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I've had the fortune and good luck to have flown a couple of times in Dragon Rapides and both time I've felt more comfortable and safer than being in a 747!
The original brake levers were well and truly scuffed and bashed. I was fortunate to have some replacements and with working plastic tabs which seem to brake off so many of these levers.
In late 1933, the Dragon Rapide was designed at the de Havilland company as a faster and more comfortable successor to the DH.84 Dragon. It was in effect a twin-engined, scaled-down version of the four-engined DH.86 Express. It shared many common features with the larger aircraft, including its tapered wings, streamlined fairings and the Gipsy Six engine, but it demonstrated none of the operational vices of the larger aircraft, and went on to become perhaps the most successful British-built short-haul commercial passenger aircraft of the 1930s.
Photos of Condor Liberation’s maiden passenger voyage from Poole to Guernsey and Jersey on Friday March 27 2015. The new £50m fast ferry is over twice the size of those it replaces and is, obviously, an improvement in terms of a more modern feel on board, including the car decks. But the Liberation’s opening weekend of service turned out to be rather more dramatic than anticipated.
Friday’s first sailing departed Poole some 30 minutes late and arrived in St Helier, Jersey 80 minutes late. There was some sort of issue as Liberation was preparing to depart from St Peter Port in Guernsey which appeared to add to the already delayed journey. A loud crash was heard at the stern of the ship docked to the ramp as quayside staff seemed to wrangle with a jib of some kind - and another worker appeared to make calls about a taught rope on a bollard. Perhaps those more expert than me can look at those pics and shed some light on what was going on? But all was eventually sorted out and we left for Jersey.
However the next day (Saturday) on Liberation’s second passenger sailing, she unfortunately had an argument with the jetty at St Peter Port. Strong winds resulted in a collision. Although described as “minor damage” to the ferry, Liberation was taken out of service and Jersey-bound passengers on that second sailing had to later transfer to conventional ferry Commodore Clipper to take them on to St Helier.
As things turned out, Liberation had to be returned to Poole for repairs and was taken out of service for a week. So at the time of posting this - April 2 - the relatively small number of passengers left on Liberation after the Guernsey disembarkations on Friday maiden passenger voyage are still the first and only paying customers to have made the trip on Liberation all the way to Jersey. The ship is due back in service on April 4 and I wish Condor and all their staff well. (Update: Liberation finally returned to service on Sunday April 5 after wet weather delayed the final pieces of welding work)
The purpose of posting most of these photos is to both illustrate what the Condor Liberation looks like from a paying customer’s point of view and also to give those yet to travel on her an idea of what to expect. Check out individual captions for info on facilities, the “ride” experience in various sections and more.
Raleigh Rapide 21½" frame, CF36 Apple Green (or Racing Green) also came in CF43 Hot Red, Huret Svelto rear mech with red jockey wheels, 49T chainwheel with 14T/24T rear freewheel block. Non-original parts: saddle, clamp on bottle cage and rear rack. Missing parts: original B17 competition leather Brooks saddle BZL 415, 16" Inflator PMJ 198, fork lamp bracket RAJ 109.
Built in 1945 as a Dominie by Brush Coachworks Ltd at Loughborough, ‘GSH was civilianised as a D.H.89a and first registered to Channel Islands Airways Ltd of Jersey in July 1945. It then went to the Minister of Civil Aviation from November 1946 to January 1947 before spending nine years with BEA who operated a large fleet of Rapides which they grouped into the ‘Islander’ class in 1950. ‘GSH was then given the name James Kier Hardie. Subsequently it has passed through the hands of many owners, including more than half a dozen small airlines (and BEA again in the early 60s!), a short spell in Ireland as EI-AJO, and the RAF Sport Parachute Association at Abingdon before coming to Old Warden in 2009 with its present owner,Philip Meeson.
SPECIFICATION
Type of Machine Twin Engine Bi-Plane
Design Purpose Passenger Carrying
Span 48ft 0in.
Overhall Length 34ft 6in
Engine 2 -200hp DH Gipsy Queen 3
Weight 6000 pounds
Cruising Speed 140mph
Maximum Speed 150mph
Very sadly, this aircraft was destroyed in an accident in late 2012, with the loss of all six people on board. It and its owner were fondly known by many in the Australian aviation community, particularly in SE Queensland, where it was based.
Francais\French.
VL2010-0118.
20 mai 2010.
Valcartier, Qc.
Cpl Marc-André Gaudreault.
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Des membres du GT ainsi que des Véhicules Blindés Légers (VBL) sécurisent des villages et discutent avec la population locale..
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Entraînement prédéploiement d’environ 800 soldats du Groupement tactique du 1er Bataillon, Royal 22e Régiment (GT 1 R22eR) qui se déroule dans les secteurs d'entrainement de la Garnison Valcartier, plus particulièrement, sur le champ de tir Trois-Rivières..
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Plusieurs aspects d'un déploiement sont mis de l'avant, comme des déplacements routiers à bord de véhicules blindés légers, des répliques aux menaces d’insurgés et de l’interaction avec la population..
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Lors de ces diverses opérations, le GT est supporté par des hélicoptères du 430e Escadron Tactique d'Hélicoptère (430 ETAH) de la Garnison Valcartier..
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Photo par Cpl Marc-André Gaudreault.
Section imagerie, Garnison Valcartier
Not seen the livery for years though I remember saving washing powder labels to get buy one get one free tickets to London.Superbly restored Tiger ex National Welsh.
N683DH (G-AHXW)
de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide Mk.IV
Historic Flight Foundation
Built 1944
C/N 6782
In at Sealand for fabric work, now painted as BEA one side and Railway Air Services the other. Must surely be ready for return home to Everett soon and the 2018 airshow season.
Built by Brush Coachworks during WW2 as a Dominie I and registered to the Ministry of Supply as NR683 and served with 5 MU (Maintenance Unit) out of Speke - the current Liverpool John Lennon airport, presumably ferrying parts and mechanics. After the war in Jul 1946 for just one month it was taken on by AAJC (Associated Airways Joint Committee) with this civil reg, which was the replacement of the NAC (National Air Communications). Basically this was a body to administer use of civilian airfields and civilian aircraft operators to ensure essential civilian air services, military co-operation flights and movement of essential civilian materials such as blood in times of war. It did serve with BEA post war for almost 7 years from Aug 1946 before being acquired by Aeradio of Croydon in Apr 1953 then Fairey Aviation (of Swordfish fame) as a survey aircraft based in White Waltham, then GRM Airwork of Staverton in Feb 1968 and was exported to the USA in 1971. with various individuals associated with the EAA Museum Foundation of Oshkosh WI. To the Historic Flight Foundation in Jan 2017.
UPDATE JUN 2024
Crashed at the 2018 Abbotsford airshow, registration is still current so presumably back at Everett being rebuilt as the collection that moved to Spokane has been disbanded. asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/214384 www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2018/a18p...