more suitable for rough strips (hence the late life third-hand success of the 748 in Canada)
My one and only 748 trip was a jump-seat ride on my company's 748 from Calgary to an ice-strip on the river in the Mackenzie Delta.
Two things stand out, apart from the ice runway. One was the loadmaster keeping an eagle eye on the forklift driver, to make sure he didn't back into the prop and the second was seeing the northern lights to the south of us on the way home.
Slightly drifting the thread further, why didn't the Dart Herald do well?