Fokker F.VII

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Oct 20, 2026

Unknown podcast

The Question Mark, the Fokker Trimotor Over Southern California, and the Six-Day Endurance Record That Proved Aerial Refueling Could Change Everything

Oct 9 · 3 Mentions

Tail DraggerHOST

0:01

Seven days into the new year of 1929, a battered Fokker trimotor touched down at Metropolitan Airport outside of Los Angeles.

Tail DraggerHOST

0:10

Its engines were burning oil at a rate that would have grounded the aircraft under any normal operating rules.

Tail DraggerHOST

0:16

The crew had not slept more than a few hours at a stretch in six days.

11 MINS LATER

Tail DraggerHOST

10:51

The limiting factor on that January circuit over California had turned out to be the human beings inside the airplane.

Tail DraggerHOST

10:58

That idea took years to develop into doctrine and hardware, but it grew.

Tail DraggerHOST

11:02

The tanker fleet that exists today, the KC-135 Stratotankers and KC-46 Pegasus aircraft that routinely extend the reach of American air power to any point on the globe, those aircraft trace a lineage directly back to that cold New Year's morning when a Fokker trimotor lifted off over Los Angeles with a question painted on its nose.

Tail DraggerHOST

11:23

When Carl Spotts was commanding the strategic bombing campaigns that helped end the Second World War, when Ira Eaker was running 8th Air Force over Germany, when Elwood Quesada was putting fighters over the beaches at Normandy, they each carried in their bones the knowledge of what was possible.

Tail DraggerHOST

11:38

Not from briefings, not from doctrine manuals, from six days in a drafty Fokker trimotor flying circles over the California desert, catching a rubber hose in a 90-mile-an-hour slipstream.

Unknown podcast

The Fokker D.VII, the Armistice Clause That Named It Specifically, and the Biplane That Changed What Diplomats Had to Know About Air Power

Oct 7 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST

9:06

Fokker aircraft rebuilt in the Netherlands became one of the premier manufacturers in Europe through the 1920s.

Tail DraggerHOST

9:11

The Fokker tri-motor became a backbone of early American commercial aviation.

Tail DraggerHOST

9:16

Pan Am flew them.

Tail DraggerHOST

9:17

TWA flew them.

KPFA - Puzzling Evidence

KPFA - Puzzling Evidence

Puzzling Evidence – September 25, 2026

Sep 25 · 1 Mention

Hal RobinsHOST

87:26

Germans have their own version of that.

speaker_2HOST

87:28

The Fokker trimotor.

Hal RobinsHOST

87:30

Yeah, maybe, yeah.

Hal RobinsHOST

87:31

And, uh, what was the movie? Uh, it was one of the,

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