Why do fighters call “Doug Fit”?

The term Doug Fit or the battle of fighters has been used for nearly a century, but why and how did it enter the aviation world?

In the dictionary of war, there are a variety of terms that refer to strange and interesting stories. One of these terms is Doug Fate, which you are likely to have heard many times. The word translation into Doug Fit is the same as the dog battle, but why should the two fighters, dogfights?

Doug Fit’s folk term is used to describe any close air battle between military aircraft and is attributed to World War I. At that time, the term was used in writing in a British newspaper and mainly referred to the 1918 air battles. The report cited how Manfred Von Rodkhtofen was killed, known as the Red Baron and one of the most legendary war pilots in history during a Doug Fit.

Fighter battle

The word Doug Fit actually dates back to its use in air battles and goes back to the mid -seventeenth century, and its original meaning is what comes to mind: the battle between dogs.

According to reports from military news, the term came to the aviation world because of the turbulent nature of the early air battles, as such battles were visually and tactically similar to dog clashes. Even on a bizarre theory, clashes between female jackets or cat battle were called a cattle pilots at that time that were only men, the battle of dogs. (A kind of humiliation of war men in the twentieth century)

However, it does not matter why and how this term came into the aviation world, but it is important to know that during World War II, it became widespread and became one of the common terms at that time and today.

Today, modern and advanced fighters can fly at speeds beyond Mach 1, and this progress is incredible and amazing. With the increasing advances in technology and the increase in combat systems, short -range air battles (unlike what are depicted in films such as tops) are rarely occurring and are very different from past tangible conflicts.

However, pilots must still defeat each other in complex tactical maneuvers to superior to the air battle and overcome the enemy. These movements are aimed at achieving a better position for effective shooting.

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The beginning of the Doug Fit battles

Dog Faith’s battles have been found almost from the beginning of the aircraft. Certainly, before the invention of the jets, such air battles existed. However, there are differences of opinion on exactly what happened to the first real Faith. Some sources claim that the first air battle took place during the Mexican revolution in 1913. At that time, the planes were very fragile, expensive and limited to the identification or bomb and grenades.

During the Mexican Revolution, two American mercenaries named Dean Ivan Lamb and Phil Rader, who were close friends, served two hostile factions to carry out air reconnaissance missions. It is said that they met one of the flights during one of the flights and entered a kind of initial air conflict that was later recognized as one of the first Doug Fit samples.

When the religion of Ayon Lamb was flying with a bipolar plane, he encountered Phil Rider in the sky. They fired at each other with their pistols until their ammunition was over. Then they shook hands for each other and each returned to their faction. This air conflict, known as the first Doug Fit, was in fact nothing more than a pistol air duel.

However, other sources attribute the first real sample of an effective firing to an enemy aircraft in 1914 and one year after the above event. On August 25, 1914, two French pilots, Roland Garros and Lt. de Bernis, mounted on a Morane Parasol aircraft fired at a German aircraft and managed to damage it.

Two weeks later, on September 7, the Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov really managed to destroy one of the enemy planes, and thus became the first to overthrow an enemy aircraft in an air battle. Of course, the victory ended at the price of his life, and unfortunately during the clash, with his Morane aircraft deliberately hit an Austrian Albatros aircraft and both aircraft crashed. All the occupants were killed in the incident.

Almost a month later, on October 5, 1914, the first official victory in the air battle took place. At the event, the French pilot Captain Joseph Franz, along with his mechanics and his Louis Quénault, overthrew a German bipolar aircraft near Reims and returned to the base this time.

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