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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 aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction and is available in two versions, a full-sized and a 3/4 scale replica. [1] [2] [3] The aircraft is a replica of the First World War German Fokker Dr.I Triplane, built from modern materials and powered with modern engines. [1] [3]
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 ...
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]
Redfern built his first aircraft, a Knight Twister in 1949 and completed 15 aircraft before his death in 1996, including five Redfern Fokker Dr.1 models. One of his DR.1s is in the AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Another Redfern-constructed aircraft, a Fokker D.VI, is in a Pittsburgh museum. [6] [7] [8]
Data from British Aeroplanes 1914–18 Aircraft Profile No. 73: The Sopwith Triplane General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 18 ft 10 in (5.74 m) Wingspan: 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) Height: 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) Wing area: 231 sq ft (21.5 m 2) Empty weight: 1,101 lb (499 kg) Gross weight: 1,541 lb (699 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Clerget 9B 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine, 130 hp (97 kW ...
The Fokker Eindecker fighters were a series of German World War I monoplane single-seat fighter aircraft designed by Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker. [2] Developed in April 1915, the first Eindecker ("Monoplane") was the first purpose-built German fighter aircraft and the first aircraft to be fitted with a synchronization gear, enabling the pilot to fire a machine gun through the arc of the ...
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 ...