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Approaching runway 30. This aircraft is still in Piedmont-colours but already registered with US Air. Kodachrome K64. - Photo taken at Miami - International (Wilcox Field / 36th Street / Pan American Field) (MIA / KMIA) in Florida, USA on February 24, 1989.
Inflight around Wanaka. Reminiscent of a WW1 Dawn patrol - Photo taken at In Flight in New Zealand on April 21, 2006.
Airline: Montenegro Airlines Aircraft: Fokker 100 Registration: 4O-AOP CN: 11332
Erkende rasvereniging voor Akita, American Akita, Shiba, Shikoku, Kai, Kishu en Hokkaido. Fokkers, geboren en verwachte pups, informatie over de rassen.
I will be building a group of Fokkers and since they all have similar interior and engine builds, one common video will be used for all of them showing the b...
A number of Ex-US Airways Fokker F-100s sit around the airport. This Platinum one may start flying soon. Fokkers are making a comeback in Canada.. G-MABH. Fokker 100. JetPhotos.com is the biggest database of aviation photographs with over 6 million screened photos online!
1932 Bucciali TAV8-32 Saoutchik ‘Fleche d’Or’ Unlike most upcoming manufacturers, Alberto Bucciali nearly lost his life fighting as a pilot in the WW1 before manufacturing his own cars. And of the few he made with his brother Paul-Albert, this TAV8 was their best. Flanked on its side was the same stork that adorned the fuselage of his SPAD XIII fighter plane during dangerously low photo reconnaissance missions amongst anti-air assaults and braces of German Fokkers. Lucky to make it out […]
PRICES MAY VARY. This volume details the 26 countries that had WWI Fokker aircraft in military or civilian service post- WWI. In the immediate post-Armistice period Fokker fighters, especially the D.VII, were sought after by the newly emerging European nations and continued in active combat service. The Fokker C.I two- seat reconnaissance aircraft that was too late for service in WWI, had a long military service post-WWI. Fokkers were rebuilt and copied in many countries. The Allies all received
The Fokker F27 was the workhorse of the Dutch Air Force for almost 36 years. C-1, C-2 and C-3 were F27-100 ‘Friendships’, the other nine were F27-300M ‘Troopships’ with a larger cargo door. During their operational time, that lasted from 1960 to 1996, the Fokkers were updated and modified numerous times. During peace keeping UN-missions in Cambodia and former Yugoslavia some were sprayed white and received flare systems for self defence. Photo taken at Eindhoven airbase in November 1995. C-3 was donated to the KLu Historical Flight, but had to be written off due to severe corrosion.
The Brits introduced the Sopwith Triplane and immediately had air superiority over the trenches in WW1. This was the era of glory or a horrible death. Parachutes had not been invented so the chances of burning in your shot up plane were very high. The planes were an engine and gas tank with a wooden skeleton covered in linen that was soaked in dope to tighten the fabric. They were high powered kites. The Red Baron's Scarlet painted plane second in line.The Red Baron, Rightofen led his group in the Albatros fighter which was the plane to have until this weird Sopwith showed up and absolutely mauled the Germans. The "Black Flight" was a group of all Canadians flying the Sopwith Triplane. They were all painted gloss black and with Black Death ,Black Maria, Black Mamba etc painted on them for effect and recognition. Led by Maj. Collison , they chewed up their adversarys so badly that Richthofen gathered up the shot down, behind German lines wrecks and studied them and made their own version, the Fokker Triplane Dr 1. The Sopwith Camel, a Bi-plane was then introduced and it proved to be the best fighter of the war. It's major advantage was it could turn twice as tight as it's rivals. They made 5,500 Camels and in 1918 the air was full of Camels and Fokkers battling it out. A newly trained British combat pilot arriving at the front, had a live expectancy of twelve weeks. The Red Baron was finally shot down by the Enfield .303 rifles of the Australian ground troops he was straffing. Shot up and shot down. This one did not burn and it looks like the pilot could have survived. The Red Baron had 80 kills, 56 of which went down in flames. The gas tank was always right above the engine , right in front of the Pilot.
