How aviation came of age Aviation evolved rapidly during WW1, with modern and more effective aircraft replacing the ... primarily with Zeppelins and then Gotha bombers. Total war was now on ...

You may have noticed that some WWI fighter planes had three wings, but why was this? Did the extra wings help make the ...

Previous bombing raids in the First World War were instigated by Zeppelins but they had become susceptible to being shot down by the British so the Germans introduced the feared Gotha bi-plane ...

It was built as a direct response to increased attacks by German Zeppelin airships and later Gotha fixed-wing bombers ... teaching the old skills of aircraft construction. Russell Savory, from ...