Fokker B.II (1923)

The Fokker B.II was a prototype shipboard reconnaissance flying boat that Fokker built in the Netherlands in 1923. It was a conventional flying boat with a duralumin hull and sesquiplane wings, a layout in which the lower wing is markedly smaller than the upper, braced with N-struts. A single tractor engine, a water-cooled Rolls-Royce Eagle XII V-12 of 270 kW, was mounted on the leading edge of the upper wing and drove a four-bladed propeller, and open cockpits for the crew of three were provided under the upper wing and in a dorsal position amidships. The Royal Dutch Navy tested the prototype, but no production orders followed, so the B.II remained a one-off step in Fokker's flying boat work of the early 1920s.