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Yeah, probably a pretty small sub-set but still very cool footage (IMO )
http://youtu.be/hcipePfQXKQ
)http://youtu.be/hcipePfQXKQ
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What's not to like about a DeHaviland DH89 Dragon Rapide? Love the skirted tires.
Their Gipsy Queen inverted 6 cylinder engine was a very interesting design.
Their Gipsy Queen inverted 6 cylinder engine was a very interesting design.
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Great video, going on vacation on one of those would be the highlight of the vacation!.. 
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thanks - I love art deco aircraft, but for an airliner, that must have felt like riding a box kite.
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+1!Friends Call Me Ji wrote:What's not to like about a DeHaviland DH89 Dragon Rapide?
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What is that small prop, left top wing, near the cabin supposed to be for? Air Speed?
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Might be for an electric generator but I'm just winging it here...BlaineG wrote:What is that small prop, left top wing, near the cabin supposed to be for? Air Speed?
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One of those looks like a DH 90 Dragonfly.
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That gave me a attitude lift....awp101 wrote:Might be for an electric generator but I'm just winging it here...BlaineG wrote:What is that small prop, left top wing, near the cabin supposed to be for? Air Speed?
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Re: For the fans of inter-war commercial aviation
Nothing wrong with them in my eyes!Friends Call Me Ji wrote:What's not to like about a DeHaviland DH89 Dragon Rapide? Love the skirted tires.
I never realized they were an inverted design (OK, more like never researched itFriends Call Me Ji wrote:Their Gipsy Queen inverted 6 cylinder engine was a very interesting design.
)! Neat!Highlight? For me it might BE the vacation!game keeper wrote:Great video, going on vacation on one of those would be the highlight of the vacation!..
But if ya gotta go, why not go in style?bulldog1935 wrote:thanks - I love art deco aircraft, but for an airliner, that must have felt like riding a box kite.
There's an 89, 2 90s IIRC and one I can't ID/haven't tried to look up yet.44-40 Willy wrote:One of those looks like a DH 90 Dragonfly.
Just trying to give you your props.BlaineG wrote:That gave me a attitude lift....awp101 wrote: Might be for an electric generator but I'm just winging it here...
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I'm going to guess that it drives a vacuum pump for flight instruments, but honestly it could be any number of air driven devices. Old airplanes have some pretty "we'll I'll be..." items on them.BlaineG wrote:What is that small prop, left top wing, near the cabin supposed to be for? Air Speed?
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Sooooo much drag!Friends Call Me Ji wrote:What's not to like about a DeHaviland DH89 Dragon Rapide?
That little prop is probably the generator. It's not uncommon on planes of the era. The low tech vacuum source then was a venturi hanging out in the breeze, and these are seen yet today.
Compared to the Beech 18 and the DC-2, the dH airliners were quite crude. Even the Ford and Stinson tri-motors look advanced in comparison. It was, though, an economical plane. I regret not taking a ride on one when I was living in the UK a few years back.
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Ji in Hawaii
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One for my bucket list is flying in an old Ford Trimotor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArOZ6DzbEUs
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Both it and the Stinson are uncomfortably loud inside. Besides a Rapide, I'd like to fly in a DC-3 and the DC-7. While straying a bit from the original post, I'll see if there's room on Collings' B-17, which will be within driving distance of me this month.Friends Call Me Ji wrote:One for my bucket list is flying in an old Ford Trimotor!