Workhorse

[A Lutra Continua]

Landing across the runway at Mary River. Who needs glamour ships on their ticket if you can have this much fun in a workhorse?

[bbvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwMlgc1saHs[/bbvideo]


Comments from the angry little Froggie toilet trying to convince folks the DHC6 is not STOL are priceless.

[Stoneboat]

They have a new strip at Mary River now. A friend goes in and out of there now with the 737. With the gravel kit, of course.

Here's a short clip of one of their 737's landing on the ice strip at the same location. You can see the gravel runway out the right side as they go by.
One has to wonder how much longer that mine will stay open with the price of iron ore the way it is. I think they need around a hundred bucks a ton to make money and it's going for less than half that right now.

[bbvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YZUDxSomzg[/bbvideo]

[A Lutra Continua]

TransAfrik would stick a 727 into gravel strips in Angola. More suited for the job than the 73 I reckon. Acting out a Monty Python sketch by ingesting handfuls of cold gravel can't be good for those donkeys.

[Ex-Ascot]

Used to operate the VC10 off ice at Sonderstrom. I pointed out to the authorities, that be, many times that it was not performance one and outside limitations in the case of an abort. They decided not to understand and kept sending my crews to that freezing cold desolate place instead of the Caribbean. B@stards.

[Sisemen]

Nah......THIS is a workhorse! The flying brick AKA Blackburn Beverley

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[ian16th]

Beverley?

Gotta mention, pumping oil! Its a compulsory subject when discussing Bev's.

[Alisoncc]

I have it on good authority that Blackburn were experimenting with a whole new approach to engine lubrication on the Beverley. The idea was that by spraying oil on to the outside of the engine cowlings, by a process of osmosis, the oil would seep through to the engine bearings supplying precisely the correct quantity of oil required at any specific time.

Alison

[Sisemen]

Rumour has it that the UK Government is all excited at the moment in the belief that a vast lake of oil has been discovered under Abingon in Oxfordshire. Nobody has told them it's where the Bev's were parked.

[Stoneboat]

I have it on good authority that Blackburn were experimenting with a whole new approach to engine lubrication on the Beverley. The idea was that by spraying oil on to the outside of the engine cowlings, by a process of osmosis, the oil would seep through to the engine bearings supplying precisely the correct quantity of oil required at any specific time.

Alison

Not unlike the early versions of the Hawker 125 with the Viper engines.
"How much fuel do you need?"
"Check the fuel and fill up the oil."
There was a little mini pump that squirted oil at the number 5 bearing and the engine was required to burn x amount per hour. If it didn't, there was something wrong with the pump and the bearing wasn't being properly lubricated.

[Boac]

They always said Navigation outbound with a Bev was hard work, but inbound.....................

[Ex-Ascot]

Used to have a dinky little stewardess called Beverly. She didn't need oiling.

[Boac]

Aah! But did she leak?

[MoreAviation]

Is that Otter in the video the Otter Continua posted an Era Aviation aircraft and if so is the company back on its feet again?

[A Lutra Continua]

Borek AFAIK.