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. Design and development Fokker's second torpedo bomber was an enlarged version on the T.II from two years before. With a slightly greater span and 30% heavier, it had a crew of three rather than two and a more powerful engine. Its floats could be exchanged for a wheeled undercarriage. It first flew in the summer of 1923. The T.III was a cantilever low wing monoplane with thick section, straight tapered, square tipped wings. Angular overhung ailerons were used. Its fuselage was flat topped and sided and deep from tail to nose. The three crew sat in tandem, separate, open oval cockpits, with the forward two close together over the wing and fitted with dual control. The third cockpit was spaced further away behind the trailing edge and fitted with two machine guns, one on a conventional mounting firing upwards and the other firing downwards through the fuselage underside. The rear cockpit also held the two release levers for 50 kg (110 lb) and for 100 kg (220 lb) bombs. The braced tailplane was mounted on top