FOKKER F.XX - FOKKER'S FASTEST TRIMOTOR

Attraverso 207 foto di cui 19 a colori, 13 disegni al tratto e 17 profili a colori, traccia la storia dell'aereo Fokker F.XX, utilizzato principalmente da KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

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‘The Few’ is a series of titles where the focus will be on airliners that were only built or operated in a few numbers or flew for a particular airline. This third volume is about the Fokker F.XX operated mainly by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

From 1920 until 1935, KLM and the NV Nederlandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek (of Anthony Fokker) were closely connected to each other. After the successful introduction of the Fokker F.III, the fleet was modernized in the mid-1920s with the single-engined Fokker F.VIIa. But after the Ford Reliability Race (in the USA, 1925), Fokker decided to modify the Fokker F.VIIa into a three-engined aircraft for better reliability. A genius idea that led to an explosion of sales of the aircraft, known as F.VIIa-3m and later F.VIIb-3m, to the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, but also to many other countries in Europe and well beyond.