This sad looking Do 27 was lying off a roundabout in Neustadt/Weinstrasse in Germany a couple of months. Had made a forced landing in a vineyard a couple of weeks earlier due to fuel starvation (fuel selector valve on empty tank…), nobody seriously injured.

Undercarriage, cockpit region and empennage look as if they were taken from the Italian Sky Arrow microlight/LSA…

What better way to describe the inevitable by using the phrase “not viable”, considering the enormous costs due to the size and complexity of this thing? How many ships of this size are actually preserved worldwide? Can’t be much more than a dozen or two. Even the preserved – but certainly not restored – SS United States has been in danger of being scrapped recently, its upkeep costing a whopping 60,000 USD per month (says Wikipedia).

Preserving ships of this size is simply not… well… viable.

With that RPM range it’s not from an aircraft with piston engines…

Fascinating machine – the original NOTAR

Ken

Impressive piece of kit, but not quite deserving the NOTAR designation. NOTAR is a yaw control and counter-torque device. With two counter-rotating rotors, there’s no torque around the yaw axis to counter in the Husky. NOTAR, as in the MD500 helicopters, relies on a transverse airflow from a fan blowing through the tail boom to vents at the end, and on rotor downwash over the tail boom to provide a force about the yaw axis…

Great effort to keep this thing flying; long may it continue!

Alle tiders billeder!

Except for my original point and the theme of my comments, which many conveniently overlook. If an aircraft can be flown, then fly it, don’t bury it in yet another dessicated museum where by its passivity, it fails utterly to provoke the imagination. How can it, in comparison with the sight and sound of a live aeroplane thundering along the flightline ?

Whether one has just one or fifty flying examples matters not. What is important is that they are flying, in full view of the hundreds of thousands who make up the spectator numbers at displays. Thus, in all their incomparable beauty, they are exhibited for the greater good. Now tell me that that is a bad thing.

You’re simply not getting it, sorry.

Black 6 is still the only genuine ‘109 to have flown in this country.

There have been quite a few others some years ago. They mostly didn’t land though.