Dutch naval aviation

USN (1921-27) Torpedo Floatplane: 3 Prototypes. Tye Fokker T.II was a Dutch early prototype of torpedo carrying floatplane. It was designed from the paper-only T.I for European navies in 1920, and was ready in 1921, to compete in a USN open contest for its first dedicated torpedo-bomber. In all, only three T.II were made, tested … Read more

Fokker C.XI W (1934-38) About Fokker and Floatplanes Created by a Dutchman, Anthony Fokker, the company he founded in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, soon became a legend of aviation, credited with Albatros with providing the best central empires designs of WWI. The Fokker D.VII, his last fighter, was even mentioned in the Armistice clauses and … Read more