Vickers Gunbus FB5 by Tim Fisher. (P)

This aircraft entered service with the RFC in February 1915. Nicknamed the gunbus, it was the first British aircraft to be designed as a fighting machine from the start. The plane was armed with a single .303 inch Lewis machine gun, fired by the observer. It was only a short period of time before it was outclassed by German aircraft carrying synchronised forward firing machine guns.

Original painting by Tim Fisher.

Image size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 61cm)