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The Caravan also comes in a floatplane model to ensure if is able to in time take over from those denizens of utility world, the Beaver, Otter and Twin Otter
Airtest – Cessna Grand Caravan
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The Cessna Grand Caravan
Cessna’s Grand Caravan would induce feelings of superiority in the mildest of pilots, Grand being a very appropriate epithet for this most magnificent of singles.
While the new 1. 2m stretched, quick change, passenger/ cargo addition to the burgeoning Caravan/Cargomaster fam- ily retains the commonplace proportions of Cessna’s earlier piston planes, the spacious executive aircraft come cargo hauler, parachute dropper, utility machine, air ambulance or eight to 14 passenger commuterliner, is a whole size bigger than its forbears in every direction.
The feeling of supremacy begins when you reach above your head to a door handle fully the height of a semi trailer’s cab’s, swinging it open to fold down your own set of steps and clamber up to the elevated cockpit. Once in its high, multi adjustable, five point harness equipped driving seat, the heady sensation is reinforced by the Boeing sized rudder pedals and sheer enormity of the 2. 7m diameter, three bladed metal McCauley propeller needed to convert the big Pratt & Whitney’s increased 675 horsepower into useful thrust.
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