#Q400

[nocternalrandomness]

"Q400"

[canuckus]

Conair's newest Q400 AT makes its arrival at CYWG / YWG / Winnipeg.

[aviaposter]

De Havilland Dash 8-Q400 National Jet Express operated by Cobham Aviation Services

Registration: VH-IYJ Type: Dash 8-402Q Engines: 2 × PW PW150A Serial Number: 4539 First flight: Oct 30, 2016

National Jet Express, formerly Cobham Aviation Services, is an Australian charter airline and aviation services provider with its headquarters in Perth, Western Australia. National Jet Express Pty Ltd was established in 1994 as a subsidiary of National Jet Systems to operate charter and scheduled services under National Jet’s own branding. In 2009, National Jet Express was rebranded to Cobham Aviation Services Australia - Regional Services to align its branding with the broader Cobham group. In 2023, the airline revived its National Jet Express branding. It operates dedicated scheduled charter services across its regional network, transporting fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) personnel for clients in the resources industry. These services are operated using the Embraer E190 and Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 aircraft.

Poster for Aviators. aviaposter.com

[rorytait]

Sydney Park

On the way to the airport we stopped at Sydney Park for lunch, a walk, and some planespotting.

This is yet another place I hadn't been before, so it was cool to check it out.

[16 October 2022]

[ramtinsnaps]

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[travellingnews]

Η AEGEAN ανανεώνει τον στόλο των ελικοφόρων αεροσκαφών της και αποχαιρετά τα Q400 με μια συγκινητική εκδήλωση για το προσωπικό της

Η AEGEAN ανανεώνει τον στόλο των ελικοφόρων αεροσκαφών της και αποχαιρετά τα Q400 με μια συγκινητική εκδήλωση για το προσωπικό της

Με μια συγκινητική, εσωτερική εκδήλωση για το προσωπικό της, αποχαιρέτησαν AEGEAN και OLYMPIC AIR το τελευταίο αεροσκάφος τύπου Q400 του στόλου της καθώς ολοκληρώθηκε μέσα στο καλοκαίρι το πρόγραμμα αντικατάστασης τους από τα νέα ATR 72 και ATR 42 αεροσκάφη. Στην τεχνική βάση της εταιρείας ιπτάμενοι, προσωπικό καμπίνας, μηχανικοί και διοίκηση αποχαιρέτισαν την Παρασκευή το βράδυ το αεροσκάφος…

[clearedforthevisual]

[randomwikiarticles]

On August 10, 2018, a Horizon Air De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 was stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport (Sea–Tac) in Seattle, Washington. The perpetrator, 29-year-old Richard Russell, was a Horizon Air ground service agent with no piloting experience. After Russell performed an unauthorized takeoff, two McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighters were scrambled to intercept the aircraft. Sea–Tac air traffic control made radio contact with Russell, the sole occupant, who described himself as a "broken guy, got a few screws loose, I guess." About 1 hour and 15 minutes after takeoff, Russell crashed the aircraft on lightly populated Ketron Island in Puget Sound, killing himself.

[frozenbassist]

Flying the Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 to Bergen

[nocternalrandomness]

De Havilland Canada Dash 8 Q400 arriving at Osaka International Airport, Japan

[runwayrunway]

No. 43 - Porter Airlines

I consider myself very lucky to live near enough to an airport, located directly beneath one of the main departure paths, that I can regularly see airplanes flying overhead on their way off to wherever. Depending on the plane, they can pass over my house as low as 3,000 feet! ...which is still way too high for my phone's camera! So while I can see the plane decently, even make out details of the livery, what my camera sees is...this.

Okay, so my planespotting hobby mostly consists of literally spotting them (I am very good at this part! It's the photography that I struggle with!) because I'm unable to shell out for a telephoto lens, but thanks to the magic of flight tracking software I'm able to identify the exact airplane that this is, rather than being forced to base my review off this crunchy "photograph".

