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Typenumber
D.23
Type of aircraft
Fighter
Country
The Netherlands
Date first flight
1939
Wingspan
11.50m
Height
3.80m
Wing Area:
18.50m2
Length
10.20m
Crew
1
Empty Weight:
2180kg
Max.
Weight:
2950kg
Armament
2*mg7.9mm 2*mg13mm
Enginetype
2 * Walter Sagitta I-SR
Engine
power
540hp
Ceiling:
9000m
Speed (max)
524km/h
Range:
840km
Fokker D.23

Fokker D.23 prototype, C photo de Groot

Fokker D.23 prototype

 

Fighter


Twin-engined, single-seat fighter.

The D.23. had air-cooled in-line engines in a tandem arrangment, one in the nose and one in the end of the central nacelle.
Slender booms carried the tailplane.

This was Fokker last fighter. It had two 520hp Walter-Sagitta engines and the maximum speed was 520 km/h, fast, very fast in that time.

The calculated speed with with Rolls-Royce or Daimler engines was even 615 km/h.

The D.23 had one major disadvantage: if the pilot had to leave the plane at any moment for a parachute jump, he would have been cut into pieces by the rear propeller.

At that time, Fokker studied the possibilities of a ejection seat.

The prototype was destroyed in 1940.