Friday, 28 July 2023

A New Zealand Connection to a Modern Day German Fokker Triplane

I recently found this photo of a newly completed Fokker Dr 1 Triplane in Germany:

There is a New Zealand connection to this aircraft as the rotary engine is a CAMS Gnome that is manufactured at Omaka.  It is fortunate that the photo is with the cowling off so you can see the rotary in all of its glory.  

I reckon this might be the sixth modern Fokker Triplane build with a rotary engine - after Mikael Carlson's one in Sweden, three in America and one in Australia which also had a CAMS Gnome rotary but unfortunately crashed (but the engine is being re-used in another build).



2 comments:

  1. Fantastic! Who built this one? Where's it based?

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  2. Fantastic! Who built this one? Where's it based?

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