Fokker A.I

The Fokker A.I, Fokker's own designation M.8, was an unarmed two-seat monoplane observation aircraft of the 1914-15 era in the early months of the First World War. It was powered, like the earlier Fokker M.5 on which it was based, by a 58.8 kW Oberursel U.0 seven-cylinder rotary engine, a near copy of the Gnome Lambda rotary of the same output, and it looked like a substantially enlarged M.5 with a tall dorsal cabane carrying triple sets of flying and landing wires and a wing-warping control system. The type descended from a Morane-Saulnier Type H bought from France, and the Imperial German Army Air Service ordered it as the A.I. Fokker and the licence builder Halberstadt together produced about 63, with a crew of pilot and observer, a wingspan of 12.12 m and a maximum speed of 135 km/h.