The Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 is a British two-seat biplane reconnaissance and bomber aircraft of the First World War that was designed and produced at the Royal Aircraft Factory. It was also built under contract by Austin Motors, Daimler, Standard Motors, Siddeley-Deasy and the Coventry Ordnance Works.

After rectification of the tendency of early production aircraft to spin as the RFC/RAF’s most widely used type of Corps reconnaissance aircraft from 1917 it served with some 21 Squadrons and as well as the Western Front. R.E.8s operated in Italy and Palestine and finally in Egypt until November 1920.

Single-engine (Royal Aircraft Factory 4a air-cooled V12) biplane, WW1 British reconnaissance and artillery-spotting aircraft, crew of 2. This aircraft was delivered to the Royal Air Force on 25 October 1918.

The RE8 (Research Experimental 8) was by 1918 the standard two-seater reconnaissance aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps and, at its inception, the Royal Air Force. It was a biplane designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory as a successor to the BE2 series, and was meant to be an improved and more powerful aircraft.

2019年5月19日 · A non flying reproduction was produced by TVAL in New Zealand and, although built close to airworthy standard, joined the collection of World War I aircraft in the Heritage Museum at Omaka. It was painted as A4397, the aircraft flown by Captain R G Francis, an aircraft flown by No 3 Squadron RFC.

During World War I, the lumbering Reconnaissance Experimental 8 was the most widely used British two-seater biplane on the Western Front. A descendant of the R.E.7, it was initially developed for reconnaissance work but also saw service as a bomber and ground attack aircraft.

One of the most readily recognisable two-seaters of ‘The Great War’, the Royal Aircraft Factory RE8, forever associated with music hall comedian Harry Tate, was extensively, and successfully, employed for artillery observation, photo reconnaissance and light bombing.

One famous combat from April 13, 1917, saw six R.E.8’s, which were on a recon mission over the front line, attacked by six Albatrosses led by Manfred von Richthofen. In a fleeting, lopsided battle, all six R.E.8’s were shot down with no losses to the Germans.

The RE8 was designed to perform reconnaissance and artillery spotting roles. It was a satisfactory aeroplane, over 4 000 were produced and served on various fronts until the end of World War I. Development of the RE8 began in early 1916 to meet the Royal Flying Corps requirement for an aeroplane to perform general reconnaissance…

The Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 was the standard Corps Reconnaissance aircraft of the RFC and RAF in the second half of the First World War and superseded the B.E.2c and B.E.2e, the much maligned aircraft that had performed that role since 1914.