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and this one?



That's technically not a plane. :P But, it's Russian, or Ukrainian...the designation escapes me though.
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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Th PAC750XL is infact a stretched re-engined version of the Cresco.
Ugly but well hung. It boasts some impressive stats in regards to payload and turn around time. No prizes for guessing the power plant.



It is a PT6-27 powered A/C, A design based on the success of the cresco, but re-enginered airframe. Many subtle changes were nessesary to make the final product perform as well as it does.

From what I've heard, with the equvilent of 6 jumpers on board it was still pulling ove 2100 fpm, at 14k msl a month or two ago, on some check out rides.
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sorry, you got me on that one...



Chinese Q-5, whose sheer numbers is the biggest problem, more than 1000 built. :o
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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it's an orlyonoks A-90, the civilian one... the black and white I posted next is the "Caspian Sea Monster" so designated from US intelligence (I think) who saw this fast moving large thing skating across the caspian sea during the cold war.

Um, I think it can be argued that it is a plane... it banks, it travels independent of the surface, albeit in ground effect, and can even raise above ground effect for a while. Yeah, I know... it's not strictly a plane but it isn't a hover craft either.

-the artist formerly known as sinker

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You got me good on that. I'm not complaining, but it is too bad that so many of those craft the Russians built are now collecting rust or dust or both. :|
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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looks like we stump each other... I just love this shit. True about the ruskies and their penchant for either xeroxing our designs or coming up w/ such bizarro stuff that it never goes anywhere. Too much Vodka I guess.

one last one before bed... an easy one... one of my favorite experimentals...

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I know nothing about civilian experimental aircraft...so automatic stump. Looks like it scoots though. ;)
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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BTW regarding the DC -3. The South African air
force currently has the most DC-3 still in service.

No other country has more and yes most of them
are upgraded to turbine and if your were lucky enough to be in South Africa with Pretoria skydiving
clubs 40 birthday you would have been able to jump it. Slot were priced at R150 for 11000ft (R150 -> $18)
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DeHavilland of Canada Cariboo transport.
I jumped Cariboos at California City and Elsinore.
Thousands of soldiers from Canada and a variety of African nations have done static-line jumps from Cariboos.
The Royal Australian Air Force still flies Cariboos.
A few American DZs have tried operating Cariboos as jump planes, but unfortunately radial engines have fallen out of fashion.

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