FS2000 FS2002 FOKKER DXXIII

FS2000 FS2002 FOKKER DXXIII

FS2000 FS2002 FOKKER DXXIII

FS2000/2002 FOKKER DXXIII

Twin-engined, single-seat fighter.
The D.23. had air-cooled in-line engines in a tandem arrangment, one in the nose and one
in the end of the central nacelle.Slender booms carried the tailplane.
This was Fokker last fighter. It had two 520hp Walter-Sagitta engines and the maximum
speed was 520 km/h, fast, very fast in that time.The D.23 had one major disadvantage:
if the pilot had to leave the plane at any moment for a parachute jump, he would have
been cut into pieces by the rear propeller. At that time, Fokker studied the possibilities
of a ejection seat.Date first flight 1939,the prototype was destroyed in 1940