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

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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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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.

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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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Written on the plane:

Empty weight: 10(?)60 kg (Could also be 1660 kg, the white line makes it difficult to tell)

Payload: 480 kg

Maximum allowed weight: ?

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The plane was colorful?

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