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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 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]
Airdrome Fokker DR-1 Triplane - 3/4 Scale Replica This version has a standard empty weight of 341 lb (155 kg), a wingspan of 17.9 ft (5.5 m) and is powered by a 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 two-stroke or a 65 hp (48 kW) Volkswagen air-cooled engine .
Fokker Dr.I triplane replica. This is a list of aircraft types having triplane wings. Type Country Date Role ... Fokker Dr.1: Germany: 1917: Fighter: Production:
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]
A flyable reproduction of the Fokker Dr.I of World War I, the best known triplane. During World War I, some aircraft manufacturers turned to the triplane configuration for fighter aircraft. In practice these triplanes generally offered inferior performance to the equivalent biplane and, despite a brief vogue around 1917, only four types saw ...
Licenses for production of Le Rhône series engines were negotiated with companies in Great Britain, Austria, Italy, Russia, Sweden and Germany. Le Rhône-designed engines powered many of the most famous WW1 aircraft, including the Sopwith Pup, the Sopwith Camel, the Nieuport 11 "Bebe" and the Fokker Dr.1 "Triplane". [1] [2]
3.5 Dr & F types (Dreidecker – triplane fighters) 3.6 E types ( Eindecker – armed monoplanes) 3.7 G & K types ( Grossflugzeuge – large bombers, originally Kampfflugzeuge – battleplane)