#SE5a

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1918 05 Gallant Gentlemen - James Dietz

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Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a Wolseley Viper of 85 Squadron, flown by Billy Bishop VC.

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Reliant Scimitar GTE SE5A, 1971/2. The Scimitar was designed by Tom Karen of Ogle as a shooting brake version of the earlier SE4 coupé. It was Reliant's most successful model with 4311 being produced between 1968 and 1975. They were all powered by Ford's 3.0 litre "Essex" V6

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45 victory ace and Pour le Mérite (Blue Max) holder Leutnant Fritz Rumey of Jasta 5. He was KIA on 27 September 1918 after colliding with an SE5a. He bailed out but was killed when his parachute failed. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

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König-Werke Adler-N - "Fokker's Cloud Stalkers"

Role: Scout Served With: Fokker Kingdoms First Flight: 1592 Strengths: Good Energy Fighter Weaknesses: Not Great in a Turn Inspiration: RAF SE5a (1917) Backer: Daniel Kwan

Description:

The KW Adler-N, often simply known by its abbreviation to pilots, ended up serving as Fokker’s primarily scout for the back half of the Great War. It’s design reflected the Fokker Kingdom’s combat philosophy, with an emphasis on speed and technical sophistication.

The original KW-AA was intended to match the agility of the Ritter rotaries, but it failed miserably in combat trials, being easy prey for enemy Singvogels. Ultimately, however, it took a fairly minor modification to become competitive: the replacement of the four-bladed, direct drive propeller with a geared, two-bladed one.

Suddenly, the KW-AN could fight in the vertical with the same ease the Ritter planes fought in the turn, and it was back in the running. It would serve with distinction until the end of the war, upgraded with larger powerplants as the war wore on.

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Why would they put Joseph’s dad in a Phonix D.I when he was in the RAF, my brother in Christ they were used by Austria-Hungary during the war, I know JoJo’s is no way accurate to life ever, but you can at-least put him in like a sopworth camel or like a RAF SE5a

[cluttonfred]

Mike Loehle remembers Eric Clutton

While Eric Clutton sadly passed away in 2022, it has been something of a tradition on this site to wish him happy birthday each year, and today Eric would have been 97 years old.

When Eric left the UK for the USA to seek greener pastures and bluer skies, he ended up in Tennessee, where he was involved in various ways with the development of a number of homebuilt and ultralight aircraft. One fixture of the light aviation community in Tennessee is Mike Loehle, and I'll let him take it from here:

I took this photo years ago here at my airstrip back in the 1980’s. Eric worked for us back then at Ritz Propeller Company and later Loehle Aircraft in our “5151” Mustang prototype days and then I moved him to our prop shop. Eric travelled to airshows with us too. I wish I could find his great book on having an English Morgan three-wheel car! Such a funny book, lost mine somewhere in our office, I guess. I’m bad about loaning books, so who knows…? My airstrip in Wartrace is the home of my former Ritz Propeller Company, Loehle Aircraft, and now Loehle Coatings. There we developed the Loehle “5151” Mustang RG, Loehle P-40 Flying Tiger, Loehle Sport Parasol, Loehle Spad XIII, Loehle Fokker D-VII, Loehle SE5a, Loehle Spitfire Elite, Loehle KW-909 and Loehle Fun Machine, and Loehle Aeroplane XP. Some of our kits were experimentals and several were ultralights. Eric helped us with many of our kit designs and in our prop shop. As I run across more photos of our “colorful” Eric, I will forward them to you. Many more photos exist in my closed factory office.

Photo of Eric Clutton and the original prototype FRED taken at the 1800' grass airstrip at The Aviation Valley (6TN4) in Wartrace, Tennessee courtesy of Mike Loehle.

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SE5a

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S.E.5.a

[airmanisr]

Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a ‘F904’ (G-EBIA) by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 654/2404 A genuine WW1 aeroplane built in 1918. She served with 84sqn Royal Air Force and shot down a Fokker D.VII on 10th November 1918, the last full day of the war. She has been owned and operated by the Shuttleworth Collection since August 1959 and is the only genuine example of a wartime SE5 still airworthy. She is seen in the collections workshop undergoing engine maintenance during the afternoon of the collections ‘Spies & Intrigue Evening Drive-In Display’. Old Warden, Bedfordshire, UK 15th May 2021

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1918 06 Davies' SE5a - Russell Smith

This particular SE5a was the usual machine of LT. E. G. Davies of 29 Sq RAF. Davies scored three of his ten victories in the machine, but was unfortunately killed in it when it shed its wings during an acrobatic manoeuvre.

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Major Charles Edward Murray Pickthorn MC. His original 1918 SE5a still flies today at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden.

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SE5a fighter scout, serial no. C9539, of C Flight, No. 2 Australian Squadron, involved in an accident at Savy Aerodrome, France.

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Royal Aircraft Factory SE-5A

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Part of the assembly floor for the Vickers Aircraft Factory in Surrey. The sections you can see are parts of the SE5a fighter.

[ismaeljorda]

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