Fokker DX
| Fokker DX | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Fighter plane |
| Design country: | |
| Manufacturer: | |
| First flight: |
1921 |
| Production time: |
1921-1923 |
| Number of pieces: |
12? |
The Fokker DX was a fighter aircraft made by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker in the early 1920s.
history
Reinhold Platz began developing a monoplane with a wing in a canopy construction under the name “Fokker V 41” while still in Germany. The partially completed prototype was then brought to the Netherlands, where it was completed in 1921 with a 300 hp Hispano-Suiza V-8 engine instead of the originally planned 185-hp BMW IIIa six-cylinder in-line engine.
The prototype crashed during a demonstration flight in Spain in 1922 due to wing flutter. Nevertheless, the "Aeronáutica Militar Espanola" placed an order for ten machines, which were delivered in 1923. In the same year a copy was also sold to Finland.
construction
The single-seat DX was designed as a Parasol high-decker . It had a wing clad with plywood and a tubular steel fuselage. The rudder was designed as a pendulum rudder .
Military users
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Spain : 10 aircraft delivered - Finland: 1 machine
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
|---|---|
| crew | 1 |
| length | 8.00 m |
| span | 14.00 m |
| height | 2.95 m |
| Empty mass | 860 kg |
| Takeoff mass | 1,245 kg |
| Top speed | 225 km / h |
| Armament | two fixed, forward-firing 7.7 mm machine guns |
| Engines | an 8-cylinder V-engine Hispano-Suiza 8 Fb with 300 PS (224 kW) |
literature
- AERO, issue 81, p. 2260/61
- Fighter AZ , in AIR International, February 1980, p. 92