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Date:         Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:01:57 -0800
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Friday - Russian helicopter, Beavers,  and chopped Caddies
Comments: To: Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To:  <4D0B9202.6020001@comcast.net>
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Beavers are still fairly common around here, and with Viking Air here doing refits and mods (Viking is the type certificate holder for the DHC-2 Beaver,DHC-2T Turbo Beaver, DHC-3 Otter, DHC-6 Twin Otter, DHC-4 Caribou, DHC-5 Buffalo and DHC-7 Dash 7 aircraft) I hope they will be around for a while yet.

The kamov has a distinct beat from rotors that you can hear from a distance. But the noisiest are the Sea Kings (443 squadron here) that sometimes do exercises involving flying over our house, at night.

I need to get some pictures of the chopped caddy (and toronado I think) tugs moving the float planes around, its really an unusual sight.

alistair

On 17-Dec-10, at 8:38 AM, Ken Wilford wrote:

Thanks for sharing!

I love the DeHavilland Beaver. What an awesome plane! We had one at the aviation mechanic's school that I attended and we had to do maintenance on it, restore parts of it, and get it up and running. There is nothing quite like the sound of a large rotary engine! Such a versatile plane, it reminds me of our Vanagon as the Jack of all trades of the sky.

That copter is cool too. We live about a mile from a Boeing helicopter reconditioning center as well as an airport (Millville airport). I get the large, Chinooks flying overhead most of the day. Rattles the whole shop sometimes.

Have a great Friday!

Ken Wilford John 3:16 www.vanagain.com


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