de Havilland
The de Havilland Aircraft Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer, founded in 1920 by Geoffrey de Havilland. It was based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. De Havilland produced the first jet-powered passenger aircraft.[1]
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Building Mosquito aircraft at the de Havilland factory in Hatfield, 1943
The first de Havilland DH106 Comet prototype at Hatfield in 1949, a symbol of the new technological age.
The de Havilland Biplane No. 2 or F.E.1 in flight, circa 1911
A de Havilland Airco DH9 on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 2008
A de Havilland DH 83 Fox Moth at Kemble Airport in 2003
1936 de Havilland DH87B Hornet Moth taking off at Kemble Air Day, Wiltshire, in 2008
A DH.89 Dragon Rapide of the Army Parachute Association at RAF Netheravon in 1968
De Havilland Hercules-66 Imperial Airways
ex RAAF DH.94 Moth Minor at Benalla Aviation Museum in June 2012
de Havilland Mosquito B 35 (reconfigured to a FB Mk.VI, on display at the Alberta Aviation Museum)
References
- ↑ Failure Analysis Case Studies II, Vol. II, ed. David R. H. Jones (Amsterdam; Oxford: Elsevier, 2001), p. 185
