US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph and 2 others appear as a small photo spread that accompanies the article, "Plane Designer With Earliest and Latest Models: FOKKER URGES AIR SAFETY Inventor Says Passengers Will Fly When Planes Are More Stable and Comfortable," Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov. 1927: A5 A Fokker, tri-engine plane sits in the near distance, off-center to the left, on a flat field that extends into the background. The plane is viewed at an angle from the front and faces slightly left. The aircraft contains 3 propeller engines. One sits on the nose of the plane and the other two are positioned beneath each wing and close to the fuselage. A large wing sits atop the fuselage and extends to each side. A star symbol is visible on the bottom of each wing. The fuselage extends back to the right. Handwritten on negative: 518 Handwritten text from negative sleeve: Fokker, A. H. G. + Mrs. Text from newspaper caption: Sixteen Years of Development Above--The latest Fokker plane, a trimotored, ten-passenger machine. Below (left)--Fokker's first plane with the builder at the controls, built in 1911; (right) Mr. and Mrs. A. H. G. Fokker. [Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov. 1927: A5]
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