I just read that the Nomad is making a comeback after 25 years. It'll be
good to see it flying again although I hope the new Aussie manufacturer
decides to build some insulation in it to make it a little quieter. I flew
in a Nomad as passenger nearly 20 years ago and my ears are still ringing.

"Charter and lease operation Curry Kenny Aviation will be the lead buyer,
with Kenny saying he has committed to buying "several" of the aircraft,
which retail for about $3.2 million, when the first come off the assembly
line in 2010".

http://www.newsaviation.com/content.php?page=30&sub_id=51

It will be interesting to see what purpose Kenny has for them. I would
think he'll position them around the top end somewhere since they're
ideally suited to bush operations and Kenny is slowly and quietly making
his presence felt up north in a big way.

There's some of us who will remember the inaugural announcement of Project
N, many, many years ago.

Brian wrote:

Brian wrote:

Rob wrote:

I just had a beer with a 5000 hour Nomad veteran who accrued his 5000
Nomad hours with the RFDS in Broken Hill. He believes so.

With the lessons learned through hindsight and applying modern technology
to a proven platform he believes it will be in a class of its own.

GB wrote:

I'm no expert on the issue, since I've only done some reading over the
last day or two, but online literature suggests that the tailplane had a
design fault that would cause separation in flight - particularly in
turbulence and ice. 70 Nomads were manufactured but there were a total of
24 hull-loss accidents, causing 76 fatalities. It’s not a real good
selling statistic.

A point of interest, factory chief test pilot Stuart Pearce, father of
actor Guy Pearce, and the acting chief designer at the time, was killed in
a crash on take-off at Avalon airport, Victoria, in 1975. Guy was 7 years
old at the time.

http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/Safety_Issues/RiskManagement/nomadic.html
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2004/s1163290.htm

On 28 Jun 2008 20:58:35 +1000, GB kickindanuts.threefiddy.com>
wrote:

fatigue failure made the tail fall off.

"GB" kickindanuts.threefiddy.com> wrote in message
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Maybe they should use a new name, otherwise no one will buy it.

Brian wrote:

Doesn't bother me whether they do or don't. I'll not be flying in one
unless my life depends on it.

Sylvia.

"Scenic" wiz.net.au> wrote in message
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Yep, followed it's progress via the weekly Movietone newsreels at the at
Port Hedland picture gardens - no TV in the regions then.
It impressed me as a youngster - was the swing tail ever actually
implemented though? If sy was that the cause of the safety issues?

Aubrey