Fokker F.XXXVI
Fokker F.XXXVI | |
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Role | 32-passenger transport |
Manufacturer | Fokker |
First flight | 22 June 1934 |
Introduction | 1935 |
Retired | 1940 |
Primary users | KLM Scottish Aviation |
Number built | 1 |
Variants | Fokker F.XXII |
The Fokker F.XXXVI[1] (also known as the Fokker F.36) was a 1930s Dutch four-engined 32-passenger airliner designed and built by Fokker. It was the largest transport designed and built by Fokker. Only one was built, and it was used for some commercial routes starting in 1935, and later aviation training by the British Royal Air Force until 1940.
The aircraft came on the market at a time when airliners were switching to all metal aircraft, whereas the F.36 had an all wood wing with a fabric covered metal-framed fuselage. The aircraft had a quiet interior and good payload, but the range was low and it had a single seat cockpit in the forward-most position. An improved model with a side-by-side cockpit, the F.37, was designed but not built. With no orders for either model, no more of the design was made.
The Fokker F.XXII (F.22) was a similar but smaller version of this aircraft, of which four were made.
Development
The Fokker F.XXXVI registered PH-AJA first flew on 22 June 1934 and was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with a fixed tailwheel landing gear. In Fokker tradition, the wing was an all wood structure and the fuselage was fabric covered steel tube. It was powered by four
KLM sold the aircraft in 1939 to Scottish Aviation for use as a crew and navigation trainer for the Royal Air Forces No.12 Elementary Flying Training School, which was operated by Scottish Aviation. It was scrapped in 1940 after it burnt out in a take-off accident.
Airspeed Ltd. in Great Britain arranged a license to build F.XXXVIs for the British market as the Airspeed AS.20, but no orders were received.[3]
Fokker F.37
In 1936, Fokker developed an improved version of the F.XXXVI, the F.37. It featured retractable landing gear with hydraulic suspension and 850 hp (634 kW) Wright GR-1820-G Cyclone engines. To save weight, the frame was to be made from
Operators
Civil operators
Military operators
- Royal Air Force (operated by Scottish Aviation)
Specifications
Data from Jackson p. 373 and de Leeuw p.102
General characteristics
- Crew: 4
- Capacity: 32-passengers
- Length: 24.0 m (78 ft 8 in)
- Wingspan: 33.0 m (108 ft 2 in)
- Height: 8.3 m (27 ft 3 in)
- Wing area: 172 m2 (1,850 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 10,300 kg (22,700 lb)
- Gross weight: 16,500 kg (36,366 lb)
- Powerplant: 4 × Wright CycloneSGR-1820-F2 radial piston engines , 560 kW (750 hp) each
Performance
- Cruise speed: 280 km/h (165 mph, 143 kn)
- Range: 1,536 km (960 mi, 830 nmi)
Related lists
References
- ^ de Leeuw (1994), pp. 100–103.
- ^ "The Fokker F.XXXVI" FLIGHT, 26 July 1934, photos with main article
- ^ Taylor (1970).
Bibliography
- de Leeuw, R. (1994). Fokker Commercial Aircraft. The Hague: Fokker.
- A.J. Jackson, British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 2, 1974, Putnam, London, ISBN 0-370-10010-7
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1895/6
- Taylor, H.A. (1970). Airspeed Aircraft since 1931. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-370-00110-9.