Letov Š-32 Explained
The Letov Š-32 was an airliner produced in small numbers in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. It was a trimotor monoplane with a high, cantilever wing, and was designed to meet a requirement by ČSA for a machine to service a night route between Prague, Bratislava, Uzhorod, and Bucharest. It could carry up to six passengers in a fully enclosed cabin which was praised at the time as being "particularly roomy and lofty".[1] The wings were of all-metal construction, and the fuselage was built up from steel tube and was mostly skinned in metal, other than its very rear part, which, like the empennage, was fabric-covered.
ČSA bought and operated five of these machines. On 26 June 1934, one of these (registered OK-ADB) crashed during final approach to Karlovy Vary, killing all three on board, most notably the famous Austrian actor Max Pallenberg.[2]
References
- Kaše . Jan . Pirič . Vladimír . Monografie: Letov Š-32: Část I. . Letectví + Kosmonautika . 1992 . LXVIII . 9 . 536–540 . 0024-1156 . cs.
- Kaše . Jan . Pirič . Vladimír . Monografie: Letov Š-32: Část II. . Letectví + Kosmonautika . 1992 . LXVIII . 10 . 600–603 . 0024-1156 . cs.
- Kaše . Jan . Pirič . Vladimír . Monografie: Letov Š-32: Část III. . Letectví + Kosmonautika . 1992 . LXVIII . 11 . 664–667 . 0024-1156 . cs.
- Letov S.32 . . 8 January 1932 . XXIV . 1202 . 36–37 . 2024-08-08.
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- News: Pallenberg tödlich abgestürzt . . 27 June 1934 . 1 . 24 January 2013.
- Book: Stroud, John . European Transport Aircraft . 1966 . London . Putnam .
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Notes and References
- Flight 8 January 1932, p. 36
- Prager Tagblatt. 27 June 1934. 1.
