The P-3 is a military version of the Lockheed Electra, which was in commercial passenger service in the late 1950s-'60's. Their popularity suffered when harmonic vibrations caused the wings to fall off a few of them.
So, they're rather long in the tooth, and parts are a problem. They're being replaced with a modified 737 (designated P-8). Rick On Feb 3, 2014, at 23:58 , David Mann wrote: > On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:24 pm, John Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Good stuff there Larry, I'm a fan of older aircraft! Any idea what the >> crude modification to the >> P3's propellers were designed to do? > > Maybe they broke off and they've been duct-taped back on :D > > The P3 Orion is one of the great workhorses of our air force, it's used a lot > for naval search & rescue as well as coastal patrol. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
