Questions to our site and possible answers
We receive regular questions.
While we are Fokker Aircraft enthusiasts, we are by no means omniscient.
So we are happy to use your knowledge to answer or supplement the open questions.
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I've noticed on your website that you reference Fokker D.VII AS94034 as having a Packard Liberty Engine.
I would be very curious to know where that information came from.
I don't doubt it, as I think it is likely correct.
I just would love to have some documentation that shows it and I would love to find out the history of that particular airplane.
The editor concerned indicates that this information was included with the photo. He had no other sources.
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By coincidence I discovered this beautiful website. I have a question about the Spider: you write that the oldest Spider was transported from the Hirsch building in Amsterdam to Berlin in 1943.
However Harry v.d. Meer writes in his Aviodome study of December 19, 2010 that the 1936 Replica Spider was hung in the Hirsch building.
He once told me that he learned this from an eyewitness. I myself have not been able to find any other information, eg a photo. I am very curious about your reaction!
As so often, the experts disagree:
The writer of the page you mentioned is behind his story.
That would mean that the replica Spin immediately moved to Germany and the original remained in the Netherlands, until 1943.
The other editor (like me) has doubts. He is writing:
In my opinion, the real old Spider was quickly taken away by the Germans.
And went to the Deutsches Museum in Berlin.
But that happened sometime in 1940-1941.
And I think the bombing by the Allies in 1943 of Fokker Amsterdam changed everything.
Production was spread in Amsterdam and beyond.
And that is why the Hirsch building came into the picture.
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Dear Sir: what were the usual camouflage colors applied at the factory?
That is a very broad question.
I assume you meant World War I.
At that time there was often such a great shortage of aircraft that the aircraft left the factory without camouflage painting and were immediately put into service at the front.
After landing, the fuel was refilled and in the meantime the plane was painted with camouflage.
Later the paint was preferably applied in the factory.
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Perhaps ... you have found information somewhere about a Fokker C.VIII W that was equipped with an Alkan autopilot in the course of 1939 (Robert Alkan industry, France).
I would like to know in which aircraft (number) [and all other info] the Alkan is built in because of the attempt to control that MLD aircraft that would serve as a target aircraft as a remote drone.
See:
https://www.museumwaalsdorp.nl/nl/radio_communicatie/radiocommunicatie-automatic-besturing-van-een-vliegtuig-1938-1940/
i'm a student from Germany and i write my bachelor's thesis about Fokker during WW1. Just to mention, i would like to know, if there is a Fokker-archive in the netherlands or the USA, containing the main documents of Fokker in Schwerin in this time.
I havn't found a hint but just one note in a book, saying "Fokker-Archiv Holland".
I would be very pleased, if you know anything about it. Even if its not open for public, i just want to know, if those document are lost (like most of the documents from the prussian army wich burned in 1945 in the archivs in Berlin and Potsdam...)
I also want to thank you for this great page!
Many greetings
Christian
For the Netherlands we referred this student to the archive of the Aviodrome.
If you know of other archives, please notify us.
First of all: a beautiful website; really what Fokker deserves! My compliments!
Second; concerning the CI page => according to the site www.ole-nikolajsen.com Denmark did not receive 8 CIs, but only two supplied by Fokker and three were built under license by the Danish Flyverkorpsets Værksteder ca. 1925-1926. These 5 CIs were in service until 1932.
Who is right?
According to the documentation available to us, it was eight.
But that does not mean that this is also correct.
Who o who can give a definite answer about this?
Do you have a digital photo of Cees van Meerten and the Fokker F27 for me after the first test flight?
The photo is on your site. I need the photo to furnish the exhibition pavilion to be built at the Museum de Cruquius.
Can you send me the photo? at a resolution of 300 dpi / 1MB. Or do you also know where I can find the photo? I would love to hear from you
D.The photo was forwarded in the resolution we had.
If you have a photo in the requested resolution, please let us know /
Hello, I am looking for a picture of the yellow advertising poster of the elta with the man with those planes in the background. I saw the photo on the website now I was wondering if you have this photo in a higher resolution
Ook here we only had a self-made photo of this poster.
If you have something better, please let us know.
