Talk:De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter

Comments
The description needs a bit of work. A Turbo-Otter is pictured, but no mention is made that several Otters have been retrofitted to use a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-135A turboprop rather than the radial engine. Performance characteristics (hp, maximum speed, load, etc.) are different for the two models. Joe

Images
Any chance that we can have a 'thin out'? I'm struggling to find the words in this article. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by)    23:41, 18 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Too many cooks, not enough broth! That was all casued by users inserting pics without paying attetnion to where they were. We even had a heading with a pic above and below it! I've stacked them in one place for the time being, but feel free to shuffle them around if needed. - BilCat (talk) 00:08, 19 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I knew I would annoy someone by throwing in that black and white, and putting it where I did. One of the reasons for illustrations is to liven things up, and stacking is not terribly appealing visually (to me).  But I defer to others, and the page looks good the way it is now.  I had also rearranged the stacked photos to line them up better amongst themselves and with relevant text.  I threw in the black and white only because the article mentions the U.S. Army as the owner of the largest number of Otters, and there wasn't a photo.  I agree the biggest problem is lack of text, and noted the same problem re: the turbos.  There are photos of them, but no explanation. De Havilland must have a fact sheet on the plane which could be used to flesh the article out.  I would do it but I don't know enough (in fact, I know next to nothing about them) and don't have time for the research.  Cheers! Sciacchitano (talk) 21:28, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The B&W photo itself was not a issue; the problem, as I said above, was placement. Perhaps white space was not a problem at the screen resolutions you use, but at lower resolutions it becomes a problem. Also, when pictures are separated by a small amout of text, or by a heading, it produces a large white space between them. Stacking may not look as pretty, but it avoids that issue. Of course, that all becomes less of a problem with more text. - BilCat (talk) 23:14, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Turbo Otters
There are at least 3 different Turbo otters, two by Vazar that use the Pratt&Whitney PT6 engine (PT6A-135A and PT6A-34), two by Texas Turbine Conversions with a Garret TPE 331 engine (TPE 331-10 and TPE 331-12) and another using the Walter M601E-11 engine. I think that these should be listed under the "variants" column instead of the modifications section, also I don't know of a version of the DHC 3 that uses the PT6A-27 engine listed, however the DHC-6 Twin Otter uses this model of the PT6 engine.

manual
would a scan of the flight manual be of any use for this wiki artical?

i have the one for cf-ukn http://www.flickr.com/photos/1ajs/4939322134/

1ajs (talk) 02:43, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

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