this. Some examples never saw action others only built in either one or two examples only. Oh yeah. She missed out the F 14 and Mig 29 😄😄😄😄
Well that was a waste of time......
No German plans?
Yes you're right where is The red baron
Airco D.H.4 Picture ... is Ansaldo :D and vice versa
100 sene oncede hic bi seyde olmadigimiz gibi gene yokuz..
Sopwith these presentations. They are all filled with Fokkering mistakes.
give me the spad 😎
Mettete gli aeroplani a casaccio 😂
El Sopwith Dragón pesaba por encima de los 900 kg
Fokker eidencker?
Fokker was the best ww1 plane
Whatda!! Ww1 aircraft...they never should have exceeds the speed of 50 kmh.
Are you kidding? They usually operated within 90 and 150/170km/h
What about the aluminium monoplane fighter designed by Hugo Junkers? It saw action during the last weeks of WWl.
this aircraft fly only 220km/h and had a slow climb rate because it's hight weight...
#7 is a Spad not spot,#1 is a Sopwith
They said number 1 is a Sopwith Dragon. Only problem is the picture is of a Sopwith Camel.
Please do a list of top 10 Left Wing 'facts', you know, like: Men are Women, Socialism is great, Antifa are not fascists, the BBC is unbiased, etc. That way, when you get them all factually inaccurate like all your other videos, the facts will actually be correct for once.
Yah, like yours Antifa ? That is a dhorthand text ID, NOT ans organization.
Robo Voice blah
2 bladed propeller - very few WW1 aircraft used anything else
So you think that WW1 ended in 1919?
Very Shoddy Research
Nice Art - when it was correct
So you stole a few profile pics did you?
Overall Pretty Shoddy Work
When listing the specs for the AIRCO DH4, you list it's length as 9.35m or (3.68ft). How in the hell does 9.35m equal 3.68ft, when 1m equals approx 3.28ft? I'm sure it was just a simple mistake but c'mon now guys...it's a simple but STUPID & FOOLISH mistake, & if you can get something that insignificant SO WRONG, what other more important info have you gotten incorrect.🤔 Either way, it's enough to make me unsubscribe, which sux cuz I really enjoyed your content. 🙁
*No German Aircrafts*
10 times more slower????????????
Sopwith DRAGON ?? Originally it was Camel
@Yuri DeKhed okay thx you for the intel
They did mean the Sopwith Dragon but the picture is wrong. It’s a Camel. The Dragon never saw action in WW1 though.
Laughs in SR-71
Airco DH4 - Length: 9.35m (3.68ft) ??? I am from Europe but even I know that is wrong.
They were well payed for flying those things?
Some got to live.
Bruh
Yep. Jury is out. Women don't do WW1 fighter aircraft. Stick to baking recipes lady .
You have #5&4 reversed
Non mi risultano quelle prestazioni meglio che fate i conti questo è un video spam
Get a different narrator
what a mess ...
Nice attempt but many errors
I'm like
Thanks.
Where is us-soviet fighters?
🇮🇳🇷🇺🇲🇫🇺🇲🇬🇧🇮🇹
No U.S. fighters saw combat in WWI as far as I know; American pilots flew mostly French built machines. Russia fielded some observation aircraft, but that was about it. Italy flew either French built fighters or French designed fighters built under license in Italy.
Chinju Soviet in WWI?? It was Imperial Russia ruled by the Czar. After the Russian revolution and the 1918 treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russia made peace with the Central Powers and fought its own civil war in 1918-1922. This was between the Czar loyalist and republican Russians (whites) and communist Russians (red). The latter won and they proclaimed the Soviet Union in 1922. 4 years *after* WWI had ended.
Just so that you know, the Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991, so it's been gone for 30 years now. In other words it only existed 1922-1991.
As for the Americans. Fighter planes were first devised as a concept by the British in 1914 (Vickers F.B.5 "Gunbus") but didn't really function in a practical sense until the French and later Germans solved the issue of how to fire a machine gun between the blades of the propeller. This meant that the pilot could focus on flying the plane and aiming by flying in that direction since the guns were fixed.
The first truly effective fighter was the German Fokker Eindekker (although Anthony Fokker was Dutch himself) in 1915. Since the allies had nothing similar at this point it led to the infamous "Fokker Scourge". After that the French, Germans and British kept improving their designs and making the planes faster and deadlier.
The Americans however weren't involved in the war at all until 1917 and had had absolutely no experience with air combat. On top of that they had had absolutely no intention in entering the war until that point and very little funds and government support had been given to develop any weapons for war - especially not for a weapon most Americans only saw as useful for reconnaissance.
While American pilots often were trained at home using Curtis "Jenny" JN-4 training aircraft these definitely weren't suited for combat. Most American pilots flew French Spad or Nieuport fighters.
You can read this in the book "A Concise History of the U.S: Air Force." by Stephen L. McFarland.
