A Salute to the Shorts

[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