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Did an obscure German welder in Anthony Fokker’s employ, rather than the Dutch aviation pioneer himself, design the world’s first truly modern wing? Historians have long disagreed about Anthony Fokker’s role in the design of his firm’s airplanes. In his ghost-written autobiography Flying Dutchman, an entertaining but transparently self-promoting work, Fokker, who was born of …
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