A 'One & Only' that actually served during WWII ...

[Mark Allen M]

The Fokker F.XXXVI (one built)

Together with two F.XXII's, the F.XXXVI was later sold to Scottish Aviation shortly before the outbreak of World War Two. The intention had been to put the three aircraft into service on the night flight linking Edinburgh-Glasgow-London, but because of the war this did not go ahead. Instead, the Fokkers were furnished as flying classrooms for training Royal Air Force navigators. During the early war years, the RAF trained more than half its navigators and observers using the Fokkers. Before that, the training had taken place mainly on the ground and in Avro Anson aircraft.

On 21 May 1940, the F.XXXVI crashed on take-off from Prestwick. Nobody was injured but the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. Nor were there enough spare parts anyway. So came the end of the would-be flag carrier of the pre-war KLM.

[Duggy009]

Taken from here -- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... ater&ifg=1

[quemerford]

Thanks for posting Mark. Shame some of these posts have to be accompanied by p1ss-poor attempts at one-upmanship. Keep posting; I for one don't give a rat's backside where your posts originated and appreciate you taking the time. In pretty much every case no-one can claim ownership and those who took/owned these photos are long-gone.

[Mark Allen M]

Usually the “taken from here” is the other way around. Fortunately for me, I don’t care. Unfortunately for a minority of Internet idiots, it’s like collecting baseball cards.

Credit is given to those who originally clicked the shutter or who owns the original negatives. Those who think by “harvesting” copies of copies of copies from all over the Internet and then posting copies on such sites as “bitchen planes.com” or “how to build a plastic toy at 60.com” and think they deserve some sort of validation or accolades?

That’s funny!

[Mark Allen M]

Taken from here -- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... ater&ifg=1

Nope! .... again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_F.XXXVI

[raconnel]

There is a photo of it in RAF service on the Imperial War Museum site.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item ... /205211985

[Michel Lemieux]

One cool bird....more and more I love reading about obscure AC's!!!!!

Tks for sharing as always.

[Tulio]

Not trying to hijack this thread.

Pages 105 and 106 of Dan Hagedorn's book, Alae Supra Canalem, show two very good photos (Kenneth Marts) of Junkers Ju-52 3/M given USAF s/n 42-52883 and assigned 07Nov42 to the 20th Troop Carrier Squadron. It was designated as C-79, having served with airlines in Germany, Brazil and Ecuador.

Saludos,


Tulio

[StangStung]

Same airplanes running?

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205211868

[Tulio]

Deleted double post.

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[StangStung]

Same airplanes running?

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205211868

Another angle. These windscreens seems to have been modified to cant forward into a point, as compared to the photograph in the original post. Similar plane? Or same plane with mod?

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205207527

[marine air]

It’s such a nice looking aircraft. The landing gear looks like a Ford Tri-Motor and the propellers from a YB-17. It’s just a neat design. What are the two aircraft behind it?

[raconnel]

It's really hard to tell the difference between them visually, but the RAF used one Fokker F.XXXVI, and two Fokker F.XXIIs. According to Wikipedia (and we all know that Wikipedia is never wrong) the F.XXII was "Developed as a smaller version of the Fokker F.XXXVI". From the same source, the wingspan and length of the F.XXII were about 10 ft less than the span and length of the F.XXXVI. Why was the numbering order reversed if the F.XXXVI came first? I dunno.