48-016P FOKKER G-1A + 3D ENGINES

Fokker GI was a Dutch reconnaissance plane and heavy fighter which made its first flight in 1937. About 60-65 machines of this type were built in the course of serial production. A single plane was 10.87 meters long with a wingspan of 17.16 meters. The drive was provided by two Bristol Mercury VIII engines with 730 HP each. The maximum speed was 475 km / h and the rate of climb was 13.5 m / s. The deck armament consisted of 9 7.9 mm machine guns or 2 23 mm Madsen cannons and 3 7.9 mm machine guns. The machine could take up to 300 kilograms of bombs. The Fokker GI was developed as a grassroots initiative by the Fokker aviation plant, and the main designer of the machine was Erich Schatzki - chief engineer of that company. The new aircraft was to be primarily a heavy fighter aircraft, comparable to the German Me-110, with very strong on-board armament, capable of destroying enemy bombers and capable of engaging in combat with enemy fighters. Interestingly, the work on the machine went very quickly and after a few months of starting the prototype was ready for flight test! The machine turned out to be, despite such a high pace of work, a successful plane, and the air forces of republican Spain, Finland and Sweden showed interest in it. Ultimately, however, the only recipient of the plane turned out to be the Dutch military aviation, which also used them as reconnaissance machines. The Fokker GI was used in combat in May 1940 during the repulsion of the German storm over the country of tulips, mainly during the air fights over Rotterdam and The Hague.