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Post by jesse on Feb 18, 2009 18:32:13 GMT -5
Thanks, Kris....and I hope you make it back to North OKC.
Jesse
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Post by capflyer on Feb 18, 2009 22:32:14 GMT -5
I may be a year off on the date of the flight, but I was sure it was a CV-600/640 by the way he described it and I was pretty sure it would have been Tree Top he flew to El Paso, so it's great to confirm my suspicions. I'll e-mail him with some pictures of the TTA 600s and see if he recognizes them.
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Post by Kristopher Crook, RAI on Feb 19, 2009 10:25:05 GMT -5
Something that dawned on me this morning - if he was describing the scream of the engines and he is sure it was '64, not '67 (as that is when the majority of CV-600s were put in use by TTA, only one or two were delivered in mid to late '66) - it would definitely be a Continental Viscount. Not trememdously larger than. CV and it had RR Darts like the 600, but it was a 4-engine, of course. TTA only had CV-600s, no CV-640s - the difference, as you probably know, is that a 600 is a Dart-engined 240 and a 640 being a Dart-engined 340 or 440. The 640 never caught on too well, most CV operators going turboprop chose the Allison-powered 580 instead.
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