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Not another Fokker thread. There's one crashed round here somewhere at present.
The WW1 aviators were all the more remarkable for even attempting to get those kites off the ground and land them again, let alone conducting an arial war. When you see them up close, the aeroplanes are literally baling wire and canvas.
I took the kids to an air museaum just recently, and to my surprise, in a cabinet were some pieces of the airframe and fittings of most famous Fokker of all, downed on the Somme in 1918 and souveniered by ground troops.
A fascinating time in aviation and in warfare- although climbing up into the freezing dawn air over France in 1916, I'm sure none of them thought so at the time.
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War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.' George W. Bush
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