So, I'd like to introduce you all to our subject for today, C-GLQR! And, by extension, Porter Airlines - requested by @fungaloids, plus an anon.

First flown in February of 2009 and delivered in December of the same year, C-GLQR has served her entire fourteen-year career with Porter Airlines. She's actually only slightly younger than the airline itself. Porter was founded in 2006, featuring executives who formerly served in similarly high positions in Canadian regional airlines Air Ontario and Canada 3000, American Airlines, and...apparently the former US ambassador to Canada for some reason. They're about as large as you can get while still more or less being a regional airline, and they fly a fleet I'd call medium-sized of Embraer E195-E2 jets and an even larger number of Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 turboprop planes, like the pictured C-GLQR, out of their hub in Toronto.

One interesting thing about Porter (inconsistently stylized as lowercase-p porter, but it lacks the clear intent of something like condor so I'm not going as far as to write it that way myself) is said hub. See, when I say Toronto, you probably think of the worst airport in the entire world, Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport. Thankfully for Porter's customers they do not have to go to the labyrinth of human misery which is Toronto Pearson, and are instead corralled into Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, colloquially known as Toronto Island Airport, potentially because it's changed its name twice and the local population got sick of remembering what it's calling itself now.

image: DXR

The 'island' designator is quite literal. This is a teeny tiny airport, just barely large enough to land the Q400 and definitely too small to land jets. The fact that Porter flies to Chicago-Midway, Washington-Dulles, and Boston-Logan is a testament to the Q400's absolutely wild range rather than an indication that this tiny scrap of land is in any meaningful way an international airport. It has two runways and both are shorter than the ones at the smallest airport I've ever flown into that had an actual terminal, Vieques. I'm surprised they can operate a Q400 there. In fact, they can't - they had to pick a seat configuration smaller than the standard in order to be able to use the runways at Billy Bishop. (Incidentally, this means their seats have a more generous pitch, so I suppose that's a point for them.)

So why would they want to put the biggest passenger turboprop in service in the West onto this tiny airstrip? Well, Porter's...reason for existing, so it seems, is to force the Toronto Port Authority to expand the airport and build a bridge to the mainland despite the fact that nobody who lives in the area wants this. Hilariously, they have been entirely unsuccessful in this venture and now operate a second hub in Pearson. That's where they put the jets - after all, if you tried to land an E195-E2 at Toronto Island you would have a very wet plane and some very mad passengers on your hands very quickly.

I mean, to be fair, getting to not go to Pearson is a selling point.

I don't have any other place to put this but they have an adorable raccoon mascot named Mr. Porter. I'm not sure why a raccoon, but I like him. He doesn't appear on the livery at all - heaven forbid we do something interesting - but he's there and he's cute. I do have to point out, though, that this is one of the worst names for SEO I've seen in a while, given Mr. Porter is the name of the men's department of extremely popular luxury fashion outlet shop Net-a-Porter.

I think raccoons could be a pretty nice source of inspiration for a livery, what with their colorblocking and stripes. You could even make the planes' engine cowlings look like weirdly human little hands. I would hate that, but I would respect it! Instead Porter has taken the approach of making the plane mostly white. Revolutionary for sure.

I'll begin with the good and say that I really like this grey underside with its little outlines - I think this is an absolutely brilliant design for the Dash 8. Unlike the ATR series, which I've talked about a fair few times before on this blog, the Q400 is about as angular as a plane can get. I've never touched on that shape before, but I've discussed how carriers, though I'm sure it's by accident and they never consider this, work with the shape of the ATR to good effect. The curvaceousness of the ventral fairing on the ATR is complemented by long swoops like the ones used by Azul, IndiGo, and Air Astra. The Q400, in contrast, stores its landing gear in the engine cowlings, allowing for a very flat belly and uninterrupted fuselage that looks best with sharp long lines and blocky geometric shapes. If this livery had any other details, this would be such a nice touch - they even hammer the point in with the same design on the bottom of the cowlings.

