Identify the plane please!

[Hard-Drive]

Just flown into BHX. Turboprop twin, high wing, bit of anhedral, quite a big tail (conventional, not T) with a long fillet thingy. Almost slightly Russian in appearance, about the size of a Dash 7. And noisy!

Bit snowy for a photo from the office window, sorry!

[Eric Mc]

Antonov An24/26?

[Hard-Drive]

Spot on sir!

[TheEnd]

There used to be a BHX forum that listed all the stuff that came in, but I think it's gone under now.

[Eric Mc]

Hard-Drive said:

Spot on sir!

It was a good description. At first I thought it might be a Fokker F-27 or F-50 but the anhedral comment pointed in the direction of an Antonov.

You can see the general similarity.

[mrmaggit]

Yes but those Friendships were so loud you couldn't hear anything else on the apron when they started up.

[TheEnd]

That was about the right time

http://www.flightstats.co.uk/FlightStatus/flightSt...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Dash_8

[Eric Mc]

mrmaggit said:

Yes but those Friendships were so loud you couldn't hear anything else on the apron when they started up.

Lovely, wasn't it.

Even better with a Viscount - twice as many Darts.

[aeropilot]

I remember the low level take-off/single engine turn displays etc from those mad Dutchmen in their F-27 from years ago.....

Here's the last ever UK display from nearly 20 years ago....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acqULr4-mUo

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Mad Cloggies indeed, but superb handling! ISTR watching a display at Fairford where they got airborne, bottled an engine and went straight into a barrel roll.

Barking mad!

[magpie215]

Eric Mc said:

mrmaggit said:

Yes but those Friendships were so loud you couldn't hear anything else on the apron when they started up.

Lovely, wasn't it.

Even better with a Viscount - twice as many Darts.

never managed flying on a Viscount

But managed to get a few flights on Heralds,HS748 and also the friendship..nothing sounds quite like a dart used to love the noise just as the prop starts to coarsen.

[Eric Mc]

It seemed like the engine note couldn't get any higher - and then it did. Music to the ear of any aviation mad kid of the 60s and 70s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psQEGWBNGKg

Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 1st December 22:32

[perdu]

Ah yes

I loved the sound of a Viscount

I lived beneath one of BHX's flight paths and the Viscount was the sound track to my youth.

musical ish!

[Hard-Drive]

OK then stop press…another interesting aircraft in BHX today!

Also looks Russian, slight anhedral again. Apart from that it looks like the spitting image of a Herc, albeit a bit slimmer, and with more of the wheels visible due to longer oleos. White upper fuselage, grey lower, with a very obvious matt black anti-glare panel under the windscreen just shouts Antonov or similar to me. Can't give any more detail as I can only see it nose on.

Over to you Eric...

[Eric Mc]

Sounds like an Antonov An-12

[Hard-Drive]

Could be...but not sure I can see the "bombardier's" position!

It's running up now so I will see it properly in a mo...

[Hard-Drive]

Spot on again!

Great looking aircraft, however it was throwing so much crap out of the engines on climbout I thought he was on fire!

So what's going on with all this interesting Russki stuff in BHX at the moment then?

[Eric Mc]

Bringing in snow ploughs?

[Jonny671]

Eric is very impressive at this plane identifying thing!

[Eric Mc]

To be honest, the descriptions have been very good.