The Long Range Dragon
MR. AND MRS. MOLLISON left Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, at 12.0 noon (B.S.T.) on Saturday, July 22, in their modified D.H.84 Dragon, “Seafarer,” with two 130 h.p. Gipsy Major engines. They successfully traversed the North Atlantic, but crashed owing to the aeroplane overrunning the aerodro...
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cremerald:10.1108/eb029706 2024-06-09T07:48:09+00:00 The Long Range Dragon Details of the Differences between the Mollison “Seafarer” and the Standard D. H. Dragon 1933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb029706 https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/eb029706/full/xml https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/eb029706/full/html en eng Emerald https://www.emerald.com/insight/site-policies Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology volume 5, issue 8, page 181-182 ISSN 0002-2667 journal-article 1933 cremerald https://doi.org/10.1108/eb029706 2024-05-15T13:23:18Z MR. AND MRS. MOLLISON left Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, at 12.0 noon (B.S.T.) on Saturday, July 22, in their modified D.H.84 Dragon, “Seafarer,” with two 130 h.p. Gipsy Major engines. They successfully traversed the North Atlantic, but crashed owing to the aeroplane overrunning the aerodrome and rosing over on marshy ground, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, 57 miles N.E. of New York, at 3.15 a.m. (B.S.T.) on Monday, July 24. This unfortunate ending to the flight does not detract from the merit of Messrs. De Havilland's performance in converting a standard aeroplane of such small size into a long‐range machine. The details of the modifications carried out are here described. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Emerald Bridgeport ENVELOPE(-54.865,-54.865,49.550,49.550) Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology 5 8 181 182 |
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MR. AND MRS. MOLLISON left Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales, at 12.0 noon (B.S.T.) on Saturday, July 22, in their modified D.H.84 Dragon, “Seafarer,” with two 130 h.p. Gipsy Major engines. They successfully traversed the North Atlantic, but crashed owing to the aeroplane overrunning the aerodrome and rosing over on marshy ground, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, 57 miles N.E. of New York, at 3.15 a.m. (B.S.T.) on Monday, July 24. This unfortunate ending to the flight does not detract from the merit of Messrs. De Havilland's performance in converting a standard aeroplane of such small size into a long‐range machine. The details of the modifications carried out are here described. |
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