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Dutchgy2000 -> RE: Favorite Airplane (2/14/2005 11:34:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: m10bob
Just about anything Airfix made in the 60's..Vickers Wellington,Westland Lysander,andthe Brewster Buffalo(which was by Revell).
Also liked the Fokker D 21,(which should also be in this game and isn't.**I just remembered this tidbit!!!!!**[:D]
uhmm... no they shouldn´t be:
In 1934 the KNIL (the Dutch army department in Indonesia) had plans for a new fighter and Fokker went to work. On February 17th 1936, just ten days before the first flight of the prototype, the KNIL announced there was more need for a bomber than a fighter. The prototype was then made available for evaluation by the LVA (Royal Netherlands Air Force). At Soesterberg, the LVA tested the D.21 and found it suitable and ordered 36 Fokker D.21's.
Even before the dutch order, the Finnish ordered seven D.21's and later in the war 90 more were build on licence. The Fokker D.21's where used by the Finns during the war with Russia with great success. Denmark ordered two D.21's and build 10 on license, when the Germans attacked Denmark, all D.21's where destroyed before takeoff.
At the first day of the invasion 28 of the 36 D.21's where battleready. Eleven where stationed at De Kooy, eight at Ypenburg and nine at Schiphol airport. 64 sorties where flown by the D.21's that day. On one mission 38 three engine Junkers Ju.52's crossing the Dutch border where shot down. The following four days the D.21's didn't manage to shoot down more Germans because the number of battleready planes decreased rapidly. During the five days of the war 20 Fokker D.21's where lost. Eight in dogfights, eight on the ground, two by friendly anti-aircraft fire and two crash landed. Several D.21's fell into the hands of the Germans.
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