This unremarkable and derivative design was, however, transformed into a formidable fighter when it was fitted with the newly developed synchronizer gear, the Fokker Stangensteuerung, firing a single 7.92 mm (.312 in) Parabellum LMG 14 or Spandau lMG 08 machine gun through the spinning propeller.
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 |
A second competition in May and June led to the acceptance of several of the main contest entries, the Pfalz D.XII, Fokker E.V, Junkers D.I and Siemens-Schuckert D.IV, the later of which is considered by many to be Germany's best design of the war.
Boyne, Walter J. The Smithsonian Book of Flight for Young People.
The removal of the left-side gun is believed to have been pioneered on Oswald Boelcke's E.IV, believed to have borne IdFlieg serial 123/15, with a simpler double-synchronisation system used on the retained center-line and right side MG 08 Spandau guns.
In the late afternoon of 18 June 1916, Immelmann led a flight of four Fokker E.III Eindeckers in search of a flight of eight F.E.2b reconnaissance aircraft of 25 Squadron Royal Flying Corps over Sallaumines in northern France.