As with tanks, aeroplanes became a defining feature of WW1. Invented only 10 years before the war, over the four years of conflict they developed from their humble Royal Naval Air Service role of spotting for artillery and reporting troop movements to be a key weapon with fighters, bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.

Trench art planes are often made using a bullet as the fuselage, scrap brass for wings and tail fins spliced into the lead bullet tip. A further enhancement is to mount a pair of such planes on a shell base with the planes suspended on wires in a permanent dogfight !

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Large example of an early two-seater biplane made from scrap brass. The oversized wooden propeller was probably cannibalised from something else rather than being made for this model !