Fokker Super Universal

[Drzook]

Just curious if anyone has done one of these beauties for our Esteemed Sim? If not looks right up Jens Kristensen's alley...:d
Kind of a more pug-nosed version of the F.VIIa; gives it a more rough-and-ready bushplane feel (IIRC they used these to great effect in the Canadian Bush). I'm also thinking a regular Universal would be pretty cool as well.

[Lionheart]

Hey Zane,

Yes they have. A really nice model in FS2004. Sorry, I dont know who its by.

:ernae:


Bill

[Drzook]

Oh you know that hurts Lionheart...I've been looking all over. :banghead:
However you've given me a glimmer of hope so I shall redouble my efforts.
BTW, love your F.II. Absolutely gorgeous.:ernae:
PS-If you mean the 'Ansett Fokker Universal VH-UTO' in avsim.com (under jbk_fokker_fviia.zip) that is actually an F.VIIa painted to look like a Universal.

[pointy31]

Hey Doc, if you do find it, let us know. I've been having a blast flying them ( by Jens B.) Fokkers...:ernae:

[Drzook]

Well, so far after a couple hours scouring the net I found absolutely nothing. All I could find is that at some point it was made under license by Nakajima in Japan as the Ki-6 or C2N in the early 30s. I tried looking for it under that name and designations as well but came up empty handed.:banghead:

[Lionheart]

Zane,

I think you are right. I was thinking of a different model of single engine radial Fokker. My humble apologies Sir.

<--- smacks self

The darn thing looks identicle. arrghh... :banghead:



Bill

[Wim]

it is still on my to be build list. Found already a nice blueprint of an original factory drawing. Had to 'cut' it into pieces to make a scan of it, a now trying to put it all to gether again on the pc, to make some construction drawings.
So maybe after the D21 or sometimes before depending on the workload.

[huub vink]

So maybe after the D21 or sometimes before depending on the workload.

:wiggle: :wiggle: :wiggle:

[srgalahad]

Well, now that we've opened the can of worms, I hope someone will build us a model of the Super Universal :icon_lol:
If nothing else I just spent an enjoyable 2 hours wandering websites and found a ton of info - enough to rediscover how historic an aircraft this was --- Arctic rescues, Antarctic exploration, early airlines, Japanese invasion of China... and on and on.

Overall history
http://www.dutch-aviation.nl/index5/Civil/index5-2%20Fokker%20Super%20Universal.html

Bernt Balchen in Antarctica
http://www.warbirdsite.com/aaps.html
http://www.dmairfield.com/airplanes/NC4453/index.html

CF-AAM
http://explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa062101a.htm

Some very detailed pics of AAM
http://www.airminded.net/foksu/foksu.html

Canadian Gov't Collection
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/bush_flying/modeltyp.htm

Another Davis-Monthan Fokker -- it's a movie!
http://www.dmairfield.com/airplanes/NC126M/index.htm

Interesting 'alternative' pain schemes
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/airplane/museum/cl-Epln/Focker-SUe.html


More links:
http://canadianflight.org/gallery/rbr_01.htm
http://www.aahs-online.org/BackIssues/Imagev48n2_8.htm
http://www.aahs-online.org/BackIssues/v52n1/Imagev52n1_7.htm
http://www.artworkoriginals.com/EB5TCQRU.htm
http://www.wcam.mb.ca/superu.html
http://www.earlyaviators.com/epickeril.htm
http://www.nationalairtour.org/pilotplanespeople/aircraft_info.cfm?aircraft_id=15

and it was a "warbird" too...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_Ki-6

"The first military Super Universals were introduced into service following Japan's invasion of Manchuria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Manchuria) in 1931 when the Imperial Japanese Army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army) commandeered seven Super Universals from the Japan Air Transport Company."

Please??????

Rob