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[andy 1]

anyone any idea what aircraft this report relates to.

http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/reports/arc/rm/629.pdf

and do you think it could be the aircraft my man cadet joseph h sharpe could have crashed in jan 1918.(section z 28)

adgw says he was in a dh-6,but if these aircraft were secret who knows.

andy

[MikeW]

It's the DH6.

See "The Aeroplanes of the RFC (Military Wing)" by the late Jack Bruce.

Mike

[andy 1]

It's the DH6.

See "The Aeroplanes of the RFC (Military Wing)" by the late Jack Bruce.

Mike

thanks for the reply mike.

if it is the DH6 it more than likely is my man who is mentioned in this report.

andy

[Adrian Roberts]

Interesting; I thought the DH6 had a reputation of being very safe, but obviously not. If it needed max negative angle on the tailplane and elastic to pull the stick forward (see report in link), it must have been tail heavy. Not one of GDH's better-thought-out efforts.

Adrian

[Dolphin]

Adrian

As a consequence of its design as a machine that could be easily produced and repaired, the DH 6 proved to be a fairly dangerous trainer, albeit one with the desired low landing speed and an inability to spin inadvertantly. After the Accidents Committee report mentioned by Andy, the DH 6 was modified (the rudder and elevator area was decreased and the wings rigged with negative stagger) to make it safer, but at about the same time the RAF decided to make the Avro 504 the standard basic trainer. This released the DH 6 for other roles, including anti-submarine patrol duties.

There's an account of this in British Aviation - The Great War and Armistice by Harald Penrose. PM me if you'd like me to scan an extract.

Best wishes

Gareth

[FAAAEd]

It's the DH6.

See "The Aeroplanes of the RFC (Military Wing)" by the late Jack Bruce.

Mike

DH6, otherwise known as 'The Crab', 'The Dung Hunter', 'The Clutching Hand', 'The Sky Hook' (How many budding air engineers were sent to stores to collect some of these I wonder? ), 'The Flying Coffin' or 'The Sixty' .

Those used for maritime patrol often finished up in the oggin thanks to the unreliability of their Curtiss OX-5 engines. Their only plus here was that they floated well increasing the chances for aircrew recovery.