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Fokker immediately received a provisional order for 400 production aircraft, which were named D.VII by Idflieg. Fokker D.VII (F) Fokker D.VII looping. Fokker's factory was not up to the task of meeting all D.VII production orders and Idflieg directed Albatros and AEG to build the D.VII under license, though AEG did not ultimately produce any ...
Another Fokker D.VII with a typical five-color pattern. Lozenge camouflage was a military camouflage scheme in the form of patterned cloth or painted designs used by some aircraft of the Central Powers in the last two years of World War I, primarily those of the Imperial German Luftstreitkräfte.
By March 1918, there were 80 Jagdstaffeln in the Luftstreitkräfte, most of them equipped with Albatros D.Vs. A long overdue re-equipment with new types began, most notably the Fokker D.VII, which for the first time since mid-1917, gave the Jagdstaffeln equipment that matched their opponents'.
The new color scheme adopted by the squadron, already equipped with the Albatros D.Va and even a few Pfalz D.IIIas and applied to those veteran fighter designs, also appeared on the Fokker D.VIIs in its service, as the new Fokker fighter rapidly began to replace the earlier aircraft.
Fokker D.VIII in Dutch markings Belgium. Belgian Air Force operated a single captured E.V from 1919 until the early 1920s. German Empire. Luftstreitkräfte received 381 aircraft before 11 November 1918. Kaiserliche Marine Netherlands. Royal Netherlands Air Force Poland. Polish Air Force captured 16 E.V and one D.VIII aircraft, but only 7 were ...
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Wolfram von Richthofen in front of his Fokker D.VII fighter, summer 1918 Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 11 ("No 11 Fighter Squadron"; commonly abbreviated to Jasta 11 ) was founded on 28 September 1916 from elements of 4 Armee's Kampfeinsitzerkommandos (or KEKs) 1, 2 and 3 and mobilized on 11 October as part of the German Air Service's expansion ...
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