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  Fokker, A living history - Fokker HALL H.51
It was a high-wing three-seat cabin monoplane, registered by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) as the Fokker-Hall H-51.
It is presumed that Fokker designed the aircraft - hence the name Fokker Model 11 - and probably also built some components such as the wings and control surfaces.
The reason for the combined effort may have been that Fokker wanted to obtain some experience in metal aircraft construction in which his company had only a limited background despite the fact that it was about to build the metal Flying Life Boat (FLB).
library.thinkquest.org /C002752/fokker.cgi?page=db/h51   (394 words)

  
  Fokker - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the Twenties, Fokker's biggest success was the F.VIIa/3m trimotor passenger aircraft, which dominated the European market until the arrival of the all-metal American and German aircraft in the mid-Thirties.
The Fokker factories in the Netherlands were completely destroyed during World War II, and a new factory was built next to Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam, in 1951.
Fokker was one of the main partners in the F-16 consortium.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Fokker   (820 words)

  
 Fleither » XA-7 Fokker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Advertising Music Industry Partners 10 20 results 30 results 50 Fokker XA 7 The General Fokker XA 7 was a attack aircraft built in 1930 by Fokker and then General Corporation after it bought Fokker in 1930, and entered in competition by the United States.
However, the XA 8 won the competition, A 7 development was not The XA 7 was a seat low wing all metal design.
The XA 7 armed with 0.30 inch firing machine guns and one inch gun operated by the observer sitting in the rear The.
www.fleither.com /category/xa-7-fokker   (778 words)

  
 General Aviation (Fokker) XA-7
In 1930, the US Army sponsored a contest for a new generation of attack planes which were intended to replace the Douglas A-2 and Curtiss A-3 biplanes then equipping the three squadrons of the 3rd Attack Group, the Army's only group dedicated solely to the attack mission.
The General Aviation company of New Jersey, which was the US subsidiary of the Dutch-based Fokker aircraft company, submitted a two-seat, low-winged all metal monoplane as its entry in the contest.
The General Aviation (Fokker) XA-7 was a two-seat low-winged all-metal monoplane powered by a 600 hp Curtiss XV-1570-27 Conqueror V-12 liquid cooled engine.
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 Fact Sheets : Atlantic-Fokker XA-7 : Atlantic-Fokker XA-7
The Atlantic-Fokker XA-7 was built in response to a U.S. Army request for a new aircraft designed from scratch for the attack role rather than as a conversion of an existing type (like the Curtiss Falcon series of attack planes).
The Atlantic-Fokker company was formed by Anthony Fokker (the first company president) in 1924.
The aircraft built by the company were known as Atlantic or Atlantic-Fokker types until General Motors bought the firm in 1930 and changed the name to General Aviation.
www.nationalmuseum.af.mil /factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=2908   (282 words)

  
 Fokker
NOTE: Many US Fokker products were for a time referred to as Atlantic or Atlantic-Fokker, and model designations were AF, as well as F. Historian Jos Heyman explains: Although Dutch born, Fokker got his break in Germany during WW1.
The Fokker name was not openly used until about 1926 because of concern about the public's possible association with the notorious German fighters of WW1.
Because Edsel Ford donated a Tri-motor for this expedition, Byrd sold the Fokker to the Mechanical Science Corp. The plane was named the Friendship, fitted with floats and used for a transatlantic flight that made Amelia Earhart the first woman to fly (as a passenger) across the Atlantic.
www.aerofiles.com /_fok.html   (2645 words)

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