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one 11, we were expecting you.
Yes, another of those. Like FK.53.
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Edit to say: Good night gentlemen!
Another Koolhoven - like an FK.53 ?
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Bit rough and rushed but here is another watery one....
1050 here so closing down for the night - clues tomorrow if its still running
1050 here so closing down for the night - clues tomorrow if its still running
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An Ikarus SM, then? To stay within Adriatic...
Good grief how many hydravions were built and with very small differences. Looks like everybody and his kid sister had their own design...
Good grief how many hydravions were built and with very small differences. Looks like everybody and his kid sister had their own design...
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Not French and not from the Adriatic.
My Sources differ slightly on fin shape, one is as shown but another has a flatter top which seems to tie in with photos
somehow the fin doesn't look pristine
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Yes........built at Constanza on the Black Sea 1925 More views here including the contentious fin - and lots more if you read Russian.
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Yet another Koolhoven - FK46?
The first produced and had open cockpit.
The FK-46 first took off in the autumn of 1933. It was an open two-seater biplane instruction and pleasure plane. The first prototype was of wooden construction. It had a Cirrus Hermes engine of 115 hp. The second prototype differed, technically speaking, rather a lot from the first one. The fuselage now had a steel tube frame. The customer could now also opt for a long plexiglass sliding roof. The Cirrus was replaced by a Gipsy Major, delivering 130 hp.
This improved model was offered to the Nationale Luchtvaart School (N.L.S.) in 1934. They immediately bought four of them. The Koolhoven FK-46 was very easy and comfortable to fly. Particularly useful property for a (first) instruction plane! This tractability soon earned the plane the nickname "Koe" or "Koebeest" (the Cow).
The LVA also was interested enough to buy one, but no further orders followed from that direction. In the end, they preferred the Fokker S-9 and the Bückers Jüngmann for instruction purposes. The LVA FK-46 was sold back again to Koolhoven, who resold the plane to the Zuid-Sumatra Vliegclub in Indië.
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