Pretty sure i just met Fred at the Greenville airport a few weeks ago. He makes propellers for some of his planes from scratch and shapes them by hand, which is mind-blowing to me. As well as the rest of the plane entirely from scratch and in the same fashion they were made when they were built. Brilliant guy.
Just watched a Greg's airplanes episode on Fokker - he started the American company that became North American. P-51, X-15, etc. What a lineage from these WW1 classics
As far as the paint scheme. I was under the impression that these first two triplane were painted the light blue and then over painted with the dark green. This differers from the production aircraft that had the over streaking of dark green over the neutral fabric finish of the doped fabric. Thanks.
I didn't know there was a F1 prototype. I once read about a German Airforce pilot named Voss Stoker and he was hired by Fokker to test pilot one of the very first DR1'S and flew one in WWI. He died in a DR1. Do you have any info on Voss Stoker? I have his memory of him and his paint scheme of his DR1. His DR1 was painted white & sky blue checkered fuselage with a light blue under carage, white rudder, white stabilizer with light blue under carage and sky blue top & light blue under wings and landing gear. Also a white crowling.
