My father was a flight engineer on Twin Otters in the RCAF and had many opportunities to take rides in the otters on wheel and floats.
One vivid memory was take off on floats in really rough water.
Well that made me somewhat seasick then the pilots decided to do some training tip stall maneuvers once we where up to altitude well that was it for me my head was in the little white bag till we landed.
The good news is that no Twin Otter crew has ever landed gear up[:D]
Nice job on that kit sir!!
I should mention that I am 6 feet tall and the flight was right before Christmas and completely full of passengers and their luggage. Thank God it was a short flight.
I’m 6’1"…with at least one bad knee…so I can empathize completely! I don’t think I’ve had comfortable leg-room on a commercial flight since about 1980. [;)]
Beautiful plane. I flew in one ages ago in Hawaii. Once I am done with my wooden ship model, I’m going in to plastic planes, modeling one of each type on which I have flown. Starting with a Twin Otter and ending up on a 747.
That’s a great plan for a collection. How many types between the Twotter and the 747?
Enough for a medium sized airport. The plan is to go big to small. I haven’t decided whether to do all of the variants of each consecutively or come back to them, eg. DC-9 series 10,30,50. As some of these flights were on obscure or short lived airlines, I will be making a lot of decals, which be great as I enjoy the graphic design aspect.