And from the obscure to the incredibly famous. The Fokker D-VII was widely touted as "the best German fighter aircraft of the war." Probably not, because there were later aircraft that the Germans barely go to the front before the war ended; but it was certainly the best widely-used aircraft the Germans had. It was the result of a competition held at Adlershof in January, 1928. During this competition, the Red Baron himself was persuaded to try out Fokker's prototype, the V (Versuchs, "research", or prototype) VI; Richthofen said the speed & climb were satisfactory, but the handling characteristics in terms of stability & spinning tendencies were bad. Fokker had his chief engineer, Reinhold Platz make a few changes to the fuselage & tail, and somehow persuaded Richthofen to give it another go. After this, Richthofen wholeheartedly endorsed the aircraft, Fokker won the competition, and the D-VII was adopted so enthusiastically that the rival companies Albatros & LFG Roland were directed to build the design under license, and pay Fokker a royalty on the design.

Richthofen himself never flew it in combat, though: the first examples were barely at the front in late April, 1918, when he was killed in his Fokker Dr-I. But there were other very famous German fighter aces who did: Ernst Udet, Hermann Göring, and Rudolf Berthold are examples. And the aircraft specifically picture in DB's userpic is that of Vizefeldwebel (a rank equivalent roughly to deputy Sergeant-Major) Max Holtzem, Jagdstaffel 16.

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