A Salute to the Shorts

[wil]

Best flight was coming back empty and taking turns in our own version of the "Vomet Comet". What a great airplane! Every fueler who went near that plane soon came to appreciate "low flow"!!!And, the previous post was correct, nothing like flying through weather at 10k with no autopilot! I'd love to find some stickers!! Wil


PS- We always told those who asked, "It's a lifting body- providing about 13% of the total"

 

[Typhoon1244]

Bear in mind I've never even stood near a Shorts...as a layperson, though, the fuel tank location always made me nervous. In any accident involving significant fuselage damage, aren't the pax pretty much screwed?

 

[crash-proof]

Falcon Cappy,
Great Avatar! Porcão is simply unbelievable....but the price is unbelievable too! Usually spend about $70 for 2...not including drinks. Tip: Don't eat at the buffet, or else there will be no room for the good meats!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm gonna build a brazilian-style BBQ pit in my backyard, in the near future hopefully.


Oh, about the shorts...yeah for some reason they're becoming reaaaaallll popular here at FLL. I gotta laugh when i see one of those Skyvans taking off, they look so clunky!

 

[KingAirer]

Nice pics, Looks like you got enough to consider yourself an ace

 

[bigD]

What was that old joke about ATC telling someone to follow a Shorts in front of him, and the guy replies, "We have the Shorts in sight...oh wait...he just flew over a trailer park. We lost him."

 

[LearLove]

guy who flew it here call it the "Irish Concord"

 

[SDdriver]

Ha, I have never heard that joke or the Irish Concord either, Those were damm funny!! I will have to remember those.

SD

 

[j41driver]

As for the shorts,
I spent some time fueling them when they were still in the USAir express system. Those guages were crap unless you beat the heck out of them. I remember getting a "top it off" order from the captain only to find out the auto shut off didnt work and i got a big jet a bath.

I almost forgot about that. I spent some time fueling them also. Who the heck put the tank overflow there anyway? It did beat climbing up on top of a Skyvan to fill those tanks though. Especially in the winter. What fun.

 

[citdrver]

Well 72,

Hopefully it will come around for them and for you! I didnt know how closely irelated your furloughing and the others guys PFT was. So, I can understand your anger. Sorry for busting your nards on my last post, just thought you were some dude spouting off out of the blue!

 

[flybrowntails]

Wow! I remember the days and nights flying the shorts--it was great. I really enjoyed flying the shorts (330/360).

I would love to know where I could get a shorts sticker. Any shorts websites?

Cheers.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Longhorn 72, fly2002, this has been a pretty civilized thread if not for your posts. (I know, fly', you didn't start it.)

Cool it, both of you.

 

[Airspur]

The Shorts makes a great Island-hopping, frieght hauler. You don't need to go above 10,000 out here. Our longest leg is less than 200nm (HNL-ITO). njcapt is right about the leakage. We overnight in ITO, and it's a fairly rainy spot. Never fails to get a nice bath on rotation. It's also one of the only airplanes I can think of that have two separate doors for the Capt/FO. Not even a 747 has that. Ours are equiped with another interesting feature: the two-needle airspeed indicator and a single-needle altimeter. Gotta love my captain's latest comment:

ATC: "xxx...you guys still climbing to 9000?"
us: (300fpm @7000) "yeah, got a big load in the Shorts tonight"

 

[ProLine4]

Shorts

Another good quote...
"The Shorts looks like it was designed by Lego."

 

[Guam360]

All right, it is my turn!

Q: What happens when both engines fail?

A: It glides to the nearest trailer park.

Flew the 360 for four years, 6 months in the 330( Differnet company)

I loved it. great short approach airplane. Alot of fun.

True story:
Flying in the Marinanas Islands, and on the ground in Saipan, the tower tells JAL, "you are following a Shorts 360, #2", so JAL executes a 360 on final at about 3000' AGL over Tinian in a 747.
Classic! I was flying a Cherokee 6 at that time, summer 1995.

Got the leak from over the FO's seat from the escape hatch.
Two doors to the cockpit was the best, especially leaving them open so you could glance back at the babes in the back, this was back when it was still 135.

Also, ordering a cheeseburger form the Roach coach in front of the terminal and having the ground girls bring it to the handy Captain's window while everyone is on board, "Two Bacon double cheesburgers to go please".

Or how about while everyone was deplaning from the back and you could open the emergency exits and just jump onto the ramp.

I miss it

 

[SDdriver]

YEah, I always loved the very technical procedure of checking to see if you had to much ice to take off.

Step one: Open Captains fast food window.

Step Two: Reach out and feel the skin of the Airplane.

Boy a very highly technical procedure.

Or scaring the crap out of a fresh FO, by popping the window latch on the fast food window, sounded like a shotgun going off when the seal broke.

Yeah talk about get some airflow going in that thing, 2 big doors on both sides and the captains window. You could get a nice draft going in there when it was hot on the ramp.

I think that was one of the most forgiving turbine aircaft I have ever flown. I mean you really had to try to screw things up. Great view from in the cockpit with all those windows also. Dang I miss that bird!!

SD