Five Twin Engine Aircraft Nobody's Heard of

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  • Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
  • Here’s a brief collection of obscure twin-engine aircraft you’ve probably never heard of.
    Kensgaila VK-9
    00:04
    The VK-9 was a brave attempt from Lithuania to build a twin utility aircraft that could hold its own against its western competitors.
    Speedtwin E2E Comet 1
    2:58
    The Speedtwin was a twin-engine trainer from the UK that claimed to be the only aerobatic multi-engine trainer capable of being intentionally spun.
    Fuji Commander 700
    5:52
    Designed and built by Fuji and marketing by Rockwell, the Fuji Commander 700 was a luxurious cabin-class pressurized twin from the 70s.
    Dornier DO 28
    The DO 28 presents Dornier's HIGHLY unconventional method of converting a single-engine aircraft into a twin!
    8:15

    BM-11 Southernaire
    11:24
    The Southernaire was an interesting twin that consisted of converting a Grumman Widgeon into a landplane!
    I love producing these videos! If you have any recommendations for other odd or unusual designs, drop them in the comments below and I’ll throw them in the mix.
    I don't own these clips. All rights are reserved to their respective owners, and used with prior approval. Creative common videos are also utilized. If your clip is included and you'd like it removed, please email me, and we'll address the matter right away. richard@aircraft-adventures.com
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Комментарии • 120

  • @chuckcawthon3370
    @chuckcawthon3370 8 месяцев назад +9

    Great educational experience. I’ve been an aviation fan all my life but never heard of some of these planes nor their history. Well Done Sir.

  • @eddcla7766
    @eddcla7766 8 месяцев назад +8

    Yaaaaay! Love the Speedtwin, thank you for all the information on it, most of it new to me. I always wondered what happened to the project, and if they might not have been better off (at least from the perspective of number of airframes flying) sticking with the plans-built approach. Really wish someone would pick it up, so much potential.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад +2

      Happy to help!

    • @xpump876
      @xpump876 5 месяцев назад

      Ditto to the enthusiasm on that SpeedTwin - what a cool bird!

  • @michaelogden5958
    @michaelogden5958 8 месяцев назад +6

    That early Dornier twin is sweet!

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад +3

      Saw it as Osh last year!

    • @WarblesOnALot
      @WarblesOnALot 8 месяцев назад +1

      G'day,
      With a pair of
      Rotax-377s, one might make a
      Rip-Snorter of an
      Ultralight,
      Using the layout.
      I reckon, anyway.
      Have a good one...
      Stay safe.
      ;-p
      Ciao !

  • @ccscomments757
    @ccscomments757 8 месяцев назад +6

    My dad flew on the Rockwell 700 once to a project for Cedarapids, Inc (now a Terex brand). Many years later, but before 2011, I spent a few minutes on board inside a hangar. It was very nice.

  • @jamesbooth3360
    @jamesbooth3360 4 месяца назад +2

    The Cessna T303 was a great airplane and belongs on the list of seldom known light twins. Flys like a 182, FL250 capable, ergonomic panel that makes it very easy to manage, trailing link gear, and a very comfortable aircraft for passengers. Only produced for about 3 years and sold for 4 in the early 1980's.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  4 месяца назад

      It is a nice plane for sure, and I think I've already added it for an upcoming video.

  • @andyreynolds6194
    @andyreynolds6194 8 месяцев назад +6

    My dad flew in the Speed Twin in early 2010’s. I recall him saying the fella was hopeful to sell them as reconnaissance aircraft to African nations.

    • @johnwighton
      @johnwighton 7 месяцев назад +3

      My company did a lot of the engineering work on the mk2. The project owner, Malcolm was totally unrealistic and inexperienced in light aircraft development. Sufficient to say that we parted company, Speedtwin Developments didn’t pay our last invoices. I flew the Mk1 a few times, it was Fun, given a different owner/manager the Mk2 could have been very successful.

    • @stewpacalypse7104
      @stewpacalypse7104 4 месяца назад

      ​@johnwighton that's unfortunate because it looks beautiful and fast.

  • @thomasshelley4617
    @thomasshelley4617 8 месяцев назад +1

    Loving these new compilations :)

  • @peterwilhelmsson4168
    @peterwilhelmsson4168 5 месяцев назад +1

    Loved the video, those were some sweet aircraft! ❤

  • @mikejohnson5900
    @mikejohnson5900 8 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for this vid. This stuff is fascinating to me - I love rare aircraft. Keep up the good work. Oh, and thanks for reading your own copy.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад

      Glad you enjoyed it! More good stuff coming up soon. (and trying to improve my voiceover, lol)

  • @javierpatag3609
    @javierpatag3609 6 месяцев назад +1

    Already a fan of the WW2 Do 335. Introducing me to Do 28 got me to subscribe to your channel. THANK YOU.

