This is a video highlighting the engine run of a Fokker Dr.1 Triplane during the 2009 Old Kingsbury Aerodrome Spring (postponed to June 20th) Air Fair. Unfortunately, the winds were such that they were unable to fly the Triplane, but they did display the engine to the very pleased crowd. The Pioneer of Flight Museum’s Dr.1 is a perfectly accurate replicate of a standard WWI Fokker Dr.1. Their Dr.1 has an original, restored, 1919 Le Rhone rotary engine producing 80hp. It was a real treat to see such an old engine come to life!
The Community Farm of Kingsbury
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AMEN brother, if Voss wasn’t so driven by greed that day, he may have passed Richthofen, HE was a better pilot. Not a better shot.Where are all you World War one Airplane guys at? AM I the only one one the planet? Lets start a club.
I would hate to be a British pilot and see that mark on the front of a triplane, fighting Voss would be a nightmare!
sounds like he was getting the fuel/air mixture correct. Thats why the engine died and picked up again. No carrburettor or throttle on Rotarys. Nice aeroplane
Wow, that is one beautiful aeroplane!
This has the Voss cowl. What Pilot /aerdorme scheme is this again? And are those bosch plugs in there, Richthofen insisted on them.
I went to an R/C fly in there a few years ago and saw some of these WW1 planes. After flying in a Stearman and my uncle’s Great Lakes biplane I can tell you open cockpits and low and slow is the only way to fly. I did get to see a Neuport fly that day. He had machine gun sound effects.
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