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Original 1918 LeRhone Rotary Engine Runs for First Time on Fokker Triplane ReplicaJohn Elliot’s Fokker Triplane at Warrenton-Fauquier Airport in Virginia has succesfully been installed with a 1918 LeRhone ...
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Triple Decker Threat: The Fokker Dr.1 StoryDiminutive and nimble, the Fokker Dr.1 was Germany's answer to the British Sopwith Triplane during the Great War over the skies of Europe, and was a favored mount of one of history's most famous aces.
German ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron for his blood red Fokker Triplane, tested an early D.VII prototype, his criticism leading to a redesign. Richthofen, who amassed a war ...
along with the Fokker TriPlane or Dr.I, — think "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron." The D.VIII came later, following the similar D.VII design but with a rotary engine instead of the D.VII's inline.
and the reason Cliff and I have had the opportunities we’ve had with our Fokker triplane project. “My first introduction to vintage aviation was flying in the Fleet biplane Brian built.
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