But it's the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, who decided to paint his aircraft red as a direct challenge. German's top ace only started flying missions in the Fokker in 1917, and just 19 or his ...

The Fokker was made famous by German fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron. Co-owner Paul Ford said it had taken him 3,500 hours and five years to put the plane ...

April 21st marks 105 years since the death of the First World War German ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen. The matter of who shot the Red Barron is a controversy that remains unresolved to this ...

The Fokker Dr1 triplane, recreated by a Derbyshire engineer, is being flown at the Derby Aero Club in Egginton, Derbyshire. The Fokker was made famous by German fighter pilot Manfred von ...

The Fokker Dr1 triplane, recreated by a Derbyshire engineer, is being flown at the Derby Aero Club in Egginton, Derbyshire. The Fokker was made famous by German fighter pilot Manfred von ...

The Red Baron flies again! Man spends £50,000 building himself an exact working replica of the German pilot's Fokker triplane Paul Ford, 52, spent five years on his DIY replica inside an old ...

When one turns one's thoughts to the role of aviation in the First World War, it is probable that almost the first image to cross one's mind is of gaily painted biplanes wheeling and soaring in a ...

Patients at his GP’s practice in Holt have dubbed him the Red Baron of Norfolk. The 52-year-old hopes aviation inspectors will soon declare his triplane airworthy allowing him to take off.

A few years later, Grube discovered a model of a 1917 Fokker Dr 1 Triplane, the same aircraft the "Red Baron" flew during World War I, scoring 19 kills.

A doctor has spent almost £70,000 building a replica of one of Germany's deadliest fighter-aircraft, the Fokker Dreidecker. Peter Brueggemann, 53, is in the eighth year of his painstaking project ...