Noisy little bastards, Flew to KI many time in the 70's on these. I lived quite close to the airport 3k away and I used to hear these warm up every other day along with the DC9 and 727 warming up prior to take off curfew.
Flew the original "John Batman" - TQN, bashing around the outback and the coast in Queensland for many an hour. Glad to see that this later larger -500 series will be preserved at HARS and hope it will be painted in the TAA colors.
Great video. Love the F27. PS: Bill Gronbeck. Not Grondbeck. Thanks for the video. Would love to share it on our web site if that's ok? Regards David fiveDME Adelaide.
There are stupid and nonsense attitudes in aviation that I will never comprehend and accept. Why DC3 is still flying with higher risks and costs and with less features than Fokker F27 and this outstanding plane isn't. Very silly attitudes.
A screamin' demon. The dart is the most obnoxious and the sweetest sounding turboprop ever made. The 100 mph tape on the radome is a nice touch LOL.
man where did you go ??
Noisy little bastards, Flew to KI many time in the 70's on these. I lived quite close to the airport 3k away and I used to hear these warm up every other day along with the DC9 and 727 warming up prior to take off curfew.
Nice that she will be looked after instead of just getting dust in Auckland sitting around doing nothing
Agreed 100%. She will be well looked after. HARS are the only people in Oz that care about these old girls,
Flew the original "John Batman" - TQN, bashing around the outback and the coast in Queensland for many an hour. Glad to see that this later larger -500 series will be preserved at HARS and hope it will be painted in the TAA colors.
Those were the days lol , Fokker Friendships
The F-27 brought the Australian outback closer. It was just made for the outback!!!!!
Nice! and all my playgrounds in the distance
nothing like the sound of those lol
Nice,seen many Friendships flyby.
Great video. Love the F27. PS: Bill Gronbeck. Not Grondbeck. Thanks for the video. Would love to share it on our web site if that's ok? Regards David fiveDME Adelaide.
Música para meus ouvidos.👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
I think that used to be TAA
WOW ! We're all nearly the same age except the Fokker ?Sure they should be putting us into the Museum not the Fokker Friendship? ODER? Be Blessed all.
There are stupid and nonsense attitudes in aviation that I will never comprehend and accept. Why DC3 is still flying with higher risks and costs and with less features than Fokker F27 and this outstanding plane isn't. Very silly attitudes.