When I was a kid, someone gave me a book about World War One airplanes. I virtually memorized it. The coffin-nosed Fokker D.VII was one of the greatest fighters of the war. Fokker engineer Reinhold Platz designed it. In the Armistice, Germany was specifically ordered to surrender all D.VIIs.
In July, 2010, we visited the Museum of Flight near Seattle. I took this photo in the Personal Courage Wing, which features airplanes, mostly fighters, from World War One and World War Two. The museum's D.VII is a replica with an original engine and machine guns. It is painted in the colors of ace Rudolf Berthold.
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