Airco played a crucial role in the WWI air war, producing a slew of aircraft designed by a young Geoffrey de Havilland. This well-researched volume describes such aircraft as the D.H.2, a fighter that countered the Fokker EIII, and the D.H 4 and D.H. 9, two-day bombers that offered an unmatched combination of speed, load carrying, and defensive capability. The D.

H. 4 carried on as the core of the U.S. Army Air Service's bombing capability well into the 1920s. Hardcover - 8-1/2" x 11" - 192 pages - 200 b/w.