"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
12/02/2013 at 19:47 • Filed to: PLANELOPNIK
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"Jayhawk Jake" (jayhawkjake)
12/02/2013 at 19:47 • Filed to: PLANELOPNIK | 2
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Well, there isn't much to write. Aside from being pretty, the Dragon Rapide is rather boring, but it was very successful. So here's a photo/video dump and brief overview of the Dragon Rapide, the British short haul passenger airliner from the 1930s, which I'm always reminded of when I see an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
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It was an 8 passenger biplane with a 573 mile range, powered by 2 de Havilland Gipsy Six inline engines. 731 were built and carried passengers for various airlines of the British Empire and even served as a transport for some militaries. It was made of wood, one of many de Havilland wood designs that led to arguably their most famous wooden aircraft, the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
It's a beautiful plane, from the time when making something fly well pretty much meant making it look like it would fly well. Interesting note about it: it only has one pilot. You will never see that in an airline again, but more than that it allowed for the cockpit to be shaped around a single seat in the center which gives the Dragon Rapide a very distinctive nose.
There's a handful of Dragon Rapides still flying today, some of them operated for pleasure flights in the UK, two of them operating in New Zealand.
lonestranger
> Jayhawk Jake
12/02/2013 at 19:54 |
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Phew. I was expecting a 4-door Aston, butchered à la the Dragon 'Vette.