Fokker D.II

The Fokker D.II was a biplane fighter designed by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke during the First World War for the Imperial German Air Service and the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops. Anthony Fokker had come to see that monoplanes like the E.III were outclassed by faster Allied biplanes, and he built two M.17 prototypes in different configurations before the third was accepted for production as the D.II. That third prototype had a longer fuselage, slightly shorter wings and a 75 kW Oberursel U.I rotary engine. The Imperial German Air Service purchased 181 D.IIs, excluding the prototypes. It carried a single fixed 7.92 mm machine gun and reached about 150 km/h.