TV-programme: Fokker aircraft before the war…

Actually I enjoyed watching the programme. I particularly liked the bits about the old production hall in Schwerin, Germany. I didn’t know it was still extant, complete with the slipway for floatplanes to the nearby lake. The hall is now in use as a storage shed for yachts, but there are still some relics from the 1920’s when it was in use as a production facility for Fokker aircraft. There was still an old wooden sign pointing to “Halle 2”, the second production hall (now gone). I found it impressive that still no one had taken it away.

Tillerman.

Nice show, but to say it was about aircraft “before the war”, well… perhaps they meant WW2? Since it was all about WW1 with the last 4 minutes about Fokker packing up the workshop and moving from Germany to the Netherlands.

The “VARA TV Magazine” of last week had a piece about this documentary. I based all info on this printed article plus on the “Andere Tijden” website. After about 15 minutes I found that there wouldn’t be much time left for describing the “Roaring Twenties” and the 1930s while the article seemed to hint otherwise…
“The rise of Fokker” didn’t certainly didn’t stop after 1919, but the makers at Andere Tijden apparently decided Fokker’s civil products and the “interbellum military aircraft” couldn’t be included in this programme…

Nice show, but to say it was about aircraft “before the war”, well… perhaps they meant WW2? Since it was all about WW1 with the last 4 minutes about Fokker packing up the workshop and moving from Germany to the Netherlands.

The programme will be repeated next Saturday afternoon at 13.05 hrs till 13.40 on the same TV-channel.
After this evening’s transmission the documentary will also be archived on the website where it can be seen “on demand”.

This is primarily meant for people able to view the Dutch-language TV-Channel “Nederland 2”.

If you click at
http://www.anderetijden.nl you’ll find more info about this TV-Programme.
Starts at 21.20 hrs and runs till 21.55 hrs this Thursday afternoon on TV Channel “Nederland 2”.
Expect mostly Fokker pre-war film footage shot by Anthony Fokker himself plus some interviews with present-day Fokker historians.