Cessna SkyCourier Makes Public Debut at EAA AirVenture 2021

Cessna SkyCourier Makes Public Debut at EAA AirVenture 2021 - AIN

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@delukxy 2 жыл бұрын

A modern take on the Short Skyvan, including the narrow strutted wing. Looks nice, and should be versatile.

@alansimpson596 2 жыл бұрын

I take your point re the Shorts Skyvan. I live in Belfast where the Shorts factory built the Skyvan. However, they later developed it further by making a more streamlined passenger aircraft named the SD330 which carried 33 passengers and later the SD360. The new Cessna featured here looks identical to the SD360. I like the look of this new Cessna very much.

@leifvejby8023 2 жыл бұрын

I thought so for a moment too, but it has no rear door.

@kdrapertrucker 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like a scaled up Cessna 172 wing, has to be quite different inside with the engine mounts though.

@kdrapertrucker 2 жыл бұрын

@@leifvejby8023 you'd have toflatten out the tail end of the upper fuselage to fit a C-130 style rear ramp. Looks like a p!enty big side door behind the wing.

@leifvejby8023 2 жыл бұрын

@@kdrapertrucker Wasn't Herman Fish Salmon involved in something like this about 40 years ago?

@TheRangerBob 3 жыл бұрын

Could be configured for wildland fire fighting - smoke jumper aircraft, possibly an air tanker too. Though, 650 gallons is a bit light for air tanker use.

@edl617 2 жыл бұрын

Anti submarine, Air Sea Rescue,

@jonbanks5902 3 жыл бұрын

A reinvented Twin Otter ??

@bigc208 2 жыл бұрын

Not really. It’s about 50 knots faster. Wing was designed for speed, not STOL. Nothing with wings beats a Twin-Otter for unprepared short field ops.

@antonyh37 2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the shorts 360.

@wayneco 2 жыл бұрын

I want the owner flier wagon hauler / RV version of this. Fly into a place, and live out of it, then fly out to the next adventure.

@managed9348 Жыл бұрын

Are you still buying one?

@Moderator_1120 3 жыл бұрын

"Stabile aircraft!"👏👏👍👍

@edl617 2 жыл бұрын

Extremely versatile aircraft

@mikah4051 3 жыл бұрын

Good looking plane.

@karlossargeant3872 2 жыл бұрын

I hope too see this Plane whenever I travel soon.

@PMMM9 2 жыл бұрын

Great looking airplane.

@muhammadzamzami8460 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@ibrahimhaneef6684 2 жыл бұрын

Love it

@bryanhauschild4376 2 жыл бұрын

Got to see the (green) prototype flying at an airport they were testing it at.

@kreidefelsen 3 жыл бұрын

Lets see if this aircraft makes it to the skydiving world and maybe will replace the aging twin otter :)

@bigc208 3 жыл бұрын

Bring $6 million and you too will have a Sky Courier for jump ops. It’ll be a while before you’ll see one at one of the bigger DZ’s. It’ll be able to lift 6000lbs of meat bombs. That’s 30 jumpers. 10 tandem + video grapher combos. Not bad for a single pilot ship. Up to DZO’s to see if that’s an economical solution at this price point.

@Chris_at_Home 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve got a lot of hours as a passenger in twins otters. Hell, I was on a job once and one landed and we were wondering what was up. They told me to get in and go fix a satellite link at another remote drill site in the Arctic. The twin otters were the main plane used to all the remote drill sites in the winter where they would build an ice runway and drill pad.

@bryanhauschild4376 2 жыл бұрын

If the Otter, like most airplanes, is maintained well, I’d keep flying them.

@souban2008 3 жыл бұрын

Green colour is dream colour

@american5564 2 жыл бұрын

Yet the gear is fixed?

@MTisOnly1 2 жыл бұрын

FedEx chose wisely!

@InsideInterpreting 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if this will see more Caravans make their way to bush ops.

@philliplopez8745 2 жыл бұрын

Wonder if winnabago will RV one ?

