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Re: Favorite Interwar / WW I aircraft
Posted by Steve T on Mon Dec 16, 2002 10:01:42 AM
In reply top Favorite Interwar / WW I aircraft posted by Chris Martin on Sun Dec 15, 2002 03:16:57 PM
Hi Chris--
: Trying to put off working on a paper, so I figured this wo
: uld be a good awy to go about that.
Now, now... :)
:
: What's your favorite pre-1939 aircraft?
:
Too many genres to pick just one...For "style", though, here are a few:
Hughes H-1
Hawker Fury series
deHavilland D.H.88 and D.H.91
Napier-Heston racer
Curtiss-Reid Courier
Heinkel 100 (interesting to see Tulio give that a nod already!)
And from a more gracious era of airline transport:
Short C/G class
Boeing 314/314A
: Your favorite pre-39 to have seen flown?
:
Hmm. Avro 504K, probably. Or Beech 17. (Honourable mentions to Rhinebeck's SPAD and Delmar Benjamin's Gee Bee--replicas though they be!)
: Your favorite pre-39 to fly (Hope I get some replies to th
: at one...)?
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I'm not a pilot, so will treat this in the other sense, of what would be neat to see "resurrected":
D.H.91, He100 and Courier again
A-W Siskin III/IIIA/IIIDC (RCAF's first fighter type)
Handley Page H.P.42 (tall ship of the air!)
RAF B.E.2 series (too stable for combat, they say...but that's hardly a drawback for a "recreational" bird)
: And (seeing as I'm working on a paper and in a purely acad
: emic frame of mind), do you think there is too much emphas
: is on WW II aircraft, at the expense of other, less exotic
: types?
:
Maybe so. Charisma wins out, though, I think we'd mostly agree; same thing happens with cars. Very significant aircraft types have been allowed to slip away unnoticed because of this...a pity, but with all the re-creations taking place recently, perhaps there's hope we'll see some of the extinctions reversed.
S.