Another beaver crash. Labrador
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Another beaver crash. Labrador
Just read another beaver with 7 on board crashed in northern Labrador. That's 3 in just the last week. So sad. Real question is why.
What little I do know is either not important or I've forgotten it!
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Re: Another beaver crash. Labrador
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience often comes from bad judgment.
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golden hawk
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Re: Another beaver crash. Labrador
Well cbc is running the standard " rickety old airplane story" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfound ... -1.5219517
I worked with a company that ran a PC6, bloody thing was always in the shop, they replaced it with a turbo beaver. Something to be said of old style engineering. It has to be this strong, but lets add a bit for good measure. Engineering now is about making it JUST STRONG ENOUGH. Now a 70 year old radial, though a wonderful design is getting uneconomic to maintain, the airframes will outlast me" I figure i have about 35 years left"
I worked with a company that ran a PC6, bloody thing was always in the shop, they replaced it with a turbo beaver. Something to be said of old style engineering. It has to be this strong, but lets add a bit for good measure. Engineering now is about making it JUST STRONG ENOUGH. Now a 70 year old radial, though a wonderful design is getting uneconomic to maintain, the airframes will outlast me" I figure i have about 35 years left"
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TailwheelPilot
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Re: Another beaver crash. Labrador
That is a poor argument...the Porter’s first flight was 1959 and is 60 years old. Not a huge difference from a Beaver.rigpiggy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:45 am Well cbc is running the standard " rickety old airplane story" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfound ... -1.5219517
I worked with a company that ran a PC6, bloody thing was always in the shop, they replaced it with a turbo beaver. Something to be said of old style engineering. It has to be this strong, but lets add a bit for good measure. Engineering now is about making it JUST STRONG ENOUGH. Now a 70 year old radial, though a wonderful design is getting uneconomic to maintain, the airframes will outlast me" I figure i have about 35 years left"
Re: Another beaver crash. Labrador
I disagree, the beaver flew in what 48? 11 years and a different design philosophy. The porter on floats always being fixed, the beaver progressive inspections almost never down, the caravan a higher takeoff speed, beats the snot out itself in rough water. Even though viking is coming out with more SL's it will take a beating. About the only thing close is thequest kodiak
Re: Another beaver crash. Labrador
C-FJKI, a DHC-2 Beaver aircraft on floats operated by Air Saguenay, had departed Crossroads
Lake, NL for a day trip to Mistastin Lake, NL, for a fishing excursion with the pilot and 6 passengers
on board. When the aircraft did not return in the evening, JRCC was contacted. SAR was
dispatched and the aircraft was found submerged in the Mistastin Lake the following morning.
Three deceased occupants were recovered. The RCMP and military carried out a search for the
remaining occupants and a fourth deceased passenger was recovered. The pilot and the remaining
2 passengers are still missing.
Lake, NL for a day trip to Mistastin Lake, NL, for a fishing excursion with the pilot and 6 passengers
on board. When the aircraft did not return in the evening, JRCC was contacted. SAR was
dispatched and the aircraft was found submerged in the Mistastin Lake the following morning.
Three deceased occupants were recovered. The RCMP and military carried out a search for the
remaining occupants and a fourth deceased passenger was recovered. The pilot and the remaining
2 passengers are still missing.
