Originally Posted by
Herod
In their time the 748 and F 27 were fairly comparable aeroplanes. Fokker took the F 27 and produced the F 50, which brought it up to date. To do this, they took the bad bits of the 27 and removed/re-engineered them. It seems to me that BAe took the good bits of the 748 and did the same.
The problem with the F27-050 (F50) was that it was primarily designed in the early 1950's and it looked like it was, a museum piece when compared to the likes of the ATR, DHC8, S2000 and even the ATP.
Thank heavens the Jetstream 61 came along to save the day!