Max Immelman: 1890 - 1916

German World War I Ace. He flew a Fokker. Fokker was named after the inventor, H.G Fokker, who was the first to successfully mount a machine gun on a fuselage and safely engage the enemy without the worry of shooting off it's own propeller. Aiming was much easier when the gun was directly in front of the pilot, instead of off to the side as with most English planes.