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.

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.

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.

Known as the 'Harry Tate', the R.E.8 looked a little like a scaled-up B.E.2. During the course of the latter half of World War I no less than 4,077 were built for the RFC/RAF and a few for Belgium. R.E.8s for British service standardised on the 112kW RAF 4a engine.

2022年7月28日 · Pilot Sergeant William 'Robbie' Clarke was flying his Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8, a World War One British two-seat reconnaissance and bomber biplane, over the Western Front with a fellow airman acting as an 'observer' to capture images of enemy territory, when the enemy attacked.

2019年5月19日 · In 1916 the Royal Aircraft Factory produced the RE.8 to replace the Be.2 and, by the time production concluded at Farnborough, UK and a number of other facilities, a total of 4,077 had been completed. Some 2,000 saw service at the Front and they remained in …

2016年7月17日 · Performance specifications presented assume optimal operating conditions for the Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 Reconnaissance Aircraft / Light Bomber. 1 x Royal Aircraft Factory 4a V12 air-cooled engine developing 140 horsepower.

3 Squadron flew R.E.8 aircraft during WW1 - Click here for some fascinating stories of RE8 combat over the Western Front [ Luckily, they weren't allocated the earlier model, called the R .