War Eagles

The last in a short-lived line of low-budget flight sims from COSMI, War
Eagles is a decent action-oriented sim set in World War 1. You can choose to
play as either a British, or a German pilot. On the British side, you have a
choice of 5 missions: patrol, escort, balloon busting, one-against-many
dogfight (aptly named “The Hornet’s Nest”), and single combat. There are also
5 missions on the German side that are basically mirror image of the British
missions (e.g. balloon defense instead of balloon busting, and so on). In the
balloon mission, you try to shoot down or defend a large floating
Zeppelin.Hornet’s Nest is likely to be very challenging for a beginner,
although ace pilots may quickly take advantage of the game’s nonexistent WW1
fighter flight dynamics to dispose of enemy planes.