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 ...

Diminutive and nimble, the Fokker Dr.1 was Germany’s answer to the British Sopwith Triplane during the Great War over the skies of Europe, and was a favored mount of one of history’s most famous aces.

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 ...

Now, almost a century later, a full-scale replica of the Red Baron's vivid scarlet-coloured triplane is nearing take-off. Peter Brueggemann is painstakingly recreating the German flying ace's ...