It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky, Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
— Helen Keller, at age 74, on flight around the world, news reports of 5 February 1955
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Classic Fighters 2009 #4: DHC1 Chipmunk
Here are pictures of some De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk aircraft taxying around the aerodrome. Unfortunately I do not seem to have snapped any airborne pictures. The chippie was designed as a military ab-initio trainer to replace another DH aircraft, the venerable Tiger Moth. Since then it has become popular as an entry-level warbird. Note the final picture in which the aircraft has quite a different canopy.



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