1st prototype and production Vampire?

DH 99: the Mosquito
DH 100: the Vampire

link: the DH Hornet?

Some warmth, but I'll let it run a bit longer.

Warmth?!!! Those are the precise factory numbers of those airplanes! The questions have been answered!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_de_Havilland_aircraft

As much as I hate to use Wiki.

Leit used Wiki.



Fritz

DH 99 was a metal prototype Vampire as JSG says; DH100 was the production Wooden Vampire,

As for the connection, I don't know, I'll guess at P-38, because of the twin boom design.

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Fritz

THE SHAME (SAYS FALLING ON HIS SWORD)

JSG is closest so far, but not complete.

It is a bit of trick question, though. It's an evil one.

The key is that one plane or design had both designations (this is the link, and very obscure) and the other key is that each designation applied to more than one plane.

Note the DH.98 is the standard Mosquito.

Maybe it's a bit of a ******* question and maybe I've overdone it or I'm not very good at phrasing the questions.

But all but the bonus link is in the thread.

How about the Sabre Mosquito? Proposed scaled up version of the Mossie?

JGS ans stathem both have part of the answer, someone just needs to put it all together.

sheesh. you guys work hard I turn around and suddenly we have 3 more pages good work guys.

Ok, I'll try

so the DH 99 was the prototype Vampire (or Spider Crab)

The DH 100 was the production wooden Vampire

The connection is the Sabre Mosquito (proposed heavier version of the Mossie with Sabre engines), because it too shared the designations DH 99 and DH 100 (actually I can only find it as being changed to DH 101 so I'm guessing) at some point.

Stathem, close enough. It's a tricky question and maybe I overdid it.

The full answer is (in chronological order)

Correction applied.

DH.99: Spares pseudo designation, Sabre Mosquito, civil twin, prototype Vampire

DH.100: civil twin, production Vampire

The design that links the two is a civil twin by the DH.94 Moth Minor team which was the DH.100 then the DH.99 before it was dropped entirely.

The sequence of events is that DH.99 was initially skipped over as it was a prefix for spares, so the DH.94 development was at first the DH.100.

Then when the Sabre Mosquito came along it was decided not to leave a gap, so that became the DH.99, out of sequence.

When the Vampire was planned it was decided to give that the DH.100 number as it marked a new era, and then to reorder things back chronologically., so the Sabre Mosquito became the DH.101, and the DH.94 development became the DH.99.

When it was realised that the Vampire prototype would be a separate design it was decided to have that be numbered with a lower number than the production version (The DH.101 has been developed into the DH.102 by then, 103 assigned to the Hornet) so it was decided to give the DH.99 designation to the Vampire prototype and the civil twin. The twin was then dropped, with the bigger DH. 104 being the nearest equivalent, but the civil twin would have been more of a tourer like a Beechcraft.

stathem has the floor.

Wow, good story. I doubt I'd have ever got that.

Ok, this one's probably a fastest finger first question,

Who is this getting into (or out of) his aircraft?


What aircraft is being manufactured in this pic?

-Joseph "pips" Priller
-Gloster Gladiator

1. Milch
2. Fiat G.50

We have one correct answer so far...

That is Pips Priller and those are Fairey Swordfish under construction.

Milch and Swordfish?

P.S. Not just Fairey Swordfish, but Blackburn factory Swordfish ("Blackfish").