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Hard to believe that's now an eighty year old design! (Planned on paper, 1939, first prototypes flown 1941).

 

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still the most beautiful

 

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Hard to believe that's now an eighty year old design! (Planned on paper, 1939, first prototypes flown 1941).

and if the Luftwaffe had better leadership, and they had gotten the bugs worked out, the world may be different today.

 

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shame there are no Heinkels/Casas flying

 

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Meanwhile, with more power than the original Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp radial engine, Harbour Air is getting closer to electric commercial aircraft operations. This 63 year old DeHavilland Beaver is getting a 750 hp. electric motor. (Harbour Air is in my neck of the woods, serving the Vancouver area with over 40 float planes).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...l-plane-set-for-takeoff-in-richmond-1.5378163