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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 days ago

Colorized photo of a German pilot in an electrically-heated flight suit on the Western Front, WW1, 1917

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Colorized photo of a German pilot in an electrically-heated flight suit on the Western Front, WW1, 1917

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  • rirus@feddit.org
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    The plane was colorful?

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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      Yep!

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    Pretty crazy to think of the shit we’ve come up with just to kill each other.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      My first thought as well. Less than a decade after man has our first success with powered flight and we’ve figured out how to attach machine guns and drop bombs.

    • Ininewcrow@piefed.ca
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      Let’s build an ICBM … it can kill everyone in an entire city

      Wow, that’s crazy

      Yeah, let’s build a few hundred of these things just to make sure

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    The plane looks the most like a Fokker D.VI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_D.VI.

    There were only 60 made, so that makes this a rare photo. I like the different colored flares, likely for communication to the ground. Can anyone who knows guns give some more info in the side-mounted piece?

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      I think it might be a flare gun.

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        That big mofo on the opposite side of the pilot?

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          Sorry, thought you meant the one hanging off the edge nearest the pilot. XD

          I think the one in back is an MG14, but I’m no expert.

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      deleted by creator

  • SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works
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    Nice facekini

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    Written on the plane:

    Empty weight: 10(?)60 kg

    Payload: 480 kg

    Maximum allowed weight: ?

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