Bombardier Dash 8/Q Series - engines with sabres
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- čas přidán 19. 02. 2019
- Bombardier Q-Series, also known as Dash 8, is a family of twin-engine turboprop regional aircraft, developed by de Havilland Canada in the early 1980s. The family is made up of several generations of aircraft: Series 100, 200, 300 and, of course, the Series 400, which continues to be produced by the Bombardier corporation.
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Technically he didn't hijack the plane.
He stole it.
It's not a hijacking if you're the only one on the plane.
joy riding i suppose
I was going to return it I promise
Dash 8 Q400, fly it like you stole it.....
Whether there were passengers on-board or not, it was essentially a hijack !!
@@changamanga100 This is what Merriam-Webster have to say about hijacking:
hijack verb
hi·jack | \ ˈhī-ˌjak \
variants: or less commonly highjack
hijacked also highjacked; hijacking also highjacking; hijacks also highjacks
Definition of hijack
transitive verb
a : to steal by stopping a vehicle on the highway
b : to commandeer (a flying airplane) especially by coercing the pilot at gunpoint
c : to stop and steal from (a vehicle in transit)
d : KIDNAP
As you can see, all definitions involve other people.
If you are the ONLY one involved it's theft, not hijacking.
'In a bid to save fuel for customers, Bombardier rolled out the Dash 10...a single-engined turboprop. However, customers asked for further fuel savings. This led to the Dash Zero...the first passenger plane that runs strictly on rubber bands. Before each flight, the flight crew manually winds the propellers (thus winding the large, rubber bands within them) until they reach their maximum (all the while taking EXTREME care not to release the props until they have reached full tension and have been locked). Then the plane is ready for takeoff. Fuel usage is zero. There are only two problems with the Dash Zero - the g forces at takeoff are incredibly intense AND the range of these aircraft is only about 15 miles.
But Bombardier feels confident they can work these bugs out.
Seriously, very interesting video...thank you.
That's hilarious.
Thanks for your TED talk!
Hilarious
The Dash Zero was supposed to be marketed as the Greta T -100 but Bombardier wasn't granted permission to use that name, since the production of rubber bands was deemed not environmentally friendly enough. Additionally, the manufacturers of latex could not be convinced to ship the raw materials by canoe and donkeys.
The Dash-8 Q400 - The pencil with wings !
"Flying Pencil" already taken by Do-17.
Flying pencil is the Fairchild Metroliner III
@@chipphotography3243 Wrong, that's the "San Antonio Sewer Pipe". The "Flying Pencil" title probably goes to the MiG-21 since it literally looks like a pencil with wings.
@@johnnyboythepilot4098 So does the Metroliner...
@@chipphotography3243 True but the Metroliner also has the nickname of "San Antonio Sewer Pipe" since it looks like a sewer pipe and was built in San Antonio.
It's fun to fly Dash 8 sitting by the engine - you see the prop and the landing gear! As always, Sky, best story telling and footage. Thank you.
Exciting sitting waiting for the engine to rev up againt the brakes airflow over the wing from the prop lifting the whole plane on the wheel struts and release for one of the best and fastest takeoff's in the air in no time beautiful plane in flight .
@@theenzoferrari458 i used to think the same thing creepy at first but then id rather be first to go than drop 30'000 feet with everyone drowning out my playlist glass half full .
Canada could have been such a bigger player in aviation. I was just watching an Avro Arrow video the other day, after reading someone's comment about the delta winged Concorde for another video about that aircraft, and reminded of this.
Sitting next to the engine on a turboprop plane really blocks the view from up there
@@lionheart.5983 Quite the opposite, especially for an aviation enthusiast!
Most flights with the Q400 are short, 1-2 hours in duration max. And having the wing above you actually increases visibility and gives you nice view both the ground below you and the engine and landing gear beside you.
415 miles per hour, at 27000 feet, carrying over 90 passengers. Very impressive figures for a turboprop.
I can see why it's such an impressive aircraft, and why it's so popular with airlines. Almost as comfortable as a proper jet, with performance and altitude figures not far off jet figures. Main difference being, way more impressive fuel performance and economy.
Also, given its price, it's almost an unbeatable series of aircraft. Airlines love it, it's cheap to maintain, with wide-ranging parts and servicing worldwide.
Brilliant design. Long live the Bombardier Q Series Dash 8.
I fly on a dash 8 from Ottawa to Toronto and back every month. I never get tired of that plane!
Funny, I get tired after about 10 minutes in its incredibly cramped seats.
@@claytonhollowell4488 I flew on the westjet old 737s. Those really were cramped seats compared to this plane.
