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Ir. Hugo Lambach was an aeronautical engineer and former member of the Delft Student Aeroclub. The DSA was an aeroclub of students of the Technical University in Delft. Lambach designed for the DSA a small low-wing two-seat sports plane, with designation HL-1. It flew in 1936, powered by a small 90 hp Pobjoy air-cooled radial [...]

Although the Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania gained their independency shortly after the First World War, they were at the outbreak of the Second World War occupied by Soviet forces. “Liberated” for a short period by the Germans, the were again occupied by Soviet forces until the Soviet Empire fell apart. In spite of [...]

This kit was released by the end of last year in the CMR series of gliders. As usual for CMR it is a nice little kit with much detail included. Ka-6 was a common sight in the fifties and sixties as a standard glider-trainer for many gliding clubs until it was replaced by the Schleicher [...]

One of the many airline companies operating the successful Fokker 100 is KLM. Although Fokker went already bankrupt in 1996 their aircraft continued to fly, without doubt also for many years in the future. However, because of increasing maintenance costs KLM has decided to terminate its use of this very versatile plane. They will be [...]

From 8 to 13 June 2010 the ILA or Internationale Luftfahrtausstellung (International Aviation Exhibition) was held at the airport Berlin-Schönefeld. First ILA was already in 1909 and that means it is more than 100 years ago the first one was held! The ILA is every two years and together with the shows at Le Bourget [...]

Another very interesting new book in the DUTCH PROFILE series was released by the end of 2009. Just like the earlier described Fokker D.XXI volume it is a book on aircraft types used by the Dutch air force and naval air service. This new publication is written by mr. Frits Gerdessen, also author of the [...]

After the end of the Second World War the Dutch Marineluchtvaartdienst (MLD) had on its inventory the Consolidated Vultee PBY-5 Catalina amphibious flying boat. For a possible replacement for this ageing type, Claudius Dornier was contacted by MLD at his Madrid office. Here he had a small team available for design and consultancy work. The [...]

Last week, on 22 October 2009 the first batch of the Fokker S-14 book finally arrived at the publisher’s office at Maarssen. First book sales took place on Saturday 24 October during the large IPMS Euro Scaling event at Nieuwegein. The book is the result of almost 3 years of intensive research both by me [...]

Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd. at Southampton, England was always a company well known for its flying boat  and floatplane designs. This started already in 1914 wit a flying boat designed by Noel Pemberton Billing.  Supermarine became famous with its flying boat and floatplane racers that were built purposely for the Schneider Cup races. In the [...]