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A replica D.VIII built by Brian Coughlin currently flies at summer airshows at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, NY, USA Update 10/05/24- Sadly, Brian Coughlin perished in a crash while flying the D.VIII during an airshow. [3] [4] [5] A 7/8 scale replica D.VIII is on display at Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum, Horsham, Pennsylvania [6]
The Fokker D.VII is a German World War I fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz of ... All D.VIIs were produced with either the five-color Fünffarbiger or less ...
A light-toned four-color, or Vierfarbiger lozenge camouflage pattern typical of daytime operations for underside use A hexagon-based lozenge camouflage typical of night operations A Fokker D.VII shows a four-color Lozenge-Tarnung (lozenge camouflage), and its early Balkenkreuz black "core cross" on the fuselage has a white outline completely surrounding it.
This unrestored Albatros-built example, serial number D.6810/18, is the only surviving D.VII that retains its original, Vierfarbiger four-color lozenge camouflage fabric covering, and is the original source of documentation for the four-color variant of the pre-printed covering. [1]
The only Jasta 18 aircraft ever to feature a white raven instead were August Raben's own Fokker D.VII, and a later Fokker Dr.I he personally used, with the red area on the fuselages of both aircraft extended rearwards to end much closer to the stabilizer's leading edge. [8]
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Brian T. Coughlin, a longtime volunteer and board member of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome museum in Red Hook, N.Y, was flying a replica of a WWI Fokker D-VIII during an airshow when it "went down ...
Berthold's beside his Fokker D.VII which would have been painted with scarlet cowling and a royal blue fuselage bearing a winged sword emblem. During a dogfight on 10 October, a British bullet ricocheted within the cockpit of Berthold's aircraft and entered his arm at an angle that pulverized his right humerus.