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What is Your Favourite Propliner?


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What is Your Favourite Propliner?  

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  1. 1. What is Your Favourite Propliner?

    • DC-2
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    • DC-3
    • DC-4
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    • Stratocruiser
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    • Convair CV-580
    • Vickers Viscount
    • L-188 Electra
    • L-10 Electra
    • Other


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Guest Glenn

Just a poll to see what your favourite propliner is. If I have missed one on the list just tell us in a post. Mine is the DC-3 but I equally like all of them.

 

 

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Guest Ultralights

i know, its not really old, or nostalgic, but i LOVE every flight in a DASH-8

 

i regularly fly to Cairns and Bundaburg in QLD from Sydney, and its not uncommon for my to book flights from Syd to newcastle, to Brisbane, just to spend a few more hrs in the D-8 my usual trip to Bundy is to Brisbane on a city flyer, then to bundy on a dash-8

 

for some reason, i love em.

 

 

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Guest Ultralights

nahhh the 400 is too long, i like the stubby means business look of the 200/300's the 400's just dont look right! :lol: reminds me of the old flying pencils otherwise known as Metroliners!

 

 

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Guest Sunshy

Mine is the Saab 340. Besides it's looks, I like its distinctive sound and it's pretty straight forward in maintenance, even though it's system are more like a widebody than a propliner.

 

 

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Guest Ultralights

just reading over the list again, i do have fond memories of working on and reskinning a DC2!

 

and also a Grumman Tracker!

 

would love to see more of these old birds fly!

 

 

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Guest g_i_jack029
How could you have a list of propeller driven airliners without the beautiful Super Constellation? As a HARS member I might be biassed. Simmo

Baldrick, your a damn SMART fela!!!!!!

 

i liked the connie but once i got to walk throught the connie i really loved it!!!

 

i got to look in the cockpit and thought to myself, this'll need a bit of CRC!!! :lol:

 

certainly a cockpit that looks like it's from a plane!!! =D>

 

 

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Guest g_i_jack029

Folks.....Thats a real plane!!!

 

The HARS sure was a beautiful girl!

 

I'm glad that Australia has 1 or 2 organisations that keep them in good condition =D>

 

They say a gold coin donation to get a look through, i'm quite happy to put in a note donation :)

 

 

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Guest David C

I've always had a soft spot for the old Vickers Viscount , ever since flying in them as a kid from Birmingham to Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands . Those large oval windows always provided a great view , that was when the weather was fine though , and that wasn't very often in the uk .. AAHHH , the sound of those RR's too ... Showing my age now !!

 

Dave C

 

 

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Absolutely beautiful image! Is that an infra red filter on the camera?

Not my shot (it's the Breitling Connie - taken in ~2004, I think.. and don't look too closely at copyright issues). From the dim recesses of the brain I seem to recall that B&W images were enhanced dramatically by using red filters for cloud & sky effects, although today's digital e-enhancement can do just about anything with any original image, no matter the nature of the source.

 

 

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I like a varied number of propliners and the 2 I like that spring to mind the HS748 and Convair CV340/440 lineage and the ones I have images of have those lovely big "paddle" PropsScott

So if you like the 240/340's, you'll probably enjoy this shot:

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...and this one too? How to achieve exhaust thrust augmentation from an R-2800. BTW, as a kid I flew Parafield to Sydney in a 240 and with the winds on the day it set a shortest time for that trip to that date. It's all just a bit different now, though - thanks to Frank Whittle and others!

 

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