If a Sikorski Skycrane eloped with an EC-121, this is what would appear in the nursery.
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If a Sikorski Skycrane eloped with an EC-121, this is what would appear in the nursery.Italian Navy Agusta Bell - which always looked overloaded to me, I think it was the large radar.
When my airline was flying Beech 1900s, several of our competitors were flying these, which on the same horsepower had a more spacious and comfortable cabin and a max cruise 5 knots above our Vne. Our redline was 248 knots, and they could go 253, which put them on the other side of ATC's arbitrary dividing line between low performance and high performance aircraft. So in the scramble to stay on schedule going into and out of a major hub, they would get expedited handling while we got vectored around. We would often taxi into the ramp at JFK, EWR, DCA, or BOS in time to meet them taxiing out. Our saving graces were our takeoff and landing performance at smaller airports and our much less expensive and more reliable maintenance. Luca$$$ and $$Dowty$$ and $$Garrett$$ vs Lear Siegler, Hartzel, and Pratt & Whitney!!Jetstream from the day when the UK could build a decent set of aircraft
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