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In this "History" section we collected stories very much worth reading.
Tom Beaver wrote about his experiences on the Fokker F27 in the Beavertales. In the Fokker Heritage Gallery, Leo de Roo provides background information per Fokker aircraft type.
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Beavertales
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In this tale, I was thinking back over the years, since I started working for Fokker in 1955 and how things changed in time. In those days there were hard times for Fokker. There were some orders for the S14 and orders for overhaul of some Meteor fighters, but a lot of money was going into the development of the F27, of which I had the pleasure of seeing its maiden flight in my early days at Fokker. That flight was the beginning of the revival of Fokker fame, that even now still exists in World Aviation with the still flying F27, F28, Fokker 50, Fokker 60, Fokker 70, and the Fokker 100. |
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Beavertales
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I happened to gaze out off my office window at the Fokker training centre at Hoofddorp, and there I saw a Boeing 747 passing by in a fairly low steep turn and realized that this must be a training flight. This made me think of a particular incident that happened to me during a training flight with the F27 in Libya, where I was flying as Flight instructor for Libyan Arab Airlines, and whereby I was giving a Short-field-landing demonstration to one of our pilots who was just about due for his Captaincy, and who would have to operate on some of our very short dessert strips. |
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