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 ...

During the late 1970s, a pilot and farmer named John Talmage from Riverhead, NY, about an hour east of the museum in Garden City, began work on building a replica of a Fokker D.VII for himself to ...

The Fokker D.VII prototype, the V.11, was completed just before the Adlershof competition began on January 21, 1918, so Fokker had little time to test it beforehand. On January 23, famed German ace, ...

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 ...

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 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.

Thus did the Allies compliment the boyish Dutchman whose highly maneuverable fighter plane—the Fokker D.VII—boasted machine guns that could fire through a whirling propeller without hitting it.

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 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 ...

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. At a time ...

In some fantasy alternate reality in a far-off parallel universe, the D.24 flew alongside B-52s, F-4s, and Republic's own F-105 Thundercheif in campaigns over North Vietnam.Perhaps it even got ...