Talk:De Havilland Express

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First flight

According to this it was certified on 30 Jan. 1934, so that cannot be the date of first flight. Drutt (talk) 18:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have altered the article to give the date as 14 January, as mentioned on the external source. Drutt (talk) 18:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DH.86

Interesting pictures here of an original DH.86 production model. The DH.86A had a modified nose. Drutt (talk) 18:47, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Politics

"Under pressure from Holymans"??? Reg Ansett was the pressure man. Reg wanted everything that was American ... except for Bob. Reg had a big contract in WW2 with P&W and Boeing. The only goodish UK plane was the S23. Examine its statistics, and its not very good, at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.219.69.173 (talk) 10:07, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Can anyone find a reference which uses or justifies the name the DH. 86 Express? I thought DH.86 was what it was called, without a name (not all DH aircraft had type names, some just numbers) and there seems to be no use of Express in either A.J. Jackson's "De Havilland Aircraft since 1909" or Hayes & King's "de Havilland Biplane Transports".TSRL (talk) 20:25, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]