Like the Belgian Renard R-38 the Netherlands had their own advanced fighter project.
It was developed by the aircraft division of the famous Dutch shipyard Schelde.
It was a totally metal aircraft with two tail boom configuration,it had also a tricycle under carriage like modern aircraft. and was mend to be equiped with the famous Merlin engine or DB 601 but because the looming war the Schelde engineers had zero on their recest.
When the Germans invade Holland at 10 may 1940 a first protype was in a advanced stadium of building
The cockpit resembled the one of the B-29,a greenhouse type with a very powerful cannon in the nose.
This cannon was made by the Swiss company Solothurn.
If this fighter made on time to be operational,it was a very useful fighter,far more better than the antique
Fokker D-21
I hope that some one have more info about this very advanced fighter project.
It was developed by the aircraft division of the famous Dutch shipyard Schelde.
It was a totally metal aircraft with two tail boom configuration,it had also a tricycle under carriage like modern aircraft. and was mend to be equiped with the famous Merlin engine or DB 601 but because the looming war the Schelde engineers had zero on their recest.
When the Germans invade Holland at 10 may 1940 a first protype was in a advanced stadium of building
The cockpit resembled the one of the B-29,a greenhouse type with a very powerful cannon in the nose.
This cannon was made by the Swiss company Solothurn.
If this fighter made on time to be operational,it was a very useful fighter,far more better than the antique
Fokker D-21
I hope that some one have more info about this very advanced fighter project.
