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Fokker's V.11 prototype, direct precursor to the production D.VII. Late in 1917, Fokker built the experimental V 11 biplane, fitted with the standard Mercedes D.IIIa engine. In January 1918, Idflieg held a fighter competition at Adlershof. For the first time, front line pilots participated in the evaluation and selection of new fighters.
It numbered no fewer than twenty aces among its ranks, and "graduated" pilots to command numerous other Jastas in the German Air force. In return it suffered 17 pilots killed, 2 captured as prisoners, and 2 killed in flying accidents. Its loss rate was thus less than one-tenth of its opponents, although it also suffered 19 wounded in action.
Ernst Udet (26 April 1896 – 17 November 1941) was a German pilot during World War I and a Luftwaffe Colonel-General (Generaloberst) during World War II.. Udet joined the Imperial German Air Service in April 1915 at the age of 19, and eventually became a notable flying ace of World War I, scoring 62 confirmed victories.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Verdun, during which the German side lost the air superiority built up over the Western Front during the so-called Fokker Scourge and as a result of the superior performance of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the French Aéronautique Militaire during the Battle of the Somme, the German flying service was reorganised, greatly expanded and renamed the Deutschen ...
'U.10' of Jasta 65 on display at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. Fokker DVII 2523 aka 263 at Militaire Luchtvaart Museum [5] One war prize was captured on November 9, 1918 when Leutnant Heinz Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay of Jasta 65 landed at a small American airstrip being used by the 95th Aero Squadron near Verdun, France.
Theodor "Theo" Osterkamp (15 April 1892 – 2 January 1975) [2] was a German fighter pilot during World War I and World War II.A flying ace, he achieved 32 victories in World War I. [3] In World War II, he led Jagdgeschwader 51 up to the Battle of Britain and claimed a further six victories during World War II, in the process becoming one of only a few men to score victories and become an ace ...
Fokker (N.V. Koninklijke Nederlandse Vliegtuigenfabriek Fokker; lit. ' Royal Dutch Aircraft Factory Fokker ') was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer that operated from 1912 to 1996. The company was founded by the Dutch aviator Anthony Fokker and became famous during World War I for its fighter aircraft. During its most successful period in the 1920s ...
GWDT replica Sopwith Triplane at the 2016 Farnborough Airshow. The Great War Display Team (GWDT) started out in 1988 and was originally called The Wombats. [1] [2] It was an ad-hoc collection of aircraft including five SE5as, two Fokker Dr.Is and a Fokker D7, many of them flown by their builders, and appeared that year at the Biggin Hill Air Show. 2014 was the 27th anniversary of the Team's ...