The Imperial War Museum has unveiled it's newly restored WW1 DH-9 bomber. It's one of two discovered rotting in a Maharajah's palace in India; originally given to India as part of the Imperial Gift after WW1. This aircraft D 5649, featuring a large number of original parts, has been restored as a non flying exhibit. It was restored by the Historic Aircraft Collection.
It is not planned to fly this particular aircraft, however the other DH-9 E 8894 is being restored to flying condition by HAC. Something I'm greatly looking forward to. I wonder what happened to the remains of the other 3 DH9's that Guy Black found?
Will I be making a DH9 for FSX? Yep... I plan to along with it's younger sibling the DH9A or '9 Ack' as it was called. I also plan to cover the DH4 series, both British and US versions. The '9 Ack' will make a great companion for a future Biff/Brisfit project.... the North West Frontier FSX style.
A few links on the restored DH9 -
http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=3741&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
http://www.historicaircraftcollection.ltd.uk/dh9/
http://www.airspaceduxford.org.uk/html/infocus/infocus_news11.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/20/nplane20.xml
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070420/43/6eske.html
http://www2.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=18449849
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