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Aviation History
1948
1948 - 1801.PDF
FLIGHT 511 Fokker To-day Fokker T.6.W. seaplanes of the Royal Dutch Naval Air Service operating with the fiojrof Air Force at the beginning of the late \ Holland's Reconstructed Aircraft Industry : The New Combined Company : Four New Trainers By Wing Commander Maurice A. Smith, D.F.C. TF one thinks back to the earliest days of flying, certain names come to mind at once as being I associated now and for all time with man's initiation into the faculty of controlled flight in -•- powered aircraft. Some of these names have ceased to be associated actively with aircraft to- day, but an exception is that of Fokker. By no means the first of the constructor pilots, and at one stage no friend to this country, A. G. Fokker was nevertheless a pioneer—responsible over a period of years for several remarkable innovations. Space does not permit us to give the history of his activities and long association with aircraft, but a brief summary will revive some interesting memories and serve to give a the first post-war Dutch design to go into production, the Promoter four-: is here viewed through the spacious windows of another.—" Flight " photograph.
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