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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 Airdrome Eindecker E-III is a 3/4 scale replica of the First World War Fokker Eindecker E.III, the protagonist of the Fokker Scourge of the summer of 1915 when, equipped with a single synchronized Maxim machine gun, the Fokker E.III achieved air superiority over the western front.
Eindecker E-III: 14 World War I aircraft replica Fokker DR-1: 23/5 World War I aircraft replica in 3/4 scale and full size Fokker D-VI: 7 World War I aircraft replica in 3/4 scale Fokker D-VII: 2 World War I aircraft replica 80% scale Fokker D-VIII: 16 World War I aircraft replica in 3/4 scale Taube: 1 World War I aircraft replica Morane ...
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.
The Fokker E.II was the second variant of the German Fokker Eindecker single-seat monoplane fighter aircraft of World War I.The E.II was essentially a Fokker E.I with the 75 kW (100 hp) Oberursel U.I 9-cylinder rotary engine, a close copy of the French Gnôme Monosoupape rotary of the same power output, in place of the E.I's 60 kW (80 hp) Oberursel U.0, but whereas the E.I was simply a M.5K ...
The Eindecker was also, in spite of its advanced armament, by no means an outstanding aircraft, being closely based on the pre-war Morane-Saulnier H, although it did feature a steel tubing fuselage framework (a characteristic of all Fokker wartime aircraft designs) instead of the wooden fuselage components of the French aircraft.
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The Fokker Eindecker was the nemesis of the B.E.2 in 1915/early 1916 The vulnerability of the B.E.2c to fighter attack became plain in late 1915, with the advent of the Fokker Eindecker . This led the British press to disparagingly refer to the aircraft as being "Fokker Fodder", while German pilots also gave it the nickname of kaltes Fleisch ...