@@claytonhollowell4488 6 across seating on the Westjet 737 and less leg room.
I love the sound of the props reversing on landing
De 48
Worked on this plane a bit at Bombardier at Toronto Downsview engineering. Thought it was an oddball at first but its performance is really impressive. Very interesting aircraft, grows on you after a while.
@Shankovich
Tell us more? Could you do a YT live chat and let people ask you questions?
That would be great!
You do have to admit it has a few nuances items though, like the anvs. I work at horizon
I might have bumped into you. Worked at DeH from 79 to 01... on the 6,7, and 8. Actually worked on the unknown Number Zero 400. (Hydraulics.)
It does grow on you, until you have to do a prop spray when deicing lol
I used to hate how the Dash 8 looks, but damn it's really really growing on me. I even booked my flight specifically to fly on the dash 8. Landed last night into CYTZ after taking off in the middle of blizzard and icing conditions in CYQM, and I'm just super floored with how the plane performed. Love the prop sound too!
Im a horizon mechanic that works on q400s. Ill say that while this is a very good aircraft it dose have a few systems which could be improoved one is the doughy propellers which dont last all that long , and the small phanatic liner next to the bearings for the blades pitch control, it wears and throughs off the balance enough to cause most of the vibration on the aircraft. usually we can get this done in a few hours overnight but it is an expensive item to change and we do a few a week. The other item which is a daily item for us to fix is the anvs system which you mentioned. Some attenuators and there respective amplifyers are always comeing off line and need to be changed overnight. Moisture is probably one reason for them failing the insulation soaks up quite a lot of moisture from the condensation from the skin of the plane so there in a damp environment. And they freeze due to the environment we operate in.
I imagine that mechanics could tell horror stories about every model of plane.
Hello, fellow mechanic here. I've never worked on Q400s, but i've heard stories about their APUs being really unreliable. I was just wondering is this true?
Maybe you should advice the fleet manager on this procedures, the anvs should be switched off for take off until 10000ft. Most of them are blown off due to the high torque setting during take off and climb.
Hey! I also am a mechanic working on horizon q400s. As a third party. We are on a constant all year heavy check contract doing all the c check, 6 and 9 year checks, and d checks. Weve had practically the whole q4 fleet come through the hangars.
@@VrrVolcano hey, ive worked 8 years on q400s both line and heavy checks and on multiple air operator's aircraft. I have very seldom seen or delt with issues of their apus. I think once in the 8 years we have done an apu change and we handle a constant 3-4 lines of heavys all year long with about 50 planes a year. Wanna hear about a system thats always failing? Try the ANVS. Many flying planes have it either degraded or MELd.
AIr NZ took the last 23 production models of the Q300. Bombardier sold the Q400 production, plans and operating certificate to Viking Air 8 November 2018, who will continue production of the Q400 and support the Dash 8 range.
I guess if one 'good' thing came out of the guy planejacking the Q400, it's that despite all the crazy stuff he did with it, the plane held up to it all. It only crashed because he didn't know or wanted to know how to land it, despite ATC pleas. Tough little plane.
I think he crashed mainly because the plane hadn't been refueled. He ran out of gas! If he had a full fuel load his little adventure might have lasted much longer. And, he would have had time for the ATC's to talk him down.
After clearance through whatever psychiatric hospital, he'd have spent a few years in the slammer. But he'd be one of those other inmates would superstitiously avoid.
@@respectbossmon A heavier fuel load would have put more stress on the airframe, given the way he was maneuvering it -- could have ended sooner rather than later.
"I think I'm going to try to do a barrel roll, and if that goes good I'll go nose down and call it a night," it was a suicide in the end. He had no real intention of ever landing it since he knew his life would be completely over once the cops got a hold of him.
He probably would've got a year in prison and a felony conviction. Which is basically life ending since nobody would ever hire him.
@@Mirokuofnite I think you are spot on, he never intended to land the aircraft. Just lucky he didn't intend to take lots of others out with him.
@@e020443 extra weight is good for reducing stress in aerobatic manoeuvres
Flew on many Dash 8's .. extremely sporty aircraft with tight cabin quarters. You do not miss a single maneuver as you feel everything in the seat of your pants. Fun plane.
I would fly it man! Would love to fly it actually
I love the Porter Air Q400. . . fast, and lots of legroom!
same with philippine Airlines
Agreed, but terrible overhead cabin storage
Yes I too love how much more legroom the q400 offers compared to A320/B737/A330 (yes i know A330 is a long range plane)
RIP Skyking - Reclaim the Sky
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that dude was cancer.
