Source: File: Pilot
Roland Garros.jpg. [online] see an original image at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roland_Garros_%28aviator%29.jpg>
Accessed: 23 January 2016].
Impression sketch
of Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker - by Jamie.
While the Fokker
types had been fighting
The skies for
some time already,
It came to be
heard in the French British
Headquarters, of
Berlin's jubilations
For the latest
Fokker Type's success.
From the early
days of observer crafts,
To the types on
both sides to drop
Bombs on their
opponent’s soil, restless
Innovations went
stages further,
Adding machinery
of mounted guns.
While there had
been varying successes,
A big step had
been made by French -
No April's Fool,
Roland Garros took to sky
1 April 1915 - to
pilot his aircraft,
Fitted with a
specialist machine gun.
Armor
plating had been fitted to the lower
Blades, added to deflect
any bullets
Most likely
to damage spinning propellers -
This success led
to five kills;
In a short time
Garros became an ace.
Within twenty
days pilot Garros' craft
Was taken down
behind enemy
Lines - German
aircraft builder Anthony
Fokker was under
rapid orders,
To replicate the
French gun's ability.
Overcoming the
Frenchman's rudimentary
Methods, to allow propeller's action
To take control of the firing mechanism -
The bullets would
fly through
Gaps of the
spinning aircraft blades.
The skeptic
Generals saw the success
Of a
demonstration, to order
Fokker to take to
the sky in a practical
Test - when on
targeting a French
Plane Fokker
declined to make a kill.
Fokker the
engineer was not a killer -
To tell the
Generals they would
Have to take that
step - this they did
As a German pilot
proved
The effectiveness
of gun's success.
This fact soon
became obvious
To those of the
allied crafts -
As the numbers of
Fokkers being
Responsible for
downing
Allies - seen as
temporary advantage.
In order to
influence allied optimism,
Given opposition of
enemy
Purposes, who faced allied spirits -
To send ten British
planes
For every German who ventured close.
For every German who ventured close.
Temporary Fokkers
successes lay
Under the banner of what
was in preparation - that revelations
Under the banner of what
was in preparation - that revelations
Would be soon
flying out
From Britain's upcoming surprises.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. Air
Fights In France - Britain's Coming 'Surprises'. The Daily Telegraph,
[online] 22 January 1916.
P.10. Col.5. Available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12108572/Daily-Telegraph-January-22-1916.html
[Accessed: 22 January 2016].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 22 January 2016).
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