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Summary: Fokker Dr.I triplane aircraft Airplane blueprint for the Fokker, Dr.I, triplane ... Aviation history and aircraft blueprints/plans. Few aircraft of the World War I period have received the attention given the Fokker Dr.I triplane. Often linked with the career of the highest scoring ace of that war, Germany's Rittmeister Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," the nimble Dr. I earned a reputation as one of the best "dogfighters" of the war.
Reinhold Platz was the chief designer of the Fokker Dr. 1. Reinhold designed many planes in World War One and he offered his designs to both sides, but the Allies turned him down. Some people thought that Reinhold had copied the design of the Sopwith Triplane but Reinhold hadn't seen the Sopwith Triplane before he started to design the Fokker Dr 1. During the designing he made a prototype called V3 which suffered from severe wing vibration. So the next prototype (V4) was fitted with hollow struts to minimize the vibration. The final design had redesigned ailerons and elevators. Fokker, Anthony Herman Gerald was the manufacturer of the Fokker Dr 1. He was ordered to produce 320 Fokker Dr 1's on July 14, 1917. Tony Fokker personally delivered the first Fokker Dr 1 to the Red Baron. The first Fokker Dr 1's appeared over the 'Western Front' in August 1917.
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