Oh nice. I'm making my way through Boelcke's diary/log:
I especially like his initial assessment of what would have probably been the Fokker E.I
B., November 30, 1914
I did not get the Fokker as yet. I was to get it at R., Thursday. Too bad. To fly for the artillery, which is our main work just now, the Fokker is very excellent, because of its speed, stability and ease of control. A new machine has been ordered for me at the factory, but I cannot say if I am going to get it, and when.
P., December 9, 1914
Bad weather. No important work. Now, we ought to be in the East, where there is something doing.
Yesterday I was in R. and got my Fokker, which had arrived in the [Pg 47]meantime. It is a small monoplane, with a French rotary engine in front; it is about half as large as a Taube. This is the last modern machine which I have learned to fly; now I can fly all the types we make in Germany. The Fokker was my big Christmas present. I now have two machines: the large biplane for long flights and the small Fokker for range finding. This ’plane flies wonderfully and is very easy to handle. Now my two children are resting together in a tent, the little one in a hollow, with its tail under the plane of the big one.
