[The Fokker D VII ? Biplanes ruled the roost in WW1 it seems
Indeed they did, and the D VII was probably the best the Germans built, it was the only aircraft type speically mentioned in the Treaty of Versailles.
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[The Fokker D VII ? Biplanes ruled the roost in WW1 it seems
For me...the triplanes always just looked so frikkin cool!
The only problem with a triplane was it was too slow to break off combat if you were outnumbered or at some other disadvantage.
As Werner Voss found out when he ended up in a combat with with 5 SE5's. He had no choice but try to fight them all until one finally one got a fatal burst in on him.
I'm wrong about the number of British aircraft involved, there were 7. All from the 56th Squadron.
I read several accounts of the dogfight from the different participants, I haven't run across that version yet. But I will say that when I read the different views, it's like they're describing different events. But that's not unusual in combat recollections .
It apparently was witnessed by thousandsHas there ever been anything in print from the German's side of Barkers's dogfight ? Or any other views at all, other than Barkers?
I can't remember a source, but Barker's details have been "questioned".
The Albatros series were beautiful aircraft, but that beauty was apparently only skin deep. The pilots liked them because they were a advance on the Fokker eindeckers and Halberstadt D2's they had been flying. But lower wings soon started folding when Albatross went to the D3, ( the aircraft in davebender's picture )