Flew many miles in these on Piedmont Airlines out of Greensboro, NC. Much preferred over the FH-227. Beckley, WVa, Charleston, Sc, Princeton-Bluefield, WVa, Cincinnati, OH. Flew youth fare mostly during these times.
Piedmont may have been the best known operator of the YS-11, yet the North American launch customer was across the Pacific - Hawaiian Airlines. Hawaiian also flew the famous British-built Vickers Viscount as well as the Convair 640 (a conversion of the famous "Convair-Liner"), both also powered by Rolls-Royce Dart engines.
ALL of our YS-11 were chopped up on the tarmac in October of 1988 after we closed. Only (1) was sold which had a cargo door. A REAL BUMMER as I flew in all of them. :(
The Rolls Royce Darts seem to produce a lot more jet noise that virtually drowns out the sound of the props. With the Pratt & Whitney turboprops of the DeHaviland Dash 8, you hear much more of the prop sound. The second plane in the video that taxi's in, is a Dash 7.
The design of both the Dash 7 and Dash 8 is now owned by Viking Air Ltd. in Victoria, B.C. Its parent company now owns the plant in Downsview, Ontario where the current Q400s are built. By the way, the loud whistling sound associated with the Dart to the best of my knowledge comes from the centrifugal compressor. The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engine that powers the Dash 7 has a combination centrifugal/axial-flow compressor, while the Dash 8's PW100 engine has an all-axial-flow compressor.
Ah, the golden age of air travel - when airlines respected their passengers and treated them as human. How can they NOT take your luggage and give you a seat and give you meals without demanding more $money$ ?!?! I simply don't fly anymore - miss it, but just drive everywhere - vastly easier .... 36-42 thousand miles a year. Used to fly that many miles+. These YS 11's ... flew them on PBA and Reeve Aleutian :-)
Soon there will be a new Japanese-built commercial airliner, the Mitsubishi MRJ70/90 regional jet. Unlike the YS-11, it will be a pure-jet aircraft, powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1000G PurePower turbofans.
Couldn't quite catch the registration number on the aft fuselage. I did see that it ended with a 'P' - as in "ex Piedmont Airlines." Did you happen to catch it when you filmed this?
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Fondly remember seeing the Piedmont YS-11s, take off leaving Louisville in the 70s. Thanks for the uploads from Provincetown Boston Airways.
Piedmont had these! One great aircraft! Love the sound of the Rolls Royce Turboprops!
Flew many miles in these on Piedmont Airlines out of Greensboro, NC. Much preferred over the FH-227. Beckley, WVa, Charleston, Sc, Princeton-Bluefield, WVa, Cincinnati, OH. Flew youth fare mostly during these times.
Piedmont may have been the best known operator of the YS-11, yet the North American launch customer was across the Pacific - Hawaiian Airlines. Hawaiian also flew the famous British-built Vickers Viscount as well as the Convair 640 (a conversion of the famous "Convair-Liner"), both also powered by Rolls-Royce Dart engines.
ALL of our YS-11 were chopped up on the tarmac in October of 1988 after we closed. Only (1) was sold which had a cargo door. A REAL BUMMER as I flew in all of them. :(
The Rolls Royce Darts seem to produce a lot more jet noise that virtually drowns out the sound of the props. With the Pratt & Whitney turboprops of the DeHaviland Dash 8, you hear much more of the prop sound. The second plane in the video that taxi's in, is a Dash 7.
The design of both the Dash 7 and Dash 8 is now owned by Viking Air Ltd. in Victoria, B.C. Its parent company now owns the plant in Downsview, Ontario where the current Q400s are built. By the way, the loud whistling sound associated with the Dart to the best of my knowledge comes from the centrifugal compressor. The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engine that powers the Dash 7 has a combination centrifugal/axial-flow compressor, while the Dash 8's PW100 engine has an all-axial-flow compressor.
no unfortunately. Same engines though but smaller. These are some of the most bad ass engines I have ever heard on a plane
Ah, the golden age of air travel - when airlines respected their passengers and treated them as human. How can they NOT take your luggage and give you a seat and give you meals without demanding more $money$ ?!?! I simply don't fly anymore - miss it, but just drive everywhere - vastly easier .... 36-42 thousand miles a year. Used to fly that many miles+. These YS 11's ... flew them on PBA and Reeve Aleutian :-)
Very cool!! Did you ever video tape Air New England FH-227s?
Soon there will be a new Japanese-built commercial airliner, the Mitsubishi MRJ70/90 regional jet. Unlike the YS-11, it will be a pure-jet aircraft, powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1000G PurePower turbofans.
Couldn't quite catch the registration number on the aft fuselage. I did see that it ended with a 'P' - as in "ex Piedmont Airlines." Did you happen to catch it when you filmed this?
I don't think so but I do recall a guy there told me they used to belong to Piedmont Airlines before PBA bought them
So my father worked on this very aircraft. Very cool.
Where did they fly the YS-11 to from HYA?
LGA
This is HS 748 Avro.not YS 11..