@@NickThePilotUSA F
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kakabukkake0 even dead he has more value than you
He didn’t hijack the aircraft. He took it for a suicide joyride. It didn’t negatively affect anyone else. Respect to him, he may have stolen the plane, but he was polite, didn’t hurt anyone, and crashed it into an open area.
I flew the -100's and -300's for a carrier out of KIAD, and we would take off from Newark behind an ATR and easily put 10 minutes on him going to Dulles. And if that silly ATR hit any sort of icing, they were asking for different altitudes, vectors, et cetera. Our Dash 8 just chugged through ice as if it wasn't there, while ATR's in the same conditions were trying to roll over on their backs.
If I remember correctly, ATRs, along with some smaller private planes, had rubber baby bumper thumper de-icing equipment on the leading edge of the wings, and if you ran into a really heavy icing condition, then you had to put the plane down fast or it was going to take you down fast.
@@Skywalker8562 yes those are called de-icing boots. They don't work so well on ATR's because Airbus doesn't have the same climate as Canada, where the Dash 8 was developed and made to handle our weather extremes.
Sounds like you never had the “pleasure” of flying the Q400. Amazing performance for a turboprop but it feels like you’re inside a washing machine when in turbulence and its roll control is very stiff with noticeable roll inertia. That said I always enjoyed departing an airfield and ripping through 10,000 feet on the downwind departure leg! The massive power was always welcome too, although it’s very easy to overspeed it on one engine
Was about to ask for an ATR video until I reached the end. Thanks for another great story Sky!
I was about to ask for the same thing. You can't properly analyse Dash 8s without comparing them to ATRs.
Actually he will talk about Let, not ATR :P
@@thomaschadwick1557 Even better, something new for me!
@@vgtboy That was a joke, ofcourse the next video will be about ATR.
Skyship btw. made video about LET L-series; so if you did not see and are interested in the Czech turboprop workhorse... :)
czcams.com/video/1LXUe_QPVHY/video.html
Excellent video! Packed with info. Well done and thank you!
Excellent information! ✔
I appreciate how detailed and accurate your documentary is on one of my favorite planes from DHC. Thank you!
It is a cool plane. I had the pleasure to work with the plane as a ramp agent from I first started working in August to December of 2018 last year.
One of my first planes to work on years ago, too!
Thanks Sky, I worked with a leading Dash 8 operator for several years. One time, Bombardier brought a Q400 to us to sample.
I love flying on the Dash-8 Q ....so comfortable. Years ago I flew with my friend who hates flying. She got scared when she saw the plane at the gate seeing the turboprop fans. I told her it's a great ride and she remembers it being one of the best flights she's ever been on. Interestingly enough there were alot of pilots on board which made her feel even better. I wish the Q400 flew out of my home city AUS yet all we have are jets.
Love your channel. It is very educational with extremely well documentaries about airplanes and airlines. I have acquired considerable knowledge by watching your in depth videos. Your documentary on TWA & Pan Am were the best I have seen with facts about why the two airlines went bankrupt!
Agree.
I commend your Brief but concise review, of the trials of de Havilland Aircraft of Canada(Bombardier Canada)and the evolution of the Dash 8/Q400 series. I grew up just a few kilometers from there in Downsview, and I didn't know some of the details you mentioned well done.
My first aircraft ride Dash 8
Bombardier announced a couple months ago that it was ceasing production of the Q-400 series entirely and sold the whole project including maintenance contracts to Viking Air
I think they wanted more factory space for the A220 and her future big sisters.
Sure about that?... "ceasing production" or "selling the division" ??? Viking air will continue to produce Q400s....in fact in their press release, Viking said this was another step in the evolution of the company.....and IIRC Viking will lease space from the Bomber for a couple of years as part of the deal (presumably lining up space of their own in the meantime)
@@francoislepine4698 Bombardier is ceasing production, Viking Air is taking it over. Viking Air is becoming the new De Havilland. They have the DHC2, DHC3, DHC5 and DHC6 and now The DH8D.
@@JossshyB fair enough..but that is a little different than saying "ceasing production of the Q-400 series ENTIRELY"...Viking gets the backlog and continues producing the aircraft
@@francoislepine4698 Not different. Bombardier IS ceasing production of the Q400 series entirely.
I once worked as a rampy at an airport and the Q400 was my favorit plane! The luggage hold is situated in the very end of the plane and, allthoug it was the smallest plane served there, it was the only luggage hold one could Stand upright.
I also had one flight in one of these, ging fromm seatec to walla walla in an horizon air plane. I realy enjoied that as well.
Man, it’ll be interesting to learn about this plane since I fly in it so frequently! Thanks Sky!
