In his New Year’s greetings, Mr Jean-Pierre Desroches drew my attention to the two versions of the F-AKEK medical aircraft, I quote:
“I would like to take this opportunity to show you a small detail that you may have already noticed concerning the Joustra F AKEK sanitary or Red Cross aircraft, depending on the name. Mine is a simplified version,
identical to the first sketch of the civilian F AKEK that can be found in the catalogue of a department store reproduced in Frédéric Marchand’s book.
Marchand, 2001 – JEUX ET JOUETS DU CIEL p.29
there are no passengers windows under the cockpit windows.
Yours
1935, painted sheet metal, clockwork mechanism rolls on the ground, the central propeller rotates 60 x 59 cm
is identical to the one shown in Leonard’s book and to the second sketch’s version in the department store catalogue.
Leonard, 2003 – JOUSTRA p. 134
Marchand, 2001 – JEUX ET JOUETS DU CIEL p .29
It has windos under the cockpit.
These aircraft were released in 1935, with the F AKEK medical versions coming out a few months before the civilian versions. “