"In 1914 the U.S. Army’s Aviation Section of the Signal Corps
had five air squadrons and three being formed. By April 6, 1917, when
the United States declared war on Germany, it had 56 pilots and fewer
than 250 aircraft, all obsolete." page 4.
@@wrightflyer7855 "Russia fielded some observation aircraft, but that was about it. " They had a formidable heavy bomber force with the famous four-engined Sikorsky Ilya Muromets bombers. Btw, they were designed by the same Igor Sikorsky who later moved to the USA and designed the first working helicopter. This bomber was so well-defended only one was successfully shot down by German fighters. Lucky for the Central Powers, Imperial Russia never had a significant amount of them.
In 1914 Russia actually had the world's largest airforce with 244 aircraft in their army. Germany had the second largest with 232 aircraft, Italy a surprising 3rd with 150 and the French with 138 and British with 113. Austria-Hungary had 86.
Anyways, they were pioneers in early strategic bombing and discovered in 1914 what both the French and British discovered in 1917-1918 "the bomber will always get through". This was a doctrine which had great influence in mid-war tactics as well as WWII.
Russian aces in WWI mostly flew French aircraft.
@@McLarenMercedes Thanks for the information. I've been studying aviation history since I was a boy in the 1950s but learn something new almost every day, often from other enthusiasts. I am familiar with Igor Sikorsky and have always admired his design genius. Most people outside the aviation field are unaware of his very successful line of flying boats and the heavy bombers of WWI, or his first venture in the U.S. at Roosevelt Field, from which Lindbergh would later take off for his flight across the Atlantic. Neat stuff, and I never get tired of it.
The nose prop is a Tractor Airscrew use the terminology of the era and honor the production teams.
Why no Germany Aircraft?
Which German aircraft was faster than 217 km/h?
Resmi Anoop, meine Quellen sagen etwas anderes zum Fokker Eindecker.
@Ani Gamings Fokker E.I thru E.III had a top speed of 88 mph, Fokker E.IV maybe top speed of 90 mph. That wasn't even particulary fast for 1916, let alone the rest of the war.
Second, love this video
had to cut short the commentary , that shrill womans voice !!
Beans⁶
What boring nonsense.
this video is so wrong and bad!!!
With the exception of the Airco DH4 none of these planes were deployed in any large numbers. Many of the DH 4's were built in the USA under license and never saw service.
The Spad XIII and the SE5 not deployed in large numbers?
Are you sure.........
Nonsense!
I stand corrected. The Spad and SE5 were available in numbers. Thought the Bristol FE 2 would make the list
Wow....not a single Russian or Chinese entry to be seen....
Russia ww1 history is not something to shoot about
I don't think the Chinese did much ether
B2Tall most Russian planes were really slow. Their only fast ones were French. After the war they would use French engines in their planes
@@emperorwatermelon378 yes and they use french engines up in WW2 (Klimov engines was a evolution of Hispano Suiza y12 nicknamed "moteur canon" = "gun engine" because the 20mm gun include in the engine between both cylinder banks...Japan did also use french engines before WW2: they buy the license for the Gnome Rhone 14K radial engine and the ugrades was known as Nakajima Sakae (use for ex in the Mitsubishi A6M, nicknamed "zero")
@@emperorwatermelon378 fastest of Russian airplane ever built - is the Sikorskiy S-20, 190 kmph. But, it was in 1916, not a 1918. Because of the revolution, the Russians were unable to implement many good engines. For example, a 240-horsepower 7.41-liter two-stroke V6 diesel weighing about 120 kg, the large four-stroke I6 and I12 with 300 and 600 hp. Russians tested charger, which allowed to increase power by a third, reducing the number of revolutions by a third. In addition, the Russians were building aluminum factories, the planes should have become lighter. In 1914-1916, the Russians had other problems. They needed rifles, machine guns, artillery, cartridges, shells, grenades, helmets, bibs, gas masks, chemical warfare agents, and so on. Also, the construction of submarines and battleships continued, the Russians were going to lay 16 "12-gun battleships, etc. At the same time, the ratio of aircraft in 1916 at the front was 1000 against 600 in favor of Russia, therefore, little money was spent on aviation then.
Fokker dr1?
Very slow, even for 1917. Around 105mph. Triple wings meant it could climb fast but it also increased drag making it bad at tailing faster allied planes. The rotary Oberursel with only 110hp wasn't helping either, at a time the Sopwith Camel had 150hp, the SE5a had 200hp, the Spad had 200hp and the Bristol Fighter around 300hp. Most Dr.1 were phased out by early 1918 for the far superior Fokker DVII.
Since castor oil was in short supply in Germany (like many other commodities) and the rotary Oberursel needed castor oil relatively few Dr.1's ever were airborne at any given time during its service.
This is terrible
Complete and utter bullshit