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Fokker D.VI. The new aircraft, designated D.VI, passed its Typenprüfung (official type test) on 15 March 1918. [5] The production aircraft utilized the Oberursel Ur.II, which was the only readily available German rotary engine.
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 M.19 featured the Oberursel U.III 14-cylinder, two-row rotary engine, combined with the two-bay wing cellule of the Fokker D.I. [1] The U.III engine, first used in the Fokker E.IV, required a revised fore-and-aft mount and a strengthened fuselage. [1] The prototype M.19 arrived at Adlershof for testing on 20 July 1916.
He had aspired to build a Fokker Triplane, but found the existing replica plans very complex and slow to construct. He applied his engineering knowledge and created a new design of the DR.1, with a simplified structure and revised airfoil , a modified Clark Y , to improve handling.
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.
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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 aircraft. Because the Fokker factory did not use detailed plans as part of its production process, Fokker simply sent a D.VII airframe for Albatros to copy.
The Airdrome Fokker D-VI is an American amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by Airdrome Aeroplanes, of Holden, Missouri. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction. [1] The aircraft is a 3/4 scale replica of the First World War German Fokker D.VI fighter, built from modern materials and powered by modern engines. [1]