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In reply to what Mark posted,
You spoke of MvR speaking of Fokker's new stationary engine biplane in Sept. 1917. This makes sense from the standpoint that when Fokker made a design, he always made it in a rotary format, and a in-line motor format, basically the D.VI and the D.VII. I have made copies of the delivery log books (from Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart) showing every motor delivered to Fokker from Daimler-Mercedes. The logs show 2 motors delivered in May of 1917, 1 in June, 2 more in Sept., 1 in January, and then 10 motors in February. By the time the 10 motors were delivered in Feb., this was for the army contract of 300. The earlier deliveries were for various experimental aircraft. (I'll start another thread on the motors.) I'm not certain where you're going with the disruption of production. The first group of 10 motors in Feb. went into the aircraft that were accepted by the army by the end of March or sooner and were on their way to the flugparks. The acceptance records for Feb. and March are missing, but we know that 21 D.VIIs were accepted somewhere in that period. The army acceptance logs before and after that period survive in the Aviodome museum.
The thing I was interested in was the source for the 19 D.VIIs in the frontline inventory as quoted in the back of Windsock datafile Nr.9. It sounds like the information may now be in Potsdam.
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