The pilot sat in an open-air cockpit behind a windscreen aft of the wing assembly which was fitted ahead and above his position. The fuselage fitted the engine in a streamlined forward compartment with the wing supports aft as well as the cockpit and fuel stores. Its overall design was highly contoured for a most aerodynamic shape. While categorized as a monoplane fighter, the D.VIII series was formally noted as a parasol wing design where the wing assemblies were suspended above the fuselage by way of support struts. The E.V design was revised and became known under the designation of D.VIII.Įxternally, the D.VIII was not unlike its biplane brethren with the exception of it missing the traditional lower main wing assembly common to biplanes of the era.
The D.VIII was a further evolution of the Fokker E.V design which exhibited structurally-related wing issues due to poor construction methods. The type appeared in the final months of the war in 1918 (an armistice was signed in November of 1918) and was produced in approximately 295 examples by Fokker Flugzeug-Werke GmbH of Imperial Germany. It provided a stellar blend of survivability, firepower and adaptability within a sturdy rugged airframe. You can break the links with nail clippers, wire cutters, or similar.The Fokker D.VIII was a rare monoplane design of World War 1 and regarded as one of the best fighters of the German Empire in the conflict. They are joined by disposable links to keep the price down, since single-part models are more affordable. One of the 1:285 aeroplanes use wing-warping one has ailerons. The 1:285 product includes two aeroplanes, each with a translucent propeller disk. This product comes in both 1:144 and 1:285/6mm/1:288 scales. 210 were constructed, and though its service life was brief, it was flown by the likes of Boelcke, Udet, and von Richtofen.
Their first service was in September 1916. Like the D.I and D.II before it, it premiered with wing-warping, as this model shows, but late production models seemed to have converted to ailerons (as had all contemporary fighters).
The D.III was powered by a 160hp Oberursel U.III two-row rotary engine and armed with a twin fixed machine guns.
The inline-engined Fokker D.I and D.IV and the rotary-engined Fokker D.II and D.III were substandard relative to competitors like the Halberstadt D.II and the Albatros fighters, and on 6 December 1916 all Fokker biplanes were withdrawn from front-line service due to structural failures both in static testing and in combat use. Though Fokker had won the love of German fighter pilots in 1915 with their Eindeckers, their early biplanes were uninspired and suffered from poor workmanship.
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