Dakota`s

[Ace of Diamonds]

Timber wolf you will enjoy this one.
There is a owner of 3 Dakota`s based at Coventry Airport,the end of June these aircraft will be grounded forever due to EU laws. Now remember these aircraft served us well during the war and the Berlin airlift and they are used these days for Historical flights and displays,anyway this is what the EU people have come up with

1. All aircraft must be fitted with emergency exit chutes.

2. A bullet proof divide between cockpit and cabin.

This is a good one
3. All aircraft must be fitted with Emergency drop down air supply.




1. Do you know how high the door on a DC3 is off the ground , approx 3ft it is physically impossible to fit a chute.

2. These are not the sort of aircraft that get highjack as i say they are Historical aircraft.

3. Emergency Oxygen was built into aircraft to aid passenger should there be a sudden decompression and below 10.000ft can be removed.
The engines on a DC3 are normal aspriated engines ,if you were in need of oxygen ,your engine would have already stopped working.


so end of June there will be a "Say bye bye " flights 1 from Coventry ,1 from Doncaster not sure where the third will fly from

[Chris Howarth]

Bummer

I love The DC3 "Dakota",has to be one of my favorite piston engined plaine's,along with the grumann goose,flying boat

they both have a distinctive noise when they fly over,like the spitfire

[mike (Walsall)]

Free to get into Cosford Aero Space Museum (M6 .. A5 or M6 ...M54)...

Fantastic place ... Always pop over when the grand kids come down from County Durham (Blue Multipla) ...

[pheasant_plucker]

They are not "Grounded forever" they will not be able to carry paying passengers due to regulations. They will still be able to fly.

Gerry

[Ace of Diamonds]

Originally Posted by pheasant_plucker

They are not "Grounded forever" they will not be able to carry paying passengers due to regulations. They will still be able to fly.

Gerry

They are grounded , but im not going to argue with you,ive given up chasing bait.

[Townaceclive]

From the daily mail -

Now the Douglas DC-3 - the most successful plane ever made, which first took to the skies just over 30 years after the Wright Brothers' historic first flight - is to carry passengers in Britain for the last time.

Romeo Alpha and Papa Yankee, the last two passenger-carrying Dakotas in the UK, are being forced into retirement because of - yes, you've guessed it - health and safety rules.


Their owner, Coventry-based Air Atlantique, has reluctantly decided it would be too expensive to fit the required emergency escape slides and weather radar systems required by new European rules for their 65-year-old planes, which served with the RAF during the war.


Mike Collett, the company's chairman, says: "We're very saddened."

The end of the passenger-carrying British Dakotas is a sad chapter in the story of the most remarkable aircraft ever built, surpassing all others in length of service, dependability and achievement.


I read that as grounded as passenger aircraft not grounded as aircraft.

[Ace of Diamonds]

Next month, Romeo Alpha and Papa Yankee begin a farewell tour of Britain's airports before carrying their final passengers at the International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford on July 16.


But after their retirement, there will still be Dakotas flying in the farthest corners of the world, kept going with love, dedication and sheer ingenuity
but not in the UK

[Kirsten]

Originally Posted by mike (Walsall)

Free to get into Cosford Aero Space Museum (M6 .. A5 or M6 ...M54)...

Fantastic place ... Always pop over when the grand kids come down from County Durham (Blue Multipla) ...

It is great place we have had a couple of meets there

[lisboa]

good job health and safety went around in the war .what men women and children working .in such bad conditions ect taking risks in all they done .the world has gone mad .

[gdv]

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