Short field operations
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Does anyone know of an aircraft with up to 40 seats that can operate (probably not fully laden) out 1000metres of runway? Something with performance and capacity between a Twotter and a Saab 340 is the expected answer, I haven't found one despite a fair bit of searching.
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44 passengers, No runway required.Model 234 Chinook
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HS Andover C1 is the correct answer. 
Doing STOL (not perf A) with water meth injection we could use 1000 FEET. Anguilla was - if I remember right - about 750 ft of tarmac with a baked mud over-run. I usually stopped on the tarmac full of metropolitan police with baggage and beer to keep them going.
6 degree approach and full reverse before touchdown.
Doing STOL (not perf A) with water meth injection we could use 1000 FEET. Anguilla was - if I remember right - about 750 ft of tarmac with a baked mud over-run. I usually stopped on the tarmac full of metropolitan police with baggage and beer to keep them going.6 degree approach and full reverse before touchdown.
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Hi Jenkins 
No. Turned on the strip ok.
The narrow one was Barbuda. Just 18 inches outside each mainwheel and a deep shoulder to the runway. Open the back door/ and talk sweetly to the loadmaster. Then, as you know, it was all or nothing reverse to return to the threshold for t/o. Runway was long for us -cannot remember exactly - maybe 2500ft but with the narrow width that produced a very odd approach
feeling much higher than we really were. B
No. Turned on the strip ok.
The narrow one was Barbuda. Just 18 inches outside each mainwheel and a deep shoulder to the runway. Open the back door/ and talk sweetly to the loadmaster. Then, as you know, it was all or nothing reverse to return to the threshold for t/o. Runway was long for us -cannot remember exactly - maybe 2500ft but with the narrow width that produced a very odd approach
feeling much higher than we really were. B
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44 passengers, No runway required.Model 234 Chinook
Munster, helicopter performance is not quite as simple as you imagine it to be...
