You have been assigned to fly the Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2. the mainstay of the Royal Flying Corps, the air arm of the British Army in August 1914. In today's episode of Wars of the World, we put ...

He was moved to 56 Squadron and joined the ranks of the elite fighter pilots. It was their job to shoot down enemy planes. CECIL: Our eyes were continually focusing, looking, craning our heads ...

Dan Snow:Fixed wing planes had been used in a military role before 1914, but WW1 was really when the fighter pilot came into being. And the war was still being fought when, in April 1918 ...