Lukgraph DH 89 Rapide

[Landrotten Highlander]

9 hours ago, Jennings Heilig said:

King's Flight anyone?

 

 

Yep, I'll have this one

[thierry laurent]

I hope they will include a choice of RAF markings! 

[mozart]

2 hours ago, thierry laurent said:

I hope they will include a choice of RAF markings! 

I’ll be doing some masks for Thierry, can do some for you if necessary. 

[Iain]

This has got me more excited than any release of the last few years - seems like they'll sell a few! 

 

Iain

[mozart]

10 minutes ago, Iain said:

This has got me more excited than any release of the last few years - seems like they'll sell a few! 

 

Iain

I hope so, then they’ll be encouraged to do an Anson!  Or an Envoy/Oxford. 

Edited February 15, 2020 by mozart

[Chek]

Back when my father in law was a young whippersnapper aerodynamicist working on the Short SC5 (later Belfast freighter) in the late '50s, he and half a dozen others at Shorts formed a syndicate to buy a clapped out Rapide with a view to use it as a hack for weekend trips back to Yorkshire (a contingent from Brough had migrated, such was the competetiveness in the British aviation industry at the time) and climbing weekends in the lakes. They restored it and as far as I know it was airworthy up until he went to Boeing in the mid '60s (to sort out the almost program killing tail problems with the B727) and later working on the fledgling Jumbo.

 

He's in his mid-90s now, and in a care home with the onset of dementia. I knew several of his 'syndicate', but as these things go, they're all dead now.

But I'd like to see his face if I could present him with a nicely sized model DH89 preferably in his club's colours or just a generic blue and silver if that's not possible.

[Iain]

Looks to me like it could indeed be the Classic AA logo - as featured on their car badges of the period...

 

https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/aa.htm

 

If not seen - nice image on AirHistory.net

 

Had exactly the same grill badge on my first car! 

 

Iain

 

 

[Chek]

It might be compression artefacts, but it looks quite 3-D to me, as if a car type badge has been fixed on.

[Iain]

OK - these suggest period car badge as well:

 

 

 

Hopefully of some help...

 

Iain

[daz greenwood]

I hope this is ok to post? The only detail image I have of DH.89 G-AGJG previously X7344 18275171_1480231762048985_6013617883342611221_n by Darren Greenwood, on Flickr 

[Chek]

It certainly shows how 3-D the window framing is Darren. 

[mozart]

 

Here's a few more Daz:

 

 

Edited February 15, 2020 by mozart

[RLWP]

1 hour ago, Jennings Heilig said:

I’ll be... now, how to do that in 1/32 

 

Another example of an AA badge:

 

 

Richard

Edited February 15, 2020 by RLWP

[Radders]

Will buy one to sit on... lovely aircraft and a great scale for it. 

 

Here's one I shot back in October 2018.

 

[Chek]

4 hours ago, Jennings Heilig said:

I’ll be... now, how to do that in 1/32 

 

It'd have to be nickel photo etch with yellow gloss enamel glooped in the appropriate spaces and left to harden.