Red Baron Returns bitches !

[Newc]

Early dogfights also had the pilots shooting at each other with their pistols. Then someone had the idea to mount a gun on the plane itself.

And after they shot their prop to bits, they had to figure out how to make the engine control the gun's firing time so it fired when the prop was horizontal, not vertical

[StukaJU87]

And after they shot their prop to bits, they had to figure out how to make the engine control the gun's firing time so it fired when the prop was horizontal, not vertical

That's right, Matt. With the use of a cam, the gun was made to fire between the prop blades. But before they figured that out, they just sheilded the prop with sheet metal, but that was only marginally successful.