For one reason or another (and I'd love an explanation), it seems that most planes with the wings at the top are either propeller-powered or four/six-engined. What other airliner-sized planes are there with the wings and two jets above the fuselage?
RL757PVD From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4537 posts, RR: 13 Reply 1, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 6906 times:
D-328 jet DL flew them under ACA up till 2003.
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FoxBravo From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 2809 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 6879 times:
SalMonela From United States of America, joined Apr 2007, 64 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 6837 times:
The Beriev BE-200. Not sure if it was ever actually part of an airline fleet, but it was designed to include use as an airliner.
Quoting A342 (Reply 5): Just like its newer and bigger sibling, the Kawasaki C-X:
That thing is quite impressive. Its one big plane... bigger than it looks in pictures (about the same size as a 767-200). I'd love to see one in person.
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AirframeAS From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 14150 posts, RR: 26 Reply 11, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 6372 times:
Didn't Air Wisconsin have a few BAe with two mounted engines (One on each wing)??
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PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 9 Reply 12, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 6228 times:
Okay, it doesn't really fit your category, but this is a two-jet ON TOP of the wing plane:
ChiGB1973 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 1605 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 6198 times:
Quoting RL757PVD (Reply 1): D-328 jet DL flew them under ACA up till 2003.
Triebwerk From United States of America, joined Sep 2008, 126 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 6097 times:
Thanks for the terminology correction. I was tempted just to use the German vocab: Tiefdecker = low-wing, Mitteldecker = mid-wing, and Hochdecker = high-wing.
Rutankrd From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2003, 2033 posts, RR: 5 Reply 18, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 4647 times:
Boeing YC14 High Wing , Engines above wing !. Somewhat similar to the AN72/74 in appearance but bigger.
Was Demo against YC15 of MCD in competition which eventually lead to the C17 !
474218 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 6340 posts, RR: 9 Reply 19, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 4069 times:
Quoting Rutankrd (Reply 18): Boeing YC14 High Wing , Engines above wing !. Somewhat similar to the AN72/74 in appearance but bigger.
Was Demo against YC15 of MCD in competition which eventually lead to the C17 !
The Boeing YC-14 and the McDonnell Douglas YC-15 were medium sized transport designed to replace the Lockheed C-130.
The McDonnell Douglas C-17 is a large transport designed to replace the Lockheed C-141.
The YC-15 and C-17 are completely different aircraft.
Wedgetail737 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 5566 posts, RR: 5 Reply 20, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 4056 times:
The Lockheed S-3B Viking are high-winged, twin-engine aircraft.
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Yak97 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2005, 118 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2689 times:
re 146 with 2 engines. There was a mock-up model of a 2 engined 146 version in the MDC at Hatfield in the late 80's, but there were some problems with the size of the fin for the engine-out case, and the runway requirements were much more than the standard 146.
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