Thread: De Havilland

Originally Posted by Bearman

I reckon that would be an experience you will never forget. No luxuries like autopilot....Brian

i have never flowen with autopilot on.
had a more intresting times in SE asia, 101s 310s T28 ( what a tank) as well as bell rangers hues and R22s
i love the 310, not many do but i do nice hot ship.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

There were a packet
de Havilland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
but here's some of my favourites:

Tiger Moth




Chipmunk


Dove


Drover


Heron


Caribou




Vampire


Sea Venom


Sea Vixen









We have a good collection of De Havilland aircraft here:
Queensland Air Museum Home Page
from where many of the above photos were taken.


but wait, there's more!

Dragon Rapide & Dragonfly


Comet (a racing aeroplane)




Comet (as you can see, a different one!)







and saving the BEST until (almost) last:


Mosquito












and just to prove that, despite the above, they could design an ugly aircraft if they put their mind to it...

Flamingo

Mosquito, what a great Aircraft, non currently flying which is a shame....

Have you seen how the Mosquito was built? Someone who, like me, is into building wooden kayaks sent me this clip

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3mGOLmWWbg"]YouTube- Mosquito Manufacturing 1944[/nomedia]

Originally Posted by vnx205

Have you seen how the Mosquito was built? Someone who, like me, is into building wooden kayaks sent me this clip

YouTube- Mosquito Manufacturing 1944

And the interesting point is that the Vampire, their first jet aircraft, had a wooden forward fuselage!


John

I was always under the impression that the Grumman Mohawk twin engine job the Yanks used in South Vietnam was also worked on heavily by DeHavilland, but that may be a fallacy
A mean little aircraft that had the capacity to carry an Infra Red pod underbelly that could detect life forms about 3000 feet below in dense jungle and differentiate between man and animal and also the sex of said animal by the body temperature given off. The pod was about the same length of the aircraft. Somewhere I have a shot of this device but so far I cant detect it!
Sorry about the quality of the following shots but if ever I go back I will try and do better.

A reasonable assortment of vehicles, a USAF Ford Bronco, a US Army MUTT and a civvy CJ? jeep, possibly commandeered by the ROK.

They also carried a variety of armament and landing with some of the assorted unexpended payload hanging below was somewhat dangerous so it was usually jettisoned.
The Pommy RAF put in an occasional appearance in their Dove and sometimes a NZ Bristol transport would grace us with its presence until they were replaced by Hercs.

And of course one of the sturdiest workhorses the Yanks had in the theatre were the Otters and occasional Beavers.


The Yanks also operated a number of Hovercraft out of Cat Lo and other bases and I am not too sure but I seem to remember these having a tie in with De Havilland also, but, then again...
Regards
Glen

Trivia

difference between a dove and a Devon? Nothing just a bump in the roof ( cockpit)
difference between raped and a dommani, nothing, dommani was for the air force

Did you know that the Gipsy series of motors which started out as a French upright 4 banger of 40 HP ended up as a supercharged inverted 6 pot, dry sumped with 600hp

oh and a good one for the pommy engineers. the gipsy was a French motor therefore it was metric ( nut bolts etc) now back in the day no pommy mechanic had metric spanners so DH made there own nuts and bolts , metric threads, witworth heads!

The Font TIMES NEW ROMAN ( i think its that one) was the De Havilland font, designed by de Havilland and used on all of there drawings and correspondence. it was quite a step forward in using a clear and clean font to eliminate communication errors especially as it was the fashion of the day to use fancy copperplate fonts which were not ideal for communication with journeymen

The picture in the previous post labeled "Dragon Rapide & Dragonfly"

There was no such aircraft as a dragon Rapide it was just Rapide, maybe it got confused with is 4 pot smaller sibling the dragon. Any way the picture is of a dommani and not a Rapide. Minor detail. wiki cant get it correct all the time

A bit OT but..

Times New Roman was a font designed for the Times newspaper of London in 1931, thus the name.

On the Dragon Rapide I disagree.

This site says

The De Havilland D.H.89 Dragon Rapide six/eight-passenger airliner was a scaled-down, twin engined version of the D.H.86 Dragon four-engined biplane airliner.

de Havilland DH 89 Dragon Rapide performance and specifications


This site says

The Dragon Rapide was a direct development of the Dragon, employing the same structure but having tapered wings,

De Havilland D.H.89 Dragon Rapide - passenger, transport

and a book I have here agrees.

Originally Posted by zulu Delta 534

South Vietnam

Sorry about the quality of the following shots but if ever I go back IN TIME I will try and do better.

Glen

Yep I'm sure that's at the top of your list... not.