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1918
1918 - 0831.PDF
JULY 25, 1918. A FOKKER BIPLANE OF RECENT TYPE. ONE of the most interesting additions to the rapidly growing collection at the Enemy Aircraft View Rooms is a Fokker biplane of the D VII type, built, according to a pencilled date on one of the wing spars, in April of this year. The date is 24, IV, 18. The machine is thus one of the most recent to be exhibited, and is of interest on that account, as well as because of the originality of its design. Except for the fact that it is a biplane, the new Fokker product is very similar to the triplane described in our columns recently. The booty construction is the same, and the " wireless " wing design is very similar to that of the Fokker triplane. There is one notable departure, however; the engine fitted has evidently been a stationary water-cooled one, probably a 180 Mercedes. The body of the Fokker biplane is built throughout of steel tubing, the method of joining the struts and cross members to the corner rails being the same as in the Fokker triplane, and the tubular quadrants serving as an anchorage for the cross-bracing wires being also exactly of the same type as in the previous machine. The wire bracing, as before, is simply K, UK 1: a met abwt leng Plq Wtb ^ i:i Y THREE-QUARTER FRONT VIEW OF THE FOKKER BIPLANE, TYPE D VII—In the machine captured thl It. *Z n Somewnat badly damaged, and it has not, therefore, been possible to represent exactly n? •fc-T?e . wing tips. The upper plane has probably been approximately as shown ia the drawing, butoi tne lower wing sufficient did not remain intact from which to reconstruct the shapj of *e tip. Theunusual strutting of the top plane should be noticed. Inset are some construction*^ N* «*9 ...„,,_. .
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