Five Twin Engine Aircraft Nobody's Heard of

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@eddcla7766 11 ай бұрын

Yaaaaay! Love the Speedtwin, thank you for all the information on it, most of it new to me. I always wondered what happened to the project, and if they might not have been better off (at least from the perspective of number of airframes flying) sticking with the plans-built approach. Really wish someone would pick it up, so much potential.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

@xpump876 8 ай бұрын

Ditto to the enthusiasm on that SpeedTwin - what a cool bird!

@ccscomments757 11 ай бұрын

My dad flew on the Rockwell 700 once to a project for Cedarapids, Inc (now a Terex brand). Many years later, but before 2011, I spent a few minutes on board inside a hangar. It was very nice.

@chuckcawthon3370 11 ай бұрын

Great educational experience. I’ve been an aviation fan all my life but never heard of some of these planes nor their history. Well Done Sir.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! These planes deserve some exposure I think..

@royharmening1911 7 ай бұрын

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@michaelogden5958 11 ай бұрын

That early Dornier twin is sweet!

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Saw it as Osh last year!

@WarblesOnALot 11 ай бұрын

G'day, With a pair of Rotax-377s, one might make a Rip-Snorter of an Ultralight, Using the layout. I reckon, anyway. Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

@nunyabidness3075 11 ай бұрын

All twin engine planes were aerobatic so long as Bob Hoover was installed in the cockpit.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

True that!

@stewpacalypse7104 7 ай бұрын

At least once.😉

@jamesbooth3360 7 ай бұрын

The Cessna T303 was a great airplane and belongs on the list of seldom known light twins. Flys like a 182, FL250 capable, ergonomic panel that makes it very easy to manage, trailing link gear, and a very comfortable aircraft for passengers. Only produced for about 3 years and sold for 4 in the early 1980's.

@aircraftadventures-vids 7 ай бұрын

It is a nice plane for sure, and I think I've already added it for an upcoming video.

@thomasshelley4617 11 ай бұрын

Loving these new compilations :)

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! Now figuring out the next one, lol

@peterwilhelmsson4168 8 ай бұрын

Loved the video, those were some sweet aircraft! ❤

@aircraftadventures-vids 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I agree

@mikejohnson5900 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for this vid. This stuff is fascinating to me - I love rare aircraft. Keep up the good work. Oh, and thanks for reading your own copy.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! More good stuff coming up soon. (and trying to improve my voiceover, lol)

@andyreynolds6194 11 ай бұрын

My dad flew in the Speed Twin in early 2010’s. I recall him saying the fella was hopeful to sell them as reconnaissance aircraft to African nations.

@johnwighton 11 ай бұрын

My company did a lot of the engineering work on the mk2. The project owner, Malcolm was totally unrealistic and inexperienced in light aircraft development. Sufficient to say that we parted company, Speedtwin Developments didn’t pay our last invoices. I flew the Mk1 a few times, it was Fun, given a different owner/manager the Mk2 could have been very successful.

@stewpacalypse7104 7 ай бұрын

@johnwighton that's unfortunate because it looks beautiful and fast.

@Snakebloke 9 ай бұрын

The Fuji/Rockwell Commander 700 was fantastic.

@aircraftadventures-vids 9 ай бұрын

There's one close to me at KFXE all under tarp, doesn't look like it's going anywhere sadly. It's rather big when you walk around it.

@javierpatag3609 9 ай бұрын

Already a fan of the WW2 Do 335. Introducing me to Do 28 got me to subscribe to your channel. THANK YOU.

@aircraftadventures-vids 9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@robbudden 11 ай бұрын

the speedtwin looks like a Pucará

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

I agree, sure does

@neiloflongbeck5705 11 ай бұрын

Made the Matchbox model of the Do-28 as child.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Me too, it was the Dornier 28D Skyservant model. Not many curves, it seemed to go together rather quickly.

@neiloflongbeck5705 11 ай бұрын

@@aircraftadventures-vids I had problems with the undercarriage.

@edcew8236 11 ай бұрын

The kit version of the Speedtwin was enormously over-priced. When an RV-6 kit was $30,000, the Speedtwin was asking $100,000. No wonder it never sold! It did have a unique feature to reduce aileron control forces, and it's not clear to me that conventional ailerons were inadequate.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Not only that, but that's not factoring in a pair of Lycomings, I presume. Plus all the associated mounting, plumbing, etc etc. There's been other kit twins that were attempted but nothing's really worked so far.

@apogaeum4313 3 ай бұрын

In 1970 D028 A1 D-IHOL of Westküstenflug (Owner Gerd Hellinger) was performing Flights Hamburg (EDDH) and the short Runway of Helgoland (EDXH).

@Paiadakine 9 ай бұрын

Love this video.

@aircraftadventures-vids 9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@SimonAmazingClarke 11 ай бұрын

I used to work with a guy that worked on the Speed Twin. The designer was very disabled but could really throw it around the sky.

@fishman211 11 ай бұрын

Interesting that the VK9 initial photo has winglets.

