Kurt Wintgens' Fokker M.5K/MG "E.5/15" Eindecker, flown by him on 1July 1915, in the first successful aerial engagement in an aircraft fitted with a synchronised machine gun
The Fokker Scourge (Fokker Scare) occurred during the First World War from July 1915 to early 1916.[1] Imperial German Flying Corps (Die Fliegertruppen) units, equipped with Fokker Eindecker (Fokker monoplane) fighters, gained an advantage over the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the French Aéronautique Militaire.
The Fokker was the first service aircraft to be fitted with a machine gun synchronised to fire through the arc of the propeller without striking the blades. The tactical advantage of aiming the gun by aiming the aircraft and the surprise of its introduction were factors in its success.[2]
This period of German air superiority ended with the arrival in numbers of the French Nieuport 11 and British Airco DH.2 fighters, which were capable of challenging the Fokkers, although the last Fokkers were not finally replaced until August–September 1916.[3][1]
The term "Fokker Scourge" was coined by the British press in mid-1916, after the Eindeckers had been outclassed by the new Allied types.[4] Use of the term coincided with a political campaign to end a perceived dominance of the Royal Aircraft Factory in the supply of aircraft to the Royal Flying Corps, a campaign that was begun by the pioneering aviation journalist C. G. Grey and Noel Pemberton Billing M.P., founder of Pemberton-Billing Ltd (Supermarine from 1916) and a great enthusiast for aerial warfare.[5]
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engineers of Anthony Fokker's firm was the first system to enter service. It would usher in what the British called the "Fokkerscourge" and a period of air...
Eindecker, he became part of Germany's air superiority offensive, the FokkerScourge, shooting down eight more enemy airplanes. He became one of the first...
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victories. Flying a fighter plane, the Fokker Eindecker, Berr was one of the pilots known as the FokkerScourge. He was one of the first German Jagdstaffel...
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the Fokker Eindecker series of fighter designs. This subsequently contributed to a period of German air superiority known as the FokkerScourge, lasting...
unconfirmed ones. He was one of the original Fokker Eindekker pilots who became known collectively as the FokkerScourge. Ernst Freiherr von Althaus was born...
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