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Data from Quest for Performance. General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 5.77 m (18 ft 11 in) Upper wingspan: 7.19 m (23 ft 7 in) Height: 2.95 m (9 ft 8 in) Wing area: 18.7 m 2 (201 sq ft) Aspect ratio: 4.04 Empty weight: 406 kg (895 lb) Gross weight: 586 kg (1,291 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Oberursel Ur.II 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine, 82 kW (110 hp) Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch ...
The Airdrome Fokker DR-1 features a strut-braced triplane layout, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. [1] [3] The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Both aircraft kits are made up of twelve sub-kits.
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 ...
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 ...
It added Albatros D.Is on strength in September 1916, and had at least one Fokker D.V assigned. Albatros D.IIIs were put into service in March 1917. By June 1917, Albatros D.Vs had been added to the squadron's roster, as well as Fokker Triplanes. Many of the aircraft wore a unit marking of black and white stripes on their elevators; personal ...
The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome is a living museum in Red Hook, New York, adjacent to the town of Rhinebeck.Founded in 1958, [3] it owns many examples of airworthy aircraft from the pioneer era of aviation, World War I, and the Golden Age of Aviation between the world wars, and a collection of roadworthy antique automobiles.
The Refern Fokker Dr.1 is a single engine triplane with conventional landing gear. The aircraft plans were developed by the Walter Redfern Company using Peter M. Bowers' triplane plans, Smithsonian plans and original plans from Reinhold Platz, a member of the original German design team for the Dr.1. [2]
Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker (6 April 1890 – 23 December 1939) was a Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer.He produced fighter aircraft in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Dr.1 triplane and the D.VII biplane.