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Unfortunately 170 you are correct but that's the way of the world.
I spent a number of years in the Autonomous Enclave of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire and the excellent training i received there stood me well over 51 years. |
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The Focke -Wulf 190 series were not Fokkers. Anton Fokker died in 1939. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fokker This link is pretty accurate. |
Focke - Wulf 190, designed by Kurt Tank.
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yes. It was in many ways a more elegant design than the BF 109. |
Lifted from an aviation site key.aero. The consensus is that Fokker was simply a euphemism for what the pilots of the Messerschmitts needed and not the Dutch manufacturer. There are other versions but this is the one I remember:
Not quite your punchline but the famous (fictional) S/Ldr Paderewski was visiting a famous girls school and was asked by the head teacher to describe a typical action. "Vell - I vas flying along in my Spitfire when I spotted these fokkers in the distance, I dived on them and shot two of the fokkers down, then did a quick roll came up underneath them and shot down another couple of fokkers - the other fokkers flew away in panic" As the girls were giggling at this the head teacher said - "Of course what S/Ldr Paderewski means by fokkers is that these were the German Focke Wulf 190, isn't that correct S/ldr?" "Certainly is generally - but in this instance these fokkers were Messerchmitt's" |
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