Beavers are still fairly common around here, and with Viking Air here
doing refits and mods (Viking is the type certificate holder for the
DHC-2 Beaver,DHC-2T Turbo Beaver, DHC-3 Otter, DHC-6 Twin Otter,
DHC-4 Caribou, DHC-5 Buffalo and DHC-7 Dash 7 aircraft) I hope they
will be around for a while yet.

The kamov has a distinct beat from rotors that you can hear from a
distance. But the noisiest are the Sea Kings (443 squadron here) that
sometimes do exercises involving flying over our house, at night.

I need to get some pictures of the chopped caddy (and toronado I
think) tugs moving the float planes around, its really an unusual sight.

alistair

On 17-Dec-10, at 8:38 AM, Ken Wilford wrote:

Thanks for sharing!

I love the DeHavilland Beaver.  What an awesome plane!  We had one at
the aviation mechanic's school that I attended and we had to do
maintenance on it, restore parts of it, and get it up and running.
There is nothing quite like the sound of a large rotary engine!  Such
a versatile plane, it reminds me of our Vanagon as the Jack of all
trades of the sky.

That copter is cool too.  We live about a mile from a Boeing
helicopter reconditioning center as well as an airport (Millville
airport).  I get the large, Chinooks flying overhead most of the
day.  Rattles the whole shop sometimes.

Have a great Friday!

Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com