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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Fokker
		Fokker gained further infamy with his synchronization gear invention that allowed the machine gun to be fired through the propeller, resulting in an air-superiority briefly known as the Fokker Scourge.
		The Fokker 50 was to be a completely modernized version of the F-27; and the Fokker 100 was to be a new airliner based on the F-28 design.
		The Fokker D.II was a German fighter biplane of World War I. It was a single seat fighter aircraft developed before the Fokker D.I. It was based on the M.17 prototype, a conventionally laid-out aircraft with single-bay, unstaggered wings with a larger fuselage and shorter...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fokker (5979 words)

	Fokker Scourge
		The Fokker Scourge, a term coined by the British press, was a period of time in World War I in the summer of 1915.
		The newly arriving Fokker E.I[?] designs, the first with the interrupter gear, proved to be able to outfight every other fighter aircraft in the sky, quickly downing a huge number of Allied aircraft.
		Although newer allied designs were a technical match for the Fokker, the months in which they had complete mastery allowed them to develop pilots and techniques with relative safety.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fo/Fokker_Scourge.html (150 words)

	No. 7: Fokker
		Fokker's device worked well enough in a ground test, but the German officers wanted a combat demonstration.
		Fokker vowed not to fly in combat again and returned to his factory.
		They called his interrupter mechanism the "Fokker Scourge." Just after the war, his civilian airplane designs were widely used in the United States.
	www.uh.edu /admin/engines/epi7.htm (498 words)

	Fokker D.VII
		Fokker himself made several changes to the design in order to improve handling, notably increasing the length of the rear fuselage and increasing the size of the vertical stabilizer.
		Fokker's factory was not up to the task of supplying the entire air force, so their rivals at Albatros and AEG[?] were brought in to start construction as well.
		Fokker rarely used plans for their designs, preferring to tinker until it worked, and so they simply sent a completed D.VII to Albatros to copy.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fo/Fokker_D.VII.html (655 words)

	The Flying Circus - A CFS2 Jagdstaffel
		That Friday, Fokker came back with the first interrupter device - a mechanism, connected to the engine, that turned the gun off each time a propeller blade passed through the line of fire.
		Fokker's device worked well enough in a ground test, but the German officers wanted a combat demonstration.
		Fokker vowed not to fly in combat again and returned to his factory.
	www.freewebs.com /jagdgeschwader1/history.htm (1186 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Fokker Scourge
		The Fokker Scourge, a term coined by the British press, was a period of time in World War I in the summer of 1915.
		The newly arriving Fokker E.I[?] designs, the first with the interrupter gear, proved to be able to outfight every other fighter aircraft in the sky, quickly downing a huge number of Allied aircraft.
		Although newer allied designs were a technical match for the Fokker, the months in which they had complete mastery allowed them to develop pilots and techniques with relative safety.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/fo/Fokker_Scourge (175 words)

	First World War.com - The War in the Air - Fighters: Deflector and Interrupter, The Birth of the Fighter
		Fokker, a Dutchman, was the manufacturer of the "Eindecker" (Monoplane) aircraft, which were being used at the time as a communications plane.
		Ironically, the Eindecker was an aircraft which Fokker had designed after being impressed with the Morane-Saulnier’s capabilities, and its engine was a copy of the French Gnome rotary engine.
		In July of 1915 Fokker himself flew a number of sorties, looking for a victim, but when he finally stumbled across an unarmed Farman observation plane he found that he could not bring himself to pull the trigger.
	www.firstworldwar.com /airwar/deflectorgear.htm (779 words)

	Early developments
		The problem of perfecting a machine gun that would synchronize its firing with the rotation of the propellers was the assignment given to Anthony Fokker.
		Fokker Eindekkers were armed with synchronized Spandau machine guns and roamed the skies virtually unopposed for a while.
		German aces such as Immelman and Boelcke led a reign of terror in the skies, known as the Fokker Scourge.
	www.wwiaviation.com /early_dev.html (661 words)

