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17. Mai 2024 · Geoffrey de Havilland, English aircraft designer, manufacturer, and pioneer in long-distance jet flying. His company produced the twin-engined Mosquito, a high-speed, all-purpose aircraft of plywood construction, and was one of the first to make jet-propelled aircraft, including the Vampire and Venom jet fighters.
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23. Mai 2024 · As a result, committee member Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, head of the de Havilland company, used his personal influence and his company's expertise to champion the development of a jet-propelled aircraft; proposing a specification for a pure turbojet-powered design.
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15. Mai 2024 · As well as the Spitfire, high speed was also achieved by the de Havilland Mosquito. Unlike the Spitfire, the Mosquito’s creator, Geoffrey de Havilland, achieved high speed and performance not from metal and elliptical wings but from wood. According to the History Channel:
18. Mai 2024 · The 2022 Sir Geoffrey de Havilland Flying Scholarship has been awarded to Selma Gage. The award is given to young people of up to thirty years of age who have not previously been given any such bursary, and it covers 75% of the cost of a Private Pilot Licence.
Vor 22 Stunden · September 1943 statt und wurde von Geoffrey de Havilland jun. durchgeführt. Die Flugerprobung verzögerte sich, als das einzige verfügbare Triebwerk in die USA gesendet werden musste, um das beschädigte einzige dortige Triebwerk der Lockheed P-80 zu ersetzen. Aufgrund der Auslastung von de Havilland mit anderen Flugzeugtypen verzögerte sich ...
24. Mai 2024 · Within six years the aeroplane's designer, Geoffrey de Havilland ('D.H') was able to create the D.H.2 fighters that helped to end the dominance of German Fokker monoplanes then shooting Britain's Royal Flying Corps from the skies France in 1915-16.
Vor einem Tag · Wooden Wonder: The Story Of The De Havilland DH.98 'Mosquito' The Mosquito performed daylight bombing raids over German-occupied Europe. Meanwhile, on the Axis side of the WWII aviation ledger, the name Focke-Wulf conjures up thoughts of deadly warbirds such as the Fw 190 Würger ("Shrike ;" or as Allied bomber crews called her, the "Butcher Bird") fighter plane and the Fw 200 Condor .
