Fokker D.VIII

The Fokker D.VIII, first known as the Fokker E.V, was a German parasol-monoplane fighter designed by Reinhold Platz and built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. It was the last Fokker design to become operational with the German air service, entering service in the last months of World War I. Its prototype V.26 won an order at the second Adlershof fighter trials in May and June 1918, and all production aircraft used the 82 kW Oberursel Ur.II rotary engine. After several fatal accidents caused by wing failures the aircraft was grounded, modified and renamed D.VIII. Dubbed the Flying Razor by post-war pulp-fiction writers, it scored the last aerial victory of the war.