Your videos just keep getting better and better. As always this video was very interesting and informative. Well done! 👍
The q400 is a brilliant aircraft. Great vid!!
Just when I was thinking bout dash-8, this pops on my suggestion list 🤷🏼♂️
Great video 👏
You do great work Skyships !
Truly appreciate the depth of your documentaries
great as always. thank you for sharing! and looking forward the next one!
Great presentation! Thanks for posting.
Hi Sky! Respect here. ;p Yet another great video! I remember flying a DeHaviland Dash 8 in the mid 1980s...a regional connection from LaGuardia to T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island. I thought it was quiet for a turboprop. I didn't have to shout for the flight attendant to hear me. But then my only other turboprop flights were on C130's.
Great video! Good to still see the turbo props in use.
2:52 it’s my local airline! LIAT!! Great touch mate😂💪🏽
SKYKING! (Great footage in this production...Spasibo)!
Is he russian?
so fun seeing planes I've actually flown on the channel! keep up to good work!
Thanks for posting 🛩️
I flew on a Dash 8 q400 recently from Portland to Sacramento and I really enjoyed the flight. Great view out the window and I managed to get a picture of the landing gear at touchdown. Great day to fly, cool looking bird.
The turpoprob emperor!!! Growing up in the Caribbean this was the plane you saw at almost every airport. And man is it a beauty!
I got to fly the simulator for this plane for about 4 hours back in the mid 90's. A friend of mine was the manager of the training facility they had in Portland, OR. What a blast.
Absolutely love this plane! Always enjoyed these since flying on one as a kid.
Yay ! really happy to see that can not get off my mind that I asked for it few videos ago, really glad that you read the comments :D
A GREAT VIDEO, I WORKED ON THE DASH 100s DASH 200, & THE DASH 300 FOR A FEW YEARS.! GREAT AIRCRAFT
I don't know why but when I find myself daydreaming about what kind of plane I would like to own, I find myself gravitating towards DeHaviland creations. DHC-6 (Twin Otter) and Dash-7 ("Quad Otter") are the planes I love most. The -7 was described by pilots who flew her as a closest thing to a 50-seat cessna. I remember watching them as a kid practising 3-engine approaches over our town ... Beautiful sound too.
C-7 Caribou!!!!!!!
Caribou. I used to watch them practicing steep approach landings at the local RAAF base when I was a kid. Amazing aircraft.
Kinda the turbine suburban.
These videos are perfect. The information is accurate and well presented. The narration is understandable, the words are clear and well spoken. This gentleman's accent is not at all a factor. As a matter of opinion, it makes the videos better. Always a pleasure to watch and listen to these videos.
Seems like a most capable regional turboprop aircraft. And by the way, I'm so glad you actually narrate the video, I cannot listen to computer voices and enjoy, yet.. So, thanks for that as well!
Good for puddle jumper runs between islands too, flybe uses a lot of them for hopping back and forth between Great Britain and Ireland, Mann, Jersey, Gurnsey etc.
The Dash 8 / Q400 is one of my favorite Planes !
Great video, thanks.
Very nice..Thank you for keeping us educated about aircraft in general.
A Dash 7 besides a Dash 8-300 were the first airplanes I've ever seen in close up. Since then i love Dash's and Turboprops in general.
- sigh -
Breaks my heart seeing all those gorgeous Q's in Alaska livery. I miss Horizon Airlines.
I know, right? I remember as a kid watching Horizon Dash 8's flying into OTH. Then, it was the SeaPort C208's (with the epic callsign "SASQUATCH"), and now I guess they have United Express CRJ's flying out to Denver from there, but I haven't been over to see them.
Very well done . I enjoyed the presentation very much.
I haven't flown on this plane yet, but I'm planning to fix that somewhat soon with a daytrip from Boston to Toronto and back.
Excellent
Fantastic video as always! I'd love to see a full video on the Dash-7!
thank you !!
i love the look of the Q400 and i live in line with the local runway so i get to see them fly over my house every day 5 times a day :)
I used to love watching the dash 7s land and take off at my local airfield, they needed hardly any runway at all!!
Another great video mate.
So interesting!! Thank you 🙏🏻
I used to fly on these into the Toronto City Island airport. Loved them. You cannot expect to avoid chop with a low alt. prop. plane, but these planes did amazing. They get the rare piece of bad press on account of landing gear, but that issue was addressed and the volume of production relative to the airworthiness of the are not in question ... the issue is profit per seat on a turbo prop. vs. jet. There is a possibility of developing a competitor to Embraer and the CRJ series, but it speaks to consumer preferences with regard to engines (prop vs. jet).
