ROUGH and Ready

Evaluating the Australian triple-engined airliner that never quite made the grade The first Drover on a flight from Banks town with the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a backdrop. It was photographed by The Aeroplane’s legendary photographer Charles Sims duringa March 1948 assignment to Australia. AEROPLANE Just after the end of World War Two, de Havilland Aircraft Pty at Bankstown, Sydney, decided it was time to replace that stalwart of the Australian skies, the 1930s’ DH84 Dragon, with something more modern.