Otto Parschau
German flying ace
Died when: 25 years 253 days (308 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Leutnant Otto Parschau (11 November 1890 – 21 July 1916) was a German World War I flying ace and recipient of the Pour le Mérite, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, and Iron Cross, First Class.
He was noted as one of the pre-eminent aces on the Fokker Eindecker.He was one of the world's first flying aces.
Parschau and Leutnant Kurt Wintgens were the pilots chosen to fly the prototype of the revolutionary Fokker Eindecker fighter plane with a machine gun synchronized to fire safely through its propeller arc via use of a gun synchronizer.
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