The Untold Story of De Havilland's Dash 7

[@HellSolo]

Great video, I love the specs and professionalism mate.

[@Tinoaviation]

Thanks so much! Much more to come so look out for that!

[@johannesbols57]

I hope to see regular uploads from your channel.

[@michaelmichniak7287]

I can remember this aircraft being used to serve Paradise Island airport in the Bahamas. This airport had very short runways or runway and the 7 was perfect for it!

[@mojavebnsf1623]

Worked with the DASH-7 in the late 1980's with both Brymon Airways and London City Airways ( Eurocity Express ) at London City Airport in its early days. Lovely aircraft.

[@avinair3587]

The best aircraft ever! 😍 The dash-7 took a huge part in my childhood when Arkia used the Dash-7 as the main aircraft in Eilat airport.✈ By the way, without the Dash-7 London City Airport would not have been created 🤩

[@jacobhansen6450]

DASH 7!! The by far PARAMOUNT of all T-tailed medium range passenger airframes!! Some of them can easily perform flights that range some 4700 kms, at an average speed of 400 km/h!! That said, that a transatlantic crossing could be conducted by just one or two stops!! She is for the propliners like the 747 is for the jetliners!! Many thanks, TINO AVIATION, for this brilliantly posted footage!! All the best for YOUR 2025!! Best regards...Jacob Hansen, Northern Scandinavia...

[@outdoorsdelmarva5691]

Great info.. thank you.

[@jayfrank1913]

Keep it up! I liked this! 👍 I don't know how many times I've been on a Dash 7, but it has been a few! P.S: They still use Beavers, updated with turboprops, to fly out of Lake Union in Seattle. I loved to sit in the clinic where my sister was being treated for cancer (Fred Hutchinson) and watch them take off and land to keep my mind off more serious things. I hope you do videos on the De Havilland Beaver and Otter!

[@Tinoaviation]

Nice story, though sad... I will probably at some time make a video about the beaver!

[@cactusforever7198]

Love this machine

[@Flyairtindi]

Great video. How many are still flying today ;) ?

[@Tinoaviation]

I dont know for sure, but not a whole lot! If ya wanna fly with one, you better hurry up!

[@slimeplayz8752]

Cool Video! :D

[@pinkskud1]

The British Antarctic survey still fly over as the air bridge between chile and Antarctica. They land it on a short gravel strip and on solid ice runways.

[@christopherbasham2179]

Yes the DHC 7 was a specialized aircraft. Its specific design goals were to meet field performance requirements of the Rockcliffe airport. Rockcliffe was the STOL demonstrator airport located in Ottawa. Furthermore the double slotted fowler flaps were on many other aircraft. The 737 had triple slotted. Ailerons were fitted to the wing and would work in conjunction with the roll spoilers.

[@ronrutten5889]

I flew it for year

[@fifi23o5]

At the beginning of the viteo there is a still comparing Twin Otter and Dash-7. It says tail hook. That is not a tail hook, it is a tail bumper, preventing tail strikes. Slovenian Adria Airways had two Dash-7s. In the war of independence in 1991 they were damaged in an airstrike, one quite severly. They were both repaired and later sold.

[@jettnit1]

Amazing it could climb out of a mountain strip with 45 paxs from Steamboat springs in Colorado & use 3,ooo ft of runway…. 4:08

[@gus473]

"Rocky Mountain Scareways!" 😉 Actually had a few quick flights from Steamboat to Stapleton in late '70s and it was great! 🫡✌️😎

[@pagophilus]

I was amazed at the short distance the Dash 7 can land in when watching one land at SFJ (Kangerlussuaq, Greenland) on runway 27 and turning straight in to the terminal parking area. Go and look up the layout of the airport to see it. After seeing that, I was shocked to see one line up in MNL half way down the runway and then when it was his turn, waste time taxiing on the runway all the way to the end of the runway for takeoff, when I knew that he could take off on a dime, (or in some couple of hundred metres).

[@TRPGpilot]

Not everything that you COULD do you should. Yes it could have taken off without bactracking on the runway but why do that if there is available runway? . . .

[@pagophilus]

@@TRPGpilot Because at MNL runway 13/31 is 2258m long. Half the runway is still over 1km (I don't know the exact distance from the taxiway at the half way mark). Most of Greenland's airports were 800-900m full runway length. Taking off in such a distance is easy for the Dash 7. By taxiing all the way to the end it wasted an inordinate amount of time, especially during a busy period (Easter) when it could have easily taken off from where it was. Manila operations are inefficient at the best of times, and the runway arrangement doesn't help. And neither did the taxiing all the way to the end.

[@TRPGpilot]

@@pagophilus Fair enough. The pilot though might be prioritising landing back on the same runway if there is a failure after v2 but who knows? You have made a valid point.

[@MikeSiemens88]

The Dash-7 is eclipsed by the Dash-8. While the 8 doesn't quite have the STOL performance of the 7 it makes up for it in being less costly to operate. Maintenance on a 4 engine aircraft is always going to cost more than on a twin. We had 2 Dash-7 in the Canadian Forces when I was serving in Germany during the Cold War early 1980's. They were configured as passenger transports & it was good PR for deHavilland to have them hopping around various airports in Europe. They had a relatively short service life in the Canadian Air Force operating out of CFB Lahr. Viking Air in British Columbia now owns the type certificates for virtually all former deHavilland aircraft as well as that of the Canadair CL series of water bombers. They re-started production of the Twin Otter some years back.

[@sblack48]

It was eclipsed in part because the whole concept of down town to down town stol along the eastern seaboard of the US i.e. Boston - NY - DC was killed by environmentalists in the 70s. So the exceptional stol capabilities of the 7 were no longer going to be required and the horrendous drag penalty of the much lower wing loading made it non competitive. They could have made the 8 into essentially a twin engined 7 but they decided to make it a non stol commuter instead, giving up short field performance for high cruise speeds. My father was involved with the whole stol concept with Transport Canada (DOT) at the time as DHC was a owned by the government. He was going to the paris airshow promoting stol and was involved in the Air Transit stol demonstration between downtown airports in Ottawa and Montreal in the 70s. He was always disappointed that the concept didn’t catch on.

[@MrAffrank]

ELINT US ARMY. Don't forget that one

[@dash7stol]

Thanks for highlighting a great aircraft but there are several inaccuracies or wrong information. The DHC-6 wasn't usually called "Dash 6" There were just 113 aircraft built, not 133. The flaps were not full-span but rather about 3/4. The Arkia plane shown as a -101 variant does not have a cargo door. Finally the Dash 7 was successful in doing for what it was built for but was not a real commercial success as the market DHC had envisioned for it did not really exist (contrary to your mention in the video when listing aircraft of similar size) wasn't big enough and cities failed to build the "urban STOLports" the DHC-7 was meant to use.

[@terrywiebe5616]

Cannot understand the guy talking 😒

[@peterofenback9263]

I am no native English speaker, but I can understand him clearly.

[@ExWEIMan]

@@peterofenback9263 Definitely not a native English speaker and a case where an AI generated voice would have enhanced the video. Got so frustrated trying to understand what the narrator was saying that I started to read the comments section. Learned more about the Dash 7 in the comments than what was being said in the video. Terrible enunciation.

[@TRPGpilot]

@@ExWEIMan Your father should have pulled out . . .

[@ExWEIMan]

And you should work with AI on improving your retorts, because like the terrible video narration your skills are..., shallow? @@TRPGpilot

[@TRPGpilot]

@@ExWEIMan No videos on your channel but of course it's easier to sit back and talk down someone elses work. Your father really, really should have pulled out . . .