AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2022 - 36

BRIEFING
POSTCARDS /
Take that, Red Baron!
Rotary engine Fokker triplanes fly together again
BY MICHELLE WALKER
The three rotarypowered
Fokker Dr.1
triplanes that attended
were the black-andwhite
Le Rhône 9J
120-horsepower
triplane owned by
Chris Hill (right);
GAAM's Le Rhône
9C 80-horsepower
green/red/yellow
triplane flown by
Paul Dougherty;
and Fred Murrin's
green Le Rhône
9C 80-horsepower
triplane. They flew
with Old Rhinebeck
Aerodrome's rotary
powered Sopwith Pup
replica (below right).
THE LARGEST KNOWN GATHERING of Fokker Dr.1 triplanes-powered by original
rotary engines-since World War I took place at the Golden Age Air Museum in
Bethel, Pennsylvania in September. Three rotary-powered triplanes flew, as well as
the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome's rotary-powered Sopwith Pup replica. The Golden
Age Air Museum is located at Grimes Airfield (8N1), a 2,700-foot grass strip. Golden
Age holds an annual Flying Circus Air Show, and this year held a special event
within the airshow called the " Fokker Scourge. "
" Fokker Scourge " was a term coined by the British press in mid-1916 to describe
the period during World War I when the Imperial German Flying Corps gained a
brief advantage over the Royal Flying Corps and the French Aéronautique Militaire
because of the development of aircraft fitted with a synchronized machine gun.
These aircraft were Fokker Eindeckers, not triplanes, but it became a term people
used anytime the Germans had an advantage, so event coordinator Chris Hill
used it as a clever name for the triplane event. This event was the first known time
since World War I that three Fokker Dr.1 Triplanes powered by original (circa 1916)
rotary engines have flown together. There are no known original triplanes left-they
were all destroyed-so any triplanes in existence are replicas.
The rotary engine is an early design of radial engine with an odd number of
cylinders per row, in which the crankshaft is stationary and the crankcase and cylinders
rotate around it. The intention was to improve cooling and have a higher
power-to-weight ratio, but it created an inefficient total-loss oiling system and
increased the effects of gyroscopic precession, which led to the rotary engine
becoming obsolete by the end of World War I.
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AOPA PILOT / December 2022
MICHELLE WALKER

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