  • @neiloflongbeck5705
    @neiloflongbeck5705 8 месяцев назад +3

    Made the Matchbox model of the Do-28 as child.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад

      Me too, it was the Dornier 28D Skyservant model. Not many curves, it seemed to go together rather quickly.

    • @neiloflongbeck5705
      @neiloflongbeck5705 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@aircraftadventures-vids I had problems with the undercarriage.

  • @fishman211
    @fishman211 8 месяцев назад +3

    Interesting that the VK9 initial photo has winglets.

  • @nunyabidness3075
    @nunyabidness3075 8 месяцев назад +4

    All twin engine planes were aerobatic so long as Bob Hoover was installed in the cockpit.

  • @BodleyFludes
    @BodleyFludes 7 месяцев назад +2

    Anyone else see the striking likeness of the fin/rudder profile of the Do 28 to the Mitsubish Ki-46? The little-known Reid & Sigrist Desford light twin is another attractive rare bird - now preserved for static display in Leicestershire.

  • @Snakebloke
    @Snakebloke 6 месяцев назад +1

    The Fuji/Rockwell Commander 700 was fantastic.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  6 месяцев назад

      There's one close to me at KFXE all under tarp, doesn't look like it's going anywhere sadly. It's rather big when you walk around it.

  • @Paiadakine
    @Paiadakine 6 месяцев назад +1

    Love this video.

  • @edcew8236
    @edcew8236 8 месяцев назад +3

    The kit version of the Speedtwin was enormously over-priced. When an RV-6 kit was $30,000, the Speedtwin was asking $100,000. No wonder it never sold! It did have a unique feature to reduce aileron control forces, and it's not clear to me that conventional ailerons were inadequate.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад +2

      Not only that, but that's not factoring in a pair of Lycomings, I presume. Plus all the associated mounting, plumbing, etc etc.
      There's been other kit twins that were attempted but nothing's really worked so far.

  • @everTriumph
    @everTriumph 8 месяцев назад +2

    I always had a soft spot for the turboprop Meteor. Fitted with two Trent tp's it looked neat, although obviously the jet version was faster.

  • @DblIre
    @DblIre 8 месяцев назад +3

    For years, there were one or two DO-28 hulls at the Shawano Airport west of Green Bay WI. I think they were floatplanes. N774E may be one of them.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад

      Yeah one of them was converted from floatplane to landplane, it's definitely one of them.

  • @robbudden
    @robbudden 8 месяцев назад +4

    the speedtwin looks like a Pucará

  • @edutaimentcartoys
    @edutaimentcartoys 5 месяцев назад +1

    nice video

  • @GregoryAlanGaskill
    @GregoryAlanGaskill 6 месяцев назад +1

    A tail dragger ( speed twin ) made in the nineties is intetesting.

  • @johnmorris7815
    @johnmorris7815 8 месяцев назад +2

    Ever heard of the Beagle Basset? A very short lived design that had very few civil sales but had some success with the RAF.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  7 месяцев назад +1

      I sure have! Not quite as obscure as these ones I'd argue but still a good candidate for another video. When I used to work at FLL, there was a Beagle parked right outside our office, appeared to be in good shape.

    • @johnmorris7815
      @johnmorris7815 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@aircraftadventures-vids that sounds about right, there were one or two dotted about at various airfields, most had seen better days?

  • @SimonAmazingClarke
    @SimonAmazingClarke 8 месяцев назад +2

    I used to work with a guy that worked on the Speed Twin. The designer was very disabled but could really throw it around the sky.

  • @darkiee69
    @darkiee69 3 месяца назад

    The Speedtwin looks a lot like a FMA Pucará.

  • @joeobrien3541
    @joeobrien3541 6 месяцев назад

    A condition of the certification of EVERY multi-engine aircraft is that is can be flown successfully after V1.

  • @jhaedtler
    @jhaedtler 8 месяцев назад +2

    Do something on the Wing Derringer!

  • @skydive1424
    @skydive1424 8 месяцев назад +2

    Shame Fuji stopped building aircraft. The single engine ones are very robust, aerobatic and with great short field capabilities

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад +2

      I loved that LM-1 where they took a Mentor, converted to a 4-seater and grafted that huge jeep-looking roof on top.

  • @pfg72
    @pfg72 5 месяцев назад

    The Speedtwin E2E Comet 1 looks suspiciously like a scaled down IA Pucará...

  • @treintaceroseis3081
    @treintaceroseis3081 8 месяцев назад +2

    El Speedtwin se parece mucho a uno de los primeros bocetos del IA58 Pucará, excepto por el tren triciclo y los turboprop.

