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Sean Herron
Scattered Focus
Registered: May 2004
Location: Vancouver, BC, CA.
Posts: 1,176
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June-5-2005 2:53am
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Rating: 10
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Where did you get this photo Yipster...
See http://www.georgeglazer.com.../print...me/fokker.html
Original illustration art and photograph of the Q.E.D., a sleek speed yacht designed in the Art Deco style by Anthony Fokker (1890-1939), famous Dutch designer and manufacturer of early airplanes. Q.E.D. stands for "Quod Erat Demonstrandum" (Latin for "which has been demonstrated"). Fokker built the yacht for himself, its test run in 1938 was considered newsworthy enough to be featured in Life magazine (August 22, 1938).
Looks very Raymond Loewy 'esk...
Cheers...
SH.
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yipster
Senior Member
Registered: October 2002
Location: netherlands
Posts: 2,339
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thanks Sean, could find next to nothing about her, it burned out i recall. Raymond Loewy fan also eh?
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Tad
Yacht Designer
Registered: March 2002
Location: Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada
Posts: 522
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June-5-2005 12:29pm
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Rating: 10
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Hi Yip,
From Yachts in a Hurry by Philip Moore.
"Q.E.D. was one of the most spectacular yachts that Consolidated ever produced-a streamlined 112-foot blue torpedo designed by William Atkin for the aircraft genius Anthony Fokker. Atkin and Fokker collaborated on the construction scheme of African mahogany for the hull and lightweight aircraft plywood for interior structures, along with such innovations as a large mushroom anchor that was housed in the middle of the bottom. Q.E.D. was up-to-the-minute in specifications and style, and with twin Wright Typhoon engines of 600 HP apiece, plus a smaller Packard cruising engine, she was fast. But Fokker's Q.E.D. had a short career. In October of 1939 she burned and sank in the Hudson River with the loss of one of her crew."
Who would of guessed Atkin?
Tad
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CaptScot
Junior Member
Registered: August 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 42
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February 1968 Motor Boating Magazine has a brief story about this yacht.
Scott
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