WW1 birds at Lunken?

[AirJimL2]

Anyone know anything about these planes?

http://www.cincyairshow.com/lukhistory.htm

I heard that the Lunken family had a Fokker, but this is the first time I've ever seen a pic of it. Are these planes at Lunken? Are they replicas?

Jim

[corsairboss]

I have never seen them around, I eat lunch, and dinner sometimes with EB Lunken, I will have to ask him in the next couple of days, you know the POF Fighter where kept at Hangar 1 all summer, and that is wierd I have never heard about those planes here in Cincy, or remember seeing that hangar..?? I'll let you know.

[airpixphoto]

This reply is a long time after and E. P. Lunken has been dead for a while, but yes, he did have three flyable WWI Airplanes, An SE-5, A Fokker D VII and a Sopwith Camel. They were kept in Hangar 7 until he sold them. There was also a Thomas Morse Scout, but I never saw it fly. They've all bee gone for several years, but the three flyable ones are still flying so far as I know. N911AV was a Strahlman/Hispano SE-5A,
N1258 was an Osborne Fokker D VII. I should know the Reg on the Camel, but I don't. Sorry.

I got to fly some air-to-air with them when Neil Shaffer flew the Camel, Don Fairbanks, the SE-5 and TW Smith the D VII. I was in a T-6 with my long time friend Bob Strunk.

[Baldeagle]

Camel and Fokker went to Cavanaugh in Texas:
http://www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com/wwI_aircraft.htm

SE-5a is with Javier Arango in California




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[airpixphoto]

Thanks for that info.