I was on the Space Shuttle Support Team starting with STS-2. I have a certificate from the mission somewhere with Joe Engle’s and Richard Truly’s signatures/autographs on it.
I don’t know if this is true, so I’ll share it in case anyone knows.
What is the highest passenger capacity for a turboprop aircraft?
The last C-130 out of Saigon, at the end of the Vietnam War, left with 452 people on board. 32 of them in the cockpit.
Later it was determined that it took off about 10,000 pounds over the maximum gross weight for a C-130.
The plane survived and is now on display in Little Rock, Arkansas.
I’d consider a .mil site trustworthy:
https://www.littlerock.af.mil/News/Art/igphoto/2001063315/
In all, 452 people were on board, including the 32 in the cockpit. It was estimated the aircraft was overloaded by at least 10,000 pounds.
Not all: there were the Messerschmitt Bf 110 and the Grumman F7F Tigercat.
The coolest USAF propeller plane today IMHO:
And the Black Widow.
Amazing!
Not really. I (and a few others in the company) just got rawinsonde data from the Air Force and transmitted it to JSC. But I did get a jacket.
Oh. Still pretty cool.
That beats the 100 otters flown by MJN airways.
Brilliant.
The unofficial C-130 motto is:
“IF IT FITS, IT FLIES”
D’oh! Fixed link: Beaver drop - Wikipedia
Ambitious… but unrealistic?
A 90 passenger 500 mile range battery plane I can (barely) believe.
This part is raging fantasy:
aims to fly commercially within a decade.
A new company could not bring a 100% bog standard RJ or turboprop to commercial service in a mere decade. There’s just too much to do, and much of it at government speeds. 20 years is more realistic, but your / their first round angel investors don’t want to hear that.
you fail to reckon that they are …
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ahem
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…disruptive ;o)
maybe they go full “that-imploded-titanic-submarine (who’s name escape me now)” … and fly domestically in central africa, somalia, or so … circumenting those pesky pencil pushers
I bought a raffle ticket today. Grand prize is a Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee with a Millennium 160 hp engine, or $75,000 cash. Per the FAA, it appears to be a 1966.
The link doesn’t go to the aircraft’s registration page. N4117J has an airworthiness date of 12/20/1966. Could be a '66, or it could be a '67.
Joby makes landmark 523-mile hydrogen-electric flight
Joby Aviation has successfully flown a first-of-its-kind hydrogen-electric air taxi demonstrator 523 miles, with water as the only by-product. The aircraft, which takes off and lands vertically, builds on Joby’s successful battery-electric air taxi development program, and demonstrates the potential for hydrogen to unlock emissions-free, regional journeys that don’t require a runway.