The development of aviation was nothing short of astonishing during the First World War, transforming from flimsy, unarmed observation platform to deadly seekers of the sky in less than a twelve month period of fighting.  

The year 1917 would prove to be a significant one for the air war over the trenches of the Western Front, as the British introduced their capable Bristol F.2B Fighter, a true multi-role aircraft and the Germans their Fokker DR.1, an aircraft which would be made famous by the feared Manfred von Richthofen. 

The scene was set for a period of unrelenting aerial combat, as both sides struggled for supremacy of the skies.