A fighter airplane is one that is designed to fulfill the mission to hunt, attack and destroy other airplanes. Most WW1 fighters could carry a pilot, guns and occasionally bombs.
The earliest WW1...
Sopwith F.1 Camel was one of the fighter aircraft built by the British company Sopwith that was owned by Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, C.B.E.. This aircraft was a derivation of the Sopwith...
You mean were WWII fighters smaller than today's jets; because "modern fighter planes" are jets.Generally yes, today's JETS are much larger than WWII propeller driven airplanes. But there were...