Fokker DR.1 Triplane - Grimes Field, Golden Age of Aviation Museum 

It's very impressive especially with the LaRhone rotary engine in it. Talk about authentic. Great job guys.

GREAT video!!! It takes a BRAVE person to test fly one of these for the first time. Hats off to the pilot! 👍🏼 It looked like he lost his hat at 8:20.

In the colors of Lothar von Richthofen, the Red Baron's brother.

Love ❤️ everything about the DR1 🥰 An original Le Rhône rotary engine is a must .

Wow, I love the sound of them engines. Apart from a childhood fixation with Baron Richthofen, I know very little about aviation but these old birds are sure classy. Great replica, thankyou for the upload.

beautiful plane!

In 1966 when I was in 5th grade, my entry into the school science fair was about the history of Manfred Von Richthofen. Included was a model of his sleek Albatross along with it's flying capabilities. I was inspired by my dad who was a U.S.A.A.F. pilot and from watching Snoopy tangle with the Red Baron in the comic strips. I later came to appreciate DR1 even more. Everything about it is odd and unconventional. That's the beauty of it. I've watched this video over and over and marvel at the vintage pictures. A flying DR1 is surreal to me. I see past the original intent of these machines of war and gaze in wonder of the pilots, engineers and the raw, sheer beauty of these creations.

I'll bet not many originals were as pristine and clean as this one!

I just visited this place over Colombia day weekend. Great museum, really nice guys that weren’t annoyed to answer questions, the dog Obi was a great host, and for $7 you can’t go wrong. If you’re into old aviation this place is soooo worth visiting!

Thanks for posting this superb video of a well-constructed and detailed DR 1 replica ! Greetings from Houston, Texas Danny

Wow. Had no idea the cylinders rotated aswell. What a feat of engineering

The paint-job still retains elements of the original Schwerin factory finish.. Amazing to see this, thank you so much for sharing!

WOW! What a beauty. Great job. Thanks for sharing.

Unbelievably impressive and beautiful. Thank you for posting this- listen to that engine ROAR!!!

imagine how was to see these beauties taking off to combat back in WW1 times

Grimes is alot of fun if you like the old planes. A late friend Frank used to drive his 1928 model A roadster there he was the original owner of and his pilots license was signed by the Wright Bros too.. He introduced me to the place. They have great events there for those that love vintage planes.

Such a smooth engine sound

well, that is something !! congrats on a great job; great color scheme too

I agree with Steve. What a plane. Man talk about flying by the seat of your pants. These were as bare as you can get. Outstanding craftsmanship.

If they made a modern version of this plane with a more powerful engine, it would make one hell of a stunt plane

Superb bit of videography, keeps me enthused for my own quarter-scale triplane build, cheers

Beautiful replica! A job well done.

In an ugly world a beautiful sight !

That is beautiful!

What??? You guys are only 2 hours from me. I am definitely coming to see you this summer!

VERY impressive

Majestic.

These planes were designed to kill people. They are weapons plain and simple and yet there is something almost toy-like, kind of comical about their appearance. The bright colors add to that impression. And.. another yet, they are still awesome. Beautiful plane. Well done. I love it.

Fantastic!

Very interesting details !

A pleasure to see and hear the finish on the aircraft was possibly much better that than anything that came out of the Fokker factory. I really liked the fokker nuts as well. Thank you

great work

Love it!

awesome!

Sweeeeeeeet! Beautiful!

Great video

Great footage, fantastic replica very good attention to detail. It would be interesting what would one of these be worth?

Exquisite!

Great video, and great job on the aircraft; I'm surprised this is in Bethel-I'm less than an hour away.

Masterpiece of Dutch engineering :)

Please accept my comment as a ‘thumbs up’ only there were 747 thumbs up when I saw the video which happens to be the number of of my favourite airliner lol! But yes excellent video great to see a real life Fokker triplane.

How many LaRhone rotaries are still available? I've only seen one in an airplane Paul Mantz flew at an air show decades ago. I'll never forget the castor oil smell and the stuff that blew back toward the tail. Thank goodness for the cowling that kept it blowing along the bottom and not in the pilots face.

Amazing

10 years ago now.....this thing still around?

I would imagine film crews would kill to have a period-accurate, fully functional WWI aircraft available; perhaps the Golden Age museum could rent out aircraft for use in feature films and documentaries as an additional source of income? Heck, even demonstration flights at airshows might be viable. And it would give them greater capacity to preserve original war birds and/or construct new ones. =)

Great video! How did you make the empty belt tubes, any close up pics? Also are the trays installed on the MG's, I can't see them for the glare. We are still struggling with our MG set up on our museums DR 1 an DVII, just can't seem to get focused and get everything done.

Great job,valve clearance's look excessive sounds beautiful

hollup aint those my plane colors?

I never knew the whole engine turned!

Hes very soft on the controls. The Fokker Triplane was a lot more maneuverable than youd think from watching this.

it has the rotary engine!

Did you guys keep track of your actual build time? What about material and component cost?

cute plane

Wonder if I could build a replica. I’m good with cars and this year is the first time I could fix my dads Cessna by myself. It would be cool

it takes a lot of courage to fly something so unsafe and still at that time shoot and shoot down enemies

WHere the heck did they get a LeRhone engine from ?

Супер.

wish they had shown the entire start up

Came here from one of those African aviation compilations

I wonder how hard that is to fly

Way more maneuverable than the albatross fighter they had

I wonder if there were women once drove this tremendously awesome and classic airplane?

Almost takes off faster than the Fi Storch

Dieser Dreidecker war angeblich schwer zu fliegen, da er ziemlich instabil war. Jedoch war er daher, in der Hand eines guten Piloten ein ausgezeichnetes Flugzeug mit besten Kunstflugeigenschaften. Würde mich, als ehemaligen Jagdflieger (Me 109G), sehr interesssieren, wie sich dieses Flugzeug wirklich fliegen lässt ? Vielleicht kann jemand hier seine Erfahrungen mit diesem Flugzeugtyp bekanntgeben.

Enemy ace from DC comics flies one of those planes

are there original

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I got a vision of those guys during ww1 fighting with honor. like the knights of armor

That image is from 1917 or 1918. 11:29 Why is it a swastika?

my opa told me back in the war world war two that is one of his friends was an instructor and he took my opa on a crazy ride to try and make him puke

#battlefield 1

Lovely airplane! Too bad that the machine guns could not be fired. Would have loved to hear them.

Anton Herman Gerard Fokker, Tony for friends 😂🤣

If I had 3 wishes...

Cool ....... but the music 🎶

Shame it's the Le Rhone 9C instead of the 9J

Zur flying Circus

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There are tons of fights on youtube about which fighter is the best or greatest. The Fokker DR.1 was not the best performing fighter ever, even in it's time. If I could own a fighter plane though, to just fly, it would be the DR.1. It might not have been the best plane, but it was and still is the COOLEST plane that ever flew! It just looks awesome.

Hello IM from future

Fucking hate that every single time there is a reenactment that there has to be annoying ass music over it

The big weakness was poor vision