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Carrying a mystic of almost invincibility and pure terror, the Red Baron’s famous mount was anything but perfect, with several faults limiting it below its anticipated performance.
Although built in somewhat limited numbers and in service for a short period of time, the most famous mount of the world’s most famous ace, Germany’s Manfred von Richthofen , the ‘Red Baron’, is almost always associated with the air battles of the Great War, and is easily recognized by its triplane design and bright colors of the ‘Flying Circus’ along with the black crosses adorning the wings, tail, and fuselage.Hollywood and history has often portrayed the nimble little fighter as the pinnacle of aircraft design at the time, but was it?
Faulty Fokker: The Troubled Dr.1 Triplane
Carrying a mystic of almost invincibility and pure terror, the Red Baron’s famous mount was anything but perfect, with several faults limiting it below
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A replica of the most famous Fokker Dr.1 which needs no introduction.
Although built in somewhat limited numbers and in service for a short period of time, the most famous mount of the world’s most famous ace, Germany’s Manfred von Richthofen , the ‘Red Baron’, is almost always associated with the air battles of the Great War, and is easily recognized by its triplane design and bright colors of the ‘Flying Circus’ along with the black crosses adorning the wings, tail, and fuselage. Hollywood and history has often portrayed the nimble little fighter as the pinnacle of aircraft design at the time, but was it?
Triplane Needed
When the new British Sopwith Triplane first successfully tangled with German aircraft in early 1917, it inspired a veritable frenzy of German triplane designs. Several manufacturers produced triplane examples, but only Fokker had the means to produce their Dr.1 entry in numbers great enough to make any impact.A Sopwith Triplane replica that was deemed so accurate that the late Tommy Sopwith himself stated that it was
a ‘late production’ example rather than a replica.
