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 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

[ Jump to post ] Posted: July 29th, 2023, 7:09 am 

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Bombing of Bahrain With the British attack on the encircling force at Habbaniya the Italian military advisors were able to activate one of the many plans they had prepared to escalate a potential conflict with Britain: the bombing of British oil installations at Bahrain and at Dhahran in Saudi Arab...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: July 27th, 2023, 2:10 am 

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de Havilland DH.92 Dolphin The last of DH's pre-war light transports, and last of the Dragon series (unless you include the DH.104 Dove and DH.114 Heron). https://i.imgur.com/e3s4iUr.png An almost unknown aircraft now, de Havilland tried to update the rag and tube DH.89 Dragon Rapide to the stresse...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: July 26th, 2023, 12:59 am 

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Canadian Dragonflys In 1936 seven DH.90 Dragonflies were shipped to Canada. All were assembled with the Dragon-style seaplane extended fin, although only 1 seems to have ever been flown on floats. https://i.imgur.com/7ZVlW6i.png Four were purchased by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and deployed...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: July 25th, 2023, 5:39 am 

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de Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly in NZ NZ was not a major purchaser of DH.90's, but colour schemes of the kiwi aircraft are a little better documented than elsewhere, and of course it is the home of half of the still flying Dragonflys. https://i.imgur.com/4fG3Cj5.png The DH.90's complemented the other ...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: July 24th, 2023, 4:10 am 

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de Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly Following on from the pressed plywood construction of the DH.88 Comet racers, DH designed their "executive" version of the Dragon family with this new construction technique. https://i.imgur.com/XRLlLOK.png The DH.90 Dragonfly adopted the two pilot layout of the DH.86, ...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: July 23rd, 2023, 4:08 am 

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International DH.86 operators Several other operators also fielded DH.86's, both early and late model aircraft, before WWII. https://i.imgur.com/0E4f8Kq.png Misr Airlines was founded in Egypt as a "non-Imperial Aiways" regional airline. Four DH.86 and DH.86B aircraft were operated into the post war...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: July 22nd, 2023, 9:46 am 

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Australian de Havilland DH.86's Although QANTAS was the launch customer, the redesign for their two pilot cockpit configurtion meant that others operated them first. https://i.imgur.com/i0SSCEL.png One of the 3 single pilot aircraft was imported to Australia for Holyman's Airways. Unfortunately aft...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: July 21st, 2023, 3:35 am 

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de Havilland DH.86 in UK service Although designed for Australia, British companies were the main customer for the DH.86. https://i.imgur.com/OsBbwrT.png The prototype first flew on 14 January 1934, and differed from the production aircraft by the fitting of novel curved undercarriage spats. All pr...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: July 21st, 2023, 2:57 am 

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De Havilland DH.86 Express Following on from the DH.84 Dragon, the DH.86 was de Havilland's largest "Moth". https://i.imgur.com/krz8xgC.png In 1933 de Havilland designed the DH.86 for Australia, to be the final link in the chain of the Imperial Airways route between the UK and Australia. The aircra...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

[ Jump to post ] Posted: July 16th, 2023, 1:34 am 

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Bombing Of Shaibah By the morning of the 2nd the RIrAF was ready and prepared for action to an extent that they had not been the day before, and the freshly Italian-trained squadrons with their new equipment entered combat. With the British garrison at Habbaniya being tied down the Italian advisors...
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