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After watching Bob Dempster build the Douglas World Cruiser, and Jim Moss and crew build the Gee Bee QED, I've come to believe that any of the old aircraft can re-emerge in the 21st Century.
While their timeline is very ambitious, I hope they succeed. Here's a post from The Aerodrome, a WWI aviation focused forum:
While their timeline is very ambitious, I hope they succeed. Here's a post from The Aerodrome, a WWI aviation focused forum:
Handley Page replica
Hi there,
As you probably don't know, Belgium is going to celebrate in a couple of years the 100th anniversary of the first commercial flight between Brussels and the capital of her former colony's. In order to do this in a proper way, we, myself, some other crazy fools and the grand children of the mission commander who did this, will try to reiterate the flight with a replica of the aeroplane they used.
This is why I need you all and your knowledge: the aeroplane they used was a Handley Page W8f also known as HP26. Unfortunately there is not a single aeroplane of this kind left in the world that we could replicate. Therefore we need to find the drawings and as much as possible info about these planes.
We already gathered loads of info and pictures but the more we have the better.
So there you go, if you have or know someone who has whatever related to this matter please let me know. Every little helps!
Cheers
Fred
Hi there,
As you probably don't know, Belgium is going to celebrate in a couple of years the 100th anniversary of the first commercial flight between Brussels and the capital of her former colony's. In order to do this in a proper way, we, myself, some other crazy fools and the grand children of the mission commander who did this, will try to reiterate the flight with a replica of the aeroplane they used.
This is why I need you all and your knowledge: the aeroplane they used was a Handley Page W8f also known as HP26. Unfortunately there is not a single aeroplane of this kind left in the world that we could replicate. Therefore we need to find the drawings and as much as possible info about these planes.
We already gathered loads of info and pictures but the more we have the better.
So there you go, if you have or know someone who has whatever related to this matter please let me know. Every little helps!
Cheers
Fred
