Berlin Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/berlin/ Mechanically-minded travel Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:31:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Fokker DR.1 Dreidecker https://mechtraveller.com/2016/05/fokker-dr-1-dreidecker/ https://mechtraveller.com/2016/05/fokker-dr-1-dreidecker/#respond Thu, 19 May 2016 13:03:41 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=1523 This Dreidecker (“triplane”) is a reproduction at the Luftwaffe Museum in Gatow. According to Wikipedia, 320 of these machines were built, but only three are thought to have survived WW1. Serial 528/17 was retained as a testbed by the Deutschen Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt (German Aviation Research Institute) at Adlershof. After being used in the filming […]

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