Well, I never had the opportunity to ride in an Otter or Beaver but I'm racking up some serious time in the cabin of Twin Otters. My department does a lot of work designing and testing prototype sensors and we very often use Twin Otters, with a big hole in the belly to look down from, as our test platform. I know they are not quite the same as the singles but man are their big brothers ever the ultimate work horse. You can pile almost anything in the cabin at almost any station and those planes just shrug it off. Truly impressive utility airplanes. Not only that you can slow flight while taking data if required. We use Twin Otter International out of Colorado and Las Vegas for our rides. Scott Siebold has about 17 of these great planes. He runs Scenic Airlines for lookie lou flights over the Grand Canyon with most of them and the other 6 or 7 he uses for a mix of smoke jumpers during the fire season or research and aerial survey the rest of the year. Take a look at the research ships at his web site www.twinotter.com to see the kind of things we stuff into and fly in these birds.
Barry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 12:51 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Beaver/Otters > <<Hmmm. Interesting subject, as I once flew in a hurricane (after > landfall) in a commercial Otter commuter. Quite a ride, although the plane itself was > fine. Something totally cool about lumbering along at 1000 ft with fixed > landing gear.>> > All of Kenmore's Beavers and Otters are on floats. If they pick one up for rebuild on wheels, they barge them from Renton Airport which is at the other end of Lake Washington. On Canadian fishing charters, Campbell River for example, I've seen some BIG salmon pulled out of the float storage compartments. RLE ************** Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp0030000 00025 48) _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
