de Havilland DH-4....cloth, wood, or both?

[Motormouse]

i enjoy just pootling around in WW1 era aircraft, usually the Fokker DR.I 'Dreidecker' though so 'Beware the hun in the Sun'

Got you in my sights.....

ttfn

Pete

 

[kikas]

By the way russian avsim has Polikarpov R-1, which is Chris Herring's model pimped by Kazachek.

 

[Motormouse]

Isn't the "Nine Ack" the bird used by the RAF in its "air policing" of Iraq and other areas of the Middle East? I've seen that policy described as fairly successful. Was it?

It was...and it wasn't... as a policy it all culminated in the 1941 Battle of Habbaniya (google it); and was based on the successes had against 'The Mad Mullah' in Somalia in 1920.

In the inter-war period, until their retirement from service, DH9A's (and Westland Wapiti's) were used by 84 sqn out of Shaibah; amongst others.. --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airco_DH.9A#Interwar_RAF_service

ttfn

Pete

 

[wombat666]

IIIRC the RAF made quite effective use of the Nine-Ack during the Twenties but the novelty of the 'Aeroplane' seems to have worn off toward the end of the decade.
Nothing quite like the sight of one of De Havillands finest WW1 bombers trundling through desert skies kitted out with spare wheels and assorted extra survival equipment.