Fokker D.II (English)

D.II

The Fokker D.II

The Fokker Eindeckers were popular with German pilots, but that feeling was slightly different with the subsequent biplanes.
In terms of performance, the Fokker D.II and D.III had to admit their superiority to competitors such as the Halberstadt D.II and the Albatros fighters.
The quality of the Fokker biplanes also left much to be desired, partly due to poor workmanship.

Also, the Fokker factory was not set up at that time to produce large numbers of aircraft of different types.
In early December 1916, all Fokker biplanes were withdrawn from service due to structural faults in the aircraft construction.
Errors were found during both static testing and operational use.

Besides the German army, the Austro-Hungarian army also used the D.II.
The D.II was equipped with a nine-cylinder Oberursel UI rotary engine of 100 hp and was armed with a single Spandau LMG.8 machine gun.

In 1916, another D.II built in 1915 was interned by the Swiss Air Force (Schweizer Luftwaffe).

In Swiss service he was given registration number 62 and flew there with a 100 hp Oberursel engine.

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D.II prototype with wn 606, without ailerons in the wing.
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The 03.58 for the KuK, Austro-Hungarian Army.
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The 54/16 apparently on the edge of a residential area, given the houses in the background.
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The 502/16, due to oil leaks, which ran along the fuselage of the aircraft, often faded the paint layer. As did the registrations, which were then difficult to see.
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The 528/16, apparently this aircraft also had many oil leaks.
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Max Holtzem in the 547/16.
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A nose position of this D.II.
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Aerial view of a camouflaged D.II.
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Lieutenant Otto Kissenberth flies this D.II.
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Lieutenant Otto Kissenberth in his camouflaged D.II.
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Luitenant Otto Kissenberth
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D.II.
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Activity at the airfield with a D.II in the foreground.
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From 231/16.
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From 1504/16.
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D.II front view with the 9 cylinder Oberursel.
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Test pilot Emil Werner in front of an unarmed D.II in Adlershof.
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A D.II on this vast plain with an Albatros or Roland behind it.
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Lieutenant Grünzweig with guard dog, next to a D.II with colorful painting on the engine plating.
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D.II.
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A D.II with a Siemens-Halske engine as a test.
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D.II on transport.
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Cockpit of the 533/16.
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A curious soldier takes a look at the 536/16 with wn 828.
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wn 832 with registration 540/16.
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wn 832 with registration 540/16.
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The 543/16 with wn 845.
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The 559/16 with wn 871 ready for transport.
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This is the unclad fuselage of wn 953 which would later be registered 1505/16.
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The 1505/16 with wn 953.
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The rear section of the bare fuselage of the 1505/16 wn 953.
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From 1512/16 with wn 960 in Böblingen.
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The 1533/16 with wn 1021 in the hangar face to face with its competitor the Roland C.II.
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The 1535/16 with wn 1023.
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The engine of the 1537/16 with wn 1025
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The 2387/16 with wn 1139
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The 2387/16 with wn 1139 in a winter landscape.
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Sergeant Scholz in the 2388/16 with wn 1140.
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The 2393/16 in the middle with wn 1145
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