Anthony Fokker : the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation [SOUND RECORDING]
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Anthony Fokker : the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation [SOUND RECORDING]
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The work Anthony Fokker : the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation [SOUND RECORDING] represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.
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- Anthony Fokker : the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation [SOUND RECORDING]
- Title remainder
- the Flying Dutchman who shaped American aviation [SOUND RECORDING]
- Statement of responsibility
- Marc Dierikx
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- Audiobooks
- Fokker, Anthony H. G., (Anthony Herman Gerard), 1890-1939 -- Chronology
- Fokker, Anthony H. G., (Anthony Herman Gerard), 1890-1939 -- Influence
- Air pilots -- Netherlands -- Biography
- Aircraft industry -- United States -- History -- Chronology
- Aeronautical engineers -- Netherlands -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Comprehensive biography of Anthony Fokker, the famed Dutch pilot and daredevil aviator Anthony Fokker: The Flying Dutchman Who Shaped American Aviation tells the larger-than-life true story of maverick pilot and aircraft manufacturer Anthony Fokker. Fokker came from an affluent Dutch family and developed a gift for tinkering with mechanics. Despite not receiving a traditional education, he stumbled his way into aviation as a young stunt pilot in Germany in 1910. He survived a series of spectacular airplane crashes and rose to fame within a few years. A combination of industrial espionage, luck, and deception then propelled him to become Germany's leading aircraft manufacturer during World War I, making him a multimillionaire by his midtwenties. When the German Revolution swept the country in 1918 and 1919, Fokker made a spectacular escape to the United States. He set up business in New York and New Jersey in 1921, and shortly thereafter became the world's largest aircraft manufacturer. The U.S. Army and Navy acquired his machines, and his factories equipped legendary carriers such as Pan American and TWA at the dawn of commercial air transport. Yet despite his astounding success, his empire collapsed in the late 1920s after a series of ill-conceived business decisions and deeply upsetting personal dramas. In 1927, aviator Richard Byrd solicited a Fokker three-engine plane to be the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic. The plane was damaged on a test flight and Charles Lindbergh beat him to it. Lindbergh's solo adventure in the Spirit of St. Louis earned him-and cost Fokker-a lasting place in the history books. Using previously undiscovered records and primary sources, Marc Dierikx traces Fokker's extraordinary life and celebrates his spectacular achievements
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- RECBC
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- 338.7/62913334092
- B
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- Narrated by L.J. Ganser
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