Observer's badge, anyone?
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And now, one for the jet-set
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That would be right on the money, Ben! (though there is no cash prize this time)
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That's an interesting Fokker. I suspect not the quietest of cabins seated next to those engines. Not the best idea out of the design bin that day.
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I sit corrected. Apparently one of the advantages of the engine placement was low noise levels for passengers!
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Yep, a bespoke designed engine from Rolls specifically for the aircraft. It wasn’t a Fokker design, and certainly the view was that Fokker did their best to kill it.
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Seemed also to suffer from less than clean air feeding the engines. I wonder where the design came from?
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Designed in Australia.
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Focke-Wulf design
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I knew it straight away, as I've seen a real one. But Ben beat me to it.
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