Royal Navy - de Havilland DH.82 Queen Bee K8671
Royal Navy - de Havilland DH.82 Queen Bee K8671 (msn 5204), being recovered by cruiser HMS Newcastle after a live-fire anti-aircraft gunnery practice. The Queen Bee was a radio-controlled target drone using Tiger Moth wings, with the wooden fuselage of the DH.60 Moth to improve buoyancy in the event of an arrival and improve corrosion resistance
Picture No
13156197
Media ID
47773094
Size
3410px x 5315px
(3.6MB)
Credit
(c) The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photographer - scanned from original negative
Date
circa 1940
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Anti-aircraft Buoyancy Corrosion Dh.60 Dh.82 Drone Fuselage Gunnery Improve Radio-controlled Recovered Target
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