Cool Pictures from Work (Tons o Pics)

[Goblin]

Thought you might like, not something you see everyday...



This is a 100 series DeHaviland Single Otter.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/RMA-100-Otter.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/RMA-hanger5-otter.jpg

200 Series Twin Otter (Two engines, mounted on the wing)

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/RMA-hanger6-otter2.jpg

This is going for paint next week, still much to do on it.


Pratt and Whitney PT-6 Gas Turbine (300,000 dollar engine.)
Check that out rice boys, thats straight from the engine ;)

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/RMA-hanger4-exhaust.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/RMA-hanger3.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/RMA-hanger1.jpg

BeechCraft (forget the model name)

This is going skydiving off the coast of Florida...

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/RMA-hanger2.jpg



This is one of my favorite helicopters, the Bell 212, aka, Huey

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/Bell212.jpg

Hovering:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/Bell212Hover.jpg

Lowering for load:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/Bell212-Towrope.jpg

Has his load:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/Bell212-TowRopeLoad.jpg

Spooling Up:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/goblin87/Bell212-SpoolUp.jpg

It was so windy underneath, not to mention gravel going into your mouth.

:thumbsup:

[Foz]

Nice chopper!
:thumbsup:

[GQBalla]

niceee

must be a pretty cool place to work.

what exactly do you do?

[BlueGoblin]

I love the sound of the 212 when they are doing the long line training at YBW...

And nothing but homebuilts can get the wild takeoff climb angle like those turbo otters - single and twin.

cool shots!

[Bongo]

It's a Beech 99. I think it is Arctic Sunwest's, not 100% sure on that though.

You might want to check your series for the Twin Otter. It is hard to tell from that picture, but most -6's are of the 300 series variant.


Also there was only one series of Otter produced (not including the turbine otter, which is just a radial to turbine conversion (DH3T))

[Bongo]

I love the sound of the 212 when they are doing the long line training at YBW...

And nothing but homebuilts can get the wild takeoff climb angle like those turbo otters - single and twin.

cool shots!

Actually, the climb angle for both the single and twin otter is not remarkable in itself. The short takeoff and landing (STOL) performance is what enabled both airplanes to have success with with commercial operators. The twin otter was initially designed for the 19 seat commuter market using inter-city airports. However, where the twin otter found the greatest success was in northern bush operations. Operating in and out of unprepared surfaces became characteristic of both the single and twin otter.

Climb angle in any aircraft is largely dependent on the weight of the aircraft as well as other ambient factors (temperature, wind, relative humidity, etc.)

The climb angle that I have seen with the twin otter was somewhere in the 15-22 degree range I believe. This was at just under 9000 pounds gross weight.

[BlueGoblin]

Originally posted by Bongo


Actually, the climb angle for both the single and twin otter is not remarkable in itself. The short takeoff and landing (STOL) performance is what enabled both airplanes to have success with with commercial operators. The twin otter was initially designed for the 19 seat commuter market using inter-city airports. However, where the twin otter found the greatest success was in northern bush operations. Operating in and out of unprepared surfaces became characteristic of both the single and twin otter.

Climb angle in any aircraft is largely dependent on the weight of the aircraft as well as other ambient factors (temperature, wind, relative humidity, etc.)

The climb angle that I have seen with the twin otter was somewhere in the 15-22 degree range I believe. This was at just under 9000 pounds gross weight.

I know what you are saying, but I fly a Cherokee 140.

An Otter's sustained climb angle of climb is pretty freakin' remarkable next to what I can manage, een accounting for ambient factors...

Some of the guys at YBW like to show off with Best Angle climbouts on test flights with partial tanks and nothing on board. In those circumstances (way way shy of their 9000 lb gross), it is truly dramatic.

[Bongo]

It is definately something compared to a 140 for sure. One of the airplanes we had down in Haiti (AKM and PAO) had a basic empty weight of 8053, which is pretty heavy for a twin otter. It was JB twin otter, so it had lots of neat things up front that were fairly redunant, but oh well.

Half tanks and a good light machine are great to play around with. I miss the twin otter driving days. Oh well, maybe this summer. C'mon Borek.

I still think the best initial rate of climb that I have had the priveledge to be part of would have to be the skydive 182's that we had back in the day. That was a great rate of climb.

[BlueGoblin]

^ I had seen one of those jump 182's once (Didsbury, maybe?) with an 0-540 in the front and a new Hartzell 3 bladed prop... That thing must have been just wild once all the lawn darts were dropped...

I do miss the more STOL - like characteristics of the 172's I used to fly, but the lower cost of the Piper got me into aircraft ownership, which makes it all worthwhile...

[Bongo]

I worked out a Didsbury with the 182's. It was a de-rated O-540 with a three bladed Hartzell prop. We also had 36" wing extensions on the airplane too. I think it stalled at 22 miles an hour with full flap. I can't remember if that is 100% accurate but the stall was a non event. More like a slow descent with the nose up.

What Cherokee do you own at YBW? I know someone that used to own PIF.

I think Cherokee's have some of the worst climb performance out of anything that I have flown.

[pyro]

just curious... is that out at springbank???

[Goblin]

Originally posted by pyro
just curious... is that out at springbank???

Yeah CYBW = Springbank Airport. C is just a designator for where they are located, i.e, C = Canada.

CYYC = Calgary International.


Bongo you used to work for RMA? The Beech 99 Is also off to skydiving....


The two manitoba aircraft, C-FODY and C-FMAX, are, corrected, 200 series single ;)

You mentioned conversions, those do not affect the variant.

These two have -34 engines.

You guys are pilots then as well? Sweet, I have 40 hours ground school and 5 hours air time under my belt so far ;)

[pyro]

ya i thought that it looked familiar, im doing the electrical in the new hangers...