SBS DH88 Comet, interior color question - Britmodeller.com

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dh 88 comet cockpit To finish the DH.88 had a retractable undercarriage and three massive fuel tanks behind the cockpit to give it an impressive nearly 3,000 mile (ca. 4,828 km) range. With a light-weight construction of virtually all wood, with metal only being utilized on load bearing components, the DH.88 was the ultimate long-distance plane..

dh 88 comet cockpit The Comet is a classic of the Golden Age of long distance air racing in the 1930's. The aircraft is well detailed elsewhere, but briefly the creation of the Comet was a response by de Havilland to the prospect of a non-British aircraft winning the 1934 England-Australia air race.

xe dh 88 De Havilland designed and built the DH88 Comet Racer in nine months as a response to a chance in winning an air race proposed by Sir MacPherson Robertson in October of 1934. The winner would get £10,000 in prize money if they were the first to fly from England to Australia.