Chicago Express @ KHEF????

Okay, so the other night it was a United Express Saab 340 parked outside the main terminal building adjacent to Nextflight.

Must be a "Regional Prop of the Week" parking spot or something!
 
Yea, last weekend I saw I presume a Shuttle America Saab 340 there at HEF in the new United Express colors. It was parked by the main terminal. No idea why it was there.

Mike
 
Colgan now operates those Saabs for United Express. Shuttle America is out of the saab biz.
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Didn't realize they picked up United Express routes, but checking out the website I now see that. Sweet, I've learned something new for today!
 
Colgan picked up a few Saab 340As from Shuttle America for the United operation and they were probably being checked out since Manassas is a maintenance base for us.
 
pavelump said:
When the ERJ breaks, who do they call? The Saab.

It's one tough cookie. And it burns about half the fuel of the jets. But alas it's loud and has these weird things on the front called propellers so most people (passengers) aren't too thrilled to see it. Especially when it's called out to replace the ERJ... haha
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Actually isn't the Saab 340 suposed to be the quietest airline turboprop out there? I thought it was reasonably quiet for a prop when I rode in one last.
 
Snow said:
Actually isn't the Saab 340 suposed to be the quietest airline turboprop out there? I thought it was reasonably quiet for a prop when I rode in one last.
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I don't know about that... Maybe the new Q400s are quieter (probably are - the cruise prop RPM is only like 900rpm), but from my personal experience I only have the SF340 and J31 to compare and the Jetstream was definitely louder than the Saab, but that's no new news. ;)
 
Did you get to fly on the one they brought by Chi Express a couple years back? I was instructing at PWK when then flew it into park at signature. I thought for sure that somebody was making an emergency landing or something because you hardly ever see something that big going into PWK!
 
supercell86 said:
hahaha, pax hate all turbo props, even though they are turboJETS!
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A turboprop is a turbine engine, but not a turbojet. A turbojet is different. On that note a turbofan engine is basicly a turbojet with a huge fan in front of the compressor section. The biggest diference between a turbojet and a turboprop is the air moving through the engine produces the thrust in a turbojet whereas in a turboprop the air is used to spin a shaft that spins the prop which produces the thrust.
 
Polarbear said:
A turboprop is a turbine engine, but not a turbojet. A turbojet is different. On that note a turbofan engine is basicly a turbojet with a huge fan in front of the compressor section. The biggest diference between a turbojet and a turboprop is the air moving through the engine produces the thrust in a turbojet whereas in a turboprop the air is used to spin a shaft that spins the prop which produces the thrust.
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There is less difference than that really, if you consider a TURBOFAN, which is nothing more than an turbo prop with an enclosed propellor (the fan).

Are there still any pure turbojets out there? Kind of thought they go too pricy on the fuel to keep around.
 
Even the 737-200 was a very low bypass turbofan.

Personally, I think it'd be cool to fly something old school that has an centrifugal-flow turbojet engine.
 
pavelump said:
Did you get to fly on the one they brought by Chi Express a couple years back? I was instructing at PWK when then flew it into park at signature. I thought for sure that somebody was making an emergency landing or something because you hardly ever see something that big going into PWK!
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Yeah, I actually have a bunch of pictures from the demo, I can try to post some later tonight or tomorrow when I get a better internet connection. It was a sweet ride! I'd rather fly that than the ERJ!
 
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