On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 04:49:28 GMT, 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,
and full of pigeon **** and bullet holes. Sad, really.

I've flown a Dove. It was the one modified for Cranfield and later
sold to National Test Pilot School, which is where I flew it. Had a
bunch of FTE stations in the tube. Even had a trailing bomb for air
data. It might still be flying there.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer