Salto Mortale: Fokker in Bedrijf 1911-1996

Archival photographs trace Fokker’s aircraft, engines, factory work and design activity across the company’s history from 1911 to its 1996 bankruptcy. Selected from the surviving remains of the manufacturer’s photographic archive, the images document both built aircraft and unrealized projects. Interviews on the history of the aircraft maker, flying and aircraft add first-hand perspectives to the visual record. The material includes discussion of Fokker’s prolific 1930s and 1940s design work, when military types and many experimental concepts were developed for domestic and export markets. The result is an industrial and aviation history told through clear black-and-white archival imagery and testimony from people familiar with the company’s technical culture.