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| The Fokker F.XX 12-passenger transport had an elliptical-section fuselage instead of the rectangular form of previous Fokker transports. The cantilever high wing was of wooden construction and the fuselage a steel-tube structure. Power was provided by three Wright Cyclone R-1820-F radial engines, one mounted in the nose and the other two carried on strut assemblies under the wings. The main landing gear units retracted rearwards into the engine nacelles. The F.XX was the first Fokker transport aircraft to have retractable landing gear, and the whole design showed much greater attention to aerodynamic refinement. Named Zilvermeeuw (Silver Gull), it was flown for the first time in 1933 and handed over to KLM for operation on services from Amsterdam to London and Berlin.
The F.XX was much more modern design than previous Fokker high-wing monoplane transports, but the advent of the low-wing twin-engined Douglas DC-2 and DC-3 airliners soon rendered it obsolete and only a single example was built. It was later sold via Air Tropic to the Spanish Republican government and was used to maintain liaison between Madrid and Paris during 1937. Its ultimate fate is unknown.
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| PASSENGERS | 12 |
| ENGINE | 3 x Wright Cyclone R-1820-F radial piston engines, 477kW |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 9400 kg | 20724 lb |
| Empty weight | 6455 kg | 14231 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 25.70 m | 84 ft 4 in |
| Length | 16.70 m | 55 ft 9 in |
| Height | 4.80 m | 16 ft 9 in |
| Wing area | 96.00 m2 | 1033.33 sq ft |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 305 km/h | 190 mph |
| Cruise speed | 250 km/h | 155 mph |
| Ceiling | 6200 m | 20350 ft |
| Range | 1410 km | 876 miles |
| lxbfYeaa, e-mail, 14.03.2024 05:39 20 reply | | Anonymous, 14.11.2021 16:26 Essentially an overdevelopment of an outdated formula, this was really a cleaned-up version of the well-known Fokker "Trimotor" which had been around since the early 1920s. By 1933 much better, and more modern, airliners were available, such as the Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-2. However, being the canny businessman he was, Anthony Fokker managed to acquire the European marketing rights to the DC-2. reply | | Brian Stoller, e-mail, 15.03.2011 15:50 With today's Electric engines for model airplanes with its large wing, thick airfoil would be a perfect design for a Scale flying model . On the real plane you can see the stringers in the fuselage I could easily imagine the FokkerF-20 in stick and tissue with 1 /16" stringers , a 48"Wingspan etc...I suspect this had been done and there might even be a kit!! . reply | | Robert Brouwer, e-mail, 17.12.2006 22:14 It is a pity there is no plastic modelkit of this elegant plane, as far as I know ! Now I'm building a model from scratch ! (Balsa wood , etcetera ) Scale 1 /72. Robert. reply | |
| | Pasc McKingson, e-mail, 28.01.2007 16:05 Hi Robert, you're right, it's a shame. There is a model in 1:72, for nearly $ 10000 (Bel-Air Models). Maybe you could show some pictures if you've finished the Fokker? I also want to (scratch?) build this model, though I am not very good at making things out of wood, maybe I can use the old Novo F.VII3 /m's wing. reply |
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