WW2 Royal Netherlands Air Force 2016-10-05

The Fokker D.XXI fighter was designed in 1935 for use by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force (ML-KNIL). [1]As such, it was designed as a cheap and small, but rugged aircraft, which had respectable performance for its time. Entering service in the early years of World War II, it provided yeoman work for both the Luchtvaartafdeeling (Dutch Army Aviation Group) and the Finnish Air Force also a few were built by the Carmoli factory before the factory fell into Nationalist hands during the Spanish Civil War.

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The Fokker G.I was a Dutch heavy twin-engined fighter plane comparable in size and role to the German Messerschmitt Bf 110 and the British Mosquito.

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The Fokker T.V was a twin-engine bomber, described as an "aerial cruiser"[1], built by Fokker for the Netherlands Air Force. It was modern for its time but by the German invasion of 1940 it was outclassed by the airplanes of the Luftwaffe. Nevertheless the T.V was used successfully against the German onslaught. The T.V and Fokker G.1 were the only aircraft of the Dutch air force that were equipped with retractable landing gear. As the T.V lacked self-sealing fuel tanks they gained a reputation for rapidly catching fire when hit by enemy fire.

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