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Fokker F-VIIB/3m(Polish bomber - 211 Bomb Squadron)
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Really splendid stuff! Keep up the good work.
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Sorely outdated in 1939 ... The poor Poles ...
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The Fokker is almost identical to the Ford Tri Motor Design
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You are quite right Enrico. Ford bassed his design on the Fokker F VIIb-3m after it participated an won the 1925 Ford Reliability Tour. Anthony Fokker, after hearing about the contest, summoned his Amsterdam factory to fix two extra motors under the wings of the F VIIa monoplane and ship it to the USA to participate in the contest. Ford made a few changes to design, most nottably applying metal in stead of the wood and linnen material Fokker would stick to for quite some years to come.
After the contest, Anthony Fokker sold this plane to Henry Ford who put it at the dispossal of Richard Bird, who would fly the plane over the Norh Pole in 1926. Currently this original airplane is exhibited in the Edison Institute museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
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