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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 ...
The Fokker E.V was a German parasol-monoplane fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz and built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke.The E.V was the last Fokker design to become operational with the Luftstreitkräfte, entering service in the last months of World War I.
Fokker D.VIII (monoplane originally E.V) (1918) [128] Friedrichshafen D.I [129] Friedrichshafen D.II; Germania type C/K.D.D. [67] Halberstadt D.I [130] Halberstadt D.II (1915) [131] Halberstadt D.III (1916) [131] Halberstadt D.IV [132] Halberstadt D.V (1916) [133] Junkers D.I (1918) Kondor D.6 (1918) Kondor D.7 (1918) LFG Roland D.I (1916) [134 ...
Fokker E.III (M.14V) downed in France during WWI Captured E.III 210/16 in flight at Upavon, Wiltshire, in 1916. The Fokker E.III was the main variant of the Eindecker (literally meaning "one wing") fighter aircraft of World War I. It entered service on the Western Front in December 1915 and was also supplied to Austria-Hungary and Turkey.
Pfalz Aircraft of WWI: A Centennial Perspective on Great War Airplanes. Great War Aviation Centennial Series. Vol. 5. Charleston, SC: Aeronaut Books. ISBN 978-1-935881-12-4. VanWyngarden, Greg. Pfalz Scout Aces of World War I (Aircraft of the Aces No. 71). Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-84176-998-3. Wagner, Ray and Heinz Nowarra.
Amongst the earlier pioneers and innovators in the field of aviation was the German engineer and aeronautical designer Hugo Junkers.During his early career he had established his engineering credentials outside of the field of aviation; Junker's innovations had included the invention of a type of calorimeter and in the construction of internal combustion engines.
Two German pilots, Leutnants Otto Parschau and Kurt Wintgens, [3] worked closely with Anthony Fokker in early 1915 during evaluation of the M.5K/MG. Wintgens is known to have downed a two-seat Morane-Saulnier Type L parasol monoplane on 1 July 1915 while flying his M.5K/MG, but as the victory occurred in the airspace behind Allied lines, over ...
This was initially simply the monoplane version of the "C" class armed biplane, having the same relationship to the "C" class as the "A" had to the "B", and several early "E" types were two-seaters. In practice, due largely to the success of the single seat Fokker "E" types, which were single-seat fighters, the "E" class came to mean a single ...