Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

 

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[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

"OY-MUB, Short 330-200, ex of Danish airline MUK Air, withdrawn from service and now used as an office for the Wolds Gliding Club, Pocklington."

[fflo.livejournal.com]

used as an office--- love it!

[planetgeorge.livejournal.com]

Druk Air? Going to Bhutan?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

MUK. See above helpful comment. :)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Wait, didn't you post a picture of this squareplane before?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I think you're thinking of this one:




But there was also a helicopter:

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

That Short 300*, G-BGNA, has an unhappier fate. It was sold at various times and ended up re-registered as N334AC in the US, and used as a cargo plane. It crashed in 2017 in West Virginia; both pilots were killed. Coincidentally that crash got written up in an air accident blog I read. It's a sad story.

https://fearoflanding.com/accidents/accident-reports/procedural-drift-at-yeager-airport/


* (they also went under the designation Short SD3-30 - I'm not sure what the difference was, if any)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Wow, sad.

I like funny-shaped planes. elainegrey has a fun bit of imagination below regarding this particular shot of the MUK one.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember that postcard. Sad to hear about the fatal crash.

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

That's an odd photo to have been made into a post card. Can you read the logo on the plane? No. And what's that pipe sticking up out of it? (Presumably a area light, but it looks like a stick one could pretend to fly the plane around a bunch of puppets or marionettes.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

:D Plane on a stick! I love it.