#4405616 - 02/17/18 10:02 AM
Re: Fokker DVII combat style?
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Fokker DVII vs Tripe...ummm, shouldn´t we add this difference to the equation? And, if we are offering up opinions, I suspect the DVII would have ate the Sop/Tri for breakfast.
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#4405633 - 02/17/18 01:42 PM
Re: Fokker DVII combat style?
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Regarding the D.VII... an excerpt taken from an article on History.net about Ernst Udet.
"Despite the remarkable early successes of Operation Michael, which had seen German storm troopers advance up to 40 miles against the British and French, the war was still far from won. When Udet returned to his unit, the conflict was entering its last, dreadful months, which would see some of the most intense fighting of the entire war. His unit was now equipped with the formidable Fokker D.VII, the plane generally considered the finest fighter of WWI."
I remembering reading years ago that he described the D.VII as an aircraft that could make an average pilot into a high scoring ace in a matter of weeks.
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#4405639 - 02/17/18 01:56 PM
Re: Fokker DVII combat style?
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I remembering reading years ago that he described the D.VII as an aircraft that could make an average pilot into a high scoring ace in a matter of weeks.
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And this, IMHO, is the most important part of the quote. Besides the obvious ability of the DVII it not only was a very capable aircraft but it had no bad habits or vices that made it difficult to fly...or to get the best out of the aircraft. Ergo almost anyone who had a scarf and goggles could make the DVII a formidable foe - or so history reports. An important footnote in late war Germany where a multitude of factors prevented pilot training from being where the air service wished it would be. And, of course, if you had the ability and a decent aircraft I think it is safe to say the Germans had a “target rich” enviorment over the front for the “average pilot to an ace” part. In fact if you read deeply into all the German pilots who had more then 5 victories (aces) it appears to my eye that the bulk came in mid-late 1918.
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by Britisheh. 03/28/24 08:05 PM
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