De Havilland DH.65 Hound

The de Havilland DH.65 Hound was a British two-seat day bomber and general purpose biplane of the 1920s, built at Stag Lane Aerodrome as a private venture to meet Air Ministry Specification 12/26. The all-wooden prototype G-EBNJ, powered by a Napier Lion engine, first flew on 17 November 1926, and in 1927 it was reworked with a new nose and rudder and a geared engine as the DH.65A. The Royal Air Force evaluated it in 1928 as J9127, and although it outperformed the other entrants it was rejected because of its wooden construction, with the order going to the Hawker Hart. In April 1928 it still set a world record, carrying a load of 1,000 kg over 100 km at 257 km/h with H.S. Broad at the controls. A four-seat transport development, the DH.74, was never built, and the second airframe was left unfinished.