Trislander damaged by fire yesterday.

The jolly Trislander. The third engine is there to overcome the drag of the third engine. :diablo:

Which leaves you with an Islander.

I flew on a Great Barrier Airlines Islander once, with a crate of fish and one other person in the cabin. The weather was poor and the flight extremely rough but the pilots did a great job – real seat-of-the-pants flying.

I don’t remember Great Barrier Airlines having a problem back in those days (1990) but I do remember the aircraft having to operate in very difficult conditions. Great Barrier Island really is back-and-beyond Hicksville and the airstrips aren’t much.

Seem to remember they used to have probs with the discs cracking, that’s probably jammed it and it’s has a brake fire, will look worse than it is..

IIRC some years ago, one hit the ground a bit hard, then flew a circuit with only the tail engine as the wing engines were both damaged. I think one was hanging down in its mount. I believe the tail engine collapsed in the final wheels up/missing landing.

There was a photo taken on climb out and I think published (1970s?) in A*r*pl*n* Monthly

Was impressed:eek:

Baz

The jolly Trislander. The third engine is there to overcome the drag of the third engine. :diablo:

Noisy when you are sitting underneath it too. As we did on our honeymoon, flying from
Jersey to Guernsey in 1984, on one of the yella’ fella’s.

My initial post said destroyed, but I think the photo is more dramatic than the result and hopefully it will be repaired.

Glad there were no injuries 🙂

The jolly Trislander. The third engine is there to overcome the drag of the third engine. :diablo: