Canadian Aircraft 1970-1979 - Canadian Airliners 1970-1979, Canadian Business Aircraft 1970-1979, Canadian Military Transport Aircraft 1970-1979 (Paperback)

Chapters: Canadian Airliners 1970-1979, Canadian Business Aircraft 1970-1979, Canadian Military Transport Aircraft 1970-1979, Canadian Special-Purpose Aircraft 1970-1979, de Havilland Canada Dash 7, Bombardier Challenger 600, Conair Firecat, Boeing Cc-137. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The de Havilland Canada DHC-7, popularly known as the Dash 7, is a turboprop-powered regional airliner with STOL capabilities. It first flew in 1975 and remained in production until 1988 when the parent company, de Havilland Canada, was purchased by Boeing and was later sold to Bombardier. Bombardier sold the aircraft design (type certificate) to Viking Air in 2006. In the 1960s, de Havilland Canada was already well known worldwide for their series of high-performance STOL aircraft, notably the very popular Twin Otter. However, these aircraft were generally fairly small and served outlying routes, as opposed to the main regional airliner routes which were already well served by larger, higher-performance aircraft such as the Handley Page Jetstream and Fokker F27. The de Havilland Canada company felt they could compete with these designs in a roundabout way. With their excellent STOL performance, their designs could fly into smaller airports more centrally located in city centres, with runways that the other aircraft could not easily use. The original specification called for a 40-passenger aircraft with a fairly short range of 200 statute miles, operating from runways only 2,000 ft long (610 m). With new noise restrictions coming into effect throughout the 1970s, an aircraft tailored for this role would also have to be very quiet. To meet this restriction, the new design used oversized propellers geared to spin at a slower speed than normal; much of the sound ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=151064