Click to open image viewer. Single-engine, single-seat, German World War I biplane fighter; 160-horsepower Mercedes D.IIIa water-cooled engine. Lozenge camouflage on wings. Fuselage gray and olive ...

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 ...

Given the many questions that remain unanswered, there is no legal basis for restitution at the present time. This is why the plane is provisionally going on display at the National Military Museum ...

Canada Battle over future of Fokker D.VII divides Knowlton, Que. There's an air war in the town of Knowlton in Quebec's Eastern Townships involving a First World War German fighter. The biplane is the ...

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 ...

The brothers Leon and Robert Morane designed this monoplane with fellow engineer Raymond Saulnier in 1913. The fragile L was meant for reconnaissance, but by the war's start Saulnier had attached ...

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 when ...