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I'm hoping we can all learn stuff together. I like learning stuff. There's nothing more to it.

So, this week, I ask for a minimum of two paragraphs telling me what your favorite WWII Axis Power fighter aircraft was. No, not a bomber - but a dedicated fighter.

Hopefully, you can write two paragraphs about it. Feel free to write more.

I'm hoping we can all learn stuff together. I like learning stuff. There's nothing more to it. So, this week, I ask for a minimum of two paragraphs telling me what your favorite WWII Axis Power *fighter* aircraft was. No, not a bomber - but a dedicated fighter. Hopefully, you can write two paragraphs about it. Feel free to write more.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt (edited )

Anything Fokker.

Some good jokes came out it.

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Fokker is Dutch, isn't it?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yeah, but I think he was German. I think. They built them in Germany.

AN INTERNET MOMENT LATER

At age 20, while studying in Germany, Anthony Fokker built his initial aircraft, the Spin (Spider)—the first Dutch-built plane to fly in his home country. Taking advantage of better opportunities in Germany, he moved to Berlin, where in 1912, he founded his first company, Fokker Aeroplanbau, later moving to the Görries suburb just southwest of Schwerin (at 53°36′45.90″N 11°22′31.60″E), where the current company was founded, as Fokker Aviatik GmbH, on 12 February 1912.[1]

The Fokker factories were confiscated by the Germans and were used to build Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann trainers and parts for the Junkers Ju 52 transport. At the end of the war, the factories were completely stripped by the Germans and destroyed by Allied bombing.

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Yeah, I'd known they were confiscated and that they'd built some transports. I don't think Fokker (themselves) made any WWII aircraft for the Axis Powers.

Meh, close enough - however. I mean, who doesn't want to make jokes about Fokker?

Heck, I want to make jokes about his lineage - just so I can say "Mother Fokker."

Hmm... Maybe next week I will do WWI fighters. I'd probably go with the Sopwith Camel or the Fokker Wolf (though I think they might have spelled that differently - wolfe maybe?). I think it was the Fokker that was the first to synchronize their machine gun firing so that it'd not hit the props. Prior to that, the English (maybe the French) had set deflectors in the way on at least one aircraft.

It's been a long time since I've reviewed/studied WWI aviation, so my memories are pretty faded.

Still, i now want to make jokes like, "Watch out for that Fokker over there, he's an asshole!"