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My partner and I did this excursion some years ago and it was great fun.

Thanks for the video demonstration. Much appreciated !

I live in Australia just north of Brisbane. I flew in a DH 84 Dragon (VH-UXG) from Caboolture airfield in 2011. A year later, it crashed, killing the owner pilot, his wife, and four other passengers. A case of pilot spacial disorientation in limited or no visibility weather conditions. By coincidence, the pilot's father had been killed in the same type of aircraft. Great to see the footage of Duxford. Been there twice on separate visits to the UK.

In WW2 my father was medevaced in one....said that the wings sermed to flap alarmingly in rough air...he didn't fly in an airplane again until the mid 50s, in America

I am SO jealous of you, The Dragon Rapide is my favourite aircraft of ALL TIME. Could you tell me how much it cost as I would love to do this myself. Thanks

went up in the same plane, cost me 15 quid back then for 15 minutes flight

I'd fly this any day. Beautiful aircraft

A friend relates the tale of a family trip to the Isles of Scilly in 1955 at about the time the SS Punta ran aground, and the pilot flew around the wreck several times so photographs could be taken. In the early '80s the same friend and I went up in a Rapide from Duxford, in very strong winds, and I was astonished at how little runway was required, and how smooth the 'plane was in the air. It was smoother than the Cessna 152 and PA28 I currently pilot.

My first flight was on one of these: at six years old in the 1950s on a 30 minute pleasure flight from Heathrow Airport. We flew over central London and docklands. Not the sort of jaunt that would be allowed today.

Safer than a Boeing 737, with its fires, defective batteries, undercarriage falling off, doors falling off, and parts of the wings falling off, and, this is quite important, engines falling off. Imagine if all the engines fell off, they'd be stuck up there for days!!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Best on a windy day. So much wing on such a light aircraft the day I went up it landed 3 times. Beautiful aircraft. They are to undergo more stringent tests than an modern passenger aircraft

What a really stupid question..

I've flown in two of, I think, three Dragon Rapides 😊the company has. Flying is a lot less stressful than the drive from Watford!

Flew in one while working for Hunting Surveys Ltd. out of Elstree Aerodrome many years ago - lovely plane

Took my son up in the old girl enough said

I have a soft spot for the DR. My first ever flight was sat on my mom’s knee in the starboard front seat.

I loved my years as an Air Cadet. Being able to go to firing ranges and fly Chipmunks. Good old days. Now 71. I wish i was young again. 😢😊😊😊😊

First plane I ever fly in back in the early 90s. No doubts at all as far as I was concerned.

Click bait.🤥

As a child in the 1950s I remember these planes flying from Weston-super-Mare to Cardiff. As a regular service We could actually see them in the distance taken off and landing from our bedroom window at worle

As a child in the 1950s I remember these planes flying from Weston-super-Mare to Cardiff. As a regular service We could actually see them in the distance taken off and landing from our bedroom window at worle

In this livery, shouldn't it be named the DH Dominie?

The Pilots who fly the Dragon regularly are unlikely to continue to do so if they thought it less than safe.

This was the first aircraft I ever flew in many years ago. We went around the Isle of Wight taking off from Bembridge aerodrome, on a grass runway. Would love to go again.

My first flight (and also my wartime RAF father's first) in a Rapide from Hendon during the 1957 Battle of Britain 'at home'. It cost 10/- each (50p). There were two silver ones operating from a Croydon-based company. It was quite bumpy over North London. In the early sixties I had a super evening flight over the coast from the grass field at Christchurch (near Bournemouth) G-AJGJ.

Very nice experience and impressive collection! For sure a place to visit sometime! Thanks for putting the video together and sharing!

I’ve flown in it . Absolutely do it again . Perfectly safe.

I miss The Plough.

I thought Rapide's in RAF service were known as Dominies?

I have flown in this.Safe as houses👍! A powerful aircraft as well.

Went on honeymoon in one to the Isles of Scilly in 1963!

this was the first aeroplane i ever flew on!

A Rapide was used on the Glasgow Campbeltown Islay route back in the day.😊

Flew in this exact aircraft 3 times now, always have loved it!

Had a lovely flight over Cambridgeshire in this bird a few years back. Loved every second.

Back in the ‘50s as a birthday present my uncle treated me to a 10 minute flight around Heathrow in one of these! First time in a plane, absolutely loved it! From memory I think it cost £1.00 for my uncle and £0.50 for me, which was a lot of money then!

I too have flown as a passenger in one of these on a commercial😮 airline. That was QCA, Queer Collection of Aircraft, or more correctly Queen Charlotte Airlines in British Columbia, Canada

I think my Mother flew in one from Renfrew (Glasgow) to Wick, via a refueling stop at Inverness, as the plane couldn't be refueled at Wick, in the early to mid 1950s. The through passangers waited in a hut (might not have been Inverness terminal) near the plane. They flew up the Great Glen, below the mountain tops, so about 3000ft.

I first flew in G-AIYR when I was 11 so yes a dragon rapide is very safe

Stupid click bait , flown in one here twice

I've taken off 3 time in one of these but never experience a landing. My first static line parachute jumps.

I flew in the old girl in 2016 and just loved every second, although found the pilot rude, making us paying customers, already seated, shift seats to the back so his friends got a better view! 🇦🇺

What a boring voice, Reginald Molehusband lives!! 🥱🥱😴😴

I saw a photo of one, from British Columbia, and it was fitted with floats! Thanks for posting!

I remember when as a child, there were Dragon Rapides flying round Blackpool Tower as pleasure flights. They took off from Squires Gate aerodrome and flew the 3 miles or so and then returned. There was one every ten or fifteen minutes and so there must have been quite a few performing this service.

I've taken off and flown in a Rapide three times, but never managed a landing! It was in 1973 and the Rapide in question was the RAF Sports Parachute Club machine G-AGSH, which still exists and can be seen at Old Warden. People said I must be mad to jump out of a serviceable aeroplane, but my retort was that if you flew in the Rapide you'd be glad that you had two parachutes strapped to you!

How do you think it got so old?

My first flight at North Weald just after WW2was with my dad, magic, so some 50 years later when I saw flight on one if these at Southend Airport, I took my son for a flight. One lady passes get had worked oh these aircraft during WW2 she had all the stories. Strangley, it was her first flight in one. As I say magic, all it needed was Piirot sitting in the back.

Great video. I photographed one of these at Heathrow circa 1956.

I have flown in that very aircraft. Boarding was easy, I am an amputee on crutches.