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#4 · Posted: 27 Aug 2021 09:25
There were also a couple of other variants - the 300-W, which used a different engine (of which there were seven built, plus one proto-type, which was a standard CH-300 with the new engine, and presumably was one of the 35 already accounted for, as it's listed in references as a conversion); and the PM-300 Pacemaker Freighter, of which there were two, built to carry freight.
However, I am now interested in a diagram which is shown in the Wikipedia article on the 'plane, taken from the pages of a 1930 magazine, Æro Digest.
This, for me, casts doubt on the CH-300 as a positive match, as the wing and tail shapes are totally different to those drawn by Hergé - his are clearly rounded, where the CH-300 is shown as square (the Pacemaker appears to have a distinctive clipped end to the wings).
If one takes the schematic at face-value as being accurate, I can sort of live with the struts beneath the wings being different in profile, and attaching slightly differently to the under-surface of the wings, as that might have varied a bit from aircraft to aircraft, depending on how they adapted for use as float-planes, but the shape of the wings is just too far off, and the tail even more so.
It doesn't rule out Hergé using the Pacemaker as an intial reference, but, if he did, he's adapted it quite freely, to the point of changing it into something original.
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