The Stampe & Vertongen Museum's D.VIII replica impressed me at their 2018 Fly In. First flown 100 years earlier in May 1918, the Fokker E.V monoplane fighter was redesignated D.VIII following several crashes due to faulty wing construction at a piano factory. Actually the unbraced thick cantilever wing, which allegedly violated a Junkers patent, was strong and the small fighter fast, agile and effective in the final months of WWI. Formerly N111EV, this machine is painted as a captured D.VIII flown by the Belgian air force.

This Fury FB.10 (Sea Fury FB.10 according to some) is looking splendid in its original Iraqi markings. Formerly N54SF and VH-ISS, she arrived in Belgium in 2011 and had not yet flown here when I photographed her, following a lengthy restoration of its engine.