"Brett" wrote in message
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"Andrew Chaplin" wrote:
| Brett wrote:
|
| And the two aircraft that can be considered commercial successes
from
| those committee meetings were the Vickers Viscount (Type IIB) and
de
| Havilland Dove (Type VB). A committee specification that resulted
in
two
| commercial successes out of seven sounds like the committee was a
lot
| better at its job than history reports (its always the Bristol
Brabazon
| that gets the headline).
|
| I saw a Dove once. It was in a Lebanese air force hangar at Beirut,

The Lebanese air force had Devons :-)

'Ang on! According to this, it was Doves.
http://www.worldmiltair.co.uk/aircraft/aaaacaaakn.htm
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