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So would I. Well done Bri, the Gloster F-5/34 it is.
The first monoplane fighter built by Gloster, designed by H. P. Folland and H. E. Preston. It was the last design from the pen of Folland.
You Have control.
The first monoplane fighter built by Gloster, designed by H. P. Folland and H. E. Preston. It was the last design from the pen of Folland.
You Have control.
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Cheers Bri, lovely aeroplane: now, for the keen student of Silhouettography, this should be a doddle...
Ugly bu@@er, ain't it?
Ugly bu@@er, ain't it?
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Doh! I must have missed that one - Sorry Mel!
I'm at work now, can somebody else do the honours please?
I'm at work now, can somebody else do the honours please?
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Daz you are right to go with evansb. It is the Pander S.IV Postjager
Bri has control.
The trimotor Pander Postjager (Mail Rusher) was designed purely to carry mail. The plan was to carry 1933 Christmas mail both to and from the Dutch East Indies.
The Postjager left Amsterdam on 9 December 1933 bound for Bandoeng in Java. However, it had to land in Taranto, Italy due to engine failure. As it was to be some time before a replacement engine could arrive, the mail was flown from Brindisi to Cairo by Imperial Airways.
The new Fokker FXX was to make a Christmas flight to Java leaving on 18 December and so it was planned that it would pick up the Postjager's mail. However, its engine failed before take off and so it was replaced by an older Fokker FXVIII named the Pelikaan.
It picked up the Postjager's mail and arrived in Bandoeng on 22 December.
The plan had been for the Postjager to return with the Christmas mail. Instead, the Pelikaan flew the return mail leaving Bandoeng on 26 December and arrived back in Amsterdam on 30 December setting a new record time for the route.
Only one of each of the Pander Postjager and the Fokker FXX were ever built. The end of the Postjager was in the MacRobertson Air Race in October 1934 where it crashed at Allahabad.
The Postjager left Amsterdam on 9 December 1933 bound for Bandoeng in Java. However, it had to land in Taranto, Italy due to engine failure. As it was to be some time before a replacement engine could arrive, the mail was flown from Brindisi to Cairo by Imperial Airways.
The new Fokker FXX was to make a Christmas flight to Java leaving on 18 December and so it was planned that it would pick up the Postjager's mail. However, its engine failed before take off and so it was replaced by an older Fokker FXVIII named the Pelikaan.
It picked up the Postjager's mail and arrived in Bandoeng on 22 December.
The plan had been for the Postjager to return with the Christmas mail. Instead, the Pelikaan flew the return mail leaving Bandoeng on 26 December and arrived back in Amsterdam on 30 December setting a new record time for the route.
Only one of each of the Pander Postjager and the Fokker FXX were ever built. The end of the Postjager was in the MacRobertson Air Race in October 1934 where it crashed at Allahabad.
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Pander S.4
For bonus points, what is the name and purpose of the devices situated atop the ailerons on the Pander S.4?
The following is a quote from the N.A.C.A. Technical Memorandum on High Speed aircraft by M.Shrenk dated 13 Jan 1934
Aileron control problems are amenable to various solutions. The flap is eliminated within range of the very small ailerons (fig. 14) or the latter are mounted above the wing (fig. 18) [Principally developed by the Za~ Development Co. (Us.).]
Figure 18 was a photograph of the Pander S.4 and entitled "Pander S.4 wheels retract into engine nacelles, trailing edge flaps with upper surface ailerons.