A grand old plane (II)/Viking Air

Further to this post, more from Paul at Celestial Junk:

Bringing Back the Skyraider 2

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Meanwhile, some informed doubters are taking part in a discussion at Milnet.ca (scroll down).

And from the Defence of the Realm post that Paul links to:

...A week earlier the USAF issued an RFI for as many as 60 light mobility aircraft (LiMA) to airlift up to six passengers or small loads of cargo from austere or unimproved surfaces.

This goes back to our thinking on the utility of such aircraft as the Pilatus Porter. But the concept of using light STOL transport aircraft goes much further back, to the use by British forces in the 1950s and 60s of the Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer (pictured above) the Single Pioneer and even the Beaver...

As I titled an earlier post:

Heck, why not go with a proven airfcraft?

Maybe a real opportunity for Viking Air, compared to what I consider a fixed-wing SAR pipedream that is trying to gain political and media momentum:

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Now from the blog of the Ottawa Citizen's David Pugliese:

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The most happy campers I touched base with were the folks from Viking Air of British Columbia. They saw the day as positive since they feel the field is now open to their new production Buffalo aircraft (yet to be built) [more here and here]...