The following year in 1927, Byrd outfitted a new Fokker F.VII/3m, named America, to bid for the Orteig Prize, promising $25,000 for the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris (or vice ...

Fokker D.VII with US Army Air Service serial number A.S.2113 at Hazelhurst Field (later renamed Roosevelt Field), which was situated near Mitchel Field, the present-day site of the Cradle of ...

The Fokker D.VII was brought to the United States after the war and given to the Smithsonian Institution by the War Department in 1920. The airplane was fully restored by NASM in 1961. Further minor ...

The plane is the Fokker D.VII, the most advanced fighter aircraft of the 1914-18 war. Its speed, agility and firepower so terrified the Allies that it was the only weapon mentioned by name in the ...

The Fokker D.VII was discovered in 1945 by the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) unit-better known as the “Monuments Men”-while they were recovering stolen cultural treasures in Bavaria.

A replica WWI aircraft, the Fokker D.VIII, was involved in a fatal crash at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome on Oct. 5. Here's what to know about the plane.

The second plane in the Microsoft Flight Simulator's Local Legends series, the Fokker F.VII bundle, is available now. Check out the trailer. The bundle includes the Southern Cross, the Friendship ...

The German Fokker D.VII was the equal of, if not better than, the British SE5s, Camels and French SPADs, and is considered to be one of the outstanding fighters of the First World War.

Photo: FOKKER HERITAGE TRUST, HUINS, THE NETHERLANDS When World War I ended in 1918, the Armistice required, among other things, that Germany turn over 1,700 warplanes, including “all D.VII’s.” ...

Had everything gone to plan, the D.24 Alliance could have entered production sometime in the mid-to-late 1960s or the Early 70s if the Fokker-Republic team ran into problems. But it wasn't to be.