Matson Collection/US Library of Congress

I edited these onto flickr about a year ago….many of the LoC captions are wrong ….you can download a 3000+wide TIFF file for many of them and zoom/crop, which is what I did for the Scion.
The Matsons were a central part of the American Colony in Jerusalem…they were a Christian group, but they endeared themselves to the Islamic majority so that the governing Turks allowed them to continue with their hospital work for the wounded Germans/Turks even after the US entered the 1st world war. Being Americans they had good cameras, acted as a press agency and I think they had a Buick dealership 🙂

DH Flamingo

A.E.Hagg did (even prettier) wooden Albatross and metal Flamingo before moving to Airspeed, there doing Ambassador, after a flirtation to resurrect Flamingo/Hertfordshire. B.Gunston, at Flight normally supportive of UK types, has this in Back to the Drawing Board, A’life,96,P88: DH’s “proud belief (in their design) infallibility was to lead (to) repeated troubles with almost every (design after A.E.H’s D.H.91 Albatross, the first) of many to come ‘unglued’”.

The long lost Flamingo site by CT Young is back online, alertken
http://uk.geocities.com/dh95flamingo/index.html
…part dismantled Flamingo at Redhill a sample(attached)

Hagg designed the Napier-Heston ‘racer’, too, I believe….I’ll look out a pic of the Albatross with a broken back

R3D-2 (DC-5) photos from US Library of Congress

Slightly staged exercise shots edited from the 3000pixel+ TIFF downloads you can get from the LoC…..a type ordered then cancelled by British Airways Ltd as WWII broke out, which resulted in BOAC receiving the rather prettier DH Flamingo which unfortunately had a nasty aerodynamic fault which was never cured and caused several fatal crashes…