Fokker C.VIII

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name=C.VIII


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type=Reconnaissance aircraft
manufacturer=Fokker
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first flight=avyear|1928
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primary user=Royal Netherlands Navy
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number built=10
variants with their own articles=The Fokker C.VIII was a reconnaissance aircraft built in the Netherlands in the late 1920s. Intended primarily for the photographic reconnaissance role, it was a larger machine than other Fokker reconnaissance types of the period, with space for a third crew member, who acted as camera operator. It was also Fokker's first aircraft of this type to be built as a monoplane, a parasol wing configuration. The construction, however, was in the familiar Fokker style with wooden wings covered with plywood and fabric, and a steel-tube fuselage, also fabric-covered.

A single prototype was built and after exhibition at the 1928 Paris Air Show was accepted into Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Group service, but no further orders for the type were placed. The following year, the Royal Netherlands Navy issued a requirement for a new reconnaissance seaplane, and Fokker submitted a revised version of the C.VIII. Slightly larger than its landplane counterpart, the C.VIII-W had a different engine, a new radiator arrangement, and twin pontoons as undercarriage, units similar to those used previously on the C.VII. The pontoon strutting incorporated a gap, allowing for the carriage of a torpedo under the fuselage for training purposes.

Nine aircraft were delivered to the Navy between June 1930 and July 1934, and all were still in service at the time of the German invasion in 1940. Four were lost to enemy action between 10 and 14 May, with the remaining five successfully evacuated to the UK on 30 May, whereupon they were scrapped.

Variants

* C.VIII - landplane with Hispano-Suiza 12Lb engine (1 built)
* C.VIII-W - seaplane with Lorraine-Dietrich engine (9 built)

pecifications (C.VIII-W)

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crew=Three - Pilot, gunner, and camera operator
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length m=11.50
length ft=37
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span m=18.10
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height m=3.80
height ft=12
height in=6
wing area sqm=44.0
wing area sqft=474
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empty weight kg=1,915
empty weight lb=4,222
gross weight kg=2,750
gross weight lb=6,063
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eng1 kw= 340
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max speed kmh=195
max speed mph=121
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range km=900
range miles=560
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ceiling m=4,300
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armament1=2 × rearward-firing trainable 7.9 mm machine guns in observer's cockpit
armament2=1 × rearward-firing trainable 7.9 mm machine gun in ventral hatch
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