@BodleyFludes 11 ай бұрын

Anyone else see the striking likeness of the fin/rudder profile of the Do 28 to the Mitsubish Ki-46? The little-known Reid & Sigrist Desford light twin is another attractive rare bird - now preserved for static display in Leicestershire.

@johnmorris7815 11 ай бұрын

Ever heard of the Beagle Basset? A very short lived design that had very few civil sales but had some success with the RAF.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

I sure have! Not quite as obscure as these ones I'd argue but still a good candidate for another video. When I used to work at FLL, there was a Beagle parked right outside our office, appeared to be in good shape.

@johnmorris7815 11 ай бұрын

@@aircraftadventures-vids that sounds about right, there were one or two dotted about at various airfields, most had seen better days?

@edutaimentcartoys 9 ай бұрын

nice video

@aircraftadventures-vids 8 ай бұрын

thanks!

@GregoryAlanGaskill 10 ай бұрын

A tail dragger ( speed twin ) made in the nineties is intetesting.

@DblIre 11 ай бұрын

For years, there were one or two DO-28 hulls at the Shawano Airport west of Green Bay WI. I think they were floatplanes. N774E may be one of them.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Yeah one of them was converted from floatplane to landplane, it's definitely one of them.

@skydive1424 11 ай бұрын

Shame Fuji stopped building aircraft. The single engine ones are very robust, aerobatic and with great short field capabilities

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

I loved that LM-1 where they took a Mentor, converted to a 4-seater and grafted that huge jeep-looking roof on top.

@jhaedtler 11 ай бұрын

Do something on the Wing Derringer!

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Noted! And added to list for next twins...

@everTriumph 11 ай бұрын

I always had a soft spot for the turboprop Meteor. Fitted with two Trent tp's it looked neat, although obviously the jet version was faster.

@joeobrien3541 9 ай бұрын

A condition of the certification of EVERY multi-engine aircraft is that is can be flown successfully after V1.

@darkiee69 6 ай бұрын

The Speedtwin looks a lot like a FMA Pucará.

@pfg72 8 ай бұрын

The Speedtwin E2E Comet 1 looks suspiciously like a scaled down IA Pucará...

@Flies2FLL 11 ай бұрын

The Rockwell-Fuji Commander is unique in that it involves Subaru. Yes, Subaru, the Japanese car company. At the time Subaru was a brand name and Fuji Heavy industries was the company. Fuji itself was a conglomerate created after the end of WWII by the Japanese government, which grouped together seven companies to produce Fuji, which got its name from the Fuji Rabbit scooter that was very popular. And one of the other of the seven companies was Nakajima, one of the pre-eminent aircraft manufacturers during WWII! Which means that basically....Every Subaru is actually a Nakajima. The word "Subaru" in Japanese refers to the Pleiades star cluster, which has seven stars, with six visible and one invisible most of the time. This is why the Subaru badge has six stars to this day. They finally got some common sense a few years ago and changed "Fuji Heavy Industries" into "Subaru". And they also had the common sense to stay the hell away from aviation!

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the backgrounder!

@Flies2FLL 11 ай бұрын

Great video!@@aircraftadventures-vids

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

I just noticed your username, I live next to FLL@@Flies2FLL

@Flies2FLL 11 ай бұрын

@@aircraftadventures-vids Hope you didn't get flooded last February....

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

@@Flies2FLL no, our house is elevated on the street and were spared. Our neighborhood was a mess though

@jameskelly8506 5 күн бұрын

WE had a Twin Helio 500 at Intermountain Aviation during the mid sixties. It was mostly used by the CIA. Only seven were ever built, non survive.

@Rhaman68 11 ай бұрын

Dude, the verb “are” is required with the predicate is plural. “Here are 5 twin engine aircraft…” The five makes this plural. Thanks for the video.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Pedantic! j/k, I agree, and I'll be looking for those things next time around.

@kendalldavis99 11 ай бұрын

I always love grammar scolding starting with the word dude 😂😂😂

@AC-jk8wq 4 ай бұрын

Dude, Free English lesson with every video…. 😃 With a bonus lesson of words not to use in certain areas of the world…. 😃 Let’s all say ‘resemble’ together… Throw in words like assemble, dis-assemble, and re-assemble, just for fun… When selling machinery around the world… these English lessons pop up all the time. Different regions, and countries…. They all say the same thing differently, and they’re all right! 😃

@ch64621 10 ай бұрын

The speed twin would have made a great training aircraft

@aircraftadventures-vids 9 ай бұрын

That was the idea. My guess is over abundance of existing used twins precluded its need.

@andrespi2009 11 ай бұрын

Ask the royal navy if they know the pucara

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

They sure do

@16jan1986 7 ай бұрын

Are there others that think that donier missed the boat not making a do28/3m

@treintaceroseis3081 11 ай бұрын

El Speedtwin se parece mucho a uno de los primeros bocetos del IA58 Pucará, excepto por el tren triciclo y los turboprop.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Verdad!

