Airborne Awesomosity

What’s The Best Looking Civilian Airliner

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de Havilland Dragon Rapide

 

Last week we looked at the military designs but now lets turn our focus toward the civilian market.

 

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Airborne Awesomosity

Not So Rapide Transit

de Havilland Dragon Rapide

 

Sometimes an aircraft looks like it is connected to another time and place yet existed successfully in a era that would normally have called it archaic. Such is the story of the Dragon Rapide. To my eyes one of the most attractive aircraft ever to fly the skies in any part of history never the less during World War II.

 

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Airborne Awesomosity

The De Havilland DH.104 Dove

It will buff out

de Havilland Dove

[image credit Wayne Moyer 2011]

For over twenty years the de Havilland Dove served the worlds feeder airlines simply and efficiently.  Today this Dove has had her wings clipped and is awaiting her turn at a restoration.

 

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