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dh 88 comet de Havilland DH.88 Comet G-ACSP replica at Essendon, VIC in July 1990 (the late Michael Madden) United Kingdom. Two-seat twin-engine racing monoplane. Two 172 kw (230 hp) de Havilland Gipsy Six R six-cylinder in-line air-cooled engines. The story of the de Havilland DH.88 Comet series of racing aircraft is well known and has been told many times..
bj88 ndhosp The de Havilland DH-88 Comet is a British two-seat, Twin-engine aircraft built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to participate in the 1934 England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race from the United Kingdom to Australia.
dh 88 comet 1 72 Quote: "DH 88 Comet. The original full-scale de Havilland D.H. 88 Comet first flew in 1934. The Comet was designed and built to compete in an air race from London, England, to Melbourne, Australia: the 'MacRobertson' race. The prize money for this race was about 0,000. The race was run over a distance of 12,300+ miles.