De Havilland DH.95 Flamingo
| De Havilland DH.95 Flamingo | |
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| Type: | Airliner , transport aircraft |
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| First flight: |
December 22, 1938 |
| Commissioning: |
1939 |
| Number of pieces: |
10 |
The De Havilland DH.95 Flamingo was a British passenger plane in shoulder wing design from 1938, the two piston engines was powered. During World War II it was also used as a troop transport by the Royal Air Force (RAF).
history
The first flight took place on December 22, 1938. The prototype was then delivered to Jersey Airways for test purposes in 1939 . It was later handed over to the RAF. The BOAC also ordered eight flamingos because they could not get credit for the Douglas DC-5 they wanted . Another five machines went to the RAF and one to the RNAS . The BOAC later used its eight flamingos on routes to / from Cairo . Most of the flamingos were taken out of service around 1950 and scrapped from 1954.
One aircraft was built as a troop carrier DH.95 Hertfordshire . It had oval instead of rectangular cabin windows and could transport up to 22 soldiers. This single machine crashed on October 23, 1940, killing eleven people. The reason was elevator disturbances.
construction
The aircraft was made of all-metal construction. The two pilots sat next to each other and the radio operator directly behind them. The landing gear was retractable and the propellers adjustable. The aircraft was comparable to the Douglas DC-3 and the Lockheed Electra . The first model had two 890 hp (660 kW) radial engines Bristol Perseus XIIc. It thus had excellent performance and was able to take off after a full load of 230 m.
Military users
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
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| crew | 3 (pilot, copilot, radio operator) |
| Passengers | Max. 17th |
| length | 15.4 m |
| span | 21.4 m |
| height | 4.7 m |
| Wing area | 60.5 m² |
| Wing extension | 7.6 |
| Empty mass | 4450 kg |
| Takeoff mass | 7980 kg |
| Top speed | 385 km / h at an altitude of 1980 m |
| Service ceiling | 6370 m |
| Range | 2160 km |
| Engines | 2 × 9-cylinder radial engines Bristol Perseus XVI with 930 HP (690 kW) each |
See also
literature
- Gordon Bain: De Havilland. A Pictorial Tribute. AirLife, London 1992, ISBN 1-85648-243-X .
- William Green, Gordon Swanborough: De Havilland's War Orphan. In: Air Enthusiast. No. 30, March-June 1996, Pilot Press, Bromley 1996, pp. 1-10.
- AJ Jackson: De Havilland Aircraft since 1909. 3rd ed., Putnam, London 1987, ISBN 0-85177-802-X .
