Yes perhaps-but my goodness it could leak air at a prodigious rate. Why on earth equip it with pneumatics when the HS 748, concurrent type, was running the systems on hydraulics?
Course, second segment climb was better in the F27, as I remember, if you could get the undercarriage retracted of course-or on the go around for that matter and, for some strange reason, it was an altogether dirtier aircraft than the 748. Perhaps the British put their sloppy darts in the Focker?