General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Unknown

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

9.4 m

Width

12.2 m

Height

2.6 m

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Aviation

Category

Aircraft

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

deHavilland

Country

England

State/Province

Unknown

City

Hatfield

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Shipped to Canada for cold weather trials and serving with the RCAF, the Museum specimen subsequently passed to the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, before being transferred to the Museum in 1968.

Canada

Unknown

Function

Unknown

Technical

Production of the Vampire started just too late for it to see service in Second World War. This very successful design was produced in several versions and flew with the air forces of more than 15 countries. In 1948 it was the first jet fighter to enter the RCAF. Here, as in other air forces, it introduced fighter pilots not only to jet flying, but also to cockpit pressurization and tricycle landing gear. The last Vampires were not phased out of the Swiss Air Force until the late 1980s. In developing the Vampire, de Havilland applied its expertise in wood construction to manufacture a fuselage of the same type of plywood/balsawood sandwich used in the Mosquito. The Vampire’s twin-boom configuration enabled the jet tailpipe to remain short in order to extract as much thrust as possible from the somewhat low-powered engines of the day. The prototype Sea Vampire was the first jet aircraft to fly from an aircraft carrier.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

N/A

Missing

N/A

Finish

Unknown

Decoration

N/A