Freighter/Frightner/Frightener/Freightner/Freightener
Proplinerman,
"Ground crew"? What was that you said? Are they the chaps that scuttle out from underneath as we lurch off the apron?
Quite possibly, but think the pilots also used the term, because of the handling characteristics. Spelling never standardised, as far as I know, so was being slightly creative.
Was wrong about it being a 'Fifties design, having just seen spec and silhouette in the 1989 reprint of Janes 1946/7, which also mentions the all-passenger Wayfarer version. Don't know when it first flew.
Also forgot to mention that its performance (thinking particularly of the single-engine case) would be influenced by the fixed landing gear - unlike the Dak.