Crossword clues for fokker
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
German monoplane of World War I, 1913, from name of Anton "Anthony" H.G. Fokker (1890-1939), Dutch engineer and inventor who started his aircraft manufacturing business in Germany in 1912.
Wikipedia
Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919.
During its most successful period in the 1920s and 1930s, it dominated the civil aviation market. Fokker went into bankruptcy in 1996, and its operations were sold to competitors.
Fokker may refer to:
People-
Adriaan Fokker (1887–1972), Dutch physicist and musician
- Euler–Fokker genus, phenomenon in music theory named after Fokker and Leonhard Euler
- Fokker–Planck equation
- Huygens-Fokker Foundation
- Anthony Fokker (1890–1939), Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer, founder of the Fokker company
- Hans Fokker (1900–1943), Dutch Olympic sailor
- Herman Fokker (1921–2001), Dutch engineer and politician.
- Jan Piet Fokker (1942–2010), Dutch Olympic field hockey player
- Fokker Rocks in Antarctica
- Fokker Scourge
- Fokker Technologies
- VFW-Fokker
Usage examples of "fokker".
There was no question of his plane having been engulfed: in those initial stages, according to observers, there had been only an inch or two ofwater fanning out over the airfield but that had been enough to make the Fokker aquaplane with disastrous results.
That Fokker was the private plane of a German industrialist and was therefore not listed on the scheduled departures.
We deplore the unnecessary deaths of the three passengers aboard the Fokker Friendship but disclaim all responsibility.
Trace the movements of every person in this room after the Fokker crashed?
The Fokker was descending in erratic spirals, evidently out of control.
He did not want to betray his movements in case some daring Boche pilot started up in a swift Fokker machine to pursue them.
They must depend on eyesight alone to tell them when they were nearing the oncoming Fokker craft.
There was no longer any difficulty in seeing just where the Fokker was, for a constant flashing as her gun rattled betrayed its position exactly.
What a strange fatality if this should be the home of the unfortunate Teuton pilot of that Fokker machine, and the one who mourned was his mother or a young sister, or perhaps his wife!
To the women at the Miramar every dawn patrol hinted at a twilight return, and the distant Fokkers or P-38s or F-87s seemed appropriate emblems for their own hopes, the suspense a fitting shape to place on the tautening stomachs, the straining ears, the dread of the telegram.
The enemy had taken this opportunity to send over a squadron of raiding Fokkers to bomb the hangars of the French and American fliers at Bar-le- Duc!
The Fokker flew down, dipped a wing, and picked a handkerchief off the pole with the hook on its wing.
Fokker wasn't far from the Humanmade mounds that covered the fallen SDF-1, SDF-2, and the flagship of Khyron the Backstabber.
He turned from his contemplation of the intense activity all across Fokker Base, the readying of the strikeforce he now commanded.
I myself have heard an organ in the Netherlands, built by a fanatic named Fokker, which is tuned to a thirty-one-tone scale the same scale proposed by Christian Huygens quite a few scores of decades earlier.