Restoring first flying Fokker D.XII in 70 years: behind the scenes

For the first time in more than 70 years, there is a flying Fokker D.XXI in the Netherlands. Leonard van den Broek speaks to those behind the project

When a young Jack van Egmond acquired his first original Fokker D.XXI blueprint, he had no idea that this would become the start of a life-long project. Sixty years of research, a decade of construction work and almost 400 drawings later, the result is the world’s only airworthy – and recently certificated – Fokker D.XXI.

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