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FS2000/FS2002 Fokker DXXIII twin-engined, single-seat fighter. The D.23. had air-cooled in-line engines in a tandem arrangment, one in the nose and one in the end of the central nacelle. Slender booms carried the tailplane. This was Fokker's last fighter. It had two 520 hp Walter-Sagitta engines and the maximum speed was 520 km/h, very fast in that time. The D.23 had one major disadvantage: if the pilot had to leave the plane at any moment for a parachute jump, he would have been cut into pieces by the rear propeller. At that time, Fokker studied the possibilities of a ejection seat. Date of first flight: 1939. The prototype was destroyed in 1940. Model and textures by Richard Alexander van Hien.