Fokker M 10

The Fokker M 10 was a two-seater reconnaissance and trainer biplane with single-bay wings, wing-warping controls for roll and a 7-cylinder 80 hp Oberursel U.0 engine, several of which were bought by the Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops of Austria-Hungary. That service lacked aircraft production capacity in the First World War and bought aircraft from its German ally, acquiring the M 10 in two versions in 1916: the single-bay M 10E, called the Fokker B.I by the Luftfahrtruppen, and the two-bay M 10Z, called the B.II. The M 10E was powered by a 60 kW Oberursel U.0 seven-cylinder rotary and derived directly from the earlier Fokker M 7 flown by the German Naval Air Service from 1915, the aircraft being almost identical apart from a revised and strengthened undercarriage and centre section cabane struts. The first 12 machines were delivered in January and February 1915 and the last 12, without engines, by January 1916. They served in Flik units on the Balkan, Isonzo and Tyrol fronts until early 1916, then in secondary training until the end of the war.