I'm not at all a D VII fan, I find, she looks like a flying soap box.
And for the history, all sounds reasonable, what you both wrote, and I know, some things may
never be fully cleared. Also I notice often, that the former opponent sides have both their own
truths in some differing points. Performance data for example, do often differ in a way, that you
could almost say: British planes performed better in British data, wereas German craft did better
in German data. Now, I don't want to start a hassle about such things; and certainly not for Mr.
Fokker, who was, as you said, Dutch. I'm not a real life pilot either. I haven't even seen these
planes in the air, cause I'm not as lucky as the Americans or Australians, to have airshows with
these crates.
All experience I have with a Fokker D VII is flying it in this simulation. And there I found, she does
perform most dangerously. Had I to fight an "online air combat", she should be my best choice.
Although - I'm such a style and design freak, I would perhaps rather "die" in a beautiful fighter
as the Albatros D Va, than to be the victor in a flying soapbox.