The only commercial flights between Toronto and my hometown of Sudbury is now done with Dash 8s, either by Air Canada Express or Porter Airlines. And so, most time when I was flying somewhere, it had to be in a Dash 8! And I love it every time!
@Skyships Eng
Thanks for your work friend. I like your Russian accent, and I live in the USA.
Actually, I think the most infamous crash involving this aircraft is NOT the Seattle incident, but is Colgan 3407.
That flight that killed fifty people, but had started knee jerk reactions by the government to increase the hours required for airline pilots, and nailed the coffins on small commuter carriers, whose crews couldn't fly anymore due to the new requirements (never mind the fact both crew members onboard 3407 had well OVER the 1,500 hours.)
1,500+ hours and yet the moron apparently failed to grasp the concept of not pulling back while in a stall. You'd like to think that the first instinct of a pilot with 15 hours would be to push forward, especially with as much cushion below as they had. Clearly indicative of a failure somewhere in the system...
In the relatively short flight from San Jose, Calif to Boise, Idaho, Alaska Airlines uses the Q400 aircraft. I take that route quite often, and I love flying on that aircraft. I always buy a wing seat, and the hum of that turboprop engine makes me fall asleep within minutes some flights....it's a fantastic aircraft....
Alaska airlines is replacing all the q400’s with Crj’s. It’ll take a few years but Alaska Air will be all jet fleet.
Flew both the Q200s and the Q300s before moving to the Bus. Have like 2000 hours on them. Magnificent birds. Flies like heaven. Even though they are generations apart, we easily beat ATR 72-600s in terms of speed, altitude and in terms of take off and landing performance. I mean in my airline we briefly operated fully loaded Q300s into 1000 ft runways and it always came out clean. Incredible machine.
Nothing makes me happier than a high wing passenger plane
Great video mate! 👏🎥
Yay, thanks for this ;)
As a GSA who works primarily on 300s and 400s it was really nice seeing some of the exact planes that I work on lol
Thanks for the end advice
very well done..
What a classic plane.
And of course, rest in peace Skyking. o7
...a really nice and reliable airplane! ...with two efficient turbo-props. ;-)
Interesting information about dash airplane Q400
First time I flew in one of these I wasn't quite sure about it, but it JUMPED off the deck and was very smooth and VERY fast!
Great video 👍
I'm flying the beautiful adaption of this aircraft within my P3D flight simulator, and i like it so much :-)
Interesting material)
My favourite and most beautiful turboprop! Impressive how Bombardier really pushed the limits of turboprop airplanes, look at how much the Dash 8 series has changed since the baby 100 first came out.
Without USA Pratt & Whitney it's a glider not a turboprop.
I rode these from Brussels to Toulouse and back. The cabin and seats are a little too narrow for real comfort. On the other hand, they are really fast for a propliner, faster (over 400 MPH) than the DC-7's and 1649 Constellations with four 3,500 HP radial engines.
Got to love the dash 8-300 series.
Nice!
Oilfield hands will remember , I recall hairy flights From Aberdeen to Stavanger , Nigerian flights out of Lagos. You knew you were flying and a few memorable landings.
Great, Great, Great. Great video. Great that turboprop efficiency don t let them die´. Great the Expectancy of comparison with ATR. Thank You Skyships Eng. (P:D. Is the Glorious and Venerable Boeing 727 Series in the future of Skyships Eng Videos? it ´s a "Must" for all we "crewed" it sometime in our lives).
Excellent video....
This is one of the coolest channels I’ve ever come across. Very well done videos. I’ve always been a huge aviation fan but aircraft specific videos are something I’ve never come across. Keep it up! Definitely subscribed.
A perfect regional aircraft. I think it’s quite handsome to boot.
Great video.☺️
Soo excited about a possible ATR video
good advice thanks for telling me
Love all the Alaska footage in this video
I marvel at the the Q-400s as they fly over frequently all day 👍👍👍👍
I loved it! I subscribed.
3:11 Shout out to my local airline Wasaya! From Thunder Bay Ontario Canada
@Ahad Khan never too late to start your own one ;-)
de Havilland Canada didn't give up on STOL with the Dash 8. Short take offs and landings weren't "rejected". It is a capable short and rough field capable aircraft - especially the earlier versions. While not a Twin Otter or a Buffalo, it goes places many other twin turboprop airliners can't. While it's often seen at major airports now, it thrives as a workhorse in more inaccessible areas of the world as well as shown by some of carriers and countries shown in this video. Great content otherwise Skyships! I love your pieces and share them often. Please keep up the good work!
Agree, Widerøes in Norway operates the Dash-8-100 on 800 meters runways.
@@MagnarNordal Holy shit that's short for that kind of plane.
Very good