DH 84 Lost in Oz

[Mayfly]

A DH84 was lost on Monday in Queensland Oz. Yesterday they found the wreckage with no survivors, a sad story as apparently the pilots father and brother were killed in the same a/c in 1954 so I've read.


It was said it the aircraft was only one of 4 left in the world. Is the DH 84 the Rapide or is that the DH 89? and what's the difference please.

[Dan4th]

Here's the Wiki:::::::::::::::::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Dragon

I saw a report of the accident
yesterday, but it was only a
two sentence affair....

Very Sad!

Danf.

[Mayfly]

Ah right so the DH84 is the Dragon and the DH89 the Rapide.

I was confused as I had seen the DH84 referred too as both on various fora.

[Ramshornvortex]

A DH84 was lost on Monday in Queensland Oz. Yesterday they found the wreckage with no survivors, a sad story as apparently the pilots father and brother were killed in the same a/c in 1954 so I've read.


It was said it the aircraft was only one of 4 left in the world. Is the DH 84 the Rapide or is that the DH 89? and what's the difference please.

Pam, in late 1933, the Dragon Rapide was designed at the de Havilland company as a faster and more comfortable successor to the DH.84 Dragon. It was in effect a twin-engined, scaled-down version of the four-engined DH.86 Express. It shared many common features with the larger aircraft, including its tapered wings, streamlined fairings and the Gipsy Six engine, but it demonstrated none of the operational vices of the larger aircraft, and went on to become perhaps the most successful British-built short-haul commercial passenger aircraft of the 1930s.

[Mayfly]

I keep promising myself a flight the Rapide when it's at WWW but never get round to it!

[RLN]

The Rapide was the first plane I flew in. It was the mid 60s, and Dad and I went on a joyride from Blackpool airport around Blackpool Tower. The only thing I really remember was the pilot cutting the engines and restarting them. As a Navy man, Dad didn't trust anything that wasn't powered by steam turbines - needless to say, he never went in a plane again.

[10680]

I keep promising myself a flight the Rapide when it's at WWW but never get round to it!

Did that last year. Good fun.

[Mayfly]

I have been it when we visited Coventry but would like to add to my list of ex-mil a/c flights.

[Sooty655]

I don't expect the Rapide will be at WWW 2013. It is somewhat further from Newquay than from Coventry.

[10680]

I don't expect the Rapide will be at WWW 2013. It is somewhat further from Newquay than from Coventry.

Presumably then won't visit Shoreham!

I wish them well but don't understand them moving as far away as possible from most of the population!