It's a sweltering evening on the ground, but it's going to get even hotter in the skies as Italian and Austro-Hungarian fighters tangle in a dogfight over the Piave River.
It's not France's best bomber, but the Paul Schmitt can deliver ordnance quite effectively - although getting back home while fending off German fighters won't be easy.
American balloons are providing valuable support for the ground offensive, making them prime targets for a flight of German fighters making a sunset attack.
It's early August of 1918 and Anthony Fokker's latest creation is just reaching the front. It's time to engage the enemy and see how good this D.VIII really is.
Three photo planes are on a mission to obtain images of enemy lines when they're intercepted by a flight of 2nd-line enemy fighters. Will the pictures be taken and delivered?