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Old 17th December 2003 | 04:18
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Smile Best aircraft to work on

Since we've heard about the WORST aircraft to work on, in a recent thread, how about the BEST?
My engineer friends all seem to like the 172 and the Beaver. Any others?
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Old 17th December 2003 | 07:01
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172 and beaver? What about A340-300/600 or B747-400
Airbus wins every time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 17th December 2003 | 13:36
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Fokker 50 (with the exception of the elevator/rudder tension regulators)
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Old 17th December 2003 | 16:25
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767-200/300 the queen of the skies.no job a major problem.
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Old 17th December 2003 | 20:02
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Sadly not many around any more but I'd vote for the Lockeed L1011 Tristar

Because it was a challenge
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Old 17th December 2003 | 20:50
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For me the boeing 757 beautifully engineered and a looker as well.
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Old 7th January 2004 | 20:01
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British F4M Phantom, with the big dirty Speys, luuuverly !
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Old 8th January 2004 | 01:34
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ATP. Just for the masses of Overtime it generated.

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EG. Another Technical Problem, Avros Taking the Piss.
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Old 8th January 2004 | 07:30
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L1011 - no doubt a real challenge. i realised how BMS 3-11 fluid tasted when uplifting inside the misting HSC in a transit aircraft.

my vote to B737NG. small size / fast WAC / no need for work step.
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Old 8th January 2004 | 12:34
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The best aircraft, without doubt, be it regional, longhaul, piston, jet, pax or freighter, is the one that just flew over the fence, outbound
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Old 8th January 2004 | 15:00
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Going back to the original post in this thread, I think you will find a beaver is hard to beat

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Old 8th January 2004 | 23:21
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just like the doc
i love beaver too..but not of the aircraft variety.
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Old 9th January 2004 | 02:04
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Devil

Its got to be the beast, a B52 can lose a couple, ten feet of tail and still fly. F406 wasn't bad either.
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Old 11th January 2004 | 16:59
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Cool

quite simply the L1011.
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Old 13th January 2004 | 01:00
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Anything made by Airfix
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