Description

This is the first comprehensive story of de Havilland’s Dragon airliners from their inception in the 1930s, right through to the present day. Covering the design and development history of the Dragon, Express, Rapide and Dragonfly, together with the Dolphin project, this 272-page, A4, hard-back book also includes the stories of their various operators, both civil and military, and is full of fascinating anecdotes. Detailed aircraft and equipment descriptions are supplemented by a review of aircraft handling characteristics from pilots who actually flew or, like the author, still fly these evocative and timeless designs. Rounded off with appendices which include production and worldwide operators lists, it is fully illustrated with almost 400 black and white, and colour photos.