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Carvair Book
Gentlemen:
The Carvair book "The ATL-98 Carvair, A Comprehensive History of the Aircraft and All 21 Airframes" is out and available in major bookstores worldwide, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Waterstone, Eurospan, Boone Bridge, Paddyfields, Booktopia, etc. and even Ebay.
The Book ISBN978-0-7864-3670-5 is Hardcover 415 pages with 178 photos and illustrations. It begins with corporate histories and profiles key players (Freddie Laker etc). Four chapters illlustrate the evolution of the car-ferry as a viable aircraft, the history of Aviation Traders, engineering details incorporated into Carvair production and major Carvair operators. Chapters on each of the fleet's 21 planes provide individual histories and anecdotes.
A review has just been uploaded to Propliners.com and Waterstone and Amazon.com.uk
All your questions on the Carvair can be answered in one volume, and yes C-54s/DC-4s converted to Carvairs were built in both Santa Monica and Chicago.
The Carvair book "The ATL-98 Carvair, A Comprehensive History of the Aircraft and All 21 Airframes" is out and available in major bookstores worldwide, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Waterstone, Eurospan, Boone Bridge, Paddyfields, Booktopia, etc. and even Ebay.
The Book ISBN978-0-7864-3670-5 is Hardcover 415 pages with 178 photos and illustrations. It begins with corporate histories and profiles key players (Freddie Laker etc). Four chapters illlustrate the evolution of the car-ferry as a viable aircraft, the history of Aviation Traders, engineering details incorporated into Carvair production and major Carvair operators. Chapters on each of the fleet's 21 planes provide individual histories and anecdotes.
A review has just been uploaded to Propliners.com and Waterstone and Amazon.com.uk
All your questions on the Carvair can be answered in one volume, and yes C-54s/DC-4s converted to Carvairs were built in both Santa Monica and Chicago.
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9J-PAA, msn 27314 / Carvair #21 named Phoebus Apollo non-airworthy but is potentially restorable at Rand airport near Johannesburg. I worked on her with Nationwide Air as ZK-NWB in 1979.
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Just noticed this thread.
I was the guy who shot the video of N898AT taking off from Fairbanks in September 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpV_...yer_detailpage
Looking at the posts back in 2007, I can confirm that the aircraft did not lose an engine on take off-it was entirely normal, tho as you can see, the rate of climb was glacial, to say the least.
I'm sorry about the poor quality of the video, but I shot it using the video facility on a fairly early high-end Bridge stills camera (a Minolta Dimage 7hi); and I'm a much better stills photographer than movie cameraman. And to prove that, here's a shot of N898AT that I took the same day: https://www.flickr.com/photos/489750...W7qs/lightbox/
And a head-on shot of the "business end" (or front, rather) taken the same day: https://www.flickr.com/photos/489750...W7qs/lightbox/
I felt rather sad the day I heard the aircraft had crashed, about two years later-tho fortunately with no fatalities and I think no-major-injuries.
Finally, a link to my one and only photo of a BAF Carvair back in the 70s: https://www.flickr.com/photos/489750...cLW73G-cLW7qs/
I was the guy who shot the video of N898AT taking off from Fairbanks in September 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpV_...yer_detailpage
Looking at the posts back in 2007, I can confirm that the aircraft did not lose an engine on take off-it was entirely normal, tho as you can see, the rate of climb was glacial, to say the least.
I'm sorry about the poor quality of the video, but I shot it using the video facility on a fairly early high-end Bridge stills camera (a Minolta Dimage 7hi); and I'm a much better stills photographer than movie cameraman. And to prove that, here's a shot of N898AT that I took the same day: https://www.flickr.com/photos/489750...W7qs/lightbox/
And a head-on shot of the "business end" (or front, rather) taken the same day: https://www.flickr.com/photos/489750...W7qs/lightbox/
I felt rather sad the day I heard the aircraft had crashed, about two years later-tho fortunately with no fatalities and I think no-major-injuries.
Finally, a link to my one and only photo of a BAF Carvair back in the 70s: https://www.flickr.com/photos/489750...cLW73G-cLW7qs/
What were the one's that I used to see in PHNL Hawaii back in the 1980's ? Possible the one's that ended up in Canada and Alaska perchance. Ugly, yet beautiful aircraft 
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SHJ, they seem to have been operated by Hawaii Pacific Air. One of them was indeed the accident aircrraft.
That's a shame 
Only bits of metal and whatever, but all the same the older aircraft seemed to have a soul or essence that their modern counterparts appear to lack.
SHJ
Only bits of metal and whatever, but all the same the older aircraft seemed to have a soul or essence that their modern counterparts appear to lack.SHJ
