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!
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!
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. 😢
Great. I flew by this airplane first time back in the 60’s when whole family went to visit one of our aunt in Quetta Pakistan from my hometown Lyallpur. It’s amazing flying with such airplane😊
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
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 Rolls Royce Dart engines were the first turboprop engines. They have a very distinctive sound to them. Because they are apparently cruder than the modern Pratt & Whitney turboprop engines of the DeHaviland Dash-8, it seems that they produce a louder jet whine than the Pratt's. The Vickers Viscount was the world's first turboprop airliner, and it had the Darts. In this video of the F-27, the chef cutter or "box fan" sound of the props is somewhat more audible than in videos of watched of the Viscount. In the video's of the Viscount, the sound the props is virtually inaudible. The Viscount sounds much more like a regular jet aircraft.
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!
@@sourich585 Great memories! Shame, they could’ve potentially been the next easyJet. I remember they flew out of LHR too! This vid is great… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DUblSH66UYU.html. 😊
@@LAGoodz also had a leisure arm Air UK leisure a couple of B737s and a B767 l remember had Stansted the rows off F100 BAE 146's and Fokker50's great memories.l think from Heathrow they flew to the channel islands.Klm only wanted the slots into Amsterdam then they defunct the airline.
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.
54 years ago I first flew on a TAA F27 Fokker Friendship from Buka to Lae and on to Moresby on my way to start boarding school in QLD in 1969. Beautiful plane the F27. Later on continued flying the F27 to and fro from school to Buka on school holidays then on to Uni in Lae on Air Niugini F27. While I was at uni the F27 was replaced with the F28 Fellowship in 1978.; I miss the F27 and the beautiful sound of its engines. Very nostalgic indeed.
What a good looking plane! Youve taken me back to my childhood thankyou. We were naughty and at night would sneak off to the far side of the plane in the dark and watch the flames in the exhaust of the rr dart engine as it caught on startup. Such a dramatic event for a young fella! Great video thanks
ah this F27 and the Electra are my childhoo memories, got the pleasure to flight on those beautiful aircraft, and this sound of the engines starting up were the best part for me
Man, that brings back memories of Quebecair and flying in northern Quebec. I was 5 years old, and sick as the proverbial dog from the turbulence!!!! I LOVED every minuit of it!!!! Thanks for posting!
With a twin engine turboprops, they always fire up the starboard engine first, and then the port engine. I think they should for one flight fire up port first and then starboard. Then for the next flight, vice versa, so that the engines wear evenly. Many love the distinctive sound of the "Rolls Royce Dart" engines. They seem to produce more of the jet sound than the Pratt & Whitney engines of the DeHaviland Dash-8, which is a modern turboprop that's very similar to the F-27. I myself enjoy the sound that the props themselves make, the "box fan" sound in high idle and taxiing, and the bumblebee sound in takeoff and inflight.
They start the engines based on the start cycles that they have accumulated or have left on their maintenance/overhaul schedule , not on some whim of the flight crew
I always thought they start the starboard engine(s) first because that is the side opposite the cabin door, and if someone has to deplane or emplane at the last minute, it is safer that way.
Flew it for 8 months in 1988, the whine from the reduction gearbox’s was so intrusive we had to wear tank headsets as the aviation variety’s were not up to the job, good aircraft if pretty basic, but we used it on short commuter hops so it didn’t really matter. In November of that year I converted onto the DC9, to say chalk and cheese doesn’t come close.
Fokker needs to make one bigger with 4 engines. The F-54, same style, just a bit bigger but with 4 turboprops. The F-27s are cool but the 54 would be nicer.
The RR Dart is a very simple single spool turboprop. The propeller is geared directly to the compressor/turbine assembly. This means that the starter motor turns the prop as it is spinning the engine up to self sustaining rpm. Modern turboprops have a separate power turbine geared to the prop which is driven by the exhaust of the "gas generator" (which is basically equivalent to the Dart without its gearbox or prop). The prop does not turn with any great speed until the rpm of the gas generator has risen to almost idle speed and the power turbine begins to catch up.
Wow - invisible hearing protection for the ground crew. Where to obtain? Seriously, terrific workhorse aircraft, two still flying overnight mail service within NZ.
Hi ! I just watched it again twice, and didn't encountered any problems on my side here - everthing went fine before and after the point at 05:25. My best guess is that there may have been a lot of traffic on the line?
NAC/Air New Zealand 🇳🇿 had a fleet of these aircraft as well as the Vickers Viscount back in the 60's and 70's and beyond and 1968 was a red letter ✉ day with the arrival of the Boeing 737-200
