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Beechcraft H18
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The Twin Beech is pure class. IIRC, they have some pretty nasty ADs against them.
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I love how modern passenger planes could have won us WW2.
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Yogimus wrote:I love how modern passenger planes could have won us WW2.
I'm pretty sure modern (at the time) planes DID win us WW 2. Especially planes like the C-47 and PBY Catalina.
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MarkD wrote:
Yogimus wrote:I love how modern passenger planes could have won us WW2.
I'm pretty sure modern (at the time) planes DID win us WW 2. Especially planes like the C-47 and PBY Catalina.
I think he meant that the performance specs of modern passenger planes, if they were transported back to the 1940's, would place them at an advantage with even advanced combat types of the day.
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My dream plane (well, behind a F4U-1D) is a Beech 18 on floats... *drool*
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Oh, hell yes. That also handily solves any issues with the original landing gear design. :lol:
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Netpackrat wrote:Oh, hell yes. That also handily solves any issues with the original landing gear design. :lol:
We're gonna need a bigger hangar...
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AlaskaTRX wrote:We're gonna need a bigger hangar...
Like that hasn't been obvious for a while now.
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I remember reading something in Flying or another a/c rag at least as recently as the early 80's that the majority of US Airmail was still being carried in Beech 18's. Lot of small regional flights in the midwest and such.
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