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I doubt too many (if any) aircraft were shot down by other aircraft before November/December 1914 given the armament situation. Still, it's possible though I've not seen any evidence of it. One Russian memoir (Glaza Na Yug by Machivariani) stated that during the East Prussian campaign many units were short of observers and the Farman type aircraft they were using were not carrying guns apart from occasional ineffective pot-shots from pistols or rifls. Machivariani flew past German aircraft several times and said the pilots could do little more than wave at each other. Machivariani was assigned to the Russian 1st Army up through the Autumn of 1914 and then he went to the Caucausus.
There were several brought down by ground-fire prior to 1915.
Perhaps the lack of any sort of confirmed shoot-down has to do with the relative lack of aircraft density.
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