Fokker T.II

The Fokker T.II, or T.2, was a single-engine floatplane designed in the Netherlands in the early 1920s as a torpedo bomber. Fokker's T-designation covered both bombers and torpedo bombers and the T.II was the first of the series, the T.I having been an unbuilt project. The US Navy ordered three early in 1921, completed towards the end of that year, and tested them against other aircraft from the United States and Britain. General Billy Mitchell visited the Fokker works at Veere in early 1922, and General Clayton Bissell, who found the T.II unresponsive to the controls, saw Fokker have about a metre of the rear fuselage cut out and re-welded, which cured the problem. The type was a cantilever low-wing monoplane with straight tapered square-tipped wings, a deep flat-sided fuselage and a 300 kW Liberty 12A water-cooled V-12 engine driving a two-blade propeller, with two crew in tandem open cockpits. The three were delivered to the United States in 1922 as the FT-1, for Fokker torpedo, and remained in service for several years but won no further production orders.