De Havilland Albatross
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The de Havilland DH.91 Albatross was a four-engine British transport aircraft in the 1930s.
Development
The DH.91 was designed in 1936 by A.E. Hagg to Air Ministry specificiation 36/35 for a trans-Atlantic mail plane. The aircraft was remarkable for the ply-balsa-ply sandwich construction of its fuselage which was later made famous in the de Havilland Mosquito bomber. The first Albatross flew on May 20, 1937.Operational history
The first two DH.91 were briefly used by the Imperial Airways. With the onset of World War II, Royal Air Force considered their range and speed useful for courier flights between Great Britain and Iceland and the two aircraft were pressed into service with the 271 Squadron in September 1940. Five additional aircraft with reduced capacity and modified cabin windows and flaps were used by Imperial Airways on Bristol-Lisbon and Bristol-Shannon routes.A total of seven aircraft were built in 1938-1939. The last DH.91 were scrapped in 1943.
Specifications (DH.91)
References
- Kopenhagen, W (ed.) (1987) Das groβe Flugzeug-Typenbuch. Transpress. ISBN 3344001620
- Jackson, A.J. (1987) De Havilland aircraft since 1909. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870218964
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