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Monday, August 31, 2020
Fokker Into London
80 years ago, it would have been a different Fokker and it would have been met by the RAF.
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Fokker was a Dutch builder of aircraft, of course
ReplyDeleteFokker was a Dutch company that started in Germany from 1912 until 1919, when it moved to the Netherlands.
ReplyDeleteLovely video to watch, excellent CRM and sterile cockpit routine despite the lovely view. Reminds me how lucky we were to have a reasonable FAM trip program before the D.C. bureaucrats and 9/11 screwed it up. Seeing how things worked from a commercial cockpit made a huge difference in how you approached controlling.
Neat!
ReplyDeleteIt was an obscure reference to and old joke whose punchline was “Yah, but them folkers were flying Messerschmidts”
ReplyDeleteFavorite Captain reply in the 90’s when we called traffic as a Fokker 100...”We got that Fokker in sight”
ReplyDeleteCP, Mesaba airlines flew Fokker 100’s in and out of Detroit back in the 80’s and early 90’s. We always enjoyed calling traffic as an FK ten, and when they reported them in sight, told the pilots, “Follow that Fokker, cleared visual approach.”
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CP88, my daughter outdid your FAM trip. She got to watch the Checkerboard Approach into Kai Tak from a 747 jumpseat, thanks to a JAL captain who was hoping to get lucky...;-)
ReplyDeleteDeadstick, well he probably got to hear her squeal on the turn to final...there are (or were) a couple of cockpit videos of that approach years ago, impressively insane.
ReplyDeleteDale, even better was when a Fokker was catching someone (they were notoriously slow, especially in the climb), you could shame the other pilot into speeding up.
The Fokker types generally lacked the range to reach England. The German Air Service mostly used large multi engine Zeppelin Staaken or Gotha type airplanes following the failure of the Zeppelin and Shute Lantz airships. Not a very successful campaign in terms of damage or casualties but it did force the RAF to divert fighter planes from the Western Front. And it did terrorize and galvanize Britain, leading to their preparedness and 2nd victory over German air might in 1940.
ReplyDeleteOh, my math is off, not WWI. That Dutch model 21 with the wheel pants was the only Fokker that I remember that fought in the 2nd great unpleasantness, and not for very long before the luftwaffe got them all.
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