By James F. Miller
Within the spring of 1916 the deployment of the RFC's FE 2 – with its rotary engine 'pusher' configuration affording very good visibility for its pilot and observer, and elimination the necessity for synchronized computer weapons – helped wrest aerial dominance from Imperial Germany's Fokker Eindecker monoplanes, after which contributed to holding it through the Somme battles of that fateful summer time. in spite of the fact that, via autumn German reorganization observed the start of the Jagdstaffeln (specialised fighter squadrons) and the arriving of the recent Albatros D scout, a swish inline-engined laptop equipped for velocity and twin-gun firepower. therefore, for the rest of 1916 and good into the following yr an epic fight for aerial superiority raged above the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele battlefields, pitting the FE 2 opposed to the better-armed and quicker Albatros scouts that have been concerned with attacking and destroying their two-seater rivals. in spite of everything the Germans could regain air superiority, and carry it into the next summer time with the employment in their new Jagdgeschwader (larger fighter groupings), however the FE 2 remained a tenacious foe that inflicted many casualties – a few of whom have been Germany's top aces (including 'The crimson Baron').
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