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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.
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 ...
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.
'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 ...
Relief finally came on 28 June, when a shipment of 14 Fokker D.VIIs arrived and were divided between Jagdstaffel 12 and Jagdstaffel 19. [45] Berthold fought on, scoring two more victories in July. However, now that he had re-equipped his fighter wing, influenza grounded all but three pilots from Jagdstaffel 19 by 6 July. Berthold scored three ...
The 9th Aero Squadron was an Air Service, United States Army unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I.. The squadron was assigned as an Army Observation Squadron, performing long-range, strategic night reconnaissance over the entire length of the United States First Army sector of the Western Front in France. [4]