Fokker E.I
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The Fokker E.I was the first fighter aircraft to enter service with the Fliegertruppe of the Deutsches Heer in World War I. Its arrival at the front in mid-1915 marked the start of a period known as t
Max Immelmann of Feldflieger Abteilung 62 in the cockpit of his Fokker E.I., bearing IdFlieg serial E.13/15
Leutnant Kurt Wintgens' "E.5/15" Eindecker, the first fighter aircraft to use a synchronized machine gun to shoot down an opposing aircraft, as it appeared for the 1 July engagement
E.I with cowl removed, showing the Oberursel U.0 rotary engine and Stangensteuerung synchronizer's initial drive components
Fokker E.III
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The Fokker E.III is the main variant of the Eindecker fighter aircraft of World War I. It entered service on the Western Front in December 1915 and was also supplied to Austria-Hungary and Turkey.
Fokker E.III taking off
Fokker E.III (M.14V) downed in France during WWI
Captured E.III 210/16 in flight at Upavon, Wiltshire, in 1916.
Eindecker 210/16, in the Science Museum, London (2015)