Many people from the era of Anthony Fokker have had mixed feelings towards him.

If anything he was the blue collar CEO with a perfect sense for marketing, and he was quick to steal other people’s thunder.

I have a copy from 1931 from his memoires called ”The Flying Dutchman”, written and edited by Fokker himself and Bruce Gould.

I’ll see tonight in anything is mentioned on this Great Britain offer.

Anyway, much of the stories told in this book have been contested by others who were involved in early Fokker history themselves, that hint on the fact Fokker had a tendency to selfcenter..

Fokker is probably smiling if he can read this; ”doesen’t matter what they say about you, as long as they still talk about you” , would be completely his words..in fact he’ll say he invented the phrase 😀

Planes of Fame’s Hispano Buchon, N700E, with its remodelled nose.

First pic – Ben Rodgers (from http://www.flyvintage.com)

Second pic sourced from the web many moons ago! Apologies to unknown photographer.

Hmmm, never saw these Daz, thx…
We’re getting there, reduce scoop size and put a small one extra under the wingcentre… probably not possible.. put a squared exhaust manifold on it..but these V-rows with rockers from a merlin are impossible to hide anyway..

make the cowling a little more curved along the longitudinal axis, and voila, you got your regular G4,6,8,…

What other engine available in reasonable numbers could be put on a buchon or 109 frame? any idea’s?

JDK; To give credit to the pic you mentioned, I remember that one with Mark Hanna… was indeed very beautiful.. because of the angle… the light… the painscheme and
..just because it was Mark…

we should put that one up here for all those who do not know it..

Bert

Ugliest a/c?

P51D Mustang…. Too many streight lines, too many flying survivors, a waste of useful Merlin engines better used in Hispano Buchons and B-P Baliols… (Well, it’s not that bad. 😉 But one man’s beauty is another man’s back of a bus remember!)

From http://www.swissmustangs.ch

See? I’m back!

I have never understood the glowing admiration for Buchon’s.
As far as I am concerned this is the ugliest aircraft EVER.
It just doesent look right with a Merlin.
It’s like putting a donkeys head on a shark.

If they could get rid of this chin thing, which I presume is the oilcooler/radiator it would definitely look better.
Why are mustang and spit noses so sleek with the same engine, and why does it look so horrible on a me109 frame?
Cant they put the oilcoolers under the wing of a ME109 frame?
:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

I was in this place this january, but there was a huge pack of snow, so i did not take pics.
Do you have any pics of the stuff that was inside? There were some very nice
models and other memorablia, including Liberator and B17 wreckage.

But what impressed me the most was the exhibition about Katyn, that I stumbled accross unprepared.

In Katyn Stalin ordered the massacre of more than 15000 POW Polish officers.
The exhibition holds vast displays filled with hundreds, thousands of personal items displayed by item, recovered from the exhuming in the 90’s.

Glasses, shaving gears, shoes, brass uniform buttons and insignia’s as silent wittnesses of what happened in the forests of Katyn.

Whatever happened to Diefenbaker after what must have been the biggest ****-** in his career? Does he spend his retiurement with the character that shelved TSR?

Go on, put her out of her misery…

I have seen quite a bit of allied 262’s but never in flight, and never in combination with the P80. Do any exist of them side by side?

On the part of streamlining; I have two Polish works on the 262 I cannot read but show quite some work on streamlined 262’s with what seems to be a lowered canopy. These were mostly the V-(versuchs) versions named the Heimatschutzer (Homelanddefender).

Attached pics are from 1988 at Twenthe Airbase RLNAF 315 SQ
I was a crewchief then.
Pilots on their way to airliners would buzz the tower on their final flight.
I remember spring 1988 were busy months. May not look low to you, but if you stand in the back of a HAS and see the cockpit coming by over the taxitrack, I assure you it’s low,
Same year two German F-4’s buzzed the field in full AB and one of the engineers fell from the ladder he was standing on cleaning the windscreen of one of the F-16’s as a result of that.