DHC-7 on floats?

yok driver · Post by **yok driver** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:45 pm

Anyone ever heard about this conversion? I hear there are a few around but I have never seen one.

Cheers, The Driver

North Shore · Post by **North Shore** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:57 pm

Yah, it's called the "Double Double." Tim Hortons has bought one to use to fly kids to their summer camp in place of the Caravan.

data plate · Post by **data plate** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:31 pm

Hey yok I think somebody has been pullin' yer stick. No -7 has ever been put on floats.

DA900 · Post by **DA900** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:36 pm

North Shore wrote:Yah, it's called the "Double Double." Tim Hortons has bought one to use to fly kids to their summer camp in place of the Caravan.

LMFAO

that is the best reply I have read in a long time!!!!!!!

twotter · Post by **twotter** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:07 pm

Actually Jim Pattison got Canadian Aircraft Products to do some looking into the possibility of doing just that back in the 80's. It never got off the artists board though..

giligan · Post by **giligan** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:17 pm

The American military did put a DC 3 on floats, I guess it would be a C 47 to them. Can't blame them for trying I guess.
giligan

swede · Post by **swede** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:19 pm

Theoretically, I spose a -7 could be floated. The bloody floats would be about 80' long. For you coast dogs, you would
'nt have to worry about landing parallel to the swell, you could just bridge em

yok driver · Post by **yok driver** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:41 pm

Good one! That would really hauld a crap load of kids to camp eh?

Cheers, The Yok Driver.

twotter · Post by **twotter** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:08 pm

Just think of how many drunk loggers you could put in one... What a great idea... 40 at a time!!!

Not!!!!

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:52 pm

If that sounds far fetched, over on PPRuNe there's some guy who says he watched a Dash 8 land in Yankee Stadium, "perform a pirouette at home plate" - his words, not mine - then take off again! Shiiiitt Bobby-Joe, looka this!

DA900 · Post by **DA900** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:03 pm

maybe it was another Jazz pilot... I know its an old story!

The skies were clear at Seattle's Sea-Tac airport on Jan. 19, but an Air Canada Jazz pilot flying in from Vancouver still managed to miss the runway he was supposed to land on.

Once the de Havilland DHC-8 aircraft was safely on the ground, the control tower informed the flight crew that the plane had actually landed on a taxiway, not a runway.

None of the 35 people on board was injured, but Sea-Tac spokesman Bob Parker said it is always troubling when "an aircraft manoeuvres in a way it's not supposed to."

The mis-landing occurred after the pilot received clearance from air control to land on one of the airport's two runways, behind a 737.

An incident report by the U.S. transportation safety board says the pilot "aligned the aircraft with what he felt sure was Runway 16 Right," continued on his approach and "completed what to him seemed to be an uneventful landing."

Sea-Tac's Parker said this is the third time in five years a pilot has landed on the taxiway instead of the runway.

Parker is puzzled as to why, noting that the taxiway is distinguishable from the two runways in many ways.

First, a large, "bright yellow" X marks the incoming end of the taxiway -- indicating to pilots they're not supposed to land there. Second, there are no numbers on the pavement to indicate it's a runway. And third, Parker says there are none of the black, streaky rubber marks common to runways after years of planes landing.

"When the visibility is good, for some reason, [the pilots] are seeing this bright shiny piece of concrete and they're attracted to it," Parker said.

"It only occurs when visibility is good because when visibility is poor, pilots are relying on their instruments and their instruments bring them to the right runway."

In the incident report, the pilot said he had been to Sea-Tac many times and was aware of the large X at the north end of the taxiway. But he noted that because of the contrast between the runway glare and a dark area around the approach end, he "did not notice that he had flown over the X just prior to touchdown."

Debra Williams, a spokeswoman for Air Canada Jazz, said the pilot and two other crew members were immediately suspended from flying and an investigation was launched the day the incident occurred.

"Any situation like that we take quite seriously," Williams said from Montreal.

flyinhigh · Post by **flyinhigh** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:03 pm

It was a Buffalo that did the baseball park trick, not sure if it was Yankee stadium though??? Saw the video a while back, impressive!!

yok driver · Post by **yok driver** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:29 pm

The Buffalo did a steamboat willie on a diamond (not Yankee stadium). That was kickin it old school.

Cheers, The Driver

CLguy · Post by **CLguy** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:12 pm

DeHavilland also demonstrated the STOL characteristics of the Beaver, Otter and Caribou by landing them in Central Park in New York, taxiing around and then taking off again. Apparently it caused a bit of a stir but resulted in some sales to the US Military.

R2000/1830 · Post by **R2000/1830** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:27 pm

They put a couple of DC-3's on floats, I’m sure they can do it to anything

JigglyBus · Post by **JigglyBus** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:44 pm

They even had the DC3 on amphibs.....

http://www.douglasdc3.com/float/float.htm

I guess they could put a quad otter on floats.... it's not that much larger than a dc3... maybe 30%.

I don't know what the purpose would be though.

wollypilot · Post by **wollypilot** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:18 pm

It would be pretty cool but not with the -50 engines. Sure would haul a ton o' kids up to Timmy's camp.
Maybe the same size airframe with the PW 100 series engines they put on the Q400. They could call it Two Sugars.

Cheers, wp.

data plate · Post by **data plate** » Wed May 27, 2009 5:35 pm

Too bad the engines were not better. This would be a kick-ass machine.

TG · Post by TG » Wed May 27, 2009 8:06 pm

data plate wrote:Too bad the engines were not better. This would be a kick-ass machine.

Again, digging up a 4 years old topic after commenting there back in 2005

Sniffing too much glue lately ?

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