With cargo (4000kg, large drilling equipment) and fuel loaded, this aircraft is set for a long journey via Bordeaux, Sevilla and Las Palmas to Mauretany!
My first commercial airplane ride was in 1970 on an Ozark Airlines F-27 from Kansas City, Missouri to Springfield, Missouri. Those RR engines are so identifiable.
Brings back fond memories from 1968-72 when I was a kid and watched these operating with Air West (later Hughes Airwest) out of Monterey, California. They were the licensed built Fairchild FH-227 variants I believe. Great video!
Love this plane! Brings me back. When i was a kid, i always use my bike and go to the airport 1.2km away 5:30am in the morning just to see this beauty arriving and departing. Its the best screaming engines ive have ever heard in my life! Too bad those days are gone. 😢
Air NZ had these, used to able to stand outside like this ( close enough to see the passengers faces and pick our family out), listen to the start up ( which was deafening, these things were old tech and very loud ) thanks for the memories
Flew the Fairchild F27 for many hours, it had some improvements over the Fokker version. I believe one of them was the availability of "speed brakes." The Speed Brake consisted on a console mounted switch that allowed the extension of the main landing gear. The Fairchild would lose 40 knots almost instantaneously. The whining noise was identical, though. Love that airplane!
One of the best sounding engines ever! And for me, one of the most amazing planes ever built! I still would like to fly one of these! Perfect video, perfect sound, thanks!!
That RR whistle is classic, but the larger Rda.10 engine took it to another level. Around September of 1965 I was standing on the observation platform at the Dallas Love Field Airport. I knew the first Dart-engined Convair 240 conversion was coming in that night, and it was on time. Not yet painted in the livery of the carrier that would operate it, Central Airlines, it was the second Dart conversion done and the first delivered to a customer. Registration number was N74858, if I remember correctly. We who worked at Love Field were accustomed to the RR whistle coming from Continental Airline's Viscounts, but the noise the Convair Dart made was distinctively louder as it taxied to the gate and shut down. After refueling and inspection by the Central employees present, it started back up to begin a pilot training flight. I watched the reaction of the people on the observation deck as the first engine came up to speed. They were looking around and trying to identify the source of that ungodly whistle that kept rising in pitch, never suspecting that it came from that rather unkempt Convair on Gate 9. When the pilot took the engines up to minimum governing speed to turn out of the gate, people began putting thier fingers in their ears. The Big Dart had arrived.
Woo that airport is so close to residential buildings!!!!! I am sure that people in those building do not enjoy so much the Rolls Royce engines sound!!!
Having worked at Stansted in the 1990’s I’m certain they caused my hearing damage! Sends chills hearing them again. On a windy day the cockpit control column would jig around from the ailerons moving. On really windy day ATC allowed us to park into the wind. The inflight classical music on Air UK’s F 27 was on C-60 cassette tapes and described by the cabin crew as the inflight funeral music. Loved these planes, along with the HS748 and Viscount. They were like war relics!
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The old school planes had so much more character than the bland airliners of today , the sound they made was more interesting
My first commercial airplane ride was in 1970 on an Ozark Airlines F-27 from Kansas City, Missouri to Springfield, Missouri. Those RR engines are so identifiable.
I love how the Rolls Royce just reverberates through the airframe. Amazing sound.
I worked with the F-27 for several years for a regional airline in the 1980s. I'll never forget the sound of those RR Dart engines.
Brings back fond memories from 1968-72 when I was a kid and watched these operating with Air West (later Hughes Airwest) out of Monterey, California. They were the licensed built Fairchild FH-227 variants I believe. Great video!
Love this plane! Brings me back. When i was a kid, i always use my bike and go to the airport 1.2km away 5:30am in the morning just to see this beauty arriving and departing. Its the best screaming engines ive have ever heard in my life! Too bad those days are gone. 😢
Air NZ had these, used to able to stand outside like this ( close enough to see the passengers faces and pick our family out), listen to the start up ( which was deafening, these things were old tech and very loud ) thanks for the memories
Flew the Fairchild F27 for many hours, it had some improvements over the Fokker version. I believe one of them was the availability of "speed brakes." The Speed Brake consisted on a console mounted switch that allowed the extension of the main landing gear. The Fairchild would lose 40 knots almost instantaneously. The whining noise was identical, though. Love that airplane!
So many beautiful childhood memories evoked by this screaming sound. I miss the F-27 so badly.
One of the best sounding engines ever! And for me, one of the most amazing planes ever built! I still would like to fly one of these! Perfect video, perfect sound, thanks!!
the sound is astonishing !
That RR whistle is classic, but the larger Rda.10 engine took it to another level. Around September of 1965 I was standing on the observation platform at the Dallas Love Field Airport. I knew the first Dart-engined Convair 240 conversion was coming in that night, and it was on time. Not yet painted in the livery of the carrier that would operate it, Central Airlines, it was the second Dart conversion done and the first delivered to a customer. Registration number was N74858, if I remember correctly. We who worked at Love Field were accustomed to the RR whistle coming from Continental Airline's Viscounts, but the noise the Convair Dart made was distinctively louder as it taxied to the gate and shut down. After refueling and inspection by the Central employees present, it started back up to begin a pilot training flight. I watched the reaction of the people on the observation deck as the first engine came up to speed. They were looking around and trying to identify the source of that ungodly whistle that kept rising in pitch, never suspecting that it came from that rather unkempt Convair on Gate 9. When the pilot took the engines up to minimum governing speed to turn out of the gate, people began putting thier fingers in their ears. The Big Dart had arrived.
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One of my favourite aircraft from that era. Nothing quite like the beautiful sound of the Dart engines
What a beautiful sound! Great video! I love the F-27 !
Woo that airport is so close to residential buildings!!!!! I am sure that people in those building do not enjoy so much the Rolls Royce engines sound!!!
I've flown on many FH-227B aircraft (Ozark Airlines) in years gone by! A wonderful aircraft!!
The Dart, the most musical of engines
Having worked at Stansted in the 1990’s I’m certain they caused my hearing damage! Sends chills hearing them again. On a windy day the cockpit control column would jig around from the ailerons moving. On really windy day ATC allowed us to park into the wind. The inflight classical music on Air UK’s F 27 was on C-60 cassette tapes and described by the cabin crew as the inflight funeral music. Loved these planes, along with the HS748 and Viscount. They were like war relics!
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G video of my favorite plane. LOVE that rocket-like takeoff too !