NZFF

Posted: **Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:12 am**

nearly done:

2781(00001) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

2781(00002) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

2781(00004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

2781(00005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

2781(00006) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

2781(00007) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

2781(00009) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

2781(00011) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Posted: **Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:51 am**

JK

downloading the old girl now.
I'm one very happy old Fokker fella :wub:

Thanks very much .

Posted: **Mon Jan 20, 2025 8:25 am**

Beautiful paint of a beautiful clean livery :clap:

Quite noticeable in say, shot#5, is the dorsal fin fillet, and I wondered if it was an afterthought to improve longitudinal stability.
So I went trawling, didn't find anything to support that thought.

Such a benign looking aircraft. The Friendship name suits it.
But in casting about the interweb, found it has quite the accident record.
It has killed over 900 people in 28 incidents over the years.

Posted: **Mon Jan 20, 2025 8:32 am**

Ouch...I'm still alive!...travelled on Air NZ/NAC F-27s quite a few times from New Plymouth to Wellington and Auckland.

Posted: **Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:14 am**

Yes NAC lost one on approach to AKL in 1979.
2 killed. Only 4 on board.
The aircraft type did operate into some dodgy areas and with some equally dodgy operators.
The aircraft doesn’t have any tricky issues but it does have a lightly built rear end and “high speed flight” through turbulence was not recommended.
It was also an entry level airliner with low hour crews. It would be interesting to see what the mix of pilot error versus aircraft faults is.

Posted: **Mon Jan 20, 2025 10:11 am**

That is a nice paint job

It is a benign aircraft to fly. In terms of handling, certainly a nice aircraft to hand fly. With an engine failure on a hot day you are going around that tree rather than over it

As cowpatz says, some dodgy operators and some cases, really dumb pilots