{"title":"Max Holste","description":"\u003cp\u003eMax Holste left Nice in 1925 (aged 12) to move to Courbevoie. His father had died and his godfather — a volunteer in the First World War, assigned to the REP and C27 squadrons — recognised the symptoms of the ‘flying bug’ in his godson. The Great War pilot passed on all his knowledge to Max, who, at the age of eighteen, enlisted in the Naval Aviation at the Rochefort school. In Orly, where he would spend the next five years, Max Holste developed a passion for aircraft. He studied and designed his first aircraft in 1934—a low-wing, tandem-seat monoplane powered by a 40 hp Salmson engine—but its construction was halted when the carpentry workshop where it was being built went bankrupt.\u003cbr\u003eAfter his military service, he worked successively in the design offices of Farman in Boulogne-Billancourt and Amiot in Colombes, where he participated in the development of the Amiot 354. He built a number of aircraft privately, notably for the Deutsch de la Meurthe Cup, the MH 20, which made its maiden flight on 25 July 1941[2].\u003cbr\u003eShortly after the liberation of France, Max Holste set up his design office in Laval and, on 12 January 1945, began work with Vincent André on the construction of the MH-52[3]. As soon as the war ended, Max Holste began designing and building the MH 52 for Établissements Borel under the Borand brand, a two-seater training aircraft that was to be ordered by the State.\u003cbr\u003eIn September 1946, the young engineer founded the Société anonyme des avions Max Holste, a company he set up in Reims in the early 1950s.\u003cbr\u003eMH.1521M Broussard\u003cbr\u003eIn 1951, it was time for the MH 152, an observation aircraft. It was with another aircraft that the Reims-based company found success: the MH 1521 Broussard[4], produced until 1961. Max Holste then embarked on the development of a final aircraft, the MH 250 Super-Broussard, the prototype of which took to the skies on 20 May 1959. The construction programme was taken over by Nord-Aviation, which turned it into the Nord 260 and then the Nord 262.\u003cbr\u003eOusted from the company of which he was president by the American Cessna, which had become the majority shareholder, Max Holste went into exile in Brazil, where he built the prototype of a commercial aircraft, the Bandeirante, a twin-engine aircraft that would be produced in some 500 units by the company that has since become Embraer.\u003cbr\u003eMax Holste returned to France to live out his final years. An officer of the Legion of Honour and holder of the Aeronautics Medal, he died in obscurity in 1998. Max Holste is buried in the cemetery in Hyères (Var).\u003cbr\u003eInteresting information at: https:\/\/www.mh-1521.fr\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4yQv5i8mIws?si=8zsIFA_uV5MzBNq1\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"malcros-christian-max-holste-mh-1521-broussard-en-service-dans-lalat-ebook-copie","title":"Malcros, Christian - Max Holste MH-1521 Broussard in service with the ALAT (ebook)","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eMax Holste MH-1521 Broussard in service with the ALAT\u003cbr\u003eby Christian Malcros\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the second in a series of articles by Christian Malcros on the aircraft in service with the ALAT.\u003cbr\u003eLight transport and liaison aircraft, monoplane with high wing struts, twin rudder and with metal skin.\u003cbr\u003eEquipped for blind flight. Used in units from October 1957 to December 1989.\u003cbr\u003e46 delivered to the ALAT between June 1956 and June 1961. Two pre-production aircraft followed by a first batch of 24, then a second batch of 20. In addition, six aircraft were loaned by the French Air Force to the 1st GALTDM and GALTDM 3.\u003cbr\u003e29 pages in French - PDF to download\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Ovr5QTP14A?si=Nyow6tCtjcG1CFgg\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"www.skyshelf.eu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54859400085830,"sku":"697DG2017FR","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/6901\/4698\/files\/325-MH1521-Broussard-dans-lALAT_01_ffe00a92-4634-41e3-9d61-6cb56a0a4f60.jpg?v=1753624884"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/6901\/4698\/collections\/aaLangue_EN_350X350_990405fa-cbdb-4e25-9c57-1ada07ba9556.png?v=1753627578","url":"https:\/\/www.skyshelf.eu\/en-de\/collections\/max-holste-1.oembed","provider":"www.skyshelf.eu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}