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.

Nicknamed the 'Flying Razor' by Royal Flying Corps pilots at the end of WWI this superb fighter arrived just too late to have any effect on the course of the war. This replica was built by E Swearingen in the 1960s with input from the original designer Rheinhold Pfalz and now hangs proudly in the Museum of Flight.

Fuselage carries title Airdrome Aeroplanes and these are the makers of 3/4 scale kits