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The image is believed to a hoax, dating from the early 1930s. A scale model plane was held up with wires, photographed, and then the wires airbrushed out of the image. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2393252/Dramatic-WWI-dogfight-images-auctioned-thousand-dollars-FAKE.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/07/faked-photos-combat-scenes-from-wwi-were-staged-using-models.html https://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/death_in_the_air https://www.avweb.com/news/fake-wwi-dogfight-images-sold-at-auction/ https://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/09/25/famous-fakes-10-celebrated-wartime-photos-that-were-staged-edited-or-fabricated/
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