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The Most Desperately Needed Airplane Is Back in Production
- helsinkiandrew 2y agohttps://archive.ph/phnsd https://archive.ph/phnsd
- thijson 2y agoAnother famous De Havilland aircraft, the Beaver: https://youtu.be/4wQjAB-jnI8 https://youtu.be/4wQjAB-jnI8 With commentary by Harrison Ford. Sounds like this plane wasn't De Havilland to start with, they just bought the rights to build them.
- dingaling 2y agoOriginally designed by Canadair which started life as another British subsidiary, Canadian Vickers, which was taken into state ownership in WW2 and renamed more patriotically. Later sold to Electric Boat and organised under General Dynamics, then later sold to Bombardier. The latter decide to leave the commercial aircraft market and focus on business jets. DHC acquired the rights to the CL_15 series in 2016.
- fmajid 2y agoIn Europe, or at least in France, “Canadair” is synonymous with fire-fighting aircraft.
- secretsatan 2y agoAs a young kid i had an airfix model of a CL-215, painted in the yellow and red livery, i thought it was the coolest plane ever.
- LandStander 2y agoI remember as a young kid, it was the closest I could find to the Sea Duck from Tail Spin.
- ianburrell 2y agoI think that the Canadair 215/415/515 series may be the only purpose-designed firefighting aircraft. The rest are all converted from military and airliners. Amphibious waterbombers are getting rare, old Catalinas are the other main ones.