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Some of you guys may have an interest in this.

Over the past couple of months I've been a consultant for Halcyonair, a small regional airline out of Cape Verde an Island of West Africa.

Halcyonair is modeled around the bird 'Halcyon' which is a genus of the tree kingfishers, near passerine birds in the family Halcyonidae. The bird Halcyon species is resident in sub-Saharan Africa

The plan was to introduce another turboprop into their fleet capable of doing flights to neighbour countries. We studied several different models from ATR42-320/500 and ATR72 models and finally selected a ATR42-500. On the 23rd of August the aircraft finally arrived in Cape Verde. It is expected to take its first flight to Senegal within two weeks.

Here are a few shots in a rather Wet and Windy Sal. More to come if anyone is interested?







Tail, showing the logo of the bird with its Ferry Flight Rego.

written_ficton wrote:Some of you guys may have an interest in this.

Over the past couple of months I've been a consultant for Halcyonair, a small regional airline out of Cape Verde an Island of West Africa.

Halcyonair is modeled around the bird 'Halcyon' which is a genus of the tree kingfishers, near passerine birds in the family Halcyonidae. The bird Halcyon species is resident in sub-Saharan Africa

The plan was to introduce another turboprop into their fleet capable of doing flights to neighbour countries. We studied several different models from ATR42-320/500 and ATR72 models and finally selected a ATR42-500. On the 23rd of August the aircraft finally arrived in Cape Verde. It is expected to take its first flight to Senegal within two weeks.

Here are a few shots in a rather Wet and Windy Sal. More to come if anyone is interested?

Nice shots w_f,

The ATRs are quite nice aircraft in general, the company made a good choice.

Agreed! Nice pics - and indeed a great choice in the means of small charter aircraft.

G

Hardly small! It's a 44 seater aircraft and will be used on RPT sectors.

written_ficton wrote:Hardly small! It's a 44 seater aircraft and will be used on RPT sectors.

Yeah... i beleive anything over about 20 seats is "medium"

considing what i fly - if that was small... i've been flying Mosquitos

Nafenn wrote:

written_ficton wrote:Hardly small! It's a 44 seater aircraft and will be used on RPT sectors.

Yeah... i beleive anything over about 20 seats is "medium"

considing what i fly - if that was small... i've been flying Mosquitos

You have been flying mosquito's...very slow noisy ones

Do paperplans count???

written_ficton wrote:Do paperplans count???

Paper Planes Maybe (sorry)

And George... excuse me? Slow? 95 Knots is not slow compared to a snail

I'm not George I'm Doug

Try 300kts Nafenn! The speed of sound comparing to you...

Tyranus wrote:I'm not George I'm Doug

You too then

written_ficton wrote:Try 300kts Nafenn! The speed of sound comparing to you...

Sorry mate, could just be that its early morning, but thats gone sailing over my head (i swear its a regatta up there at times)

I think he's referring to the speed of the Halcyonair rather than your planes.

right... now i'm with it