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and yet everytime I look back at it I'm thinking 'Mitsubishi'
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Morning LM,
I think it's the Dutch designed Walraven 2 of 1935. (built in the Far East for a Chinese customer)
If correct, Open House please as coffee-break's over now and back to work!
I think it's the Dutch designed Walraven 2 of 1935. (built in the Far East for a Chinese customer)
If correct, Open House please as coffee-break's over now and back to work!
Excellent call TC - the Walraven 2 "Seletar". 
Here's another view:
TC has declared Open House......
but perhaps you might hold fire for a short while in case he can get back in his lunch break.
Here's another view:
This aircraft was designed in 1934 by the Dutchman Laurens W. Walraven in the Dutch East Indies for the Chinese millionaire Khouw Khe Hien, who wanted a fast and comfortable two-seat aircraft to visit his food companies dispersed over the Indonesian archipelago. Of wooden construction, this was one of the first purpose-designed business aircraft. This aircraft was designed in 1934 by the Dutchman Laurens W. Walraven in the Dutch East Indies for the Chinese millionaire Khouw Khe Hien, who wanted a fast and comfortable two-seat aircraft to visit his food companies dispersed over the Indonesian archipelago. Of wooden construction, this was one of the first purpose-designed business aircraft.
but perhaps you might hold fire for a short while in case he can get back in his lunch break.
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Thanks for the consideration LM,
I am indeed back on my lunch break, but it's a short one and there's a busy afternoon ahead, so I wouldn't be able to monitor it.
I see quite a few familiar names on-line, so to keep the ball rolling Open House please someone!
BTW, it's a great shame that this great little aeroplane didn't fulfill its promise. The Chinese millionaire backer was killed in an air-crash (in a Martin B10) a couple of years later and the project died with him! The surviving prototype was destroyed by the advancing Japanese Army a few years later.
I am indeed back on my lunch break, but it's a short one and there's a busy afternoon ahead, so I wouldn't be able to monitor it.
I see quite a few familiar names on-line, so to keep the ball rolling Open House please someone!
BTW, it's a great shame that this great little aeroplane didn't fulfill its promise. The Chinese millionaire backer was killed in an air-crash (in a Martin B10) a couple of years later and the project died with him! The surviving prototype was destroyed by the advancing Japanese Army a few years later.
Last edited by SincoTC; 28th Apr 2010 at 12:20.
G'day mate. I think it's the Monsted-Vincent MV-1 Starflight.
What took you so long?
Found this in a book while cooking the rice. I'm not 100% sure of the identity but I've got a pretty good idea...
