Flight Archive

[CharlieC]

For those who like winged things......

There is an archive of all issues of Flight magazine from 1909-2005 at http://www.flightglobal.com. The archive is searchable and the indexing seems to be very good.

Regards,

Charlie

[John Bowden]

Thanks Charlie!

[Don Boose]

Charlie -- I was impressed with this find and thought I had posted a thanks when you first shared it with us. I guess not. Anyway, this is a really valuable resource and I appreciate your sharing it. Don

[Rick Thomson]

I was impressed by the Ryanair calender girls...

[Leif Ohlsson]

This is a wonderful resource. Just browsing through what would be a high-point year in the early/middle of aviation history, I found this pretty aircraft. Although the make is quite familiar, I never heard of this particular model.

And further research revealed that it was indeed never developed beyond this prototype. Despite this, however, the aircraft set a world record for carrying a load of 1,000 kg over 100 km at 160 mph in the year following the publication in Flight.

You will be able to have a good guess of the make, not least with that familiar paint scheme. But the model, anyone?

Leif

[Don Boose]

Looks rather like some version of a DH Gypsy Moth (distinctive DH tail), but that's as far as I can get.

It certainly is a pretty airplane.

Don

[CharlieC]

It's a 1926 DH.65 Hound - not adopted by the RAF because of it's wooden structure (the Hawker Hart was adopted instead). It's lucky the same decision makers weren't around when the Mosquito was proposed in the late 30s.

It's bigger than a Moth but is unmistakably a De Havilland. DH even made the Napier Lion engine (W-12 configuration) installation look neat and tidy.

Regards,

Charlie

[Don Boose]

Good eye, Charlie!

Don

[Leif Ohlsson]

Very good! And here's the information I got from Wikipedia (same as Charlie's):

The Hound was designed as a two-seat general purpose biplane; as a private venture to meet Air Ministry Specification 12/26. The prototype G-EBNJ first flew on 17 November 1926. It was of all-wooden construction and powered by a Napier Lion engine. In 1927 the nose and rudder were modified, it was fitted with a geared engine and received the modified designation DH.65A. It was delivered to the Royal Air Force in January 1928 receiving serial number J9127 for evaluation. While it showed superior performance to the other competitors for the specification, it was rejected because of its wooden construction and the order was placed with the Hawker Hart.

Despite its rejection by the RAF, on 26 April 1928 the aircraft set a world record for carrying a load of 1,000 kg over 100 km at 160 mph piloted by H.S. Broad.

A project to further develop the Hound as a four-seat passenger transport under the designation DH.74 was left unrealised.

The design being otherwise unsuccessful, the second aircraft G-EBNK was not completed.

I attach the original pages from Flight 1927 (No:s 0516 & 0517), this time with captions included. Note the remark about "performance figures may not be given". I came upon it while browsing 1927 for information about Lindbergh and Spirit of St. Louis.

Once again, well done, and a wonderful source!

Leif

[contourcreative]

I suppose we will have to make a model of the DH 65...shame it was a 'one off'..