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 ...

Pilot Dewey Davenport poses with a one-of-a-kind replica of the Fokker D.VII. [Photo: Meg Godlewski] There is something special about bringing an aircraft to EAA AirVenture for the first ...

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 ...

Entering the war already outdated, the Dutch Fokker D.XXI fought valiantly against German Bf 109s and later Soviet bombers in Finland. With rugged construction and simple design, just 400 were built, ...

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 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.

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 ...