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Old December 2nd 03, 11:27 PM
Brett
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"Andrew Chaplin" wrote:
| "Brett" wrote in message
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| "Andrew Chaplin" wrote:
| | Brett wrote:
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| | 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

Putnam's de Havilland aircraft since 1909 (page 446, 1987 edition) and a
couple of other sources say they were Devons.