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Fokker D.VII with RAF SE.5's

This "duplicate" photo, of the same one shown below, is reversed, and should deleted from the gallery. You can tell by looking at the propeller on the Fokker, and the photo is out of focus anyway. Please delete this photo and move any associated comments to the correct companion photo below on the same page.

This is Maj. Edgar G. Tobin trying to shoo back the photographer, most likely in Fargo, North Dakota on April 23, 1919. This is the only location where the Victory Loan Flying Circus, Mid-West Flight flew under extreme cold and wind conditions during their month long tour. It was 30 degrees that morning in Fargo, with a 35 mph ground wind and a 50 mph wind in the air. There were two Fokker D.VIIs exhibited, as you see one here. "The upper wing of one Fokker was damaged when a high wind carried it and about twenty men off the ground, striking the fuselage and damaging the rudder." They started the air show that afternoon with seven planes, an SE-5, a Spad and five Jennys, but due to high winds and intense cold, canceled the rest of the show after the first hour. Tobin may be trying to prevent the photographer from photographing the damaged Fokker.

Frank Clarke standing next to a Fokker D.VII powered by a Hall-Scott L6 (Liberty L6) engine.