Been a bit of a gap since my last entry on this thread.
First up. The Douglas DC-5. British Airways placed an order for 8 in early 1939. A deposit was paid and registration's were reserved. Unfortunately a little fracas called the second world war kicked off. And the deposit was taken over for military contracts.
Heres what they may have looked like had the war not got in the way.

Next is a Czech airforce CH-47A. The story here is that in the late 70's Vietnam decided to sell off its fleet of CH-47's that it inherited from the former RVNAF. Czechoslovakia saw the Chinook as rather useful so acquired most of them. They managed to operate them with out spares support from the west until the cold war ended. after which Boeing was more than willing to support them, they were later upgraded to a hybrid CH-47C/Chinook HC-1 standard.
