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Aviation History
1944
1944 - 1537.PDF
JULY 27TH, 1944 FLIGHT Advertisements. 19 "Pump engine has come, master 99 1—\ i -1 AIRCRAFT DE HAVILLAND Leading builders of transport aircraft in the British Empire GREAT BRITAIN CANADA AUSTRAL IA INDIA AFRICA NEW ZEALAND IT has come b^ Dragon Rapide. A faster aircraft might have taken half an hour less for the flight from the coast, but it would have needed a more elaborate airport than the short landing strip which is all the plantation can afford. Without hydraulics or electrics, retracting chassis, superchargers or variable - pitch propellers, the Dragon Rapide can be operated and maintained by a man and a boy. Its low first and running costs bring the advantages of air transport within the modest resources of the small upcountry enterprise. / I the profitable utility-truck of the air
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