Incorporating Anton Fokker’s ingenious ‘interrupter gear’, which allowed machine guns to fire through the arc of the propeller without bullets striking the blades, the Eindecker is regarded as the first true fighter aircraft in aviation history and changed the course of aerial warfare forever, following its introduction in the summer of 1915.
Scheme: E.III 105/15 Ernst Udet KeK Habsheim March 1916
The E.III variant of this historically important fighter aircraft began to arrive on the Western Front at the end of 1915 and proved to be the definitive version of the aircraft. Produced in larger numbers than any other Eindecker, the arrival of large numbers of E.IIIs allowed the Luftstreitkrafte to deploy specialist fighter 'hunting' squadrons for the first time.
