Been going back a bit and just noticed BillieBob's comments (Nr48).
Rather off topic but we seem to have some similar types in our logs. However, I'm a little surprised at his liking for the 114. It was not among my favourites. And if people complain about incontinent Chippies, they should live with a Heron for a while. Those Sixes were almost as bad and there were four of them! But I share BillieBob's liking of the 104. This was DH at their best and I loved the aircraft so much I adopted the engine as a moniker!
I always thought it a pity that they had the bump in the roof. Rather spoiled the otherwise clean lines but I suppose the Vampire gear was cheaper than a redesign.
Also noticed something overlooked the first time around - the Chippie's claimed propensity for spinning. Utter rubbish! Why this bunkum persists as urban legend I do not know. A properly rigged DHC1 would not necessarily drop a wing from a fully stalled condition; indeed, it could nearly always be held upright with the rudder. It would spin only when it was asked to and disregarding effects of prop torque, it would spin in either direction with equal facility. The question mark in this flight regime was the tendency for the aircraft to go flat if full elevator and rudder were left on for too long. For this reason I limited spins to four turns and had no trouble but it has to be admitted that there were those who perished from non-recoverable flat spins.
But, given sufficient provocation, they all bite . . . .
GQ.