	Fokker E series Eindecker model airplane
		The Fokker E series, Eindecker (monoplane), is significant as it was the first plane to have synchronized machine-gun firing through the propeller, which made it a tremendously successful fighter.
		It resulted in Fokker being approached to develop a more sophisticated means of arriving at the same result, leading to the interrupter gear that "timed" the bullets to pass harmlessly between the spinning propeller blades.
		It was these early Fokker E-types that brought the so-called "Fokker Scourge" when, from the autumn of 1915 to the spring of 1916, they played havoc with the B. 2c units of the Royal Flying Corps.
	www.worldaircorps.com /tmpages/esfn036w.htm (329 words)

	Fokker Scourge Information
		The Fokker Scourge was a term coined by the British press in the summer of 1915 during World War I.
		It applied to a period of time when the new German Fokker E.I design became operational — the first plane with "synchronization gear" (often referred to as "interrupter gear"), which enabled a machine gun to fire straight ahead through the propellor, the bullets being precisely timed to miss the blades.
		The result was the famous Fokker D.VII, leading to a short but notable second "Fokker Scourge".
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Fokker_Scourge (270 words)

	Home - stokes - The Stokes Collection
		Fokker's father persuaded his son to attend an automobile mechanics school in Germany, but Anthony was disappointed and convinced his father to enroll him in a school near Mainz which offered courses in aircraft construction and flying.
		Fokker became interested in the design of the Moraine-Saulnier, which exhibited flying characteristics far superior to the early Fokker designs.
		The British press coined the term "Fokker Scourge" to describe this new menace which was increasing casualties to unprecedented numbers.
	www.stokescollection.com /Default.cfm?ID=500000000000113&ImageGallery=500000000000023&StartRow=4&ThisGallery=500000000000023 (544 words)

	World War I Airpower (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fokker went to work developing a synchronizing gear that connected the firing mechanism of the machine gun to the propeller shaft.
		Now the Germans had mastery of the sky, and the French and British were at a loss to defend themselves from the Eindeckers, which they called the "Fokker Scourge." British designers went to work trying to produce their own synchronizing gear, which they did within a year.
		Patrols of multiple escorts began accompanying observation aircraft to protect them from the "Fokker Scourge," and the obvious response was for the 'pursuits' to group themselves to engage the 'escorts'.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h364/materials/wwi/wwi-a_2.htm (1521 words)

	Fokker at AllExperts
		In the 1920s, Fokker's biggest success was the F.VIIa/3m trimotor passenger aircraft, which dominated the European market until the arrival of the all-metal American and German aircraft in the mid-1930s.
		Fokker was one of the main partners in the F-16 consortium.
		The F-27 was followed by the Fokker F-28 "Fellowship", the Fokker F50, the Fokker F70 and the Fokker F100.
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fo/fokker.htm (873 words)

	STAN STOKES AVIATION ART - The Fokker Scourge
		Situation: Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker was born in the Dutch East Indies in 1890.
		Fokker's father persuaded his son to attend an automobile mechanics school in Germany, but Anthony was disappointed and convinced his father to enroll him in a school near Mainz which offered courses in aircraft construction and flying.
		Fokker became interested in the design of the Moraine-Saulnier, which exhibited flying characteristics far superior to the early Fokker designs.
	www.stanstokesart.com /ststavartfos.html (507 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Fokker
		In the Twenties, Fokker's biggest success was the F.VIIa/3m trimotor passenger aircraft, which dominated the European market until the arrival of the all-metal American and German aircraft in the mid-Thirties.
		In December, 1939, Anthony Fokker died in the United States, where the American branch of his company was very successful.
		The Fokker factories in the Netherlands were completely destroyed during World War II, and a new factory was built next to Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam, in 1951.
	www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=fokker (670 words)

	Fokker Eindecker at AllExperts
		Developed in April 1915, the Eindecker ("Monoplane") was the first purpose-built German fighter aircraft and the first aircraft to be fitted with synchronizer gear, enabling the pilot to fire a machine gun through the arc of the propeller without striking the blades.
		The Eindecker was based on Fokker's unarmed A.III scout which was fitted with a synchronizer mechanism controlling a single Parabellum LMG 14 machine gun.
		Oswald Boelcke poses in the cockpit of a Fokker E.IV.
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fo/fokker_eindecker.htm (821 words)

	Fokker E I - IV Monoplane "Eindecker" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fokker's "Eindecker" was not only the first monoplane fighter in WWI, but it was also the first to be able to fire a forward facing machinegun through the propeller without having the bullets hit it.
		This synchronised firing mechanism was a major step forward in aerial combat, as it avoided damaging or stressing the propeller and allowed the pilot to fire the machine gun at an opponent simply by pointing his aircraft at it.
		For a few months in early 1915 the Eindecker destroyed the Allies superiority in the air during the Fokker Scourge.
	www.constable.ca /eindekkr.htm (346 words)

	Fokker DR-I Triplane - The Collings Foundation
		The Fokker Dr. I was ordered into production on July 14, 1917 in response to earlier success that year of the British Sopwith Triplane and at the written request from Richthofen.
		Fokker built 320 Dr. Is; for a brief period, production was suspended while the wings were redesigned to prevent in-flight failures.
		The full-scale replicas accurately portray the aircraft that was known as the scourge of the skies for so many years during WWI.
	www.collingsfoundation.org /ma_fokkerdr1_hist.htm (284 words)

	Fokker EIII 44"
		The Fokker E series monoplanes were the first truly effective fighter aircraft.
		The period was referred to as the Fokker Scourge.
		A major reason for the Fokker Scourge could be that the "Fokker Fodder" were not designed to consider defensive measures.
	www.aerodromerc.com /WWI/FokkerEIII_44/FokkerEIII_44.htm (468 words)

	ch2-2
		The Fokker Dr.-1 was a manifestation of a design phenomenon that swept the aircraft industry in the period 1917-18.
		The low zero-lift drag coefficient of the Fokker triplane was no doubt due in part to the relatively small surface area of the fuselage in relation to that of the wings.
		The Fokker D-VII was the unanimous winner of the competition and first entered combat in April 1918 - an indication of the rapidity with which the unsophisticated aircraft of that era could be developed from prototype to combat readiness.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /pao/History/SP-468/ch2-2.htm (11232 words)

	First World War.com - The War in the Air - Fighters: The Fokker Scourge
		The Eindecker, ironically, was unseated by aircraft already available before Fokker’s invention of the interrupter gear, and none of them ever had interrupter gear installed.
		If the Fokker Scourge was symbolically opened by Boelcke’s first victory, it was symbolically closed when Max Immelmann was killed during a fight with an FE2b on June 18th 1916.
		Whether he was shot down, as claimed by the Allies, or shot away his own propeller, as claimed by the Germans, is still a matter of debate.
	www.firstworldwar.com /airwar/fokkerscourge.htm (630 words)

	NOVA \| Who Killed the Red Baron? \| The Aerial Arms Race (non-interactive) \| PBS
		Fokker fitted his Eindeckers with a forward-facing 8-millimeter gun, which could fire its bullets between the moving propeller blades without causing bullets to ricochet off them.
		The plane was highly maneuverable and easily outperformed the Fokker Eindecker; within a few weeks of its debut, German high command ordered its engineers to copy the plane.
		These characteristics, along with the fact that Fokker had designed the plane without relying on the standard wing-bracing wires that were easily shot apart during combat, made it a superb dogfighter.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/redbaron/race-nf.html (958 words)

	Aircraft
		In October 1915, the Germans introduced Anthony Fokker’s Eindecker, a single wing pursuit plane fitted with an “interrupter gear” which timed the guns firing so that the blade was not in the line of fire.
		This innovation gave the Germans a heavy advantage and led to the “Fokker Scourge” of late 1915 and early 1916.
		Although not as famous as the Fokker DR.1 triplane, the D.VIII was considered the finest German fighter plane of the War and a worthy opponent to the Spad S.XII and the Nieuport 17.
	www.neam.org /lafescweb/aircraft.html (1101 words)

	No. 1369: Fokker's Interrupter Mechanism
		Fokker said, "Wait a minute!" The way around the problem is to let the propeller fire the gun.
		Fokker turned sick to his stomach and flew back to the aerodrome without firing a shot.
		Fokker went back to making the advanced German airplanes that killed thousands of Allied pilots throughout the war.
	www.uh.edu /admin/engines/epi1369.htm (556 words)

	[No title]
		Fokker invented the synchronised machine gun in just a few seconds...
		This historic film is made in in april 1926 and shows Anthony Fokker demonstrating the three-engine Fokker F.VIIa-3m to (Military) officials.
		Anthony Fokker himself introduces the new four-engine F.XXXVI to the Dutch public in this Polygoon newsitem.
	www.dutch-aviation.nl /index5/index5-0.html (138 words)

	Aircraft of World War One
		This innovation by Fokker gave Eindeker pilots like Max Immelmann such a massive advantage during combat that they rapidly became known as the 'Fokker Scourge' and dominated the battle field until more manoeuvrable allied aircraft entered service.
		The Sopwith Triplane first appeared in 1916 and had such good manoeuvrability and rate of climb that it inspired the German designer Fokker to produce his own version, which was to be flown by the famous Baron Von Richthofen.
		One of the most famous aircraft of World War One the Fokker Dr 1 owed much of its fame to one of the most notable pilots of the era, 'The Red Baron' Manfred von Richthofen commander of Jagdgeschwader Nr.1, the "Flying Circus".
	www.3dhistory.co.uk /3dEx/WWIAir.htm (711 words)

	Genesis
		Two Fokker engineers, Heinrich Luebbe and Fritz Heber, devised a cam-operated mechanism that was connected to the oil pump of the E1's Oberursel rotary engine and the trigger of the Parabellum machine gun.
		The 'Fokker Scourge' continued through the winter of 1915 /16 as the German Army battered the town of Verdun relentlessly in an effort to 'bleed France white.' Then, 2 things happened which turned the tide of Allied morale.
		The second factor was the inadvertent landing by a German pilot of a Fokker 'Eindekker' on an Allied airfield on 8th April 1916.
	www.rafvalley.org /208sqn/Hist/Hist1/Hist1.htm (520 words)

	FokE3
		The Fokker E.III (and its sisters, the E.I, II, and IV) was the first major German aircraft of World War One.
		Fokker's engineers had the presence of mind to recognize the value of the previously patented (but generally forgotten) interruption equipment, and quickly installed their modified version into Fokker's latest design.
		Fokker attempted to keep his design alive by building an enlarged version called the E.IV.
	www.homestead.com /RitterGerman/FokE3.html (1138 words)

	FOKKER SCOURGE! Air Classics - Find Articles
		The fact that Fokker was an alien in the middle of a war did not seem to hother the Germans.
		Although the wings were wood and the wing warping was rather primitive, the E.III had a welded steel tubefe, fuselage and this was to become a Fokker trademark.
		The first Fokker E.IIIs reached the Western Front in August 1915 and with its increased wing span (31-ft 2.7-in) was an immediate success.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3901/is_200507/ai_n14684533 (933 words)

	History Channel Classroom: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The development of a synchronized machine gun by the German designer, Anthony Fokker, was fitted to the Fokker M5 monoplane.
		It led to a bloody period of German fighter superiority-"the Fokker Scourge." The French and British were forced to search for a technological and tactical means of restoring the balance.
		In 1916 the pendulum swung and the Fokker Scourge was overtaken by new developments in Allied fighter aircraft.
	www.history.com /classroom/admin/study_guide/archives/thc_guide.0237.html (469 words)

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