German aircraft of World War I
21 photos of eight types of fighter or scout. Some are preserved originals, some are replicas.
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Fokker D.VII 679/18, Musee de l'air et de l'espace, Le Bourget, Paris, 10 May 2005 1. Very successful fighter which entered service in May 1918. Some 3,300 had been built by the end of the war on 11 November 1918, when some 775 were in service. The Armistice required them all to be surrendered. Several have been preserved, including the two seen here at Le Bourget and Hendon.
![Replica Fokker E.III [417/15], Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, Germany, 21 March 2013. The Fokker Eindecker (= monoplane) dominated air warfare from summer 1915 until early 1916, a period known to Allied pilots as the 'Fokker scourge.' The Eindecker was the first purpose-built German fighter, and the first fighter in which the pilot aimed his gun by aiming his aircraft. This was achieved by the use of interrrupter gear which allowed its machine gun to fire through the propellor arc without hitting the propellor blades. 249 E IIIs were built. German ace Boelcke scored 19 of his 40 victories in an Eindecker, and Immelmann all his 15.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Aviation-Germany/German-aircraft-of-World-War-I/i-SfZ4XQ6/0/528969ec/Ti/F3_2013-03-21_0826nc11inw-Ti.jpg)
![Fokker DR.I [204/17?], Speyer Technik Museum, Germany, 19 March 2013. According to the museum, this is an original aircraft, which flew with Jasta 2 (Jagd Staffel = Fighter squadron 2). But other sources say that no original Dr.1s survive.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Aviation-Germany/German-aircraft-of-World-War-I/i-gj9DRjM/0/e5a26a8c/Ti/F6_2013-03-19_1140nc11inw-Ti.jpg)
