Tony,
I've been wrong before -- on several occasions! -- but in this case
I'm not. Whoever wrote the description on the photograph was mistaken.
There was only one DC-2 in the MacRobertson race, the KLM Uiver, which
means Stork in Old Dutch. The DC-2 was powered by Wright Cyclone
engines, which is one of many reasons it became such a well-known
aircraft (at the time) and was soon superseded by the DC-3, early
models of which were also powered by Cyclones.
Here's a photo of the Uiver landing at Melbourne:
http://www.ingraham.ca/bob/uiver_landing_melbourne.jpg.
Unfortunately,
there are no stamps that show the Uiver, although there are quite a
number of Uiver-flown covers available, from the race and from its
crash in Iraq in December, 1934 -- here's an example of one of those:
http://www.ingraham.ca/bob/Uivercrashcover.jpg.
Bob
On Apr 19, 9:58=A0am, "antoine gelat" <age...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Your translation is correct, but I believe Cyclone is the plane, not the
> engine.
>
> Tony
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