Fokker Design & Development to 1919

Tate, applying his professional engineering background, has sought to make sense of the convoluted history and technological developments surrounding Fokker's aircraft from the time of his first efforts to those culminating at the war's end. Fokker was a pilot first and foremost, and he understood and knew that courting pilots for their knowledge and influence would help his designs as well as enable him to gain insights into his competitors' aircraft.