114 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21
ABOVE An air-to-air study of the NU-200, showing the aircraft’s straight-tapered wing, which was of single-piece
wooden construction with an aspect ratio of 6·5:1. Contemporary press reports highlighted the NU-200’s similarity
in intended role to the USA’s Fletcher FD-25 Defender COIN aircraft, which was not adopted by American forces.
ABOVE The upside-down Cub — with its name and a grasshopper motif on the forward fuselage, a production
NU-90 Belalang meanders over the Indonesian countryside. Quite why the Indonesians considered the low-wing
Belalang an improvement over the high-wing Cub from which it was derived remains something of a mystery!