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Stories about: WWI

1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Dragster Barn Find Pays Tribute to an Iconic WWI Plane, Needs Help
1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Dragster Barn Find Pays Tribute to an Iconic WWI Plane, Needs Help

17 Sep 2022, 19:24 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Named "Snoopy's Sopwith Camel," this dragster pays tribute to the British biplane fighter that downed no fewer than 1,300 enemy aircraft during WWI.

 
Liberty L-8: The Scaled Down V8 Variant of the Iconic Liberty V12 From WWI
Liberty L-8: The Scaled Down V8 Variant of the Iconic Liberty V12 From WWI

8 Sep 2022, 12:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In truth, the L-8 came not only before the L-12 but also before the prototype four and six-cylinder variants. It was also the first to fly in an airplane.

 
1916 Excelsior With Sidecar Sells for $45,000
1916 Excelsior With Sidecar Sells for $45,000

21 Aug 2022, 10:05 UTC · By: Codrin Spiridon / With strong work ethos and good marketing, the Excelsior manufacturer climbed its way into the top three companies next to Indian and Harley Davidson

 
Decades Before Lambo, This Tri-Engined Biplane Bomber Was the Most Bonkers Italian Vehicle
Decades Before Lambo, This Tri-Engined Biplane Bomber Was the Most Bonkers Italian Vehicle

17 Nov 2021, 21:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Caproni's designs would be manufactured not just in the Italian province of Milan, but also in France, The United Kingdom, and, amazingly, the U.S.

 
Historic Warship That Fired the First WWI Shots Restored as a Floating Museum
Historic Warship That Fired the First WWI Shots Restored as a Floating Museum

15 Nov 2021, 10:45 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Serbia finally made the official unveiling of the restored SMS Bodrog/Sava, the ship that marked the beginning of WWI, after decades of neglect

 
Peter Jackson Loves More Than Just Hobbits, Has World's Biggest WW1 Plane Collection
Peter Jackson Loves More Than Just Hobbits, Has World's Biggest WW1 Plane Collection

9 Nov 2021, 15:37 UTC · By: Monica Coman / You might have heard his name from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, but Peter Jackson has a true passion for the past.

 
Gigantic Fokker Triplane and Blériot XI RC Aircraft Bring Back World War I
Gigantic Fokker Triplane and Blériot XI RC Aircraft Bring Back World War I

5 May 2017, 12:57 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / World War I is like the cradle of the aeronautical industry. Before that, they weren't deemed as a killing tool or a mode of transportation

 
1905 Fiat Isotta-Fraschini Has a WWI Airship Engine and You Can Tell
1905 Fiat Isotta-Fraschini Has a WWI Airship Engine and You Can Tell

29 Jan 2016, 22:11 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / A one-off car that's impressive on absolutely any level: looks, sound, story or sheer massiveness. A monster from the past with a WWI airplane engine

 
Red Baron Fokker Triplane Model Is Almost as Big as the Real Thing
Red Baron Fokker Triplane Model Is Almost as Big as the Real Thing

23 Jun 2015, 10:04 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Airplanes of the time were notoriously tricky to fly. The torque of the engine mean flying in a straight line was impossible