Kermit Weeks in ????

[Scott Rose]

[mr oag]

looks like Fokker D.V111,albeit probably a replica

colin
oxfordshire aviation group

www.communigate.co.uk/oxford/oag

[marine air]

The Fokker D.VIII was entering service at the tail end of the War. Most of them were not completed when the war ended. They were considered very lethal and were the only aircraft specifically listed by name in the terms of surrender at the Geneva Convention. A few dozen were shipped to America and flown and studied by the Army Air Service to learn about their design. They were superior to anything the allies had at war's end.

[Jack Cook]

Actually the D VII was the aircraft specially listed after Germany's surrender. Number D7s were returned to the US and flown by the US Air Service by numerous pilots including loewell Smith.

[ExRAFbod]

The Fokker DVIII was know as 'the Flying Razor' to Allied Pilots in WWI. It did not enter service in numbers until the closing months of the war. Due to shoddy contracted workmanship and Germany's lack of quality product due to attrition and availability the DVIII had a nasty habit of shedding its wing or portions thereof leaving the pilot inevitably eating a flanders-field supper (mouthfuls of dirt). Hard to see oncoming because of its single mainplane configuration it was not a favourite enconter for the opposition.

The Treaty of Versailles specifically forbade Germany to retain the Fokker DVII the DVIII's most potent forerunner.

By the time the DVIII arrived in numbers on the scene, Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richtofen was looking at grass from the wrong side.

The picture is a replica of a Jagdgeschwader 11 Aircraft.

[Baldeagle]

It's a Fokker D.VIII replica built by Brian Coughlin in upstate New York, and is painted in the markings of Jasta 6. Brian built two, and I test flew the first one, now in California.
Brian later traded the second one to Kermit.