Word: fokker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hosing. A Keystone Army bomber over Manhattan and a Ryan monoplane over Fort Worth, Texas, each last week received their gasoline by hose. This was the method which enabled Captain Ira Eaker and his crew of four to keep the Army Fokker Question Mark above Southern California 150 hrs., 40 min., 16 sec., last January (TIME, Jan. 14), longer than any human had ever stayed...
...important air event of Canada's year, surpassing in extent and influence Montreal's exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...
Announcements of the General Motors-Fokker deal stressed the fact that Anthony H. G. Fokker would continue in charge of Fokker engineering and design. It was back in 1911 that Mynheer Anthony Fokker, then 21, decided that he wanted to fly. Having no plane, he built...
...Mynheer Fokker tried to sell his planes to the British Government, but no sale was made. He turned, therefore, to Germany, was enthusiastically received, and, with the outbreak of the War, became suddenly a famed and feared figure. It was the Fokker DVII that brought down many an allied plane; it was Herr Fokker that first synchronized machine guns to fire between whirling propeller blades. After the War, Herr Fokker went from Germany to Holland, then (1923) to this country, of which he will soon become Mr. Fokker, U. S. citizen. Commander Richard Byrd flew a Fokker to the North...
Only 39 years old, and reputed several times a millionaire, Airman Fokker is a stout, stocky, blue-eyed typical Hollander. His motto is "I do it myself." It is said that he gives every Fokker plane its experimental flight. Fokker stock has gone from 20 to 67 in the last few months...