What's the best Regional bird you've flown?
12-14-2012 | 07:05 AM
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Only flew the Dash 8. Absolutely loved that airplane. I came out of bizjets into the Dash, then went back into bizjets. The Dash felt more like a truck than the jets, but was worlds above all of them from a systems standpoint. It amazed me how much more redundancy was built into it over even the more complex jets.
12-14-2012 | 07:32 AM
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Out of the Jetsream 31, Avro, Saab, CRJ 200 and 900... I would say the Avro was best and the CRJ200 is the biggest POS ever conceived. The Saab was a fun and fairly easy plane to fly but 7 legs a day all the time was too exhausting.
12-14-2012 | 10:12 AM
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Who has flown the Dornier Jet (or turboprop)? I flew on the turbo prop out of DCA going to Portland, Maine years ago for some military training, and thought what a beautiful and smooth aircraft. I saw it disappeared sadly, and then a few years ago saw this fly in to a base I was at in Socal-
Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft (ACCA) - Airforce Technology
Leave it to the air force to figure out how to make a Regional Airliner into a over 100 million dollar aircraft that looks pretty much the same
Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft (ACCA) - Airforce Technology
Leave it to the air force to figure out how to make a Regional Airliner into a over 100 million dollar aircraft that looks pretty much the same
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