The Express

Your blogmeister doesn't know a whole heckuvalot about the de Havilland D.H.86 Express, just that it was a forerunner of the more well-known and slightly more graceful'n smarter-lookin' D.H.89 Dragon Rapide.

This particular example was built as a D.H.86A in 1936, but converted to a D.H.86B later that same year, evidenced mainly by the 'auxiliary fins' fitted to the tips of the horizontal tail surfaces. She was owned and operated with the civil registration G-AEJM by Wrightways, Ltd. of Croydon until her transfer to 24 Squadron of the Royal Air Force in April of 1940, when her identity was changed to X9441. Sadly, she would be written off after an engine fire during startup at RAF Hendon in February of 1943.

Anyhoo, enjoy the photo, y'all...

 

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The Delta Queen

For our annual appearance here at TWW we bring you, the readership of not more than half-a-dozen and hopefully not less than zero, yep, you guessed it...

...a quickie.

Only this time, it's a quickie in more ways than one.

The Convair B-58 Hustler was designed to do just two things: drop nukes on commies and do it real fast-like.

Like, Mach 2 fast-like.

Hence the type's name, 'Hustler'.

Anyhoo, as the aforementioned readership is undoubtedly aware, we like us some purty-pikshurs here at TWW, and this-here quickie fits that bill fairly nicely.

Enjoy... but don't blink...

USAF photo

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