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A beautiful 4-engined 2bladed propliner...

Postby Souichiro » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:22 am

...That should've grabbed your attention ;D. The plane I'm talking about is the De Havilland DH91 Albatross. A beautifully lined Propline from before WW2. She's pretty!!

Well here are the shots (not a very good qual this time :-[) last few are made with F1-view

Nice props ;D
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A lot of air inlets
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Yup she's old.....
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.....But who cares
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I don't
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Engine view
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Having a look inside
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Hey! there's the field
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found her at wspilots hope you liked the shots ;D
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Re: A beautiful 4-engined 2bladed propliner...

Postby ATI_7500 » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:27 am

Hm, somehow two-blade props look pretty bad.
The more blades, the better (four and up). :)
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Re: A beautiful 4-engined 2bladed propliner...

Postby Hagar » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:12 am

Beautiful aircraft & lovely shots. ;) I don't see what difference the number of prop blades makes if they're efficient. Extra blades = extra weight.

I think the family resemblance to the Comet jet airliner is obvious. Also the large rectangular cabin windows which were the reason for the Comet's downfall.
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Re: A beautiful 4-engined 2bladed propliner...

Postby Souichiro » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:38 pm

And the mosquito is also a supposed deriative, i also see some lines from the connie.
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Re: A beautiful 4-engined 2bladed propliner...

Postby Hagar » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:45 pm

And the mosquito is also a supposed deriative,

So I believe. The same construction methods were used for the fuselage.

i also see some lines from the connie.

I noticed that too. There is a definite resemblance although it could be coincidence.
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Re: A beautiful 4-engined 2bladed propliner...

Postby Ben_M_K » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:08 pm

Wonderful shots!

I'm loving that F1! ;D
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Re: A beautiful 4-engined 2bladed propliner...

Postby Souichiro » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:09 pm

So we've concluded it was way ahead of its time. never became popular though......
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Re: A beautiful 4-engined 2bladed propliner...

Postby jordonj » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:14 pm

there's some great vintage London Airports to go with that!

I know they're at Flightsim.com but maybe others (haven't done a search here for them)...
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Re: A beautiful 4-engined 2bladed propliner...

Postby Souichiro » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:24 pm

Hmm.... Il have a look into that. Do you know where to get a good Scenery Of Dunsfold Aerodrome? It's a Former BAE factory now out of use but still open. not a important field now but I would like to have some good scenery of it.

Btw you might know the field from Top Gear they use that place ;D

Well of too bed now its 1:22 am here and school starts at 9 :-[
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Re: A beautiful 4-engined 2bladed propliner...

Postby Hagar » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:41 pm

So we've concluded it was way ahead of its time. never became popular though......

I think this was mainly caused by the start of WWII. A lot of promising aircraft suffered the same fate. Ironically one benefit of the war was that, just as in WWI, development of aviation progressed far more in a few years than it would ever have done without it.

http://www.imperial-airways.com/De_havilland_dh91_albatross.html
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