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 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD Aircraft 20

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 Post subject: Re: FD Aircraft 20 Posted: August 22nd, 2023, 12:53 am 

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Vickers Wellesley With the abandoning of the British airship programme in 1930, Barnes Wallis took his experience designing the R.100 and applied this to lightweight stressed structure for aircraft. https://i.imgur.com/SEF721X.png In 1931 a tender was placed for a geneal purpose bombing and torpedo...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

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 Post subject: Re: Manchester AU Posted: August 21st, 2023, 4:55 am 

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4th August 1941 The expanded air attacks on the 2nd energised the redeployment of RAF towards the Persian Gulf in general, while the losses to the Wellingtons operating out of RAF Shaibah required urgent reinforcing of the British position in southern Iraq. From the relative quiet of East Africa ad...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ Jump to post ] Posted: August 18th, 2023, 11:35 am 

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3rd August 1941 The bombing raids on the 2nd had come as surprises to both the British and Iraqis, with neither expecting the other to strike at their bases so readily. The RAF had not expected any sizeable aerial resistance, and now treated the Iraqi bomber threat more seriously, and so prepared t...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
 Post subject: Re: Manchester AU Posted: August 16th, 2023, 2:23 am 

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RAF Habbaniya The first day’s battle had been hard on RAF Habbaniya, and the next was no different. The pilot group were not seasoned veterans, but rather flight instructors and mostly Greek and Arab students, and had flown continuous combat sorties from dawn into the night, under fire even while o...

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: Manchester AU

Sheepster
[ 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

Sheepster
 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

Sheepster
 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

Sheepster
 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

Sheepster
 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

Sheepster
 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...
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