Aviation nut as I am, I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this before. In the 1970s, the BBC had a TV series set in the British Royal Flying Corps during WWI, named "Wings." They used a combination of full-scale and 1/3 scale WWI airplanes. It starts in 1915, when the British and German aviators fired rifles at each other, and shows some of the evolution involved in early air combat.

The whole series is up on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSfYbxpSSVQ

Just finished binge-watching the first season and have started on the second...am enjoying it quite a bit. Kind of a combination of "Upstairs Downstairs" and "The Blue Max."

Ron Wanttaja