DH Dove at Hatfield

This is a virtual flight of a de havilland Dove 6 at British Aerospace Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England finished with some photos of the real thing (a Dove 8, used as the 'company hack'to fly personnel between BAe factories). I worked at Hatfield from 1981 until it closed in 1993/4. Eight years in the Flight Test hangar (featured in the vid) then four years in Technical Publications on BAe 146 Service Bulletins and Pilot's Flight Manual. 5000 people worked there, now it's all houses, Uni buildings and industrial units. The Flight Test hangar, being a listed building, is still there on the outside but is actually a sports complex inside.
Shame, when considering the hangar gave birth to world-renound aircraft such as: the DH Moth range like the Tiger Moth; the DH Comet Racer, winner of the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race; the first jet airliner in the world, the DH Comet and the fastest bomber in World War 11, the de Havilland Mosquito, to name but few.

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[dropshort105]

Yes sir the Mayfair Dove is a Series 8 Gipsy Queen Mk 70 400 BHP superconducted engines, she will be at the Biggin Airshow 27/28 this month if you are about., she used to be VP296 and served with Royal Flight and VIP transport for many years.

[Fletch146]

Ah, the Air Fair. c '79 Ray Hannah flying Spit MH434 in low from the valley, the vortices whipped leaves off the trees. 1981 at Elstree he flew G-FIRE's post-restoration flight. Coming in low the big five blader nearly cut the grass but a colleague and I didn't flinch until it whisked over our heads and the vortices nearly sucked our eardrums out. We shifted then.

After Biggin, Elstree, Hatfield and Luton, now in Glasgow so will likely miss show. But if there, I'd like a peak at G-OPLC.

[dropshort105]

wow it even has the tendency to seing right on the take off roll, I fly a Dove out of Biggin and that looks very close

[Fletch146]

You're making me jealous now.

I used to work as an aircraft engineer at Air Touring Services ('the Blue Hangar') in '77. I loved the Rallye type that was sold there. There used to be three Dove airframes lying around, but couldn't afford to buy them so they may have been (tragically) scrapped, as was the Bristol Britannia.

Just checked web. You fly the Mayfair Dove 8? Lovely Jubley.

Search box my sites Fletcher Films and actor1.fletcherfilms for aero films. More to come.

[EEP084]

Very nice low pass,and nice landing congratulation.

[Fletch146]

Thanks. I didn't get to fly the real thing, aopthough I used to help maintain it in Hatfield's Flight Test hangar.

The Dove seen at the end shot "The Past" is G-AREA. BAe's own Dove 8 at Hatfield. It now resides at the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre (Mosquito Museum) (see their web site). Photos of this aircraft on " oldprops ukhome " website.

[animotioned]

I tell you I did not expect an Aurigny Trislander to be takin off!!

[Kyvolsfan73]

I figured it out. The sounds are from the default comet and I deleted the default comet, so the sounds are from the default 182.

[Fletch146]

I loaded all this ages ago so you'll have to say which sounds, and I'll have a wee think.

[Kyvolsfan73]

Really, I downloaded it from avsim (dhlo4v2.zip) and the sounds weren't those.