What aircraft?

Yes, that sounds like bakelite!
More detail from Bill Gunston’s book:
“Furniture-maker Henk Pander took over a defunct factory in August 1924. Formed Nederlandse Fabriek van Vliegtuigen H. Pander & Zonen . . .”
The MacRobertson Race contender that crashed in 1934 was the Postjäger long range racer monoplane (3 x 420 hp engines).

Paul

There is a misdisseption that this is the same maunfacterur as the furniture builder this is not threu. They where however realted.

Pander was a aircraft manufaterur in the 20 and 30’s in Den Haag. There last plane was a competitor in the London-Sydney race where it crasht during take off against a oxcart in the dark.

Back to the Multi-pro, a total of 3 where built, PH-AIU registerd on 29-09-1932 off register 29-03-1939 , PH-AIV registerd 06-02-1933 destroyd 10 may 1940 at Ypenburg, PH-AIX registerd 17-03-1933 destroyd 10 may 1940 at Woensdrecht.

PH-AIU has no listing that it was destroyd ore scrapped so it might well be in sitting in a barn some where in the Netherlands.

The Multi-Pro was a 2 sitter, just like in an Auster you sat side by side. Behind the passengers there was a reletifly large luguage compartment.
Empty weight was 420 kg, max weight was 700kg. Max range was 700 km. Cruising speed was around 160km/u

The fuselage construction was uniek and patented. 2 layers of plywood molded with bakeliet (sorry don’t know the englisch word). It is some sort of early plasticy stuff, very hard.

Sorry for the long reply.

Herman

Turn to Bill Gunston’s “World Encyclopaedia of Aircraft Manufacturers” page 230 for a brief history of furniture-maker Henk Pander’s company in the Netherlands, founded in 1924. Went into receivership about 1934 and built very few aircraft.

Herman

Many thanks for your reply. A short history (or where to find) of the company that built it, how many (3?), specfication (as can be found in “Janes”, are there any left, was there any link with Pobjoy other than the engine type being fitted.

Regards
Paul

What sort of info are you looking for to solve the whole mistery?

Herman

Herman, yes it is PH-AIU.

Thanks – a mystery nearly solved.

The information that I have is that it is an dutch built Pander Multi-Pro. Driven by a 80 HP Pobjoy. Maybe you can inlarge the photo? It will probably list the following PH-AIU!

Herman

Thanks guys. Your quite right that the engine is a Pobjoy and an “R” type at that. I found the picture lurking in a Pobjoy brouchure from 1932. described as

“The Pobjoy Panda – a side by side cabin machine of excellent all-round performance, which cruises at 25 mpg. It is provided with hand starting from the cabin, and resembles a flying motor car.”

Other types shown are the Pobjoy Klemm, Comper Swift, Miles Satyr and the Monospar.

Anyone any more thoughts on the type in the picture? Perhaps Douglas Pobjoy intended importing the Plymouth?

Not sure of the aircraft but the engine is a british Pobjoy unit. after a quick google to see what aircraft those engines was used on, i found this website

http://www.1935plymouth.com/plycoupe.html

Looks quite similar don’t you think? if you read through the text it says that one of their early types was indeed powered by a Pobjoy engine

Hope this helps

Kenb’o 🙂

Looks american – Ryan?

ive been through the reserve a seat section on their website and its a 757-200 with 235 seats, anyone been on this before? will it be a change to the TOM 738 im used to?

The 306 outbound looks like an A321…

as is the inbound! These are off expedia as amadeus was saying EQV.

I don’t know the answer to your question unfortunately, but rather than start a new thread, I’ve got an identical question to ask. What aircraft will operate the British Airways flights to/from Paris in my signature?

According to BA.com, the flight will be operated by the A320 both ways. However, the British Airways schedules program that you can download says it is an A321. I know which I’d prefer, but can anyone confirm?

Thanks. 🙂

Should be a 777 and a 757.

Don’t know about IFE, but aircraft will be a B752 Miami-Quito, an N772 LHR-Miami. 🙂