On this day in aviation history, 89 years ago-March 27, 1936-the first flight of the Fokker D.XXI took place. Designed in 1935 to meet a request from the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force, ...
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Fokker D.XXI: How a Forgotten Fighter Defied the Odds Against the Luftwaffe and Soviets
When the Fokker D.XXI first flew in 1936, it was already behind the times. With a fixed undercarriage and a mixed construction of metal tubing, wood, and Bakelite wings, it appeared outdated next to ...
Historians consider it one of the best planes of World War I, maybe the best. After the war, it was the first fighter stationed at Mitchel Field, then a fledgling military base adjacent to Roosevelt ...
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