The Twin Otter: Canada's Most Versatile Plane 🇨🇦 Mighty Planes: FULL EPISODE | Smithsonian Channel
The Twin Otter: Canada's Most Versatile Plane 🇨🇦 Mighty Planes: FULL EPISODE | Smithsonian Channel
Canada’s northwest territories are rich in gold and diamonds, but running a mining operation in extreme Arctic conditions with very few roads can be tremendously challenging. Enter the Twin Otter, the rugged aircraft of choice in remote Canadian communities. Powered by two turboprop engines, the Twin Otter maneuvers like a bird and is capable of landing just about anywhere—on land, sea, and snow. Follow this mighty plane as she handles icy skies and frozen-lake runways on a series of critical missions.
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Jump out of Twin Otter many or times great plain
0:15 DIAMONDS me on minecraft: OH DIAMONDS TIME TO MINE SOME DIAMONDS OH YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
With content like this, this is becoming my favorite YouTube channel
12:33 if the plane lands that 🌊could freeze
Now hey guys! Welcome back to the channel, and to another Swiss 001 video…..
you prob gotta pitch down to stay level in cruise in that plane.
Take a shot everytime they say Twin Otter.
Loving the videos!
The Twin Otter is a very well proven bush plane, but it has two shortcomings, it’s not very fast and it doesn’t have that much range, comparatively speaking. Any mission that calls for the capabilities of a Twin Otter, can usually be done better with a machine like a Turbine DC-3.
The Cessna C408 SkyCourier is the death of the Twin Otter…..eh.
one of the best planes designed
5:45 guy went right through that pallet
How does the Twin Otter compare to the Kodiak 100, Kodiak 900, Cessna Grand Caravan, and the Cessna Sky Courier? It’s interesting that all of them use a Pratt & Whitney PT-6…
The lush plate ironically strip because catamaran postprandially agree upon a uptight rub. panoramic, therapeutic invoice
I hate when the throttles are up high like that.. such a cool plane but I wouldn’t wanna fly it with the throttle like that and the way the yoke is too…
Twin Otters = bae
Imagine saying first
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Having worked in Tusayan, AZ for the past few years, I always saw those flying overhead on approach to the Grand Canyon Airport every day.
I had the pleasure of flying around Baffin Island and Northern Labrador in the 80’s when I was part of a team doing site surveys for the North Warning System. It was quite an airplane.
We’re cashing this fuel, to use this fuel, to deliver fuel to the ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring station. I see no problems.
Great content. RESPECT to our neighbors to the north.
So, Air Tindi and the Canadian Airforce works at the same airport as Buffalo Airways?
I flew on Twin Otters that were owned by Frontier Airlines quite a number of times…neat airplane…
Keep uploading good content like this.
3rd lOl jk good vid
My dad worked for Bechtel, Inc., he was stationed in Peru for 3 years overseeing the Peruvian pipeline across the Andes and amazon jungle basin. I was able to visit him for the summer of 1976. He had Bell 214B’s, 205’s and 206’s at his disposal, and also a twin otter on floats that took off/landed from the amazon river. If the Bechtel guys wanted beer/alcohol, my dad would call a 206, which would pick my dad and I up from the OU9 heliport, fly us to station 5. My dad would give the pilot a cigar, so I could fly the chopper… One night, I got pretty lit drinking Pilsner’s with Bud Davis on his tug boat at station 5 one night, (I was going into my senior year of high school mind you, and the native women loved me) I was pretty hungover the next morning, I called my dad from the tug boats short wave radio, he dispatched one of the otters to pick me up at station 5. As we were flying to the OU9, I felt pretty sick, thinking I was going to puke, I pulled one of my new tony lama boots off, thinking I would puke in my boot before on the floor of the otter… I flew that otter everywhere along with the choppers. You could not afford to pay for a vacation like that today, with all the marine and aviation equipment (toys) my dad had at his call… Those were the days.
I was a pilot for Air Tindi for 4 years flying the Dash 7, it was fun but the cold was just too much and I had to switch to warmer climate, now i fly in Botswana Africa and it’s great working in a warm climate.
Why would anyone want to live there? Oh man. Money makes people do more than they usually would.
My favorite xplane…plane
Amazing the same plane that does this is used as a commuter airliner in Carribean. My one and only yet well remembered flight was after a day long rain delay in St Kitts to St Maarten where we landed as our US bound US Airways connection was lifting off. A hotel that was renovating a floor let the about ten of us stay there and I don’t think they charged us. Thanks, Divi Divi St Maarten as I recall.
I’ve taken off hundreds of times in a Twin Otter. Can’t say as I’ve ever landed in one, though… The craft is the backbone of civilian skydiving.
Definitely not worst flying conditions more like the worst Consequences