Have to admit...WW-1 for me is the airplanes...find the ground conflict too insane and gruesome.
SE5 A
I guess the SE5 was to far allong in production..or the Brits were to stupid to figure on a syncronized twin machine gun like the German fighters.
So they mounted a Lewis gun on a rail..with a drum magazine..which the pilot had to remove and install in battle..and fly the plane too ....go figure.
The SE5 did have a Vickers machine gun mounted outboard portside with a belt feed magazine later on in service.
Specifications: span 26 ft. 11 in.; length 20 ft. 8 in.; takeoff weight 1807 lbs.; engine 200-235 hp. Hispano-Suiza water-cooled V-8 (original); 180 hp. Lycoming air-cooled flat four (representation); maximum speed 138 mph. Armament two Vickers .303 cal. machine guns.
My oldest brother, clearing his head of the duties of a Ford Motor VP, built and flew RC planes.
He was out with his Spad and an elderly man in tears identified the plane from the markings as one he had flown.
This was in the seventies, and I've seen the b&w photos of the day's events.
The above plane has two Vickers guns, perhaps above the cowl, synchronized.
I always thought this was a good-looking print: