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Show AIRPLANES IN GREAT WAR Fokkers Must Be Credited With Remarkable Re-markable Work That Contributed to Victory of Civilization. TIip Fnkkpr series is interesting. First, (here wns the monoplane Fnkkpr, Fnk-kpr, so long a menace at the front. Then they tried the little tripl.me Fnkkpr, a weird-looking machine, whose specialty was climbing high and diving down on the foe. Unfortunately- in the dive the top plane had a way of coming off. It wasin a Fok-ker Fok-ker triplane that the "Red Devil" P.aron von Richthofen came to grief, and you can see the engine of his machine, ma-chine, a 110 La Rhone, copied from a French rotary engine. The last type of Fokker and a very good one is the D7 biplane, all metal except for the wings, with a -high-power engine and a tremendous climber. The specimen on show he-longed he-longed to Richthofen's circus. You can follow the attempts of the Germans to win security by armoring their machines, ma-chines, hut armoring did not pay, owing ow-ing to (he weight and clumsiness. Late in 1018 an extraordinary machine ma-chine was brought down, made entirely entire-ly of metal, with wings of some kind of aluminum alloy, and a brass scat for the pilot the whole thing a marvel of buhl inventiveness. |