Talk:Airco DH.5

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Khalidkhoso 11:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] D.H.5 or DH.5

This discussion should be taking place here, since it involves more than just this particular article. The current format for DH planes is DH.X, and if a change is needed that will affect many aircraft pages, it needs to be discussed there first. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 20:47, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

• Discussion moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft#D.H.5 or DH.5, as recommended above. -- MightyWarrior (talk) 23:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] First flight

According to this it flew for the first time in October 1916, not August. Can anyone confirm either date? Drutt (talk) 02:41, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

I find the site in question to be generally accurate although Jackson notes that by the end of 1916, service examples of the DH 5 were already at the front which predicates against the October date. The normal practise was to have a maiden test flight followed by manufacturers' trials and operational evaluation, each of which may take some time, albeit shortened in the case of a simple aircraft, especially in the press of wartime conditions in the First World War. FWIW Bzuk (talk) 13:17, 25 January 2008 (UTC).