Airco DH.2
Performance
Maximum speed: 93 mph (150 km/h at sea level)
Operation radius: 250mi (400km)
Practical climb limit: 14,000 ft (4,265 m)
Climbing power: 545 ft/min (166m/min) Climbing time to 5,000ft (1,500m) is 24 minutes and 45 seconds.
Armament: 7.7mm Lewis light machine gun × 1
Born during the time of the Punishment of the Fokker (the German fighter plane of World War I), it ended the punishment and gave hope to the Allied Forces. It was the first British fighter to perform missions similar to a 'real' fighter plane, and it was the first fighter to perform a 'real' fighter-style mission in the UK, and the Bloody April period was created by the new enemy aircraft that followed. After being unilaterally shot down, he went to the British mainland, lived as a trainer, and performed missions in the Middle East, Macedonia, and Palestine.
Officially completely decommissioned in the fall of 1918.
It disappeared into history with the end of World War I.
Aces of DH.2 (look for it if you want to know more)
Recognized for shooting down 5 Allied planes in World War I
In Germany, aces start in their teens.
- Patrick Anthony Langan-Byrne →10 wins
- Alan Wilkinson → 10 wins
- Selden Long → 9 wins
- Arthur Gerald Knight → 8 victories
- Eric C. Pashley → 8 wins
- John Oliver Andrews → 7 wins
- Sidney Cowan → 7 wins
- Hubert Jones → 7 wins
- William Curphey → 6 wins
- Stanley Cockerell → 5 wins
- Henry Evans → 5 wins
- James McCudden → 5 wins
- Robert Saundby → 5 wins
- Harry Wood → 5 wins
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