Editing Fokker (section)

===World War I===
Fokker capitalized on having sold several [[Fokker Spin]] monoplanes to the German government and set up a factory in Germany to supply the [[German Army (German Empire)|German Army]] in [[World War I]]. His first new design for the Germans to be produced in any numbers was the [[Fokker M.5]], which was little more than a copy of the [[Morane-Saulnier G]], built with steel tube instead of wood for the fuselage, and with minor alterations to the outline of the rudder and undercarriage and a new aerofoil section.<ref name="Weyl p65-7">Weyl 1965, pp. 65–67.</ref> When it was realized that arming these scouts with a machine gun firing through the arc of the propeller was desirable, Fokker developed a [[Synchronization gear#Fokker's Synchronizer and other German gears|synchronization gear]] similar to that patented by [[Franz Schneider (engineer)|Franz Schneider]].<ref name="Weyl 96">Weyl 1965, p. 96.</ref>

[[File:Fokker EIII 210-16.jpg|thumb|right|Fokker Eindecker in flight]]
Fitted with a developed version of this gear, the M.5 became the [[Fokker Eindecker]], which due to its revolutionary armament, became one of the most feared aircraft over the western front, its introduction leading to a period of German air superiority known as the [[Fokker Scourge]] which only ended with the introduction of new aircraft such as the [[Nieuport 11]] and [[Airco DH.2]].

During World War I, Fokker engineers worked on the [[Fokker-Leimberger]], an externally powered 12-barrel [[Gatling gun]] in the 7.92×57mm round claimed to be capable of firing over 7200 rounds per minute.<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1957/1957%20-%200312.html?tracked=1 "Motor Guns-A flashback to 1914–18."] ''Flight,'' 8 March 1957, pp. 313–314.</ref>

Later in the war, after the [[Fokker D.V]] (the last design by earlier chief designer Martin Kreutzer), had failed to gain acceptance with the ''[[Luftstreitkräfte]]'' the German government forced Fokker (for their aircraft production expertise) and [[Junkers]] (for their pioneering all-metal airframe construction techniques, and advanced design concepts) to cooperate more closely, which resulted in the foundation of the Junkers-Fokker Aktiengesellschaft, or Jfa, on 20 October 1917. As this partnership proved to be troublesome, it was eventually dissolved. By then, former Fokker welder and new designer [[Reinhold Platz]], who had taken the late Martin Kreutzer's place with the firm, had adapted some of Prof. Junkers' design concepts, that resulted in a visual similarity between the aircraft of those two manufacturers during the next decade.

Some of the noteworthy types produced by Fokker during the second half of the war, all designed primarily by Platz, included the [[Fokker D.VI]] biplane, [[Fokker Dr.I]] triplane or ''Dreidecker'' (remembered as a mount of the [[Red Baron]]), [[Fokker D.VII]] biplane (the only aircraft ever referred to directly in a treaty: all D.VII's were singled out for handover to the allies in their terms of the [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)|armistice agreement]]) and the [[Fokker D.VIII]] parasol monoplane.