Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! - Those guys
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Interesting - Cessna is building a new “clean sheet” twin turboprop utility aircraft. FedEx will be the launch customer:
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Looks like an excellent STOL aircraft at first sight. I hope it fares well for Cessna!
Spotted @Troll hard at work this winter again…! (LOL…I know, it’s not a Dash 8…)
And a funny Shorts story:
The Air Canada behind the Loganair Shorts asked the tower what type it was, and tower said “it’s a shed”. The Loganair captain immediately replied, “it’s a Shorts SD-360 actually”. To which the Air Canada crew responded “Really? Did you make it yourself?”
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Buahahaha awesome!
I’d love to put one of these in the back of someone’s car and rig it up to the ignition…
And then you’ve murdered someone! 
Like I said… 
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No, it certainly isn’t…
Chris, my friend, you have struck gold!
Where did you find that pic!?!?
I grew up around that plane. 
It’s a Shorts belonging to the defunct Swedish airline Air Hudik. It operated out of the city of Hudiksvall in the county of Hälsingland, where I’m from. Our neighbour worked there as a technician. The same neighbour that took me flying for the first time, in his two seat Jodel experimental, and built his own Evans VP-1 in his livingroom.
The memories…
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It was just a random Reddit aviation thread…
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/7gdyzv/that_name_again_is_mr_plow/
Great that you have an attachment to it…!
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Ooooops! … Alan Cross (a popular Toronto music aficionado) was aboard a 777-300 ER at CYYZ early yesterday morning on his way to Bangkok when it hit a light standard.
Story here … http://www.edge.ca/syn/123/58992/pilot-drives-a-777-into-a-pole-at-pearson-airport-this-aint-gonna-buff-out
Check out the damage to the wing …
A bit of tape, will be fine… 
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And there goes your wing spar!
But seriously, a dent all the way up to the stress panel, that is not a happy fun time for maintenance. A expensive little mistake unfortunately.
Ouch. Yeah that one is going to be grounded for a while.
That little nick? It’ll buff right out…
Mmm…that A340 landing about two minutes in is just nice…
Looks like a compressor stall on take off. When I think of emergencies for take-off,…that is not one of them.
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I had a PT-6 bleed off valve stick closed on me just after takeoff once - it was the most racket and fire I’ve seen (until I had one blow up anyway…LOL) and the torque gauge was just bouncing from the top to the bottom of the gauge. I didn’t know what the problem was (I was a young Captain), so I shut the engine down, feathered the prop and came back around and landed. Had I known (or been more experienced)…I could have just reduced the power on the engine and the compressor stalls would have stopped.
Any-who - I think (generally), reduced power emergencies where you lose some of the engine are more common than total power losses.
That’s a cool video…
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Here’s the ATC audio.
Beach, our procedure says if you get a compressor stall and you don’t need that engine, shut it down.
Hey…you have FOUR of them…you can afford to lose one! LOL…
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