@wayneco 2 жыл бұрын

I just posted above saying I want to see an owner piloted wagon / hauler / rv version. It could be trivial to build a self contained galley, and sleeping area, simce it sits flat on tricycle gear and make the entire interior aft of the two pilot seats be user reconfigurable, like how all the seats in the caravan are now, for mission reconfiguration. One day it’s doing plus owner user executive transport, the next week it’s their RV with wings, later it’s half a dozen seats and a BIG load of cargo, flying off to the owner’s Montana ranch, with private airstrip.

@jamesmerkel9442 2 жыл бұрын

We hve great in floor heating mats now, just need to power them & hve enough power to keep wing above 40 degs while being super cooled by passing air. Some metal holds thermal energy & some like aluminum is just opposite, so composite wings a near must for turbo props.

@KenLeonard 2 жыл бұрын

“Composit wings near must for turboprop”… confused by that. C-130 is over 50 yrs old

@stradivarioushardhiantz5179 3 жыл бұрын

I'm waiting for the upcoming amphibious IAe N-219 🛫😇

@edmonddantes4807 2 жыл бұрын

Very much like Harbin Y12F. Like twins almost, but Harbin has been flying for years already.😎

@SoggySoxSaga 2 жыл бұрын

A Mercedes Benz S class Sedan looks like a Chevrolet Cruze using your looks criteria.😎

@duck1946 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a Short Skyvan or BN Islander?

@whomitmayconcern 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like a 1900D with High Wings

@katlegobriannkgageng3990 2 жыл бұрын

@@whomitmayconcern my thoughts precisely

@jamesmerkel9442 2 жыл бұрын

Hving harrier jump style wings that tilt down is less prone to icing & over loading. Hving slight forward sweep wing again has more ice shedding then straight or sweep wing.

@bigc208 2 жыл бұрын

The reason FeDEx went with a high wing design is to prevent ramp rash. Pointing the wings Harrier style, downwards would defeat this.

@Hopeless_and_Forlorn 2 жыл бұрын

Twin Auger.

@auki010 3 жыл бұрын

N219 💪🏾

@SethBeck 2 жыл бұрын

Surprised there weren't any questions on engine out characteristics and forgivability. Anyone even vaguely familiar with the MU-2 knows how dicey that operation can be with a light, twin turboprop.

@Faicon9493 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how it handles with seven floaters?

@albertogarciaarango2411 3 жыл бұрын

What is the MAXIMUN pay load in 300nm trip?

@TurbinesandTailwheels 2 жыл бұрын

Preliminary estimate is 5600# payload with 300nm range (includes IFR reserves and assumes the freighter configuration).

@ZGundam83 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a variant of a Twin Otter

@RM-el3gw 3 жыл бұрын

Jeez I hadn't noticed this plane looks exactly like a Twin Otter XD

@josematovar8507 Жыл бұрын

Se perfila como un gran avión con motores y aviónica de empresas muy reconocida en la aviación civil

@stephenhudson6543 2 жыл бұрын

Does the sky courier have more cargo space than caravan

@jamesmerkel9442 2 жыл бұрын

Hving twin tail means extra lifting surface to fight icing better design, keeping u above margin of safety & ice stalling.

@leifvejby8023 2 жыл бұрын

hving?

@flybyairplane3528 2 жыл бұрын

I had been following this aircraft from it was started so I guess this may have been the one I saw flying before, I think there are 3 Prototypes, as it was designed for 3cargo pods& SINGLENPOINT So there is quick turn around time, $$$$. meant to get rid of their aging CARAVAN FLEET, it is NO COMPARRISON TO THE TWIN OTTER, THIS IS FREIGHT, TWIN OTTER PAX . 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@bigc208 2 жыл бұрын

408 will be in addition to the 208 for FedEx. There are many low load sectors where the Caravan is still the best option.

