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Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer. He produced fighter aircraft in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Dr.1 triplane and the D.VII biplane.
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Born 6 April 1890 · Died 23 December 1939 · Q76703
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I have always understood airplanes much better than women. I had more love affairs in my life, and they ended just like the first one, really, because I thought there was nothing that could be more important than my airplanes ... I have now learned, by bitter experience, that one must give a little too; in love one has to use one
Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (1980).
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“I have always understood airplanes much better than women. I had more love affairs in my life, and they ended just like the first one, really, because I thought there was nothing that could be more important than my airplanes ... I have now learned, by bitter experience, that one must give a little too; in love one has to use one”
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Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (1980).
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Fokker was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio
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Fokker was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame
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And Fokker was not, is unclear
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His ashes were brought to Westerveld Cemetery in Driehuis, North Holland, where they were buried in the family grave
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Died 1939-12-23.
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From pneumococcal meningitis, after a three-week-long illness
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General Aviation discontinued their production
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Negotiated with Fokker for a manufacturing licensing agreement for Airspeed Ltd (England), and found him "genial, shrewd and helpful" but "already a sick man"; and he was difficult to deal with as "his domestic life was
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Charles Kingsford Smith circumnavigated the globe in another
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General Motors took over Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America, and merged it in the General Aviation Corporation
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Married Canadian Violet Austman in New York City
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Fokker returned to the Netherlands and started a new aircraft company, the Nederlandse Vliegtuigenfabriek (Dutch Aircraft Factory), predecessor to the Fokker Aircraft Company
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Fokker moved to Johannisthal near Berlin, where he founded his first own company, Fokker Aeroplanbau
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Aged 20, Fokker was sent by his father to Germany to receive training as an automobile mechanic at Bingen Technical school, but his interest was in flying, so he transferred to the Erste deutsche Automobil-Fachschule in
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Born 1890-04-06.
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