I believe the Ron Sand drawings make a fairly accurate replica. All the airworthy replica DR1 in the UK (about 4 I think) are built from these.

I note the that the query came from New Zealand, part of the British Commonwealth, just as South Africa was at the time. They, and the Canadians and Australians for that matter, don’t take kindly to being described as something they are not.

The author of the photo albums was a South African on an SAAF squadron; and I think that it’s important that we don’t forget their contribution and sacrifice.

Perhaps the thread title could be changed, in the interest of accuracy?

DD

That was a rather pompous statement.
The title should remain. They were using RAF equipment :rolleyes:

So he flies for the National airline. Whats embarrasing about suffering an engine failure?

The passage of time has been very unkind to Dale Winton 🙂

What tosh.

Ive seen plenty of cracking displays at Duxford & elsewhere over the last couple years.
This is sounding like a severe case of hero worship.

“Spring Chicken to Sh1te Hawk in one easy lesson……Tak-a-tak-a-tak-a-tak-a-tak-a-tak-a-tak”

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbeA504VzR8

I find the rotary engines absolutely mind boggling in it’s construction, ie some had no throttles, and to cut airspeed, they just cut one or two cylinders off from the fuel supply.
Lincoln .7

Its normally the ignition which is cut on a rotary to control speed or sometimes fuel is cut to all cylinders. You can’t cut the fuel supply to just some of the cylinders.

Yeah. Stuff that people just “make up” is rubbish.

That’s literature written off. Let’s diss music next huh?

Moggy

Ooh, touchy!