  • @Flies2FLL
    @Flies2FLL 8 месяцев назад +4

    The Rockwell-Fuji Commander is unique in that it involves Subaru. Yes, Subaru, the Japanese car company. At the time Subaru was a brand name and Fuji Heavy industries was the company. Fuji itself was a conglomerate created after the end of WWII by the Japanese government, which grouped together seven companies to produce Fuji, which got its name from the Fuji Rabbit scooter that was very popular.
    And one of the other of the seven companies was Nakajima, one of the pre-eminent aircraft manufacturers during WWII!
    Which means that basically....Every Subaru is actually a Nakajima. The word "Subaru" in Japanese refers to the Pleiades star cluster, which has seven stars, with six visible and one invisible most of the time. This is why the Subaru badge has six stars to this day.
    They finally got some common sense a few years ago and changed "Fuji Heavy Industries" into "Subaru". And they also had the common sense to stay the hell away from aviation!

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for the backgrounder!

    • @Flies2FLL
      @Flies2FLL 8 месяцев назад +1

      Great video!@@aircraftadventures-vids

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад

      I just noticed your username, I live next to FLL@@Flies2FLL

    • @Flies2FLL
      @Flies2FLL 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@aircraftadventures-vids Hope you didn't get flooded last February....

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад

      @@Flies2FLL no, our house is elevated on the street and were spared. Our neighborhood was a mess though

  • @ch64621
    @ch64621 6 месяцев назад +1

    The speed twin would have made a great training aircraft

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  6 месяцев назад

      That was the idea. My guess is over abundance of existing used twins precluded its need.

  • @Sometungsten
    @Sometungsten 8 месяцев назад +1

    Nicely done. You mispronounced two words that I caught. One at the end regarding the Beech 18, suite. You said suit (clothing). Suite is "sweet".

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад +1

      I mean “suit” as in “suit and tie”. But yea my voiceovers need a lot of work, no doubt. Tx for hanging in there!

  • @Rhaman68
    @Rhaman68 8 месяцев назад +1

    Dude, the verb “are” is required with the predicate is plural. “Here are 5 twin engine aircraft…” The five makes this plural. Thanks for the video.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад +1

      Pedantic! j/k, I agree, and I'll be looking for those things next time around.

    • @kendalldavis99
      @kendalldavis99 8 месяцев назад +2

      I always love grammar scolding starting with the word dude 😂😂😂

    • @AC-jk8wq
      @AC-jk8wq 28 дней назад

      Dude,
      Free English lesson with every video…. 😃
      With a bonus lesson of words not to use in certain areas of the world…. 😃
      Let’s all say ‘resemble’ together…
      Throw in words like assemble, dis-assemble, and re-assemble, just for fun…
      When selling machinery around the world… these English lessons pop up all the time. Different regions, and countries…. They all say the same thing differently, and they’re all right!
      😃

  • @16jan1986
    @16jan1986 3 месяца назад

    Are there others that think that donier missed the boat not making a do28/3m

  • @xsu-is7vq
    @xsu-is7vq 8 месяцев назад +1

    the speedtwin has some similarities to the shape of Me210

  • @rickburke7167
    @rickburke7167 7 месяцев назад +1

    TheSpeedTwin has a look of the Pucara...

  • @marcgini1443
    @marcgini1443 8 месяцев назад +1

    No mention of the cessna skymaster???

  • @larryweitzman5163
    @larryweitzman5163 7 месяцев назад +1

    Yeah, 4 obscure birds and the Rockwell 700. You left off the best small twin ever built, the Wing Derringer. Most are still flying. It was bueatiful and performed better. It should of had Lyc 360s instead of 320s. I saw a nice one at my old airport PVF. It would be terrific to see it back in production with the slightly larger Lycomings.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  7 месяцев назад

      Too many to fit into one video. The Derringer is on my list for another twin engine series for sure.

    • @larryweitzman5163
      @larryweitzman5163 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@aircraftadventures-vids Yes in airplanes, funny looking designs don't fair well. Both the Hansa jet with forward swept wings and the Hondajet OTW engine placement didn't and are selling all that well. For the Derringer at least it looked good. With 180 hp engines, it would have faired better as a personal rocketship. I met George Wing in Torrance back in the 60's at Torrance. John Thorp helped Wing with the design.

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  7 месяцев назад

      I can see the Thorp linneage for sure. I know less than nothing about the Derringer, but perhaps it didn't sell well as it only sat 2? Perhaps if it was a 4-seater it would have fared better against the twin comanche, for example. @@larryweitzman5163

    • @AC-jk8wq
      @AC-jk8wq 28 дней назад

      @@aircraftadventures-vids the thorp corrugated wing design…. Speaking of looking funny…. 😃

  • @andrespi2009
    @andrespi2009 7 месяцев назад +2

    Ask the royal navy if they know the pucara

  • @paulmurgatroyd6372
    @paulmurgatroyd6372 8 месяцев назад +1

    I've probably never heard of most aircraft.

