Fokker 70 / Fokker 100
The Fokker 100 is a short-haul jet airliner accommodating around 100 passengers. It is the largest airplane the now defunct Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker ever built. Essentially the Fokker 100 is a stretched amd much improved and modernised version of the older F28 Fellowship.
Fokker developed the Fokker 100 as a response to air transport deregulation in the United States, because of which big US airlines were in need of aircraft smaller than the McDonnell Douglas DC-9/MD-80 and Boeing 737 for high-frequent short-haul feeder services to their hubs. This need was reflected in big orders for the Fokker 100 from American Airlines (75 aircraft) and US Airways (40). Other important airlines ordering the Fokker 100 were launch customer Swissair, KLM and later Brazil's TAM Linhas Aéreas.
 The Fokker 100 has two engines mounted at the rear of the fuselage and a T-tail, like the Douglas DC-9 and BAC One-Eleven have. Compared with the F28 the Fokker 100 has a longer fuselage, an improved wing with greater span, a modern computerised 'glass' cockpit and more economical and less-noisy engines: Rolls Royce Tay turbofans, a higher-bypass development of the F28's Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans.
The first flight took place on November 30 1986 and certification was awarded a year later. Fokker delivered the first aircraft to launch customer Swissair in February 1988. The first Fokker 100s were fitted with the Tay 620 turbofan, but Fokker soon offered a variant with more powerful Tay 650 engines. In 1993 Fokker introduced an extended range version with extra fuel tanks in the wings, followed by the Fokker 100QC (Quick Change) with a variable cargo/passenger interior.
 In the early 1990s Fokker developed a shorter version, the Fokker 70, seating around 70 passengers. The prototype was a modified Fokker 100, which first flew in its new appearance on April 4 1993. Ford Motor Company received the first production Fokker 70 as a corporate jet in October 1994. The aircraft manufacturer also studied a longer variant, the Fokker 130, but this was never built.
Fokker suffered heavy losses because of long delays in the design and initial production phases of the Fokker 100 and the simultaneously developed Fokker 50 turboprop. In spite of the sales successes Fokker didn't succeed in recovering from these losses and in 1996 the company collapsed, although production continued until early 1997. The manufacturer built 283 Fokker 100s and 48 Fokker 70s. The Dutch company Stork continued Fokker's maintenance work as 'Fokker Aviation'. Plans to restart Fokker 70 and 100 production by a new company named Rekkof ('Fokker' spelt backwards) didn't materialise.
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Fokker 100 - Specifications
Wingspan: 28.08 m (92ft 2in). Length: 35.53 m (116ft 7in). Height: 8.51 m (27ft 11in).
Empty weight: 24,541 kg (54,103 lb). Max. take-off weight: 45,810 kg (101,000 lb).
Accommodation: 107 passengers. Range: 3,167 km (1,710 nm).
Max cruising speed: 845 km/h (465 kts).
Engines: Rolls-Royce Tay 620 (61.6 kN - 13,850 lb) or Tay 650 (67.2kN - 15,100 lb).
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Fokker 70 - Specifications
Wingspan: 28.08 m (92ft 2in). Length: 30.91 m (101ft 5in). Height: 8.51 m (27ft 11in).
Empty weight: 22,673 kg (49,985 lb). Max. take-off weight: 39,915 kg (88,000 lb).
Accommodation: 79 passengers. Range: 3,410 km (1,840 nm).
Operating speed: Mach 0.77.
Engines: Rolls-Royce Tay 620 (61.6 kN - 13,840 lb).
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