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Which aircraft will live in history forever?



 
 
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Old December 2nd 03, 04:53 PM
Andrew Chaplin
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"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 :-)


My bad... but, considered among the rest of my bads, not that bad. They
both look pretty much the same through a set of binos at seven Km, and
they were never on a Spotter Class List. :^)
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Andrew Chaplin
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