Noppen, 2017

Ryan K. Noppen. 2016. Blue Skies, Orange Wings: The Global Reach of Dutch Aviation in War and Peace, 1914-1945. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016. 338 pages

Paraphrased from Benson (2018) book review:^[1]

This book has a long-overdue study of the vital role Dutch enterprises played in the development of global aviation.
It draws from archival records and earlier scholarship from English and Dutch sources. The author makes a valuable contribution to aviation history.
The giant Dutch business successes in aviation were the Fokker aircraft company and the national airline KLM which started in 1919.^[2]
During WWI, Anthony Fokker spent the war building military aircraft in Germany.
After WWI, Anthony Fokker returned to the Netherlands and founded his aviation company.
Fokker had extensive design and production experience and a legendary reputation.
He continued to produce warplanes, but his commercial design were more important to his interwar success.
Fokker's "airliners became ubiquitous, dominating even the American market during the 1920s," and were valuable to KLM.
KLM was pioneering, reliable, efficient, and a source of national pride. KLM developed routes connecting Netherlands to its Asian colonies.
most of the rest of the book and the review covers a period after our period.

Original title	Blue Skies, Orange Wings: The Global Reach of Dutch Aviation in War and Peace, 1914-1945
Simple title	The global reach of Dutch aviation, 1914-1945
Authors	Ryan K. Noppen
Date	2017
Countries	NL
Languages	en
Keywords	World War I, Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker
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Related to aircraft?	1
Page count	338
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