RAF DHC Twin Otter C.Mk.1

Knightflyer · April 03, 2020, 08:40:01 AM

Hi All

Well there is a back story involving a 'perfect storm' of Pembroke retirement due to fatigue failure, Canadian political reasons for NATO involvement needing a boost and US willingness to solve both by funding the purchase of DHC-6s for the RAF. This particular example was flown by No.60 Squadron on the spy flights along the air corridors to Berlin.

DHC Twin Otter C.Mk.1 XW667 of the Royal Air Force, Germany 1975

PR19_Kit · April 03, 2020, 08:51:53 AM

Shouldn't it have camera hatches in the underside?

Oh, perhaps it has, and they're closed.

Knightflyer · April 03, 2020, 09:04:22 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 03, 2020, 08:51:53 AM
Shouldn't it have camera hatches in the underside?

Oh, perhaps it has, and they're closed.

I could tell you Kit, but then as they say ......I'd have to kill you!

(Maybe I should have distracted you by fitting longer wings!

)

AeroplaneDriver · April 03, 2020, 09:43:39 AM

Love it! For some reason the Twotter is one of my favorite aircraft.

PR19_Kit · April 03, 2020, 10:19:33 AM

Quote from: Knightflyer on April 03, 2020, 09:04:22 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 03, 2020, 08:51:53 AM
Shouldn't it have camera hatches in the underside?

Oh, perhaps it has, and they're closed.

I could tell you Kit, but then as they say ......I'd have to kill you!

(Maybe I should have distracted you by fitting longer wings! )

Hehehehe.

The Twotter has quite a hefty wing span anyway, nicely proportioned I reckon.

chrisonord · April 03, 2020, 10:59:04 AM

I do like that, it would not look out of place in my alternative RAF

Chris

The Rat · April 03, 2020, 02:47:40 PM

Only one of the greatest aircraft ever built. And it's a natural in RAF colours!

Glenn Gilbertson · April 03, 2020, 03:17:42 PM

It should have happened!

kitbasher · April 03, 2020, 11:27:02 PM

zenrat · April 04, 2020, 12:13:49 AM

63cpe · April 04, 2020, 12:28:42 AM

Great! I feel another Trotter version coming up...

David aka 63cpe

Knightflyer · April 04, 2020, 12:45:26 AM

Quote from: 63cpe on April 04, 2020, 12:28:42 AM
Great! I feel another Trotter version coming up...

David aka 63cpe

Well somewhere in the depths of both my mind and my stash I have (at least) another Twotter (with the ski option) and a Dornier 228-polar (also with skis as an option) My half thought out plan is to have the two aircraft on comparative trials as the new support aircraft for the British Antarctic Territories. The camouflage scheme would be based on the Westland Lynx HAS.3ICE, basically Grey with red patches. However with those nice 'plank-like' wings and the need for high visibility on the ice/snow of Antarctica I can see the upper wing surfaces being a grey/red version of target tug type stripes

Old Wombat · April 04, 2020, 05:28:26 AM