• MvR explaining the Fokker F1’s combat features to Generalmajor Karl von Lossberg, 4. Armée’s Chief of Staff. (picture source: The Illustrated Red Baron – The life and times of Manfred von Richthofen – Peter Kilduff -Cassel & Co – 2000)
  • a group of men standing around an old airplane
    Major General von Lossberg, Chief of Staff Fourth Army, talking to aircraft designer Tony Fokker, who is seated in the cockpit of Fokker FI 102/17, while MvR and Lt Adam look on. Less than a month later, Lt Kurt Wolff would lose his life in this same machine (picture source: Beeldbank Stadsarchief Kortrijk).
  • Richthofen vor seinem Dreidecker. (picture source: Der rote Kampfflieger von Rittmeister Manfred Freiherrn von Richthofen, 1933, Eingeleitet und ergänzt von Bolko Freiherr von Richthofen, mit einem Vorwort von Generalfeldmarschall Hermann Göring, Verlag Ullstein & Co, Berlin)

Fokker Triplane first delivery

Event ID: 400

Categories: 

General Event
English
The Great War Illustrated 1917, William Langford & Jack Holroyd

28 August 1917

50.816141687498735, 3.2403333562695864
Markebeke
Marke

Source ID: 12

The Great War Illustrated 1917, William Langford & Jack Holroyd p.  210 

ISBN: 9781473881617

“17GW444 On 28 August 1917, the first Fokker Triplane was delivered to Richthofen’s Geschwader. Werner Voss, leader of Jasta 10, flew the machine for the first time. Three days later the Red Baron is seen here explaining the aircraft’s performance to Generalmajor Karl Von Lossberg, Chief of Staff to 4. Armee.”

Comments (1)

  1. According to Haiber,Voss gets the 102/17 and MvR the 103/17. (source: The Red Baron, The World War I Aces Series Number 1, William & Robert Haiber, 1992, Info Devel Press)

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