From: Larry Colen
On Sep 30, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Bill Owens wrote:
> Nope, your wiki-fu is wrong. The Dash 7's I loaded and unloaded were
> 2 engines,Now I'm thoroughly confused. Back in the late 70's and
> early 80's Dehaviland Canada built a four engine Dash-9. The Dash 7's
> I worked the the 90's had 2 engines. Now I understand the are 4
> engined Dash-7s.
Turning this into the Plane Discussion Mailing List:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_Dash_7
describes the Dash-7 as a four engined version of the Dash-6 twin otter.
Could you be confusing the 6 with the 7, or possibly the 8?
Dash 7 (DHC-7) is four engines, Dash 8 (DHC-8)is two engines.
Dash 8 is much narrower and has a higher aspect ratio wing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dash_8_in_planform_arp_rotated_03.jpg
That may not be Larry's photo, but it's definitely the one in the APOD -
different carrier of course.
I think Larry's is the Q300 50–56 passenger version and the APOD is the
Q400 70–78 passenger version.
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