@rickburke7167 11 ай бұрын

TheSpeedTwin has a look of the Pucara...

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Mini-pucará!

@larryweitzman5163 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, 4 obscure birds and the Rockwell 700. You left off the best small twin ever built, the Wing Derringer. Most are still flying. It was bueatiful and performed better. It should of had Lyc 360s instead of 320s. I saw a nice one at my old airport PVF. It would be terrific to see it back in production with the slightly larger Lycomings.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Too many to fit into one video. The Derringer is on my list for another twin engine series for sure.

@larryweitzman5163 11 ай бұрын

@@aircraftadventures-vids Yes in airplanes, funny looking designs don't fair well. Both the Hansa jet with forward swept wings and the Hondajet OTW engine placement didn't and are selling all that well. For the Derringer at least it looked good. With 180 hp engines, it would have faired better as a personal rocketship. I met George Wing in Torrance back in the 60's at Torrance. John Thorp helped Wing with the design.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

I can see the Thorp linneage for sure. I know less than nothing about the Derringer, but perhaps it didn't sell well as it only sat 2? Perhaps if it was a 4-seater it would have fared better against the twin comanche, for example. @@larryweitzman5163

@AC-jk8wq 4 ай бұрын

@@aircraftadventures-vids the thorp corrugated wing design…. Speaking of looking funny…. 😃

@xsu-is7vq 11 ай бұрын

the speedtwin has some similarities to the shape of Me210

@paulmurgatroyd6372 11 ай бұрын

I've probably never heard of most aircraft.

@marcgini1443 11 ай бұрын

No mention of the cessna skymaster???

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Pretty popular, was going for obscure. Plus, it's not 100% pusher.

@snarkymatt585 9 ай бұрын

The Speedtwin looks a little bit like a baby Pucará.

@MrLM002 9 ай бұрын

1.) Rarely do piston twins have engine "redundancy", instead you twice the likelihood of engine failure, and in all but the push pull designs your aircraft handling is much more dangerous in a traditional twin with one working engine than a single engine airplane with engine failure, the only saving grace being the possibility that you can get to the nearest safe place to land with your one working engine in said twin. 2.) The Do-28 B1 and the Do-28 Skyservant do not have even decent single engine performance. Both are STOL designs and STOL aircraft are almost always pretty draggy, most twins however are built for speed so they tend to be the opposite of STOL. At sea level on a not hot day you can probably climb a bit on one engine in a Do-28, though the turboprop Skyservant conversions probably preform a lot better. Also Helio made a Twin courier, none have survived to my knowledge. 3.) The Do-28 does not have more cockpit space than the Do-27, the Skyservant does though. The Do-27 and Do-28 definitely do not have spacious cockpits, the big windows help visibility but 6ft male barely fits in them, they were built by malnourished post war Germans for malnourished post war Germans.

@larryweitzman5163 11 ай бұрын

And a third person could sit in the baggage area if belted.

@zzupa9366 9 ай бұрын

The E2E kinda looks like an argentine Pucará lmao

@aircraftadventures-vids 9 ай бұрын

I agree, it does sort of

@jamieknight326 11 ай бұрын

The speed twin for aerobatics is such a silly idea. Totally the wrong layout for the job…. But sort of genius in its own daft way… physics be dammed :)

@wilsont1010 11 ай бұрын

Why they put in 2 engines instead of one?

@ronjonson26 11 ай бұрын

How about the twin Helio

@aircraftadventures-vids 9 ай бұрын

Cool design, very little info to be found on it.

@ronjonson26 9 ай бұрын

@@aircraftadventures-vidsI don't know if there's any still in existence

@edcew8236 11 ай бұрын

Reduced engine separation the Dornier is not quite true...

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

how is that so?

@kkiwi54 8 ай бұрын

It's "dawnee-uh", not dawnee-ay

@HyperSpaceProphet 11 ай бұрын

Good data, but you gotta pick up the pace. Sadly, your presentation is droning . BTW, loss of one engine in a twin is not "Death Sentence"/ It does require some action, but if handled correctly it won't kill ya.

@aircraftadventures-vids 11 ай бұрын

Sadly, it's the only voice I gots! Oh well.

@Tiagomottadmello 11 ай бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@mithrandir1313 11 ай бұрын

8:43 visibility impairment makes this arrangement stupid under any conditions... smh...

@bigdaddy3662 8 ай бұрын

I'm Soviet Union, prototype twin fly you

@a-fl-man640 11 ай бұрын

a death sentence for losing an engine in a twin? obviously the writer doesn't have a multi-engine rating.

@neiloflongbeck5705 11 ай бұрын

In some cases he would be right. Look up the Blackburn Botha.

@米空軍パイロット 11 ай бұрын

Blame the engineer in this case

@andrewplumb6544 10 ай бұрын

@@neiloflongbeck5705. With underpowered twins the second engine takes you to the scene of the crash, with generously powered ones, the second engine will turn the plane upside down in an instant if you are not quick under certain circumstances.