World War I was shaped by the new ... the Germans gave us one of the most famous airplanes of the Great War. The Fokker Dr.1 triplane, flown by one of history's great fighter pilots, is among ...

Arango’s airplanes all have or are awaiting original engines, and all but one is in ... How in the world, you wonder, did Fokker find his way, in four chaotic years of war, from the rickety ...

During World War One, von Richthofen ... two-winged planes (and in the Red Baron's case the three wings of the Fokker DR.I), the aerial weapons of choice during The Great War?

The Fokker D.VII is a German biplane designed in 1918 by Reinhold Platz of the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. During World War I, it was one of the most formidable German aircraft in the sky and a favorite ...

During World War I, most airplanes (Fokker’s Eindecker excluded) were biplanes with two sets of wings, one above the other. The main reason for this design choice was that the available engines ...

As the clouds of war gathered over Europe, airplanes were still ... runs in the first months of World War I were similarly hit-or-miss: A co-pilot (if there was one) would simply drop a small ...

Diminutive and nimble, the Fokker ... existence. One of Manfred von Richthofen's Dr.1s was on display at the Zeughaus museum ...