Found this nice bit of art featuring a AFC 2 Sqd DH-5 whilst in the background a SE 5a gets an Albatross in big trouble!
Art work featuring a DH-5
Nice picture, Barry.
Very cool Baz. Hmmm, I have some DH5s waiting for some paint.
Nice. Saw this on FB yesterday.
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
Very nice Baz
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
A rare bird indeed. Wonder if there are any replicas, or possibly even restored originals still flying. *goes to check*
Great picture!
I just can't seem to bring myself round to loving the DH5- it's just too weird.
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Sure you'd love it as a target though Tim !
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
Great pic of a plane I am not familiar with.
What's not to like, Tim?
Nice picture. Thanks!!!!
May '17, Single gun, blind spot above & to rear due to back stagger of wings, average speed, not better than the Albatros it had to face let alone the one just coming into service, or, as good as the SE.5 already in service or Sopwith Camel that followed a month later.... Not much to like as a fighting scout but it did sterling service in ground attack.Originally Posted by Stumptonian
Great pic of a plane I am not familiar with. What's not to like, Tim?
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
The D.H.5 was evidently very agile below 10,000 feet and strong, with unmatched forward view (for a tractor aircraft), but that poor rear view was a fatal flaw when a pilot had to try to react to enemy aircraft. Capt. A. King Cowper of the AFC said, "it was very maneuverable and a very good fighting aircraft [but] by having a backward wing stagger it was completely blind for rear vision, therefore a dangerous aircraft; used for ground observation it was ideal, having such a marvelous forward vision." (Owers De Havilland Aircraft of WWI, Vol.2) The combination of poor performance at altitude and poor rear vision relegated it mostly to ground attack and contact patrol missions, but pilots did manage some victories against German fighters.
It went into service with two squadrons of the RFC and three of the AFC. No.24 RFC used them from May 1917 (when they were first mixed with DH2s) through Jan 1918 and No.32 from May 1917 through March 1918. No.41 AFC used them from July-Nov 1917, No.64 from June through March 1918, and No.68 from Sept-Dec 1917.
By the end of 1917 they were all being replaced by SE5a's (some faster than others), and they were all gone by March 1918.
I see it as yet another experiment in this era of experimentation, "Is it worth trading off most rear cockpit vision for better forward vision in a scout?" And the experiment proved, "no".
Ironic, Tim. I thot you were doing your part to keep the forum weird.
As always another great photo and something to think about getting in the air. Daryl does have one of these on the Shapeways site.
Ooooooh, YESSSS!!!!!!!Sure you'd love it as a target though Tim !
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Just the way it looks, the back stagger of the wings..........it's all wrong.Great pic of a plane I am not familiar with.
What's not to like, Tim?
I bought a couple of Letord biplanes from Shapeways, and these, too, have a back stagger - they just seem a bit, well, weird to me.
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Thanks for noticing!Ironic, Tim. I thot you were doing your part to keep the forum weird.
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Not all back stagger is wrong...
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
Nice one!
very nice Picture
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