On 15/07/2015 21:19, Rod Speed wrote:


"Nightjar.me.uk" "cpb"@ insert my surname here wrote in message
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On 15/07/2015 19:39, Brian-Gaff wrote:
Yes, that last one was the one. Did they not use some weird three
engined
plane in it?...

With over 150 different types, tri-motors are hardly weird.

They were quite unusual at the time tho and that was only
a very small subset of the planes they used at the time.
There were only ever 4 registered in the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_...ralia#Aircraft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hav...a_DHA-3_Drover

It makes a lot of sense for bush aircraft to carry two spare engines,

At that time they weren't spare engines....

Most light aircraft need all their engines to take off. It does depend
upon the aircraft as to how many you actually need once airborne. From
pilot forums, it seems that the Drover carried one spare, although, if
an engine were going to fail, you would prefer it to be the centre
engine, as it was not an easy aircraft to fly asymmetric.


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Colin Bignell