Fokker Fighter Model to identify from Sir George Cox collection

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From George Cox

This model came from the personal estate of the renown Dutch model-maker, Matthijs Verkuyl, and appears to represent a Fokker jet-fighter proposal. It’s configuration is very similar to the Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak but I think it’s a fighter rather than research aircraft because of the clear bubble cockpit-canopy. There’s some writing on the wing that I can’t read/interpret, other than ‘Fokker’.

The model has 14cm span and 15cm length, which assuming 1:72 scale (the standard for most Verkuyl models) would have given the actual aircraft a span of 10m and a length of 10.8m.

Verkuyl didn’t spend time on ‘what ifs’ so I can only assume it was a Fokker fighter proposal.

I’d be most grateful if anyone could shed any light on it.
 

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This looks like a version of the S-14 Machtrainer:

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Canopy looks single seat (or at least tandem, not side-by-side like the S-14) ad the horizontal tail position is different, but very similar altogether.
 
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Under Ontwerp (=design) 240, the Fokker team came up with various design alternatives .Final design selected was Ontwerp 240K and work on a prototype was soon started. Although in the final design a side-by-side layout for the pilots was selected, Fokker also studied an alternative (Ontwerp 204J) with the pilot seats in tandem.

 
Apparently there was a series of design studies (Ontwerp 238, 239, 240) which led to the S-14. Presumably this fits in somewhere.

Did my best to recover the lower line of text.
 

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This artist's impression of the S-14 from Flight from the mockup stage in 1948 would seem to be pretty close to the model with higher tailplane position.
 

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Nico Braas (member of http://www.letletlet-warplanes.com) has co-authored a book on the Machtrainer which will almost certainly be of interest, and which includes early design drawings etc.

I've emailed him with this topic URL and asked for his opinion.
 
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Agreed that Nico Braas might know more.
I glance at his Aviation Historian article on the S.14 and some of the early studies does not shed any light, all of the studies shown have low-set tailplanes.
Saying that, I would be very surprised if its not linked to the S.14 in some way.
 
I compared the sideview of the model shown by Paul MM with the 3-views in the ' Fokker S-14 Machtrainer' book by Nico Braas and Willem Vredeling.
I found no matches. The closest I came was with the 3-view on page 23 showing drawing nr 0020-7675 of ontwerp 340
mentioned as the first instigation of the final S-14.
 
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Something likes that ?.
 

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The text of the caption I cited (page 23) is wrong....
Drawing does not compare with the text.

The search go's on...
 
An unexpected twist in the saga from Sir George Cox:

I think that with the help of a Dutch friend I’ve solved the mystery of my model.

The second line of writing on the wing says: STRAAL+T, which means that the complete text would be: Fokker Straaltrainer, which means Fokker jet trainer. However, with its narrow fuselage and single cockpit, the one thing that the model certainly does not represent is a trainer.



My friend’s suggestion is that it is actually a Verkuyl NATO recognition model of the Yak-19. The latter is certainly very similar in profile and has an identical tailplane/fin arrangement. The wings on the Yak are set a bit higher and the span is greater but since the aircraft only ever flew as a secrecy-enshrouded prototype, it is likely that Verkuyl was working from provisional drawings. Subsequently, someone has looked at the model and because of its similar configuration, wrongly labelled it as the S-14.



We’ve still got ex-Fokker contacts thinking about it, but I think we’ve probably got our answer.

I've added a Western artist's impression of the 'Type 7' from 1948 which was wrongly thought to be Yak-17 but was actually the Yak-19.
 

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Close, but why should the name of Fokker be written on a model of a Soviet fighter...?
 
Because someone later on looked at it, didn't recognise it as a Yak-19 model and thought it looked like the S-14 so wrote "Fokker Trainer" on it.
 
An unexpected twist in the saga from Sir George Cox:



I've added a Western artist's impression of the 'Type 7' from 1948 which was wrongly thought to be Yak-17 but was actually the Yak-19.
Indeed, it's identical to a Verkuyl Yak-19 I have seen. Should be aluminium then. Is there a number engraved on the bottom side?
 
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