de Havilland DH.50 Wallpapers

de Havilland DH.50 Aircraft - photo wallpapers; Megawallpapers.org : Realizing in 1922 [br]that war surplus D.H.9Cs could not be expected to serve much longer, de [br]Havilland used the experience gained in their operation to design a [br]replacement, the de Havilland D.H.50, which carried four passengers in [br]an enclosed cabin between the wings, with the pilot to the rear in an [br]open cockpit. The D.H.9C's Siddeley Puma engine was retained and the [br]result was a reliable and economical light transport. First flown in [br]August 1923, the D.H.50 made an excellent start to its career when, [br]four days later, it was flown by Alan Cobham to compete and win first [br]prize in reliability trials which were being flown daily between [br]Copenhagen and Gothenburg from 7th-12th August. Cobham made several [br]long distance flights with the prototype before using the second [br]aircraft, powered by a 385 hp (287 kW) Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar radial [br]engine and redesignated D.H.50J, for a 16,000 mile (25,749 km) flight [br]from Croydon to Cape Town, carried out between 16th November 1925 and [br]17th February 1926. This was followed later in 1926 by a survey flight [br]to Australia and back, for which twin floats were fitted. A number [br]of orders were placed for D.H.50s, and 16 production aircraft were [br]built by de Havilland. Australian licence production was carried out by [br]QANTAS, who built four D.H.50A and three D.H.50J aircraft; by West [br]Australian Airways, who built three D.H.50As; and by the Larkin [br]Aircraft Supply Company, who built a single D.H.50A. European licences [br]were granted to SABCA for construction of three D.H.50As at Brussels [br]and to Aero at Prague for seven. The SABCA aircraft were used in the [br]Belgian Congo. Of the total de Havilland production (17 aircraft), [br]only four were based in the UK, two of them with Imperial Airways. One [br]went to the Czech government, 10 to Australia and one to New Zealand. [br]The longest survivor was the 15th British production aircraft, [br]delivered in 1928 to the Australian Controller of Civil Aviation and [br]destroyed by enemy action in New Guinea during 1942.[br]A wide variety [br]of engines was used in the D.H.50 family; in addition to those [br]mentioned already there were the 300 hp (224 kW) A.D.C. Nimbus, 420 hp [br](313 kW) Bristol Jupiter IV, 450 hp (336 kW) Jupiter VI, 515 hp (384 [br]kW) Jupiter XI, 450 h[br]Country of origin: GB [br]_________________________________________________________________________________________________ [br]Engines: one 385hp Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar radial [br]_________________________________________________________________________________________________ [br]Wingspan: 13.03 m (42ft 9in) [br]_________________________________________________________________________________________________ [br]Lenght: 9.07 m (29ft 9in) [br]_________________________________________________________________________________________________ [br]Height: 3.35 m (11ft) [br]_________________________________________________________________________________________________ [br]Weight loaded: 1769 kg (3900lb) [br]_________________________________________________________________________________________________ [br]Cruising speed: 180 km/h (112 mph) [br]_________________________________________________________________________________________________ [br]Service celling: 4450 m (14,600ft) [br]_________________________________________________________________________________________________ [br]Range: 612 km (380 miles) [br]_________________________________________________________________________________________________ [br]Passengers + crew: 4 + 1 [br]_________________________________________________________________________________________________

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