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Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« on: September 03, 2007, 07:37:14 PM »
Hi All  :) I need help  :-help I search one good 3 view draw about the Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
this is the first aircraft I can touch in my live I remeber in my old hi-school we have this aircraft in a big room full of dust...  :(
now they have out of the school other three gates guardian one Macchi MB326 one Piaggio P166 and one old Beechcraft C-45 if I can I want to make some good photo about this three subjects ;)
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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2007, 07:55:09 PM »
Kon. Marine- well we are all lucky that we have here Nico Braas and hope he could manage something valuable for you  :-wave

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2007, 07:55:47 PM »
The S-11 is a machine with a very interesting history. It was licence manufactured both in Italy and Brazil and even served in the Israelian air force. It was a very sturdy plane and even today a number is still flying around.
Here is the 3-view drawing of the production version. There were various versions of the prototype including one with a faired-over cockpit section and just 1 seat with a small windscreen!
There is a monograph on the S-11, but this is in Dutch!

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2007, 08:19:32 AM »
thank you so much Nico for this interesting draw :-obey :-ok :-wave

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2007, 09:10:04 PM »
I just checked two photo albums with S-11/S-12 photos from a Fokker photo collection I purchased some ten years ago.
Since the S-11 is a production model  and I have no particular affinity with this plane I never even looked into these two books. I was a little bit amazed to find out that I have more than 400 photos, not only of practically all S-11's built by Fokker, but also a number of quite unknown shots from Brazilian licence manufacturing. I also seem to have some hundred photos of the mock-up and the prototype in various stages of construction! I am still amazed to find out I have all this stuff!!
If anyone out there is interested I would be more than pleased to place here some of the most interesting and nicest shots.

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2007, 09:13:42 PM »
Fire at will Nico... 400 images- nice for the book, isn't it  :-razz

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2007, 10:06:17 PM »
Here is the first 'wished I was there' photo showing some 'goodies' at the Fokker hanger at Schiphol airport.
Except for the Italian and Israelian S-11 we see at the right side also at last the S-14 L-5 just to prove it existed.
399 more to go.......................(just kidding!)

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2007, 09:53:12 AM »
very nice photos  :-clap I'm really curious to see the others 399  ;)

by the way if you can could you please send me via email one Hi-res copy of the S11 3 view draw? :-green

thank you in advance  :-wave

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2007, 05:02:01 PM »
Meteor sitting at the back of the hanger, great image  :-ok

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2007, 09:54:50 PM »
So, let's continue with the S-11 story!
Here are two further images. The first one shows the first public release of an artist impression that was published in the
aviation magazine VLIEGWERELD of 1 December 1946.
The next photo shows the quite basic and apparently low-budget mock-up of the S-11.
Three Fokker emplyees are testing the fit of the cockpit interor! The photo was taken on 26 February 1947.

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2007, 10:13:31 PM »
That small and three seater- I begin to be more interest in this type  :-ok

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2007, 08:08:29 AM »
very interesting photo Nico  :-clap :-wave

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2007, 06:17:27 PM »
Here are two more shots:
The first one shows the S-11 fuselage of the prototype being sandblasted. It was taken on 3 September 1947.
The second photo shows the S-11 prototype under construction with a view on  the engine installation. It was taken on 6 November 1947, some 1.5 month before its first flight.

More to follow................

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2007, 11:45:31 AM »
The update for today:
-The S-11 prototype PH-NBE during its firs engine testing on the (very!) small quay of the old Fokker plant at the Papaverweg in Amsterdam-Noord. Photo was taken on 9 December 1947.
-PH-NBE at Schiphol  on the day of its first flight (18 December 1947).

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Re: Aermacchi M 416 / Fokker S11 Instructor
« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2007, 12:20:28 PM »
Cockpit area look somehow like the Yugoslav "Trojka" which was made later. It look like this plane have nice flying performance and good handling.