de Havilland DH.88 Comet – Photos & Video - NET-MAQUETTES
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dh 88 comet cockpit The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a British two-seat, twin-engined aircraft built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to participate in the 1934 England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race from the United Kingdom to Australia..
xe dh 88 To finish the DH.88 had a retractable undercarriage and three massive fuel tanks behind the cockpit to give it an impressive nearly 3,000 mile (ca. 4,828 km) range. With a light-weight construction of virtually all wood, with metal only being utilized on load bearing components, the DH.88 was the ultimate long-distance plane.
dh 88 comet replica The Comet is a classic of the Golden Age of long distance air racing in the 1930's. The aircraft is well detailed elsewhere, but briefly the creation of the Comet was a response by de Havilland to the prospect of a non-British aircraft winning the 1934 England-Australia air race.