  • @snarkymatt585
    @snarkymatt585 5 месяцев назад

    The Speedtwin looks a little bit like a baby Pucará.

  • @larryweitzman5163
    @larryweitzman5163 7 месяцев назад +1

    And a third person could sit in the baggage area if belted.

  • @zzupa9366
    @zzupa9366 6 месяцев назад +1

    The E2E kinda looks like an argentine Pucará lmao

  • @Tiagomottadmello
    @Tiagomottadmello 7 месяцев назад +1

    👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @wilsont1010
    @wilsont1010 8 месяцев назад

    Why they put in 2 engines instead of one?

  • @jamieknight326
    @jamieknight326 8 месяцев назад +2

    The speed twin for aerobatics is such a silly idea. Totally the wrong layout for the job…. But sort of genius in its own daft way… physics be dammed :)

  • @MrLM002
    @MrLM002 5 месяцев назад

    1.) Rarely do piston twins have engine "redundancy", instead you twice the likelihood of engine failure, and in all but the push pull designs your aircraft handling is much more dangerous in a traditional twin with one working engine than a single engine airplane with engine failure, the only saving grace being the possibility that you can get to the nearest safe place to land with your one working engine in said twin.
    2.) The Do-28 B1 and the Do-28 Skyservant do not have even decent single engine performance. Both are STOL designs and STOL aircraft are almost always pretty draggy, most twins however are built for speed so they tend to be the opposite of STOL. At sea level on a not hot day you can probably climb a bit on one engine in a Do-28, though the turboprop Skyservant conversions probably preform a lot better. Also Helio made a Twin courier, none have survived to my knowledge.
    3.) The Do-28 does not have more cockpit space than the Do-27, the Skyservant does though. The Do-27 and Do-28 definitely do not have spacious cockpits, the big windows help visibility but 6ft male barely fits in them, they were built by malnourished post war Germans for malnourished post war Germans.

  • @ronjonson26
    @ronjonson26 7 месяцев назад +1

    How about the twin Helio

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  6 месяцев назад

      Cool design, very little info to be found on it.

    • @ronjonson26
      @ronjonson26 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@aircraftadventures-vidsI don't know if there's any still in existence

  • @edcew8236
    @edcew8236 8 месяцев назад +1

    Reduced engine separation the Dornier is not quite true...

  • @mithrandir133
    @mithrandir133 8 месяцев назад

    8:43 visibility impairment makes this arrangement stupid under any conditions... smh...

  • @kkiwi54
    @kkiwi54 5 месяцев назад

    It's "dawnee-uh", not dawnee-ay

  • @HyperSpaceProphet
    @HyperSpaceProphet 8 месяцев назад +1

    Good data, but you gotta pick up the pace. Sadly, your presentation is droning .
    BTW, loss of one engine in a twin is not "Death Sentence"/ It does require some action, but if handled correctly it won't kill ya.

  • @a-fl-man640
    @a-fl-man640 8 месяцев назад +1

    a death sentence for losing an engine in a twin? obviously the writer doesn't have a multi-engine rating.

    • @neiloflongbeck5705
      @neiloflongbeck5705 8 месяцев назад +1

      In some cases he would be right. Look up the Blackburn Botha.

    • @user-do5zk6jh1k
      @user-do5zk6jh1k 8 месяцев назад +1

      Blame the engineer in this case

    • @andrewplumb6544
      @andrewplumb6544 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@neiloflongbeck5705. With underpowered twins the second engine takes you to the scene of the crash, with generously powered ones, the second engine will turn the plane upside down in an instant if you are not quick under certain circumstances.

  • @bigdaddy3662
    @bigdaddy3662 5 месяцев назад

    I'm Soviet Union, prototype twin fly you

  • @mig21m13
    @mig21m13 7 месяцев назад

    Was in Russia, not Lithuania, even the name is Russian.

  • @MrSvenovitch
    @MrSvenovitch 8 месяцев назад +1

    You talk with strange intonation.

  • @michaelsteiger8509
    @michaelsteiger8509 8 месяцев назад +1

    Very nice. I heard of them all. Many haven’t. Great to see another plane geek!

  • @kenjohan
    @kenjohan 8 месяцев назад +5

    After a few sessions with a speech therapist the narrator could probably overcome his speech impediments

    • @aircraftadventures-vids
      @aircraftadventures-vids  8 месяцев назад +5

      Ouch 😂

    • @juangalton999
      @juangalton999 5 месяцев назад +6

      Rude

    • @stephenmeier4658
      @stephenmeier4658 4 месяца назад +2

      Recognizing one's own obnoxiousness is paramount to attaining wisdom

    • @captaintoyota3171
      @captaintoyota3171 4 месяца назад +1

      At least its not dumb A.I. voice. I support people speaking. Haters like you are why we get horrible emotionless a.i. voices