Fokker's hangars still exists!

Fritz Kempf · 24 July 2012, 04:38 AM

I was amazed today to find out the original hangars that Fokker used to build his aircraft still exists…

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stoney · 24 July 2012, 11:57 AM

WOW! Great find Fritz Kempf. I had no idea. Great photo section too. Thanks

G Sting · 24 July 2012, 01:20 PM

Yes. Very nice.

Thanks for posting.

Fliegermann · 24 July 2012, 02:02 PM

Great work--thank you for your efforts and research.

Makhpiyaluta · 24 July 2012, 02:35 PM

Here is the link to the Dutch documentary they mention. The one on there site doesn't work. It's all spoken in Dutch so nobody will understand it, but it shows original Fokker filmed footage and the Fokker hangars.

Geschiedenis 24 - Fokker

Even the workshop of Jacob Goedecker in Nieder Walluf near Frankfurt, where Fokker build his first Spinnes together with Goedecker still exists.

Willem

womenfly2 · 25 July 2012, 04:08 AM

To bad Achim Engel quit building planes, he may have joined them in there vision and provide the aircraft. This is what his dream was all about.

Great find.

crankcase · 25 July 2012, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by womenfly2

To bad Achim Engel quit building planes, he may have joined them in there vision and provide the aircraft. This is what his dream was all about.

Great find.

Maybe it's not too late. Achim must know about them. An avenue worth exploring?
marc

Fokker in Schwerin · 25 July 2012, 12:34 PM

This is a message from the Fokker in Schwerin Foundation. I have read your posts and I am very pleasantly surprised that this is a vivid discussion. But things will stay the same if we only talk about about it.

Really, it is high time to act !! In 2013 we are planning a celebration en commemoration in and around the hangars, to remember the fact that it will be 100 years ago that Fokker started building his aircraft in Schwerin.

It is planned on august 30, 31 and september 1 2013. The festivities will be the start of developments of the hangar which is the most original one.

It's gonna cost us a lot, not only energy, to get this done. At the moment I am working to have two new websites up and running, one for the foundation, and one for the party.

To which you all are invited of course. Come to Schwerin and see the Dr.1's fly past over the hangars in which they were built.

But we cannot do this by ourselves. We need people like you all to get things done. It is necessary that funds are raised in order to get it all organized. I know in these days that it is not very popular to ask you for a financial contribution, but if we don't raise money, nothing will happen...and we all stand and watch it fall apart.

Even the smallest donation is welcome, I am not talking huge amounts here, anything will do to help us get ahead with the job started. Let's finish this together !!!!

Thank you for exposing the case of Fokker in Schwerin so extensively, and we count on you guys to help us save the hangars.

For more information, of course, you know already the way, as I have seen, visit the website.

Barry Hickson · 28 July 2012, 04:09 PM

Yes this is a great cause & needs all the support Forum members can give.
I have endorsed it on the Wings of Glory Wargame Forum & some of the chaps there intend to contribute.

Fokker in Schwerin · 3 August 2012, 11:40 AM

Very good that we get a thumbs up from you, guys. Thank you for that.
We have received your first donations, we greatly appreciate it that our goals are supported in this forum by many of you. Never underestimate the strength of a global forum...

Strangely enough I can not help but note that the first support emerges from outside Europe, which would easily lead to the assumption that you are more conscious of the necessity to act than I can say of people from within Europe.

Merely stating the fact, not adding any other value to it.

I am grateful that this forum has picked up on us, keep spreading the news, and that many more may follow the first donators...

Thank you.