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control locks were still locked when the aircraft took off ( Video-Footage )
An excellent reminder that there really are good reasons to do a
thorough preflight and to make sure the controls are free. This happened just north of Winnipeg, and the aircraft was the first version with PT-6-67 Turboprops. The Canadian DOT concluded that the control locks were still locked when the aircraft took off. http://www.jumpingpixels.com/turboprops.html |
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control locks were still locked when the aircraft took off ( Video-Footage )
In a previous article, said:
wrote: An excellent reminder that there really are good reasons to do a thorough preflight and to make sure the controls are free. This happened just north of Winnipeg, and the aircraft was the first version with PT-6-67 Turboprops. The Canadian DOT concluded that the control locks were still locked when the aircraft took off. http://www.jumpingpixels.com/turboprops.html Certainly not to refute what you say about external/internal preflight inspections but there's something wrong with this film. This isn't a Buffalo I think, it's a Caribou with two radial engines I believe, the Buffalo was derived from the Caribou No, it isn't a Buffalo. As the text on the web site says, this is a Caribou with an after-market conversion to turbo prop. Why did you bring up Buffalos? -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ `And when you've been *plonk*ed by Simon C., you've been *plonked* by someone who knows when, and why, and how.' - Mike Andrews, asr |
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control locks were still locked when the aircraft took off ( Video-Footage )
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:
In a previous article, said: wrote: An excellent reminder that there really are good reasons to do a thorough preflight and to make sure the controls are free. This happened just north of Winnipeg, and the aircraft was the first version with PT-6-67 Turboprops. The Canadian DOT concluded that the control locks were still locked when the aircraft took off. http://www.jumpingpixels.com/turboprops.html Certainly not to refute what you say about external/internal preflight inspections but there's something wrong with this film. This isn't a Buffalo I think, it's a Caribou with two radial engines I believe, the Buffalo was derived from the Caribou No, it isn't a Buffalo. As the text on the web site says, this is a Caribou with an after-market conversion to turbo prop. Why did you bring up Buffalos? Because, as I said, Buffaloes were derived from The Caribou and they had mentioned that this a/c was being re engined with turboprops. I guess that I didn't know that the Caribou had ever been re engined with turboprops unless it was converted to the Buffalo, but of course I could be wrong...the clip sure didn't sound like any turboprop engine that I ever heard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havi..._DHC-5_Buffalo (quote from above URL) The de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo is a short take off and landing (STOL) cargo aircraft, a turboprop conversion of their earlier piston-powered DHC-4 Caribou. The aircraft has legendary STOL performance, able to take off in distances much shorter than even light aircraft. de Havilland Canada was formerly a subsidiary of De Havilland of the UK and is now a subsidiary of Bombardier of Canada. (unquote) -- -Gord. (use gordon in email) |
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control locks were still locked when the aircraft took off ( Video-Footage )
In a previous article, said:
Ok...it's probably like most of these 'new a/c' when they're patterned very closely after the original (like the Argus and the Bristol Britannia) the end product is an entirely different a/c but close enough that people mistakenly call them 'conversions' Probably. But those people probably call a Saratoga a converted Archer. There are a couple of companies out there that will convert Caribous into turboprop Caribous, but the end result won't be a Buffalo, it will be a turboprop Caribou. I see..so what difference is there between a 'turbo Caribou' and a Buffalo? The length, the tail configuration, a few square feet of wing area, etc. My father was chief materials engineer at deHavilland Canada so I grew up with this stuff - I even got a ride in the prototype Dash 7. I have a friend who used to work at deHavilland Canada at Downsview Ontario...his name is Stayner Durocher...did you ever run across him? I don't think so. -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ "You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!" "Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert. |
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