Posted by J. Clarke on 03/13/06 14:29

spikemike wrote:

> FACT the electra is probably one of the most competent workhorses of
> the aviation industry, just go and ask Channel Express here in the UK
> they run a fleet of them and you NEVER see them buried in a mountain so
> go and get your facts right, if pinnacle was an airline then you would
> use them once and never again...!

It would help if you quoted some context. Nappy's post doesn't seem to be
on my server and he's got it x-no-archived (one of the marks of a troll
IMO) so it will disappear from Google Groups shortly.

He's a bit confused about the Electra though. There were two crashes, one
in 1959 and one in 1960, after which they figured out what the problem was,
redesigned the part that was causing it, and there haven't been any
structural failures since. A large number of Electras have been flying in
military service (they fill it with electronics and 20,000 pounds of
weapons and call it a "P3" and it's being used by more than a dozen
different navies around the world including the US, Canadian, and
Japanese--the Brits have their own equivalent built on a Comet airframe
that isn't as popular for some reason) for more than 40 years without any
significant problems--the US Navy isn't going to retire them until the
2010-2013 timeframe when the P8 starts going into service--wouldn't
surprise me if there weren't some still in service with other Navies 100
years after the first one rolled off the line.

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--John
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