Out of all the designs displayed, which would have gotten your vote?
No.1 is obviously the old design, and No.2 the new one.
So which do you like best? Personally I would have gone for the fourth one… I like the blue running on the underneath of the fuselage.
Cheers. 🙂
By: bloodnok - 9th February 2007 at 16:01
Did you mean this one?
(De Havilland Dh.91 Albatross)
thats the kiddie!…my mistake, i just remembered its name and correct age, and i came back to post.
itn’t it beautiful, just imagine one of those gracing our skies again!
By: Archer - 9th February 2007 at 15:26
My first thought from his description – but the Albatross was a child of the 1930s?
Roger Smith.
Indeed it was, the last two were scrapped in 1943 according to Wikipedia (don’t have anything else handy right now) so seeing one in the 50’s is most unlikely.
The problem is that I can’t think of another type that fits the description!
By: RPSmith - 9th February 2007 at 15:14
Did you mean this one?
[img]http://www.johnjohn.co.uk/compare-tigermothflights/photos/DH91_Albatros…]
My first thought from his description – but the Albatross was a child of the 1930s?
Roger Smith.
By: Archer - 9th February 2007 at 15:10
i’d like to see an airworthy HP-42, or maybee an Airspeed Ambassador/Elisabethan.
there was another rather gorgeous airliner out in the 50’s as well, 4 engined, low wing, 4 slender faired engines twin fins, and i can’t for the life of me remember its name…..anyway would love to see one flying!
Did you mean this one?
(De Havilland Dh.91 Albatross)
By: megalith - 9th February 2007 at 14:44
I’m with Bloodnok; HP42 Heracles would have to be no 1. Failing that a DH86 Express.
Wouldn aslo love any of the following Viscount, Brittania, VC10, BAC1-11 or best of all a Comet!
Steve
By: bloodnok - 9th February 2007 at 14:20
i’d like to see an airworthy HP-42, or maybee an Airspeed Ambassador/Elisabethan.
there was another rather gorgeous airliner out in the 50’s as well, 4 engined, low wing, 4 slender faired engines twin fins, and i can’t for the life of me remember its name…..anyway would love to see one flying!
By: low'n'slow - 9th February 2007 at 14:03
I’d choose the world’s first purpose-designed military aeroplane.
The first aeroplane in the World that was developed to be naturally stable.
It held altitude records of over 12000 feet – less than a decade after the Wright Brothers first flight.
It served in every theatre of war during WW1. And like the Spitfire in WW2, it was one of the few aeroplanes to still be in service at the end of the conflict as well as at the start.
Out of 1600 built, less than a handful are in museums and none are currently flying.
Oh my god, we’ve got one!
It’s the………
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BE-2 !!;)
Can we have some money now please 😀
By: oz rb fan - 9th February 2007 at 13:12
i’d buy the whirlwind parts from mr visard and put it back in the air:diablo:
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 9th February 2007 at 12:59
I’m bound to have bought it if it was… :p
TT
By: The Blue Max - 9th February 2007 at 12:56
No, a pint glass…
Hope it was a full one:D
By: Pondskater - 8th February 2007 at 13:34
> Given that Britain’s significant maritime history and aero-marine history does not have one single airworthy aircraft of any type, I’d say that’s a big gap in British history, wouldn’t you?
That one reason is good enough on its own. It is time we were proud of our maritime aviation heritage and did something to celebrate it.
By: Paddy R - 8th February 2007 at 13:04
For me it has to be a Sunderland. As a kid in WW2 I watched them come and go from lough erne in Northern Ireland.What a record they had on the long Atlantic patrols and even as airliners post war.
Paddy R
By: Ivan - 8th February 2007 at 12:53
A Beverley into flight condition…. purely for the selfish reason that I remember sitting with my grand-dad watching one of them on a very warm summers day with ice cream dripping into my lap!!! I still miss him like mad (25 years ago now) and it would make the hairs on my neck stand up and remind how proud I am to have had a Grand-Dad like him!! He introduced me to airplanes and Potato peel, orange peel and tea wine at all around the same time!!! Makes me understand why I prefer the grape to the hop!! miss yer still GD
By: RPSmith - 8th February 2007 at 12:52
I’ve got my patriotic hat on (for my home town that is)
Steve T’s suggestion of a Siskin is probably second but topping that would be a flyable RE8 – most of the originals were built in Coventry. Acheivable but the engine might be a bit tricky.
