Sure is. Slow as hell, but a blast to fly !!
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Always admired you guys that flew Angelflights!
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Many years ago was was in the CAP and a member of the ARC Disaster team and a Twin Otter went down. A local airline had several runs to Boston, the Cape & Islands and local cites and this was their flagship âpuddle jumperâ. The âDisaster Teamâ basically was a box van providing coffee, blankets and other sundries. This was a mass casualty event with a remarkable outcome considering it came in clipping a line of trees.
Amazing to find historical data so quickly on the web. I was always told Otters were very stable in flight, but now it looks like the pilot inadvertently pooched the approach.
FAA report;
Accident de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 N383EX, Sunday 17 June 1979 Accident de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 N383EX, Sunday 17 June 1979
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Extremely stable ! the short field take off and land capabilities were insane.
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Thatâs why the RCAF uses them a lot up in the far North. My friend Craig spent a bunch of his career as a Flight Engineer on Twin Otters and did a stint in Yellowknife including a brief assessment up at Alert near the North Pole.
Alert is the farthest northern base the Canadian Forces has in the North.
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That looks fun !
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DeHavilland makes trucks. I saw this Beaver at the Morgan airport last Feb. (I used to think Skywagons were beefy.)
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While I appreciate these stories, I have no background in aviation or familiarity with planes.
My father, who passed away more than 16 years ago, was an amatuer pilot, and would love reading them He was an SLC Police officer his entire career, but had some aviation training in the Navy during the Korean War, although he did not complete the training nor become certified.
It did infect him with a love of flying and in the 70âs he started hang gliding at the point of the mountain, flying ultralights, somewhere in Utah County, and eventually got his pilotâs credentials and flew casually the rest of his life.
He was at one point, (I think the early 80s) on a small working group representing police departments from LA to Denver, studying possible use of ultra-lites in Law Enforcement. For reasons that seemed obvious to him, the idea never went anywhere..
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Should we start a new aviation thread so we can get back to people that passed away here?
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Well spake! Thereâs plenty to talk about aviation somewhere else and no disrespect to those who passed with significant contributions to society
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Most of my life I thought of her as âone of those early popular singers that came along a little before me, who were really good, had some great material, but were sort of vanillaâ.
A few years ago I read a long article (couldnât find it) about the unbelievable troubles she experienced throughout her life, how she overcame each, and have since heard a dramatically different artist when I listen to those old tunes.
Sorry, that I cannot point to something definitive, but do a Google search and read a couple of the results and Iâm sure youâll get the picture.
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One of the cool things about this community is sometimes we jump the rails and explore tangents (to use the phrase loosely).
Itâs good to get back on track, too.
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This made huge ripples, and shows of grief in Italy as well; several of the clube were investigating his situaiton during the summer market.
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Back on topic, sadly, Malcom Jamaal Warner drowned on a family trip to Costa Rica. 
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And Bill Cosby still lives and breathes a free man.
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I loved that show as a teenager but sadly canât watch it now because of âThe Cosâ. But those young actors who played the children were pretty talented, especially Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Lisa Bonet. This is very sad.
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So sad. Someone who made a career beyond that show. I enjoyed his harsh character on Southland. â â â â Cosby.
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I love his bit in Little Nicky. Ozzy and Black Sabbath were something different and entertaining.
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F*ck, that one hurts.
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