Fokker F27 Friendship
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Oct 20, 2026
EmmetHOST
This made him an experienced pilot.
EmmetHOST
However, most of his hours were on much older aircraft, like the Fokker F27, the Airbus A300, and the by then-anticated Caravelle.
EmmetHOST
Ecke had only 162 hours on the Airbus A320, which he'd built up over a period of four months.
EmmetHOST
As such, he was still getting to grips with the Airbus philosophy, and with its much more advanced autopilot.
Jeremy CordeauxHOST
You can get
Nigel DawGUEST
into the cockpit of the Fokker F27.
Nigel DawGUEST
The TAA and airlines of Australia used to fly.
Nigel DawGUEST
The venerable DC-3, the predecessor.
Jeremy CordeauxHOST
Nigel, what about some of the aeroplanes that we can, not so much the engine, but we can look at the aeroplanes themselves? Okay, you can get
Nigel DawGUEST
into the cockpit of the Fokker F27, the TAA handset, and airlines of Australia used to fly it.
Nigel DawGUEST
The venerable DC-3, the predecessor.
Nigel DawGUEST
The F-111 we have, you can sit in the cockpit of that.
Jeremy CordeauxHOST
You can get
Nigel DawGUEST
into the cockpit of the Fokker F27.
Nigel DawGUEST
The TAA and airlines of Australia used to fly.
Nigel DawGUEST
The venerable DC-3, the predecessor.
Jeremy CordeauxHOST
What, what do you got?
Nigel DawGUEST
You can get into the cockpit of the Fokker F27-
Jeremy CordeauxHOST
Oh, fancy
Nigel DawGUEST
... that TAA and Ansett-
Tail DraggerHOST
The aircraft was a Fairchild FH-227D.
Tail DraggerHOST
If that type isn't familiar to you, it was built by Fairchild Hiller under license from Fokker, based on the Fokker F27 Friendship design.
Tail DraggerHOST
Two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops, good for about two hundred fifty knots in cruise, a stretched Americanized variant of a solid, reliable Dutch airliner.
Tail DraggerHOST
Several South American air forces operated them as passenger transports by 1972.
Denis WalterHOST
Uh, wonderful 3693.
Denis WalterHOST
Early Young Talent Time tours were on either Fokker Friendships to Tasmania or-
Peter HitchenerGUEST
Ooh
Denis WalterHOST
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Now,
Jimi DisuHOST
way back in 1975, when Niger Airways was, you know, were using F-27 and F-28 aircrafts, we usually would fly to Benin.
Jimi DisuHOST
And one area I know that you had loads of turbulence was the Okitipupa area.
Jimi DisuHOST
The flight itself was about 35, 40 minutes plus or minus.