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It is actually Pander.
See this message from some time ago.
The funny thing about Pander was that it was first and foremost a furniture factory. Surviving chairs, chests etc. are now highly priced collectibles. Sort of Art Deco style. The furniture factory closed in 1985, the airplane department much earlier (it went out of business thankt to the Postjager).
Nice cover by the way!
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A few years ago, I prepared an exhibit about the KLM DC-2 Uiver, which won the handicap portion of the MacRobertson International Air Race and then, a few months later, crashed in the Syrian Desert on its first commercial flight (between Amsterdam and Batavia, Java). Below are two sheets from that exhibit, both featuring the Panderjager. I noticed that I wrote that the Panderjager was destroyed when it hit a portable airport beacon, not a car. It seems more logical that it was a beacon that was involved, not a vehicle. I have a book about the MacRobertson race — I'll check.
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The Panda S-4 Postjager was 1 1930s Dutch 3 engine mail plane built to deliver fast airmail between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. The first flight was October 6, 1933 . The one i was fortunate enough to acquire by blind luck yesterday when i went to a show in what Springsteen calls the swamps of New Jersey with Bob G. is a January 3,1934 flight. The sole S-4 was destroyed in 1934 in the MacRobertson air race. It was the only one built.
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re: The Panda S-4 Postjager 1933-34
It is actually Pander.
See this message from some time ago.
The funny thing about Pander was that it was first and foremost a furniture factory. Surviving chairs, chests etc. are now highly priced collectibles. Sort of Art Deco style. The furniture factory closed in 1985, the airplane department much earlier (it went out of business thankt to the Postjager).
Nice cover by the way!
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re: The Panda S-4 Postjager 1933-34
A few years ago, I prepared an exhibit about the KLM DC-2 Uiver, which won the handicap portion of the MacRobertson International Air Race and then, a few months later, crashed in the Syrian Desert on its first commercial flight (between Amsterdam and Batavia, Java). Below are two sheets from that exhibit, both featuring the Panderjager. I noticed that I wrote that the Panderjager was destroyed when it hit a portable airport beacon, not a car. It seems more logical that it was a beacon that was involved, not a vehicle. I have a book about the MacRobertson race — I'll check.
Bob
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