Watching that episode of
Danger Man with Bobbi the other night, I had my belief reinforced that the English only make two kinds of aircraft: gorgeous ones and ones that should only fly under a brown paper bag.
Toward the end of the episode there was a smallish, twin-engine, tricycle gear aircraft that featured the same trim, vertically-oriented engine nacelles as the
Dragon Rapide (one of the most attractive airliners ever).
That was all it shared with the Dragon Rapide, though, because the slab-sided hydrocephalic fuselage looked like it had fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
Guessing from the engine nacelles that it, too, was a de Havilland, I looked on Wikipedia and sure enough, it was a
de Havilland Dove, the more modern, and uglier, replacement for the Dragon Rapide.
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