This is the Ford in an American Airways livery (like the one in the Washington Air and Space Museum). I expected a KLM livery because of De Ruyter. Also: Why are the fairies panicky reading the manual?
Wow, poor De Ruyter must be *really* clueless to confuse a Ford Trimotor with a Fokker F.VII trimotor. The differences aren't exactly subtle. (Or perhaps her memory is fuzzy with age?)
A couple bits of trivia related to this joke:
Fokker's F-10 "Super Tri-Motor" was a competitor to the Ford Trimotor. Being a "Fokker", you might assume it was Dutch-made—but it was produced by "Atlantic Aircraft", the American spin-off company that Anthony Fokker created when he moved to the U.S. in the late 1920s.
KLM's Douglas DC-2s were, well, not exactly Dutch-*made*, but they were Dutch-assembled by the European Fokker firm after being shipped across the Atlantic, so they're sometimes referred to as Fokker DC-2s. (KLM's DC-2s were a big deal in the 1930s; they were among the fastest and longest-ranged airliners in the world at the time, and KLM flew them on its multi-stop service between Amsterdam and Batavia (now Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies.)
