Take a look at this here. Don't look much like Everts tankers does it? And just think, it probably burns less fuel than a Gulfstream.

http://www.dhc-2.com/Red_Bull_DC-6.html

Emory Bored wrote:Don't look much like Everts tankers does it?

Not quite. Though I'm betting it has a bit more comfortable life too....

Gump

Just how much profit is there in a can of soft drink??

Judging from the thousands of triple-mailers of Pepsi/Coke I've hauled over the years in NW Alaska alone, it has to be billions!!!

Gump

GumpAir wrote:Judging from the thousands of triple-mailers of Pepsi/Coke I've hauled over the years in NW Alaska alone, it has to be billions!!!

Gump

Gump, you're forgetting the chips and cheetos which are usually in the same quantities all over the north

620-650 gallons an hour in a G2, but we are faster. About 450 in a G1. I will say that interior is a whole lot nicer than the one I fly.

porterjet wrote:620-650 gallons an hour in a G2, but we are faster. About 450 in a G1. I will say that interior is a whole lot nicer than the one I fly.

It's been a while, but I remember my old G3 burning 200 GPH with the engines idling!

SkyTruck wrote:

porterjet wrote:620-650 gallons an hour in a G2, but we are faster. About 450 in a G1. I will say that interior is a whole lot nicer than the one I fly.

It's been a while, but I remember my old G3 burning 200 GPH with the engines idling!

Same engines and that sounds about right. 8000 pounds per hour per engine on takeoff. Good old Rolls Royce noise converters.

That's one classy machine. Mr. Mateschitz has good taste in aircraft.

Gump, or somebody, does it take three guys to fly it the way Everts uses them? Maybe I'll get an engineers rating I don't remember Jorgy talking about engineers when he was running Everts.

Oh, one more thing, is that big valve wheel at the pilot's left knee for nose wheel steering?

Wow oh wow!

I was born too late. Have 15,000 hours in a DC-9. If I flip that "9" over on my certificate it would be a "6". Recon they would let me fly that thing?
Naw...it would eat my lunch. Somebody had it right...

JETS ARE FOR KIDS!!

Bob

It's a real beauty. I toured the facility last year as part of a feature I was writing on their hangers at the Salzburg airport. The chief pilot really wants to bring it to Oshkosh.

The maintenance shop was the cleanest one I've ever seen. They had 2 spare engines on racks ready to go.

Emory Bored wrote:Gump, or somebody, does it take three guys to fly it the way Everts uses them? Maybe I'll get an engineers rating I don't remember Jorgy talking about engineers when he was running Everts.

Oh, one more thing, is that big valve wheel at the pilot's left knee for nose wheel steering?

Yes, it's a three pilot airplane, by regulation--required crew. Everts flies them with three. This airplane stopped in FAI a few years ago, and some of the Everts crews got a tour. They all said they were going home to work on their resumes.......

MTV

Several years ago Red Bull hired an Anchorage based former Northern Air Cargo captain to fly this plane and train others. He lived in Anch and reported for work in Salzburg. Not many guys can make that claim. Take a virtual tour of the Red Bull hangars if you haven't already. The airplanes are impressive but the hangars are out of this world.

http://www.flyingbulls.com/