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Octane and leather : the Rapide was a pleasure to fly, but could bite a pilot without sufficient experience

D.H. 89 Dragon Rapide

The elegant bomber : the Rapide saw action as a light bomber during the Spanish Civil War and in Israel

The story of the de Havilland Dragon types

Post-war workhorse : after the end of the WWII, hundreds of Rapides were declared surplus and made available for the burgeoning British airline industry and foreign civil operators

Speed and comfort : the Dragon Six, or Rapide as it became known, owed much of its construction to the D.H.84 Dragon and D.H.86 Express designs which preceded it

Rapide variants : the Dragon Rapide needed little modification and was developped into 5 civil variants and 2 military versions

Dragon Six to Dominie : the Rapide's change of dress from the refined airline liveries of the pre-war years to the military uniform of the armed D.H.89M and RAF's Dominie