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Dutch flying boats and amphibians
Fokker designs:
Fokker W.1
The first flying boat designed under the leadership of Anthony Fokker was the W.1. It was built in Germany in 1913 before the outbreak of the First World War as a Schneider Cup contender. It only made a few hops and crashed already during the first flight tests.
The W.1 was powered by a [...]
De Operaties Van 320 Squadron
Where Nico Geldhof’s book DE VLIEGTUIGEN VAN 320 SQUADRON describes in detail the aircraft of this famous Dutch squadron in British service, he describes in this second volume the operations with these planes.
320 Squadron
The book starts with a detailed account of the operations during five days war of the Marineluchtvaartdienst against invading German forces. With [...]
De Vliegtuigen van 320 squadron
The naval 320 Squadron operated in the United Kingdom during the Second World War as a unit consisting of Dutch people who had escaped at the start of the war to England. They started their operations under British supervision with their own Fokker T-VIIIW floatplanes flown over to England, but these were soon replaced by [...]
The Dutch Naval Air Force against Japan
‘The Dutch Naval Air Force against Japan’ is a recent book release from McFarland Publishers in the US. It is written by Tom Womack, vice president of a large PR firm in Dallas Texas. Mr. Womack was apparently intrigued by the fierce war that was fought at the Second World War between Japanese forces invading [...]