@flybyairplane3528 2 жыл бұрын

@@bigc208 hello, one of the SKY COUIUER prototypes had. SEATS, so they will make some I guess, but the build was for FEDEX , they get the first 50, with 50 more after that., but the GRAND CARAVAN, , was made for PAX did you see what CAPE AIR IN their short haul pax, will be using up there in BOSTON airspace, the TECHNAM TWIN LYCONOMING Planes 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@melbournechugging2999 2 жыл бұрын

Soon to be flying the sky's around the Hawaiian islands

@TITANIOFORT 2 жыл бұрын

I think this Cesna Skycourier is not pressurized, and It could not be pressurized because of the square section of the body. Also the landing gear is exposed, so it causes drag, it is more consumer, and it it is slower. I am not an aircraft engineer but this would be not what I would do. It's only versatile, linking small airports to the regional ones. The DESAER ATL-100 at Minas Gerais, in Brazil, has the same predicatives, and I disapprove both, but the DESAER ATL-300 it's another story, because the body section is round and the landing gear is aerodynamically covered or hidden. It will be pressurized, quicker and I think it would be less noisy too. It will face the ATR-42, but with the advantage of a rear military door, and It will make desnecessary the use of electric fork-lift.

@jamesmerkel9442 2 жыл бұрын

The other way to fight icing is hving 2 mini RC jet engines as heaters deicers, or back up engines vs hving 3rd nose engine.

@jamesmerkel9442 2 жыл бұрын

Best feature of RC jet engines is size scale & ability to b flipped around easy enough, so when landing u keep power up safe speed to land & go around above stall no or litte flaps, but u slow & fine tune the glide slop & speed of landing & then braking w/RC engines. So Not Just for Deicing. God6

@jamesmerkel9442 2 жыл бұрын

This way your flaps r kept in reserve for GO around Far stronger than engines. And the RC engines firing up reward 55 or 66 degs keeps u tail down for proper landing, even w/power.

@jamesmerkel9442 2 жыл бұрын

I paused to type at again.

@firefightergoggie 2 жыл бұрын

It's just a Twin Otter.

@exiletsj2570 3 жыл бұрын

Is this Cessnas decades late answer to the Twin Otter? I suppose as the Otter starts to age excessively, this can just step into it’s place, rather clever timing actually.

@RM-el3gw 3 жыл бұрын

The benefit this plane has over the otter is that it has an internal fuselage cross section specifically designed to carry certain cargo pallets. It looks like its payload might be larger too.

@exiletsj2570 3 жыл бұрын

@@RM-el3gw I’d imagine it has many advantages over the Otter.

@moteroargentino7944 2 жыл бұрын

@@RM-el3gw Yep, much like cargo ships it seems to be designed around a standardized cargo container/pallet. It'll probably make the operation faster and cheaper.

@la_old_salt2241 2 жыл бұрын

It was designed from the ground up to accommodate two of the standard cargo pods that FedEx flys in their wide body jets.

@rojaunjames747 3 жыл бұрын

every master piece (Twin otter) has it cheat copy (Cessna sky courier)

@exiletsj2570 2 жыл бұрын

More like a modernised replacement. I love the Otter but she’s had her time.

@rojaunjames747 2 жыл бұрын

@@exiletsj2570 the twin otter is stil in production

@exiletsj2570 2 жыл бұрын

@@rojaunjames747 You miss my point.

@steveh5005 2 жыл бұрын

Ths shorts Skyvan 300 series could have been developed. UK & US used them in Afganistain

@SethBeck 2 жыл бұрын

Floats? Maybe?

@spiritzweispirit1st638 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Aircraft! Where's The 'BRC' Ballistic Recovery Parachute? Life Safety First!✈🌎🌍🌏 They Can Be Retro Fitted, I Believe? _

@bigc208 2 жыл бұрын

On a 19000 pound aircraft? That’ll be a very big parachute.

@paulgooding803 2 жыл бұрын

Unless you close comments, a video like this just becomes a ham sandwich for the moron flies to buzz around and get attention. Few commenters here have any idea on earth what they are talking about. The video is informative. The comment section is just a crap pile. This airplane is built for a niche market, and its launch customer is pretty important. The plane is a perfect fit for the market and has a hugely respected brand name associated with it. It will be a commercial success, small-scale air cargo is going to boom in the coming years. They will sell a boatload of these and they will make money for the operators, which is the goal. Congrats to the team that designed and built this excellent product. Freight dogs are finally getting some first class equipment to fly. The world's fleet of aging airborne junkmobiles carrying freight will be replaced with aircraft like this. Long overdue.

