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Tuesday 23 September 2014

Design that changed Aviation. Part-Two.

DH.91 Albatross.

This greatly designed aircraft only saw a short time of service with British Imperial Airways from 1937  to 1943 and no body shells survived. The aircraft helped the British wartime leader PM Winston Churchill to get about the world trying to find allies, supplies and reports to Generals in North-Africa.

On the other hand aircraft design proceeded in the United States with the DC-3/47 and onwards and the Albatross eighteen years later was the blueprint for the Comet Jet airliner. Even Nazi-Germany was influenced by seeing this aircraft and their Condor followed suit to the sleek lines.

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