Pander Multipro
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| Multipro | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Two/three seat sports aircraft |
| National origin | Netherlands |
| Manufacturer | Nederlandse Fabriek van Vliegtuigen H. Pander & Zonen (Pander & Sons) |
| Designer | Theo Slot |
| Number built | 3 |
| History | |
| First flight | September 1932 |
The Pander Multipro was a two/three seat light monoplane aircraft with a high, braced wing, designed in the Netherlands in the early 1930s. Powered by a Pobjoy radial engine, three were built.
Designed by Theo Slot, who was responsible for all of Pander & Sons original designs, the Multipro is variously described as a side-by-side two-seat[1] or three-seat[2] light aircraft. It had high and almost constant chord wings, braced on each side by a V-form pair of struts fixed to the lower fuselage longerons.[2] The fuselage was a rounded, plywood-skinned structure, contemporaries remarking, as they had with other Panders, on the quality of the finish.[1]
It was powered by a Pobjoy R seven-cylinder radial engine;[1] the two-blade propeller was driven via spur gears that reduced its speed and placed the output shaft above the engine centre, an unusual arrangement for a radial.[3] The cabin was under the wing with a deep starboard-side access door and multi-panel glazing. The fuselage tapered aft, with the tailplane set halfway up it, and its fin and rudder together were almost triangular apart from a rounded tip. The Multipro's conventional undercarriage was fixed, with the mainwheels on V-struts attached to the lower longerons and stabilized laterally by an inverted V-strut jointed at the fuselage central underside.[2]
The Multipro flew for the first time in September 1932.[2]
