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[P51vsFw190]

I would like to request a interwar Fokker airliner design. I feel as though there aren't enough interwar transport aircraft in-game.


Fokker F.XX Silver Gull


The Fokker F.XX was a 1930s Dutch three-engined airliner designed and built by Fokker. It was the first Fokker design to use an elliptical-section fuselage instead of the traditional square fuselage and the first Fokker aircraft with retractable landing gear.

Development


The F.XX was a high-wing thick-section cantilever monoplane with a retractable tailwheel landing gear. It was powered by three Wright Cyclone radial engines, one in the nose and one under each wing on struts. The main landing gear retracted into the engine nacelles. The F.XX registered PH-AIZ and named Zilvermeeuw (Silver Gull) first flew in 1933. It was delivered to KLM for services from Amsterdam to London and Berlin. Although the F.XX was a more advanced design both in aerodynamics and looks than earlier Fokkers, the arrival of the twin-engined low-wing Douglas DC-2 and DC-3 soon rendered it obsolete. Only one aircraft was built, and after service with KLM was sold to the Spanish Republican government to operate a liaison service between Madrid and Paris. The plane crashed in Spain in 1938.

Licence production in the UK as the Airspeed AS.21 was not proceeded with.

Specifications (F.XX)


General characteristics

Crew: 2
Capacity: 12 passengers
Length: 16.70 m (54 ft 9½ in)
Wingspan: 25.70 m (84 ft 3¾ in)
Height: 4.80 m (15 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 96 m2 (1,033.37 ft2)
Empty weight: 6,455 kg (14,231 lb)
Gross weight: 9,400 kg (20,723 lb)
Powerplant: 3 × Wright R-1820-F Cyclone 9-cylinder radial piston engine, 477 kW (644 hp) each

Performance

Maximum speed: 305 km/h (190 mph)
Range: 1,410 km (876 miles)
Service ceiling: 6,200 m (20,340 ft)

[P51vsFw190]

Pics and schematics coming soon

[P51vsFw190]

Sincerely,

PvF

[David Prosser]

It's a nice looking machine.

[singüe]

Al least, one of them was used in Spanish Civl War by the FARE, if I´m not wrong

[P51vsFw190]

Dear singüe,


I believe you're thinking about the Fokker F.VII 3m.

They were used by the Spanish with makeshift external bomb racks.


Sincerely,

PvF

[singüe]

No, that one I know for sure, but I believe LAPE had some F XX that were used in the same way. Or my sources are wrong, I read it in an old book that I´ve lost.

[Tofolo]

Singüe is right: one F.XX served on the republican side, bought from KLM to LAPE and flown by the republicans:



The F.XX was seen on 1 October 1936 at Le Bourget airport, camouflaged and provided with the French registration F-APEZ.
It arrived in Spain on the 26-10-36 and later received the civil code EC-45-E (LAPE) to transport gold and jewels to France during 1937


It was used for training purposes and it was destroyed at Banyoles during a bombing raid.