Does anyone know how accurate the recently-built Peter Jackson RE8 is?
Roger Smith.
By: Moggy C - 8th February 2007 at 12:44
Oh, and this isn’t a made up, it’s real project.
James, if you know these guys can’t you suggest they put a PayPal or similar donation link on that page?
I for one would have been happy to click away a tenner this very morning, but I know the effort of e-mailing them, getting an address, posting a cheque etc., will probably mean my good intentions lapse.
If they want money – and they richly deserve it for that project – please get them to make it easy!
Moggy
By: JDK - 8th February 2007 at 12:14
Given that there are several Battles under rebuild for display around the world (the UK, Belgium and Australia, plus a complete example in Canada) and that getting one flying would be impressive primarily in a negative sense (where I absolutely agree with Damien) as “my God, that’s a heavy, slow, hopeless aircraft!” I can’t see a Battle case being too strong.
It might seem predictable of me but the Solent Sky airworthy Supermarine Walrus project G-RNLI is a pretty um ~watertight~ case. (Oops.)
> One of the few aircraft used by Britain and the Commonwealth around the globe including work in both polar regions.
> Designed by R J Mitchell
> The only likely significant British maritime aircraft likely to be restored to airworthy condition in the foreseeable future in the UK. Given that Britain’s significant maritime history and aero-marine history does not have one single airworthy aircraft of any type, I’d say that’s a big gap in British history, wouldn’t you?
> In front line use from 1939 – 1945, in only two marks. How many other types can compete?
> Saved hundreds of lives in the ASR role.
> Britain’s first enclosed cockpit retractable undercarriage military aircraft.
> Flown by a man who later rose to become Lord of the Admiralty.
> And was responsible for dunking the RN’s senior commander in Scapa Flow.
> Goes on land and water – how cool is that, eh?
> It’s cute. The girls love it. At least one WAAF felt the sea move while aboard one. 😉
> You can wind it up to start it.
> Was used in air racing, and for whaling.
> Available in white, green and yellow, as well as camouflage colours, plus the usual US, Australian, New Zealand, Russian, Indian and British markings.
> You can take mates flying. There’s even a card table aboard for winning their cash off them to keep it flying.
> Is the right size and speed to impress and land at both Old Warden and Duxford, whatever the weather. (How many other types can claim that?)
> Has daft, bizarre and rude nicknames.
> Rarer than all those tedious Spitfires, Mustangs, Lancasters etc…
Can be looped (tip: clear the bilge water first)
I can go on… 😀
Oh, and this isn’t a made up, it’s real project.
By: LesB - 8th February 2007 at 10:58
Some quite laudable replies, and some a tad fanciful too.
Damien’s got the right idea, a ‘do-able’ project that has a ‘forgotten’ history and commemorates those that came before.
For myself, (and in the same vein), I’d opt for a fully airworthy Avro York, or a fully airworthy HP Hastings, to commemorate all those thousands – men and machines – that took part in the Berlin Airlift.
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By: TEXANTOMCAT - 8th February 2007 at 10:41
No, a pint glass…
🙂
By: Paul F - 8th February 2007 at 10:32
Okay, so my TSR2 suggestion is perhaps a step too far, so how about a Do335 Pfiel, possibly the two seat night-fighter variant.
Justification – probably the fastest piston engined fighter at the time it was introduced, a radical twin-engine layout, and one of the first operational types to fit an ejector seat….
– Or, along similar lines perhaps a He219 Uhu, complete with radar and Schrage Musik canon fit. Justification for this type needs some more thought perhaps….
Paul F
By: Eye on the Sky - 8th February 2007 at 09:50
I would have to go for an airworthy Beaufighter, a true beast of an aircraft that gave the RAF a decent night fighter and did tremendous work with the coastal strike wings. So come on Mr Grey, chop chop….
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