Tuesday, April 07, 2009

 

Steve's "Otter Of The Week"! .....by Karl E. Hayes

We have read previously about Otters that served well during their time with foreign military entities. Here is one that served with the R.C.A.F.. Unfortunately, this Otter was lost shortly after her 1st birthday, and never had the chance to build a long, storied history.

All information is from Karl Hayes' "masterful" CD entitled:

De Havilland Canada
DHC-3 OTTER
A HISTORY

CONTACT KARL, CD PRICING and ORDERING INFO - De Havilland DHC-3 OTTER - A HISTORY by Karl E. Hayes
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Otter 391

Otter 391 was delivered to the RCAF on 21st September 1960 with serial 9414. It was assigned to 438 Squadron at St.Hubert, Montreal and served with that unit until destroyed in an accident on 12th October 1961 at St.Hyacinthe, Quebec in the course of a training detail. The pilot lost directional control during an attempted maximum performance climb on an overshoot, but he continued the overshoot anyway. He did not apply full power, however, and when he tried to abort the over-shoot, he crashed into a silo. Fortunately no-one was injured but the Otter was a total loss.

- by Karl E. Hayes
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"Hey, who put that damn silo there?"

CONTACT KARL, CD PRICING and ORDERING INFO - De Havilland DHC-3 OTTER - A HISTORY by Karl E. Hayes

# posted by Steve @ 9:14 AM
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