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07/05/2018 at 11:00 • Filed to: Last Dash
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Yes terday marked the last day of Dash 8 commercial flights by American Airlines subsidiary Piedmont. They were the first US operator in 1985 , and to mark the occasion they put together a little sendoff movie, plus a super cool poster showing every livery they painted on a Dash 8.
facw
> someassemblyrequired
07/05/2018 at 11:24 |
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When I lived in Ithaca, I flew their Dash-8s many times. Looks like they’ve been replaced by ERJ-145s, which especially for those short flights, I would consider a downgrade.
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> facw
07/05/2018 at 11:40 |
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Yeah, I’m actually suprised they don’t offer a 37 seat Dash anymore. There was a Q200 version, but only briefly.
I’d consider it a downgrade too, as the ERJ-145s are awful from a passenger perspective.
It might be because those ERJ’s are pretty cheap when compared with a new
Q400.
Ash78, voting early and often
> someassemblyrequired
07/05/2018 at 12:01 |
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I absolutely love the Dash 8 and hope some of them find good homes in the corporate or private world (upkeep is expensive, but those PT6 engines are nice and common).
Piedmont was one of the first airlines I ever flew. It was a 737-200 with those old low-bypass engines. I’ll never forget the first time I saw a high-bypass turbofan. It looked completely ridiculous, like a donked-out car.
Side note: near the beginning of the video, the Shorts 330 is also awesome. I’ve been on those a few times. Pressurization be damned, flying boxes are fantastic.
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> someassemblyrequired
07/05/2018 at 12:04 |
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They used to taxi with just one engine, the 1st time I rode on one I wondered if the pilot forgot something
WilliamsSW
> facw
07/05/2018 at 12:06 |
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The - 145 would be a downgrade from a Cessna 150.
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> My X-type is too a real Jaguar
07/05/2018 at 12:09 |
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Yeah I can definitely understand why - one engine taxis are
not as
obvious with a jet!
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> Ash78, voting early and often
07/05/2018 at 12:23 |
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It seems a lot of them are heading north to Alaska and the Canadian territories, as well as in Africa. They’re tanks, so I imagine it’ll be like the Beavers - they’ll outlive us all.
Ha I loved those 737s with the engines nearly as long as the plane.
I’ve never gotten to fly in a flying boxcar - I’ve seen them when spotting back in the day, but they were 2nd/3rd/4th
hand at that point
- my neck of the woods growing up was the tail end of the
F.27s/F.28s
/HS748s and then almost immediately the regionals
went to Dash 8s, and
BAe 146s
. The Shorts that you did see were run by small operators to serve
remote communities and the price of a ticket meant riding the boxcar
wasn’t going to happen
.