On this day in aviation history, 108 years ago (July 5, 1917), the Fokker Dr.I took to the skies for the first time. The flight was made by the Fokker Flugzeugwerke GmbH V.5 prototype, which paved the ...

This Fokker Dreidecker triplane was one of two World War I era aeroplanes to touch down in Tauranga on Saturday ahead of the Classics of the Sky Airshow. Photo/Richard Moore Two World War I aeroplanes ...

HERE’S one pilot who needs to take a crash course in landing – after his vintage tri-plane ended up on its nose. He was touching down the German First World War Fokker Dreidecker at an airshow when a ...

A century after its red fuselage and three wings struck fear into young pilots of the Royal Flying Corps, the Red Baron’s triplane is set to fly again - over Norfolk. A German GP hopes to this summer ...

A plane-mad engineer has spent five years and £50,000 building a perfect replica of the Red Baron's Fokker triplane - and is still flying it despite coming close to death in a crash. Paul Ford used ...

A doctor has spent almost £70,000 building a replica of one of Germany's deadliest fighter-aircraft, the Fokker Dreidecker. Peter Brueggemann, 53, is in the eighth year of his painstaking project and ...