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Might just be me but did anyone else get concerned about the emergency air bottle between the pilots legs that held 800psi?
I was lucky enough to have some time with VH-DHI many moons ago. Was a fantastic machine but as people have mentioned very heavy in roll.
Rocket
I was lucky enough to have some time with VH-DHI many moons ago. Was a fantastic machine but as people have mentioned very heavy in roll.
Rocket
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Just as an off shoot here I noticed a Dove looking rather sad up at YBMK the other day parked east of the main rwy. Looked like an ex RAF machine, anyone know of it's history?
I remember chatting to the pilot of it as it passed through PF in the mid-late
'90s delivering bags of plastic granules used to make Holden dashboards, or something like that.
'PK' not too sure if it would have been one of 'Rudgies' but I could be wrong anyway. I've seen Rudgies doves over the years didn't seem to fit his.
I'll get a piccy when next I pass thru MK & post it here, someone must know of it's history.
'rocket 66' that's a LOT of psi close to ones own 'psi'
I imagine the Heron was like the dove as in you could fly it all day without touching the control wheel just using the trim wheel which was sensitive & the rudders for turn due the large dihedral. Did this many a time as we got bored in flight
God I've got some funny stories about the old Doves, we ought to start a funny story thread only:-)
Wmk2
I'll get a piccy when next I pass thru MK & post it here, someone must know of it's history.
'rocket 66' that's a LOT of psi close to ones own 'psi'
I imagine the Heron was like the dove as in you could fly it all day without touching the control wheel just using the trim wheel which was sensitive & the rudders for turn due the large dihedral. Did this many a time as we got bored in flightGod I've got some funny stories about the old Doves, we ought to start a funny story thread only:-)
Wmk2
Flew the beast at Airlines of Tasmania in 1988.
First multi-crew aeroplane, first aircraft above 5700 kgs, first aircraft ever flown from the right seat, first RPT gig and the only aircraft to have to been given a taxi endorsement for.
V1 65, VR 70, V2 74 and climb at 110 knots.
110 kilos in the nose locker and 340 kilos in the rear locker.
Took some getting used to beast, when the captain selected 60 degrees of flap on short finals.
The joy of 0300 depature to Hobart stuffed with the mainland newspapers on a winters morning.
Whatever happen to the chief engineer Dave "macca" McKenzie?
First multi-crew aeroplane, first aircraft above 5700 kgs, first aircraft ever flown from the right seat, first RPT gig and the only aircraft to have to been given a taxi endorsement for.
V1 65, VR 70, V2 74 and climb at 110 knots.
110 kilos in the nose locker and 340 kilos in the rear locker.
Took some getting used to beast, when the captain selected 60 degrees of flap on short finals.
The joy of 0300 depature to Hobart stuffed with the mainland newspapers on a winters morning.
Whatever happen to the chief engineer Dave "macca" McKenzie?
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"Took some getting used to beast, when the captain selected 60 degrees of flap on short finals."
Or when the Chief Pilot (NP), doing your endorsement circuits, dumped the flap in the flare because your 1st Heron landing (ever) was "too good"..........!!
Great days though, even if you did have to wear garbage bags on your feet in winter when the thing leaked and the footwells filled up with water!
Or when the Chief Pilot (NP), doing your endorsement circuits, dumped the flap in the flare because your 1st Heron landing (ever) was "too good"..........!!
Great days though, even if you did have to wear garbage bags on your feet in winter when the thing leaked and the footwells filled up with water!
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Clunker,thank you,enjoyed those.....as the Heron was in Australian service for around 40 years,I'm guessing there are a lot of ex Heron drivers out there. So come on folks,some more pictures please.
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Never flew the bird, but had many an enjoyable hour as a teenage pax beginning 8th August 1957. The first Heron into Oz.
Not as good as the aircraft it replaced - auditory excitement that is.
Then the Heron was replaced with a kero burner - nice but no character.
Not as good as the aircraft it replaced - auditory excitement that is.
Then the Heron was replaced with a kero burner - nice but no character.
First Herons
Brian,
Unfortunately ASH was not the first Heron into Australia . That honour goes to Arthur Butler - Butler Air Transport around 1952. They were both series 1's with fixed undercarriages. When Ansett took over they were returned to the UK.
I know this only to well as my father was an Airspeed Ambassador/Elizabethean Captain with Butlers at the time.
Unfortunately ASH was not the first Heron into Australia . That honour goes to Arthur Butler - Butler Air Transport around 1952. They were both series 1's with fixed undercarriages. When Ansett took over they were returned to the UK.
I know this only to well as my father was an Airspeed Ambassador/Elizabethean Captain with Butlers at the time.