Fokker F.29

The Fokker F29 was a conceptual jet airliner design by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker, proposed in 1979 as a 138-seat aircraft for the large market expected to replace Boeing 727s and 737s, Douglas DC-9s and BAC 1-11s. It took the stretched fuselage and tail section of the F.28 and combined them with an all-new supercritical wing and two wing-mounted turbofan engines, with a six-abreast cabin whose cross section Fokker admitted copying from Boeing. The CFM56 and the proposed Rolls-Royce/JAEC RJ500 were both considered. First flight had been planned for late 1983 and service entry for early 1985, but Fokker could not find industrial partners among Airbus, Boeing or Japanese industry, faced the Boeing 737-300 and the DC-9 Super 80, and eventually joined McDonnell-Douglas, whose own plans for a 180-seat DC-XX combined with the F.29 to produce the MDF.100.