Fokker Spin
Fokker Spin, 3rd version
Type	Expirmental Aircraft
Manufacturer	Fokker
Designed by	Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker
Maiden flight	1910
Introduced	1910
Number built	25

The Fokker Spin was the first airplane built by Anthony Fokker. The many bracing wires made the plane resemble a giant spider, hence its name Spin (Dutch for "spider").^[1] An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ... Fokkers first airplane, the Spin (1910) Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. ... Anton Herman Gerard Fokker (April 6, 1890 – December 23, 1939), was born in Kediri (Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia) and became a Dutch aircraft manufacturer. ... The Maiden flight of an aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground of its own accord. ... Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English. ... Anton Herman Gerard Anthony Fokker (April 6, 1890 – December 23, 1939), was born in Kediri (Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia) and became a Dutch aircraft manufacturer. ...

Fokker, while studying in Germany, built the Spin in 1910 together with Jacob Goedecker and Franz von Daum, his business partner who procured the engine. The plane started out as an experimental design to provide Fokker a means to explore his interest in flying. While the first Spin was destroyed when von Daum flew it into a tree, the engine was still salvagable and was used in the second version.^[1] This is a list of aviation-related events from 1910: Events First night flights. ...

A second version of the Spin was built soon afterwards, in which Fokker taught himself to fly and earned his pilot license. This plane was also irreparably damaged by von Daum.^[2] Pilot licences (in the United States, certificates) are issued by national aviation authorities, and establish that the holder has been trained by a qualified instructor and has met a specific set of knowledge and experience requirements. ...

Fokker built a third version. In this plane he gained fame in his home country the Netherlands by flying it around the tower of the Sint-Bavokerk in Haarlem on August 31, 1911. He further added to his fame by flying on the birthday of Queen Wilhelmina. After this success he founded an aircraft factory and flight school near Berlin. From 1912 to 1913, a total of 25 Fokker Spins were built (including a few two-person variants), used mostly for pilot training.^[3] The Grote Markt in 1696, painting by Gerrit Adriaensz. ... Country Netherlands Province North Holland Coordinates Area 32. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1911: Events January January 18 - Eugene Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. ... Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Orange-Nassau (August 31, 1880 - November 28, 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 and Queen Mother (with the title of Princess) from 1948 to 1962. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...

One of the last-built Spins was brought by Fokker to the Netherlands after the First World War. It was incomplete and rebuilt in the early 1920s. During the Second World War, the plane was taken to an aviation museum in Berlin as a war trophy by the Germans occupying the Netherlands. After the war it was brought to Poland. Not until 1986 was it returned to the Netherlands where it was restored. A second remaining Spin was built by Fokker personnel in 1936 to commemmorate Anthony Fokker's 25 year flight anniversary. Both of these planes are preserved at the Aviodrome aviation museum, Lelystad Airport, the Netherlands. This article is becoming very long. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Fokkers first airplane, the Spin (1910) Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1936: Events February February 13 - Imperial Airways commences airmail services to West Africa March March 23 - Impreial Airways begins scheduled flights between Hong Kong and Malaysia. ... Entrance of the Museum The aviodrome is a large aviation museum in The Netherlands located on Lelystad Airport since 2003. ... Lelystad Airport (IATA: LEY, ICAO: EHLE) is an airport near Lelystad, The Netherlands. ...

Construction

The fuselage simply consists of two wooden beams with cross members on which the pilot is seated and on which an Argus 4-cylinder water-cooled engine is mounted in the front. The radiators are placed on the side of the fuselage. The wings and tail consist of two steel tubes with bamboo ribs. The landing gear is also constructed of steel tubing. The whole structure is held together with steel wire. Later versions have a more streamlined fuselage. Argus Motoren was a German aircraft engine manufacturing firm, known for their series of small inverted_V engines and the pulsejet used on the V1 flying bomb. ... Diversity Around 91 genera and 1,000 species Subtribes Arthrostylidiinae Arundinariinae Bambusinae Chusqueinae Guaduinae Melocanninae Nastinae Racemobambodinae Shibataeinae See the full Taxonomy of the Bambuseae. ...

References

• Fokker, a living history - Fokker Spin page