+++ DISCLAIMER +++ Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE! Some background: The Fokker D.XXIII was designed as a twin-engined single-seat aircraft. To overcome the problems of asymmetric flight it had a tractor engine at the front and a pusher engine at the rear. The D.XXIII was a cantilever monoplane with the twin tail units on booms.The pilot had an enclosed cockpit in between the tractor and pusher engines and it had a retractable tricycle landing gear. The prototype first flew on 30 May 1939 powered by two Walter Sagitta I-SR air cooled vee piston engines. The trial flights identified problems with the cooling of the rear engine and general engine performance. It was proposed to use Rolls-Royce or Daimler-Benz engines in the production aircraft, but tensions with Germany and Great Britain's own need for the Merlin engine eventually led to the Hispano Suiza 12Y engine. While not as powerful as the British or German alternatives, the 640 kW (860 hp) of each engine instead of the Walter Sagittas' 400 kW (530 hp) meant a considerable improvement in performance, even though the engine compartments had to be modified considerably. Concerns were also raised about the pilot clearing the rear propeller if he had to bail out and an ejector seat was studied. As a provisional solution, rails were put on both sides of the forward fuselage for the Fokker test pilot, Gerben Sonderman, to use to bail out in an emergency. The aircraft was flown with Walter Sagitta I-SR 11 times for a total flight time of less than four hours, then the first machine with Hispano Suiza 12Y engines and a modified rear fuselage paneling was introduced, which cured the chronic rear engine cooling problems. On the 11th flight in April, the undercarriage of the Walter Sagitta prototype was damaged beyond repair, and in May 1940 serial production of the Hispano Suiza powered Fokker D.XXIII-1 started - just when the German forces invaded the Netherlands. At this time about twenty airframes were more or less complete, and instead of throwing these aircraft into the country's defence (maybe a dozen was airworthy, and maybe five or six armed) the machines were flown over the Channel into British exile. There, with the help of other Dutch volunteers, RAF 320-322 (Dutch) Sqaudron were formed, among others with Fokker T.8 torpedo bombers and Avro Ansons from the Dutch Naval Service. Eleven Fokker D.XXIII-1 became the core of RAF (Dutch) 322 Squadron - orginally a fighter unit, but it became soon clear that the Fokker was, despite its two engines, not a match for German fighters like the Bf 109E. Hence it was decided to relegate the Dutch machines to ground attack and night intruder missions, which were taken up from July 1940 on. In the field all machines were also outfitted with British equipment, including 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns instead of the original two 7.9mm (0.31in) machine guns, and the pair of heavy 13.2mm (0.52in) machine-guns in the front of the tail booms were replaced by two 30mm Oerlikon cannons, left over from armament experiments with Hawker Hurricanes in 1939. Further modifications for the night intruder role included flame dampers and glare shields In this guise the Fokkers flew night missions over France, with mild success. These attacks lasted until early 1941, when 322 Squadron was disbanded due to lack of operational aircraft: maintenance of the small D.XXIII fleet proved to be too costly, and lack of spares for the Hispano Suiza 12Y frequently grounded most of the Fokker fleet. Anyway, on 12 June 1943, No. 322 squadron was re-instated again as a separate squadron within the Royal Air Force, formed with Dutch pilots already flying in the RAF but operating British aircraft like the Supermarine Spitfire. From then 322 Squadron also actively participated in the war and fought along the allied forces until the end of the war. Specifications: Crew: 1 Length: 10.40 m (34 ft 1 in) Wingspan: 11.5 m (37 ft 9 in) Height: 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) Wing area: 18.5 m2 (199 sq ft) Empty weight: 2,180 kg (4,806 lb) equipped Max takeoff weight: 2,950 kg (6,504 lb) Powerplant: 2× Hispano Suiza 12Ydrs piston engine, rated at 640 kW (860 hp) each Performance: Maximum speed: 525 km/h (326 mph; 283 kn) estimated Range: 840 km (522 mi; 454 nmi) Service ceiling: 9,000 m (29,528 ft) Armament: 2× 30mm (1.18in) Oerlikon machine cannon in the tail booms 4× 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns, two in the tail booms and two above the front engine, synchronized to fire thorugh the propeller arc. The kit and its assembly: The exotic Fokker D.XXIII falls perfectly into the time frame for the late 2015 'Battle of Britain' Group Build at whatifmodelers - but building it OOB as a prototype in Dutch colors (even though this looks interesting) was just too easy. I wanted to spin the idea further, so I decided to implant a more powerful engine. My choice fell on the Hispano Suiza 12Y, a very common engine at that time, and I found a good donation nose in a KP Avia B.35, because it carries a chin radiator. While the new part's height was fine the intersection to the frest of the Fokker fuselage needed some serious body work. Since the same engine was to be housed in the rear, too, I lengthened the tail section by 3mm and added bumps for the larger cylinder banks, as well as additional carburtor intakes and flaps for the radiator exhausts. Flame dampers were scartched from IP profiles and sheet. The propellers are also new and slightly bigger than the OOB parts - the front prop comes from a Matchbox Brester Buffalo, with a Ju 188 spinner, and the rear propeller comes from a Percival Provost. The only other change is the armament. The Oerlikon cannons were made with hollow steel needles, plus flame dampers made from styrene tube. Painting and markings: This took some time to develop. Inspiration for this were Dutch Navy Fokker T.8 torpedo bombers which actually escaped the German invasion and arrived in Great Britain, forming 320 Squadron until the parts ran out. That could also have happened with Fokker D.XXIII fighters - and the rest was an analogue development. The Dutch aircraft in RAF service received quickly standard RAF colors and roundels, but many Dutch machines bore the orange triangle as a sign of their origin. Night intruder missions were already undertaken in mid 1940, and the paint scheme in this case was inspired by an experimental scheme carried by at least one Douglas DB-7/Havoc Mk. I bomber: standard Dark Green/Dark Earth on the upper sides with Special Night (Black) undersides - but in this case any frontal surface like the leading edges or the aircraft's nose were painted black, too. History was slightly twisted, though: 322 (Dutch) Squadron was only installed in 1943 as a fighter squadron with Dutch personell; the other Dutch squadrons, 320 and 321, existed earlier, but these were rather naval/reconnaissance units, not fighters, so I deemed a dedicated unit for the D.XXIIIs suitable. Markings and codes were puzzled together from various sources - it was actually really tricky to find suitable places for the fuselage roundels and the codes! I eventually found very small roundels that more or less fit onto the thin tail booms, and the mid-sea grey code letters (from a PrintScale sheet) found a place on the fuselage. The orange triangles were cut from plain sheet, and 'AS468' actually belongs to one of the few Curtiss Clevelands (SBC) in RAF service.
