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Re: Continuing the multi-place Warbird theme - Vampire T 11

Posted by Mikael Olrog on Sat Jan 11, 2003 05:23:49 AM

In reply top Continuing the multi-place Warbird theme - Vampire T 11 posted by PeterA on Sat Jan 11, 2003 04:38:20 AM

Isn't one example of this aircraft in storage (or languishing at an airport) in USA? I think I remember reading that in AM or FP some years ago.

Or am I totally out in the blue on this? ;-)
/Mikael

: Back in the late 1960's, a Southend based operation, possi
: bly Aviation Traders, had big plans to make an executive j
: et transport using the abundance of available surplus DH V
: ampire T.11 airframes. The two seat wooden pod was to be r
: eplaced with, from memory, a six place pod. One might imag
: ine that some extension to the tail booms would be require
: d to keep the thing in balance. At that time they were hap
: py to show me the mock up. Some years previously they had
: similar plans for a multi-seat conversion to the Percival
: Prentice RAF trainer and acquired and registered a whole b
: unch of them that littered the airport. I had a brief ride
: in one and I think we had a least four passengers 'stowed
: ' behind the pilot/pupil seats.

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