Aviation Dateline: April 6
Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker (6 April 1890 – 23 December 1939) was a pioneer in aviation and a Dutch aircraft manufacturer. He was born in Blitar, East Java, Netherlands Indies (now Indonesia). Fokker was educated in the Netherlands. In 1912, he founded the Fokker aircraft works in Germany, which designed and built the Fokker biplanes and triplanes used by Germany in WWI.
When Fokker was twenty-years old he started an aviation company in Wiesbaden, Germany. His first aircraft, Spin I, made a couple of 100 yard flights at the beginning of December, 1910. Later that month it crashed into a tree, destroyed. His second aircraft, Spin II, also crashed in May, 1911. However, Spin III, his third, was more successful. Two years later, it was purchased by the German military authorities.
On the outbreak of the First World War, he began work on a new single-seater fighter plane. After the war, he set up factories in Holland. He moved to the United States in 1922 and established the Fokker Aircraft Corporation.
Source:
Anthony Fokker. Accessed April 6, 2011
Aircraft Designer /Aviator Anthony Fokker
Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker (6 April 1890 – 23 December 1939) was a pioneer in aviation and a Dutch aircraft manufacturer. He was born in Blitar, East Java, Netherlands Indies (now Indonesia). Fokker was educated in the Netherlands. In 1912, he founded the Fokker aircraft works in Germany, which designed and built the Fokker biplanes and triplanes used by Germany in WWI.
When Fokker was twenty-years old he started an aviation company in Wiesbaden, Germany. His first aircraft, Spin I, made a couple of 100 yard flights at the beginning of December, 1910. Later that month it crashed into a tree, destroyed. His second aircraft, Spin II, also crashed in May, 1911. However, Spin III, his third, was more successful. Two years later, it was purchased by the German military authorities.
On the outbreak of the First World War, he began work on a new single-seater fighter plane. After the war, he set up factories in Holland. He moved to the United States in 1922 and established the Fokker Aircraft Corporation.
Source:
Anthony Fokker. Accessed April 6, 2011
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