'BUILT-IN HEADWIND'

摘要

Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation pioneer and founder of the manufacturing dynasty that manufacturing dynasty that carried his name,was proud of his company's range of monoplane airliners. By the early 1930s the F.Ⅶ tri-motor was world-famous, Fokker had broken into the American market and four-engined designs were emerging When confronted with the Handley Page HP.42, the then new flagship for Britain's Imperial Airways Fokker is reported to have summed it up as having "a built-in headwind". While the big, ponderous biplane may have looked like a throwback, its reliability and passenger appeal helped to turn Imperial into a profitable venture.