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Old 15th Nov 2010, 07:37
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Good morning LM! Slept well? Quiet night it was.........

Clue for the lurkers: This aircraft was designed and built to order.
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Morning RD.

Very quiet is it not!
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 07:48
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We could always rename the challenge to Koolhoven to please Mechta, but it would mean a downgrade from almost imperial country of origin to a mere kingdom.
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 09:35
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I shall now repeat this post at regular intervals.

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mechta

Are you still interested in the weekend 27 November?
yes mate but I thought you'd gone off the idea! Let me know. M
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is the latest one French, or Belgian?
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 10:48
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Neither, RR.
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 11:33
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Afternoon chaps - from the clues I'm thinking possibly Japanese?
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 11:39
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Not Japanese either Skytrain. Maybe the Emperor or some of his princes ordered a 5-seat tourist plane for private use, but not this one.
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 11:43
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Chinese then?
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 11:43
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Naw............

If the first letter would count for namesake, both the orderer and the builder would have been namesakes of an Emperor east of St. Petersburg.
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 12:27
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PM for RD.
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 12:33
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Can't make the "emperor" clues fit - never was great on crosswords either but what about.....

Wackett Codock ( built to order of Charles Kingsford Smith) or Tugan Gannet derivative ?
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 12:52
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No one11 the two imperial/emperor clues are separate.

The aircraft is from an almost Imperial country.

The ordered was of Imperial origin.

The orderer and the designer were first-letter namesakes to (another) emperor.

The orderer was Anton von <insert the name>, Prince of Lorraine.
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an Emperor east of St. Petersburg
So the manufacturer and the person/organisation that ordered it would begin with the same letter as the Emperor of Japan? So assuming the current one, that would be the letter A? Or if going back in time, the letter H.
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Go on........

An coming to think of it, the Emperor (the namesake one) ruled west of St. Petersburg, too.
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 13:04
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RD,

It looks like you've made one part of the Noyade 500.
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 13:12
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And if you want a third man, he was a namesake as well.
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Attila????
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Old 15th Nov 2010, 13:15
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No. Not even a Hun really.......

The third man would have been better with Mexicans or Brazilians, though. Maybe even raising sun.
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An coming to think of it, the Emperor (the namesake one) ruled west of St. Petersburg, too.
Ok so nothing to do with Japan....??

The orderer was Anton von <insert the name>, Prince of Lorraine.
Only problem there is having looked at a list of Princes of Lorraine, there is no mention of an Anton.

So going back to the Lorraine/Imperialist connection:

Lorraine is French, but Anton von xxxx sounds German, Austrian or Swiss.
Imperialism - Austro-Hungarian Empire:

So is this an Austrian aircraft?
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