@heaye 2 жыл бұрын

When msfs2020 ?

@reserva120 2 жыл бұрын

so long to re make the Dc 3 an besides Skylander did all the work... why decades to make such a simple plane..

@allangamayev3614 2 жыл бұрын

!!!!!!!!!!!!

@doctorshawzy6477 2 жыл бұрын

a sort of copyof the short skyvan

@stevesr5656 Жыл бұрын

Give me an address. A group of people I’m associated with in Samoa is interested in the aircraft and would like to talk more directly with someone, perhaps a sales or marketing personnel on the specifics of this product…

@jjmcrosbie 2 жыл бұрын

There's no such thing as a clean sheet design any more. All new a/c designs are based upon, or use features from, previous types. Everybody copies what they want from other manufacturers' planes. Ever since Curtiss broke the Wright Bros first patent. In this case what I shall politely call "inspiration" seems to come from the Short Skyvan and its following 330 and 360. The Short Skyvan itself was taken from the Miles Airvan. The Airvan's high aspect ratio (that's long slim) wing came from research carried out by the French company Hurel Dubois. I note that both the SkyCourier and the Skyvan have a 19 passenger capacity. The larger Skyvan 360 can carry 36. Being a new design we can expect the SkyCourier to be better than the Skyvan which first flew in 1963.

@bennybenitez2461 2 жыл бұрын

Well 100% never will have a gear up landing incident ha. Looks good Cessna

@nicolasmonastirsky 3 жыл бұрын

It’s a T-tale L410 😅😅🤣🤣🤣

@superskullmaster 2 жыл бұрын

He sure said “Ugh” a lot. Ugh.

@ralphwatt8752 2 жыл бұрын

Let Mike Patey give it a make over

@williamwilliam728 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like a Twin Otter...

@taketimeout2share 2 жыл бұрын

The Short Skyvan did this 50 years ago. Not as pretty though!

@halimkainen 2 жыл бұрын

Any souvinir

@wootle 3 жыл бұрын

The N219 looks similar. Would be interesting to compare them once both are certified and in service. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fZ2kZsZlq97XnZ8.html

@jamesmerkel9442 2 жыл бұрын

Best protection for icing is jet heat bypass engine. Next is flying above ice storm conditions as much as poss & hving extra power in reserve. Still need ice breaking on wings 2 air bladders leading edge beats just 1. Hving less thin more airfoil design error-ing on safety vs fuel savings.

@tightlines106 2 жыл бұрын

Cartels will be first customers for sure

@wayneco 2 жыл бұрын

The first customer is FedEx. I think they drove creation of the Caravan before this. I lust for a Caravan or Caravan EX… I have the dough, just not enough hours in my logbook… yet.

@anthonyburke5656 2 жыл бұрын

Way overpriced is my bet, useful as a puddle jumper or inter island, but I’m doubtful in high humidity or dusty conditions

@DoctorMangler 2 жыл бұрын

Debut is pronounced Dae Byou. My only wish is that if you're gonna pull out all the stops and make a video at least be able to speak the words you're reading.

@deadinside7600 2 жыл бұрын

💀

@ben3989 2 жыл бұрын

It’s not a copy of a twin otter.

@alan-sk7ky 2 жыл бұрын

Re inventing the Twin Otter...

@cobra3255 2 жыл бұрын

This guy can't pronounce "debut". Has anyone ever watched two of their videos?

@trhacje_m2187 2 жыл бұрын

L410 is way better...

@Captndarty 2 жыл бұрын

You’re asking the “chef’ how his food tastes. Terrible biased review.

@douglasharre7156 2 жыл бұрын

"first public debit?"......Presumably they were opening a bottle of cham pagny to celebrate......?

@jamesmerkel9442 2 жыл бұрын

If u want to carry ppl /passengers not micro private then u will need a center prop & ideally it will spin the prop on different power plan then main fuel turbo props. Ideally hydraulics is greatest man power force on earth & pumping it off electric pump or battery pump is best of All & future, & quite, nice plus. 100 miles over water max on 2 engines & the old game race to bottom devil world past.