The Austro-Hungarian B.IIIs retained the D.I engine, and were armed with a Schwarzlose machine gun.
Fokker | Fokker Dr.I | Fokker D.VII | Fokker 100 | Fokker 50 | Fokker F.VIII | Fokker F.VII | Fokker F28 Fellowship | Fokker F27 Friendship | Fokker V.17 | Fokker M.5 | Fokker F27 "Friendship' | Fokker D.XXI | Fokker D.XIII | Fokker C.X | Fokker 70 | Menckhoff's Fokker D.VII of Jasta 72 (marked with prominent letter "M"s) at Bergnicourt | Fokker M.7 | Fokker-Leimberger | Fokker F.XXXVI | Fokker F.25 | Fokker F.14 | Fokker F.10 | Fokker D.II | Fokker C.V |
The first of these contests, held in January 1918, led to the Fokker D.VII winning the competition and going on to become one of Germany's most feared planes.
The Finnish Air Force supported the naval forces and sortied several flights of fighters (Brewster F2A Buffalo and Fokker D.XXI) and bombers (Bristol Blenheim and Dornier Do 17) to the area.
The equipment consisted of some 200-240 aircraft, including Curtiss Hawk 75As, Fokker D.XXIs, Morane-Saulnier MS.406s, Gloster Gladiator IIs, Curtiss P-40M, LaGG-3, Fokker C.Xs, Westland Lysanders, VL Viima IIs, VL Myrsky IIs, Blackburn Ripon IIFs, and Bristol Blenheim Mk.Is.
A reconnaissance biplane flown by Austria-Hungary during World War I (named B.III by the Austro-Hungarian military)
Boelcke's D.III, serial 352/16, survived the war to be displayed at the Zeughaus museum in Berlin.
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Fokker built 210 D.III aircraft at its Schwerin factory before production ceased in the spring of 1917.
It was a development of the Fokker D.XI with a new powerplant and considerably refined aerodynamics, and had been designed to meet the requirements of the clandestine flying school operated by the German Army at Lipetsk in the Soviet Union.
A later model was configured with a Rolls-Royce Kestrel of 600 hp and plans were made for a Hispano-Suiza Xbre variant.
Although the order by the ML-KNIL was cancelled, the Luchtvaartafdeling (Dutch Army Air Force before World War II) placed an order of 36 aircraft, which were all delivered in time to participate in the war against the Germans in May 1940.
It had been designed for the clandestine air force that the Reichswehr was training at Lipetsk, but had been rejected by German officials, who purchased the Fokker D.XIII instead.
In light of the events of the Ruhrkampf, the German Army ordered 100 new aircraft from Fokker in the Netherlands, among them 50 newly developed Fokker D.XIIIs.
The use of mocked-up Nieuport 28 and Thomas-Morse Scout fighters along with other period aircraft such as one real Fokker D.VII and the ubiquitous Travelair "Wichita Fokkers" were featured in the aerial sequences.
This included most of the entries in the First Fighter Competition at Adlershof in January 1918, notably the famed Fokker D.VII.
While downing his 34th victim (a Fokker D.VII) he was critically wounded by two bullets; one hit him in the thigh and the other pierced his chest back to front passing through a lung.
Four days later, he destroyed two Fokker D.VII in a late afternoon dogfight, but was also wounded and shot down, most probably by Leutnant Hermann Frommherz.
Irwin would not score again until 8 August 1918, when he destroyed a Fokker D.VII northeast of Chaulnes.
Fighters, gaining, in conjunction with his pilots, nine confirmed aerial victories (6 destroyed, 3 'out of control') over German Fokker D.VII fighter planes.