News from Duxford today.

**Flying Officer Kyte** · 05-30-2019 11:40

Its flight was recorded on the One Show about 15 minutes ago.It got a few hundred feet higher than this takeoff picture.Rob.

Stop press: Duxford DH9 flies

Pilot
1 Jun 2019

Powered by an ultra-rare Siddeley Puma, HAC’S DH9 is now the world’s only airworthy WWI bomber.

The Historic Aircraft Collection’s 1918 Airco DH9 E8894/G-CDLI made its long-awaited first flight from IWM Duxford on 13 May 2019. Piloted by Dodge Bailey, it spent thirty trouble-free minutes airborne in the Duxford vicinity before landing back as the world’s only airworthy original WWI bomber. One of two DH9S retrieved from Rajasthan, northern India, by Guy Black at the start of this century, E8894 was restored by HAC’S restoration ‘arm’ Retrotec over a number of years. Fitted with a genuine Siddeley Puma inline engine, it had been undergoing ground-testing since last October, initial static runs latterly giving way to taxi trials.

The ONE Show is now repeated at 1pm on BBC2 ...

**mikeemagnus** · 05-30-2019 11:57

How brilliant is that. I hope its on show 'cos I'm meant to be going to Duxford next Tuesday, for the Dakota D day landings show - I'll have to find time to visit this wonderful old girl too. Fingers crossed as I damaged my foot again, and add that to a bit of a chesty cough right now. But am hoping I'll just about be fit enough again by Sunday

Thanks for the heads up Rob

**flash** · 05-30-2019 11:58

That was good to see Rob - here's a tidbit about the machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt2fUneTVGM

**Hedeby** · 05-30-2019 11:59

A DH9 wow, amazing

**mikeemagnus** · 05-30-2019 12:03

Cheers Dave. That was good to see too

**Naharaht** · 05-30-2019 13:48

Thank you for this news, Rob. I have watched the segment from the One Show on B.B.C. iplayer and it was good to see the plane flying. I wish they had gone into detail about the comment that something a safety inspector did made the D.H.9 less reliable.