Originally, de Havilland planned to use its own 145 hp engine. The top bush pilot request was for “more power”. The wings (spanning 48 feet compared to the aircraft’s 30-foot length) were large enough to provide ample lift, allowing short takeoffs and landings (STOL). It could be equipped with wheels, floats, or skis to be able to land in a variety of places without paved runways and take advantage of the country’s many lakes and rivers. To begin with, it was an all-metal design, rugged enough to withstand a beating from rough terrain and exposure to the elements. So in 1946, de Havilland Canada sent a survey to the “bush pilots” providing transportation into these remote areas to ask them what they wanted in an airplane. The vast majority of the country’s territory is remote and sparsely inhabited, with few roads. Two-thirds of Canadians live within 100 kilometers of its southern border with the U.S. READ MORE: A Fanciful Flight in the ‘Spruce Goose’.But de Havilland Canada realized that post-war, it could not rely on military demand to support the company, so it decided it needed to crack into the civilian aviation market. The company’s first homegrown airplane design, immediately after the war, was the DHC-1 Chipmunk, a more modern military trainer to replace the storied Tiger Moth. established a Canadian subsidiary to manufacture the Tiger Moth biplane for the overseas training of British airmen who fought in World War II. Starting in 1928, the British-owned de Havilland Aircraft Co. Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’m flying the DHC-2 Beaver, the closest thing Canada has to a national airplane.ĭHC stands for de Havilland Canada.
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