East West Loco - One for you
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A DC3 replacement that built rural air services in Australia in the '50's, 60's, 70's and early 80's until the Dash 8 came along!
Interestingly, only because Sir Donald ponied up with DCA dollars to lengthen all the airline runways to a minimum of 5000ft. Prior to that, AN/TN, or so I was reliably told as a young chap, were to take up the 748. Once the runway distance problem with the F27 was fixed, the extra 30 odd knots won the day and we all had our first exposure to turbines on the mighty Dogwhistle... and are now paying for it with industrial deafness ...
what does compare to a couple of Darts??.
Depending on your point of view, the AW650, now long gone from Oz night skies ... was either twice as bad, or twice as good.
Interestingly, only because Sir Donald ponied up with DCA dollars to lengthen all the airline runways to a minimum of 5000ft. Prior to that, AN/TN, or so I was reliably told as a young chap, were to take up the 748. Once the runway distance problem with the F27 was fixed, the extra 30 odd knots won the day and we all had our first exposure to turbines on the mighty Dogwhistle... and are now paying for it with industrial deafness ...
what does compare to a couple of Darts??.
Depending on your point of view, the AW650, now long gone from Oz night skies ... was either twice as bad, or twice as good.
