Fokker A.I

what is it?

The Fokker A.I (Fokker designation M.8) was an "A-class" unarmed two-seat monoplane observation aircraft of the 1914-15 era early in World War I, powered as the earlier Fokker M.5 was, by a 58.8 kW (80 PS) Oberursel U.0 seven cylinder rotary engine, or umlaufmotor, a near-clone of the Gnome Lambda rotary engine of the same power output level — the same U.0 seven cylinder rotary engine version was used on all Fokker military monoplanes before the Fokker E.II Eindecker fighter's debut in 1915-16. The A.I aircraft resembled a substantially enlarged Fokker M.5, with a tall dorsal cabane structure to handle the triple sets of stationary flying and landing wires anchored to the wing panels' forward spar, each panel having fourteen wing ribs, and the similarly triple sets of wing warping cables attached to the rear spar. The A.I and earlier A.IIs were both built by Fokker and license-built by H

🔎How to recognise it: 1 engine · 12.1 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 135 km/htop speed
• range 400 kmwithout refuelling
• built 63made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🚗Wingspan of 12.1 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.

spec sheet

first flight

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retired

1915

status

retired

number built

63

role

reconnaissance aircraft

makers

Fokker

engines

1× Oberursel U.0

crew

2

length

7.5 m

wingspan

12.1 m

height

2.8 m

top speed

135 km/h

range

400 km

ceiling

3,000 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.