de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
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Sep 24, 2026
HHOST
Those Winair planes are small.
HHOST
We are talking about Twin Otters, which, uh, if you haven't flown in one, imagine a flying minivan with propellers.
PhilHOST
Oh man, I can picture it.
HHOST
Yeah.
Jamie BlackHOST
One moment, though, would stand out in particular.
Jamie BlackHOST
As Cameron stood by the beach, watching a Twin Otter aircraft land on the wet sand, he turned to Norma and simply said, quote, I'm not scared anymore, Mama.
Jamie BlackHOST
For his mother, those words were everything she needed to hear, even if no one could ever prove line by line that Cameron had truly lived before.
Jamie BlackHOST
Knowing her son's emotional pain had eased was what Norman needed, and something about this journey had given her child peace.
Donald A. BarclayGUEST
It's not just a card in a catalog, um, Everything is linked through all of these things, and they're really intelligent.
Donald A. BarclayGUEST
So, for example, if I'm looking for de Havilland, the airplane manufacturing company, and I'm looking for the Canadian de Havilland, not its British predecessor, and not Olivia de Havilland, the actress, I can find the Canadian plane manufacturer, the manufacturer of the Twin Otter airplane, without getting interfered with Olivia de Havilland and British de Havilland and anything else that's in there.
Donald A. BarclayGUEST
So it's getting really smart.
Donald A. BarclayGUEST
And when you've got a semantic web and you've got linked data, it sets it up for AI to be even smarter, to not be the dumb AI that says, tell me about de Havilland, Canada, and then it's showing you things from Gone with the Wind.
Catherine WalkerHOST
In the Antarctic summer of 2024, a team of scientists, including Emma Pearce, arrived at the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Base to make an in-depth study of Halloween Crack.
Catherine WalkerHOST
They started by flying the survey's Twin Otter aircraft to the crack's widest point.
Emma PearceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The crack was probably around 100 meters wide, 200 meters wide.
Emma PearceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's so difficult to get an idea of scale with these things because there's nothing to compare it to.
Victoria MooresHOST
I'm joined this week by Loganair Chief Executive Luke Faradella.
Victoria MooresHOST
So for our listeners who might not be familiar with Loganair, it's a regional airline that connects the Highlands and Islands of Scotland using ATR's Embraer ERJ145s, Twin Otters and Britten-Norman Islanders.
Victoria MooresHOST
With that fleet, Loganair operates a network of around 70 routes, and also holds the world record for the shortest commercial scheduled flight between the Scottish islands of Westray and Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands.
Victoria MooresHOST
Now, that route is just 90 seconds, or 53 seconds if there's a really good tailwind.
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Victoria MooresHOST
Which brings me onto the next question, which is how will this fit with your future fleet? So what do you see your fleet looking like, say, 10 years from now?
Luke FarajallahGUEST
So I think 10 years from now, uh, I think the headline aircraft that we will be operating will be the, the ATR, um, uh, regional turboprop.
Luke FarajallahGUEST
Um, it's very likely we will still have Twin Otters that serve, again, a particular route network in our, in our business.
Luke FarajallahGUEST
Uh, and it's also very likely we will have, um, Britten-Norman Islanders as well.
David MooreHOST
He also flew the AT-38 at Tonopah Test Range.
David MooreHOST
When he left the Air Force, he flew with the airlines, and he's flown the 727, the 737, 747, 757, DC-9, A330, along with various GA aircraft, including the Ford Trimotor, the Helio Stallion, and the Twin Otter.
David MooreHOST
Rob has more than twenty thousand flying hours across a variety of airframes.
David MooreHOST
Rob, welcome to the podcast.