The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York canceled its remaining air shows for the season after a World War I replica plane crashed on Oct. 5, killing 60-year-old pilot and board member Brian Coughlin.
Historians consider it one of the best planes of World War I, maybe the best. After the war, it was the first fighter stationed at Mitchel Field, then a fledgling military base adjacent to Roosevelt ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Single-engine, single-seat, German World War I biplane fighter; 160-horsepower Mercedes D.IIIa water-cooled engine.
Canada Battle over future of Fokker D.VII divides Knowlton, Que. There's an air war in the town of Knowlton in Quebec's Eastern Townships involving a First World War German fighter. The biplane is the ...
Given the many questions that remain unanswered, there is no legal basis for restitution at the present time. This is why the plane is provisionally going on display at the National Military Museum ...
The brothers Leon and Robert Morane designed this monoplane with fellow engineer Raymond Saulnier in 1913. The fragile L was meant for reconnaissance, but by the war's start Saulnier had attached ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Single-engine, single-seat, German World War I biplane fighter; 160-horsepower Mercedes D.IIIa water-cooled engine.