Fokker T.III

The Fokker T.III, or T.3, was a single-engine floatplane designed in the Netherlands in the early 1920s as a bomber or torpedo bomber. It was Fokker's second torpedo bomber, an enlarged development of the T.II from two years before, with a slightly greater span and 30 percent greater weight, cockpits for three crew instead of two and a larger, more powerful W-12 engine in place of the T.II's V-12. Its floats could be exchanged for a wheeled undercarriage, and it first flew in the summer of 1923. The T.III was a cantilever low-wing monoplane with thick-section straight tapered wings and angular overhung ailerons. The three crew sat in tandem in separate open oval cockpits, the front two close together over the wing with dual control, and the third further back behind the trailing edge with two machine guns, one firing upwards and one downwards through the fuselage underside, and the release levers for 50 kg and 100 kg bombs.