Private de Havilland DH. 89 Dragon Rapide G-AGJG
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Operator: Private - G-AGJG
Aircraft: de Havilland - DH. 89 Dragon Rapide
Airport: UK - England - Duxford (EGSU)
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2008-7-13 by arabjazzie [Contact]
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Photographer's remark
(23.8.2008, 10:52 CET)
War time camouflage with a red, white and blue recognition stripe under the registration.
1 Dominic
(16 December 2010 - 23:50 CET)
Wow! Nice picture! If you've read the book Biggles & Co. by Captain W. E. Johns, then you
will know that he might have based his 'Cormorant' on this plane! It just happens that
today I bought a 1:72 scale model of this EXACT one!
Love it!
Thanks!
2 Marcus R Dove
(23 December 2010 - 21:39 CET)
As a boy on the 1950s I recall two rapides working pleasure flights at what is now
Heathrow Airport! I was taken for a flight in both at the time.
I remember their
registrations all these years later as a result of my father's unique way of recalling
them. G-AFFB was "Aunt Fanny's Flying Bedstead" and G-AGJG was christened after
relatgives with us at the time ~ "Alice George John George".
London Airport in
those days boasted a grassed 'public viewing' area, complete with a refreshment tent and
other amenities. Aircraft taxied right by ~ Airspeed Ambassadors, Vikings,
Constellations, DC 6s (?), and Stratocruisers, etc.
We were also there to see the
aircraft lined up on the day of the London to New Zealnad air race (1953?) ~ several
canberras and a handful of civilain aircraft, I believe, including at least one KLM
airliner which I think won its category.
Oh, happy days!
3 Chris Jell
(8 January 2011 - 22:48 CET)
I remember these from a Wolf Cubs coach trip from Swindon circa 1954 to the then new, now
gone, Queens Building. I think it was 10 bob a flight. I remember the playground with a
roundabout and the Supermarine S6B Schneider Trophy winner, which I think was on the
Viewing Area on the roof. Happy days indeed.
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