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.” Thus did the Allies compliment the boyish Dutchman whose ...
When the Fokker D.XXI first flew in 1936, it was already behind the times. With a fixed undercarriage and a mixed construction of metal tubing, wood, and Bakelite wings, it appeared outdated next to ...
Historians consider it one of the best planes of World War I, maybe the best. After the war, it was the first fighter stationed at Mitchel Field, then a fledgling military base adjacent to Roosevelt ...
Buck Toenges, a medical professional, built a unique replica of a Fokker D.VII, a formidable German World War I biplane, with help from the replica aviation community worldwide. The replica, built ...
Eight decades after a Dutch Fokker D.VII Fighter was looted by Nazis, the World War I-era fighter biplane is set to return to the Netherlands, the National Military Museum (NMM) located there ...
Has anyone here seen the old American sitcom The Odd Couple? Admittedly, I haven't. But that doesn't mean I can't milk the title to make ham-fisted comparisons between two aerospace companies. Fokker ...
The new facility has capacity for several types of Boeing and Airbus widebody aircraft. Credit: Fokker Services Group Independent maintenance specialist Fokker Services has inaugurated its new ...
The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York canceled its remaining air shows for the season after a World War I replica plane crashed on Oct. 5, killing 60-year-old pilot and board member Brian Coughlin.