Originally Posted by BEagle
A VFW614 is currently perched on the roof of Bremen airport. It had a repaint and spruce up a year or so ago.
I imagine that maintenance of an overwing engine would have been a bit of a pain - and I wonder how much the engines liked high AoA?
I think the engines would be no worse to access than the tailmounted engines on current regional jets, but I also wonder about AoA. And I wonder what the cabin noise level was...
One VFW614 is flying for the DLR at Braunschweig - as a fly by wire test aircraft! They seem to like failed German regional jets. Though they recently bought an A320, which might replace the last flying 614.
I seem to remember seeing a 614 of the Flugbereitschaft at Hannover in the 90s.
Would the Baade 152, the first German jetliner, count as a regional jet? It never made it into service, and only three prototypes were built and two were flown. First flight 1958.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baade_B-152
