Barrasso Opening Statement On Nuclear Fusion Technology U S Senate Committee

French pilot Adolphe Pégoud turned the war’s first ace, shooting down six German planes in 1915. In January of 1915 French pilot Roland Garros invented the primary deflector to allow machine weapons to shoot between propeller blades. After a aircraft equipped with one of many deflectors was captured by the Germans in 1915, Garros’s invention was perfected by Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker, who was working for the German military Technology news. According to Thomas R. Funderburk, Fokker’s more refined synchronizer started what the British referred to as the “Fokker Scourge,” a German strategy to prey on unarmed or single Allied planes flying reconnaissance missions.