Unfortunately, it's so light-colored that it's difficult to notice. You could mistake it for shadows settling on natural grooves in the airframe if you didn't know what the bottom of a Q400 is supposed to look like, and it isn't as if you can see it when the plane is parked.

You may well not see the wordmark, either. While the sans-serif font chosen is almost gratingly boring it is at least not hideous, but it's located in such an out-of-the-way location it almost feels like they're ashamed of it. It's so needlessly far back and low-sitting that the wing blocks it from half the possible angles, and it's not like it's accentuated in any way. You could so easily miss it. This wordmark is honestly Lufthansa-tier.

Another thing I don't like is the use of the tail. It's blocked out very Detached Tail Syndrome style, refusing to engage with the large block leading from it to the fuselage. I would understand, though not approve, if this was because they didn't want to redesign the balance of the tail when applying the livery to a new style of plane, but the Q400 is what they started with! The livery was designed for this plane and it seems to want you to just not notice this significant chunk of fuselage! It makes the whole airframe look so desolate and empty. The kindest thing I can say for it is that it looks lazy, but really it looks more unfinished. I just struggle to understand why these choices were made, in all honesty. Surely this isn't the best you can do.

Right, right, okay. There's something I've been dancing around on purpose and I think it's obvious what it is. I just wanted to get in an entire review first because there's sort of no going back once I've mentioned it. Everything I said before, while very important, is subordinate to this one...utterly perplexing choice which turns failure to infamy.

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Grade: Z-

[aviaposter]

De Havilland Dash 8-Q400 Air Canada Express operated by Jazz Aviation LP

Registration: C-GGOY Type: Dash 8-401Q Engines: 2 × PW PW150A Serial Number: 4365 First flight: Mar 2011

Jazz Aviation LP, is a Canadian regional airline based at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Enfield, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. Jazz Aviation provides regional and charter airline services in Canada and the United States, primarily under contract to Air Canada using the brand name Air Canada Express, and also as Jazz Charters. Prior to April 2011, Air Canada's regional operations were branded as Air Canada Jazz. Following the award of a contract to Sky Regional Airlines, the Air Canada Express brand was introduced as an umbrella for all regional operations. The Jazz brand is now entirely managed by Jazz Aviation LP. Since March 2021, Jazz Aviation is the sole operator of Air Canada Express.

Poster for Aviators. aviaposter.com

[red-baron-wolf]

Hello all! Thought I’d address some questions in my inbox.

Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone for all the support and concern! I promise I’m not ignoring you or this blog out of spite!

I’ll try and be more active but atm, I don’t have much new content to post. But I will post some of my own sketches and art.

“Where have you been?”

I’ve spent the last few years training to be a commercial pilot and now have a job flying. (Unfortunately not flying Typhoons like Baron does but still pretty cool)! This has however taken a crazy amount of commitment and work to afford it so been working all hours. These last few years have been mad, I’ve been dealing with some personal issues that happened that I don’t wish to disclose here but it’s been tough. Things are on the up now thankfully and I now live with my partner.

“Why don’t you respond?”

I haven’t logged into this account in ages so simply didn’t see any messages. For that I apologise, I had to prioritise my own mental health, work and career progression.

“Why no new fursuit content?”

I haven’t worn Baron in over 2 years due to being so busy. His suit is well looked after and kept brushed/clean. I want to take more photos and will do when I have time. I know I have some specific requests which I’ll do at some point!

I haven’t been to cons since 2019 and not sure if I will bother with U.K. ones again but maybe EF one day!

Thank again for your support, I’ll try my best ❤️ (I’m not flying the Q400 in the photo fyi! I fly something else similar 😉)

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[lithominium]

whats the wlonkiest airplane

Q400 obviously

who gave a crj a turboprop and a high wing. awful

i love it

[postcum]

A knight from the q400s: you "slay" for the "queen" you say? Very well then, you shall always be welcomed in this knight's hold