LEUT R. A. Little, an Australian serving with the RNAS, outfought and out-manoeuvred 11 German Albatross ID aircraft in a dogfight over France. Little was flying a Sopwith tri-plane. German ace, Baron von Richtofen, who witnessed the combat, urged Fokkers to produce a similar tri-plane.
Australian Naval History on 7 April 1917
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