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Lovely work on the Dragonflies!

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Canadian Dragonflys

In 1936 seven DH.90 Dragonflies were shipped to Canada. All were assembled with the Dragon-style seaplane extended fin, although only 1 seems to have ever been flown on floats.



Four were purchased by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and deployed to New Brunswick to patrol for rum runners during prohibition. By 1939 the aircraft had been redeployed for other duties around Canada. However with the coming of WWII the RCMP Airborne Division found itself meged into the RCAF, such that one pilot later stated he "landed in Yellowknife Bay as an RCMP pilot and taxied in as a Probationary Pilot Officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force."
The RCAF had bought 2 of the Canadian Dragonflies, and with the addition of the RCMP aircraft fielded a fleet of 6 Dragonflies, becoming the largest military user of the DH.90.

International Dragonflys

Many Dragons spent time in other counties during their lives, but unfortunately not too many colour pictures to work with.



Denmark was one of the few military customers, purchasing 2 aircraft. They appear to have been withdrawn from service by 1938.
A single Dragonfly was exported to Kenya. This aircaft is notable for being the first aircraft fitted with the alternate forward door.
DETA in Mozambique acquired a Dragonfly for charter flying before WWII, then sold it on to South Africa in 1961. Eventually returning to the UK, this aircraft is now the still flying British aircraft.
Two Dragonflies were used in British Southern Africa before WWII. Operating between what are now Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi this aircraft was written off in 1938.
Probably the most interesting paint scheme was applied to the sole Dragonfly operated by Iberia after its service for the Spanish military.
Sweden had a single Dragonfly, labelling it as the Tp.3 in military service.
To complement its DH.86's PLUNA in Uruguay also flew a Dragonfly. This aircaft was retired to the Montevideo Aviation Museum, but was destroyed in a major fire at the museum in 1997.

Very nice and well done De Havilland series!

de Havilland DH.92 Dolphin

The last of DH's pre-war light transports, and last of the Dragon series (unless you include the DH.104 Dove and DH.114 Heron).



An almost unknown aircraft now, de Havilland tried to update the rag and tube DH.89 Dragon Rapide to the stressed plywood technology of the DH.90 Dragonfly - a technique that would find its ultimate expression in the DH.98 Mosquito.
In 1936 DH created an aircraft that although it looked like its forebears and brought together feature of the DH.86, DH.89 and DH.90, was an entirely new beast with very little parts commonality with the earlier models. It was initially trialed with fixed gear, but this was upgraded to a new electrical retraction system similar to that of the DH.88 Comet racer.
The aircraft was found to be overweight and poorly performing, not a particularly debilitationg issue for a prototype. DH engineers were heavily committed to the DH.91 Albatross airliner and DH.82 Tigermoth production though, and the Dolphin was rapidly scrapped and forgotten.

Soviet Union, Ilyushin Il-20
frankenstein-looking piece that failed due to a vibrating powerplant issue that was never really solved
(07/27/23: reshaded)

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Patriotic Presentation Number 872, Q-102 (A6M3-32 captured in Buna, New Guinea)

that's a ...interesting looking one


Perhaps possible to shade a little different, to show more of it's shape, at the moment it looks flater then a Japanese girl (I am in Japan at the moment... flat except of that girl I meet yesterday )
https://preview.redd.it/aurhpy9db0541.j ... 9b5fbdc357

Bell AH-1Z "Viper" In Service With the Czech Air Force, July 2023



Yesterday an American C-17 Globemaster III landed at the 22nd Helicopter Air Force Base in Náměšť nad Oslavou. The Globemaster had 2 AH-1Z "Viper" attack helicopters on board.

The danger noodle is in Czechia wearing that AWESOME Czech camo. BBBBIG milestone for me, I think I've done the Viper good.
I'm happy with it and I'm glad I got my first real aircraft/helo out lookin this good. Until the next Viper, cheers



PRAISE THE VIPER!!

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Nice Czech Viper!

Good evening, guys!

Some American and British airplanes of the interwar years, and a couple of Frenh "mistakes".

The Curtiss Kingbird was a twin engined high wing monoplane, with the blunt nose behind the closely placed radials, in case of one engine failure this arrengement will be more stable than a conventional layout.


The last big Douglas observation airplane, the parasol winged O-46, despite being largely unknown, was the backbone of the observation squadrons of the Air National Guard in the late 1930s.


Fairchild 45 was a low wing, single engined monoplane, with a modern look, despite being constructed in a conventional way of an airframe of welded steel tubes, covered with canvas in the cabin and aft fuselage, and sheets of aluminium alloy in the nose. The sole airplane bought by the Navy and named JK-1 in 1936, was the personal aircraft of Rear-Admiral E. King in the late 1930s.


A little known American ab initio naval trainer of WW2 was the Timm Tutor, over 200 were made and was largely overshadowed by the Stearman (and in a lesser way, by the N3N). The Tutor was made of glued wood, and was designed not to be a long lasting aircraft. Today only one survives in an airworthy condition.


The Curtiss-Wright CW-14 Osprey was the backbone of the Bolivian Air Force during the cruel Chaco War, and was the author of the first "kill" in South American skies. It was a rather little biplane with an equally rather underpowered 300 hp Whirlwind radial engine, a fixed machine gun in the nose, and a pintle one for self-defense, and able to carry up to 100 kgs in bombs, it was a reasonalbe useful airplane (with a favorable price) for the region and the era.


Despite the small size, the British Comper Swift was a capable aircraft: being able to made a very long voyage from Madrid to Manila, flying over vast extensions of desert and open sea, and a notable feat for the small but reliable and quiet 75 HP Pobjoy Niagara 7-cylinder radial, with a patognomonic reduction gear and the propeller shaft in an excentric position.

Another aircraft motorized by the Pobjoy Niagara was also from Great Britain, the low wing monoplane BA (British Aircraft) Swallow II, itself an evolution (slight evolution indeed) of the German Klemm 25. Was a popular touring and training airplane in the 1930s.


The French "mistake": I tought that the good looking Morane Saulnier MS 472 Vanneau was a prewar aircraft variant of the MS 406 but equiped with a radial engine, but in fact, it was a postwar developement. It was the main basic trainer of the AdA and Aeronavale in the late 40s and early 50s, but were used until the 1960s and saw action in the Algeria Independence War. Equiped with a 570 hp Gnome-Rhône 14M, it was comparable in power and function to the North American Texan/Harvard. I realized my error when the drawing was in an advanced stage: the aircraft that I was looking for was the MS. 430 with a much less powerful Salmson radial.


Finally, not a mistake, but an aircraft of the early 1950s built with the experience of a recently fought world war: Max Holste`s Broussard. A STOL model, was the French army`s cooperation airplane par excellence: with an useful load, being able to made laisson and observation missions (with the handicap of being very noisy), as well as being a forward artillery spotter or being a Medevac aircraft. It had the sobriquet "the French Beaver" (for the DHC-2).


Cheers.

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- Occasionally the Random pop-ups of my Abyssinia or Hong Kong AUs

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oh that O-46 look great!

My take on Interbellum era British Aircraft:
Great Britain - Vickers Type 264 Valentia

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