Fokker F27/50 21/12?
 

This has been bugging me since yesterday, approx. 1600. Could i really have seen a F27/50 tracking SW following takeoff, or did I just look at a 340B form a strange angle?

Kent

Alliance had an F50 into Sydney the last few days you more than likely did see a F50.

You probably saw a S340 , the RXA178 from Sydney bound for Orange which departed at about 1602Hrs .... can't help with the rego though .

Dave C

Kent, you weren't 'seeing things'; VH-FKV was there on Sunday (at the GA outside the Hawker hangar).

My SBS log picked it up at 16:09; probably returning to Adelaide.

The Saab David noted was probably VH-OLL which I have at 16:04.

Pete do you know what time it was there on sunday,i was there in the morning didn`t see then.(VH-FKV)

I got there just after 3pm. Merv said it had already been in and out earlier.

My SBS log has it 8:05 to 8:20 (no heights!)
1:05pm to 1:26pm 17400 down to 13500
2:09pm to 2:27pm down to 4200 (which is when it arrived before I saw it)

So looks like the SBS didn't pick it up between 8:20 and 1:05pm

HTH
Peter

Cheers Pete.

Thanks guys. I only saw it briefly side-on ( I was in Marrickville), so only just caught the nose as it banked, but the the wingspan seemed too wide for any of the 340s or DHC8s, and then it had a low, horizontal rear control surface. Didn't see the nacelles, hence my F27/50 ref.

BTW, my first commercial flight was in an F27, and the Ansett Express F50s were much nicer than the opposition for regional flights in the 90s....

Kent

The F27 were the ultimate aircraft to fly in on short hops.Once flew from ASP-DRW just for the fun of it.

Never got the chance to go fly on a F27, went with a scout group once in the mid '70's and went for a walk through on one, also a DC-9 with the scoutmaster who worked for Ansett.

I used to like riding about on the tugs at MEL with my dad, and raid the BA VC-10 for pommy newspapers, beer (for my dad) and chocolate bars (for me). :D