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  1. Dear Sir, today I came across an article in the Dutch magazine “Vliegwereld”. The article was printed in the nr 28 issue of 8 august 1935. This is the link to the relevant page:
    https://www.delpher.nl/nl/tijdschriften/view?identifier=MMKB16:003932029:00004&query=&page=7&sortfield=date&cql%5B%5D=%28alternative+all+%22vliegwereld%22%29&coll=dts&rowid=5

    “Delpher” being the largest database of Dutch-language newspapers, magazines etc., administered and run by the National Archives.

    In the comment below the photograph it says (in Dutch) that : …According to our latest information this military airplane crashed last week during a test flight”.

    Subsequently, I looked a bit further on the net and found what is claimed to be the only page of the Model 299’s logbook that was filled in. The last date on the page is the 24th of October, which ties in with the date of crash that I found everywhere else.

    My question is now: where on earth did the editors of Vliegwereld (a popular, but serious magazine) get the idea that the prototype had already crashed in the week preceding 8th August 1935?

    Very kindly yours,
    Jan Huigen

    1. I am sorry, but I cannot answer your question, other than to simply say that the writers of the magazine were mistaken. The page from the Model 299’s log book begins with its first flight on 28 July, and you can see that there is no mention of any accident. The only thing that I can think of is that they had received information about a crash of another aircraft which mistakenly described it as the Model 299, or that they made the error themselves.

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