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AUTHOR: Steve Gibbons
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The Australian Vintage Aviation Society brings to life Australia’s most significant collection of Great War aircraft
The wind was blowing from the east, off the waters of Brisbane’s Moreton Bay, across the end of the grassed runway and into the faces of air show enthusiasts suddenly jostling for prime position in front of one of the rarest reproduction aircraft in the world.
The word had gone around: they were about to do a ground engine run on the Fokker E.111 Eindecker, acknowledged as the first true fighter aircraft with guns synchronised to shoot through the propeller arc. A scourge of the Allies after its introduction to the air war in 1915, the Eindecker is synonymous with German ace Max Immelmann, architect of the dog fight manoeuvre that bears his name.
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