The Fokker E.III was a German single-seat monoplane fighter, part of the Eindecker series designed by the Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker for the German military and brought into service in 1915. It was the first purpose built German fighter aircraft and the first to carry a synchronization gear letting its pilot fire a machine gun through the spinning propeller without striking the blades. That advantage gave Germany a period of air superiority on the Western Front known afterward as the Fokker Scourge, which lasted until Allied fighters caught up in early 1916.
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The Fokker E.III is the main variant of the Eindecker (literally meaning "one wing") fighter aircraft of World War I.
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