Beech D-50 Twin Bonanza Departs Merrill Field

[kaleo1100]

It's not a Bonanza it's a Baron

[seanbb87]

@kaleo1100 It's not a Baron it's definitely a Twin Bonanza.

[klesmer]

@seanbb87 Agree, you could hide a Baron in a D-50's baggage compartment. The D-50 is the Queenair/Kingair's daddy.

[jasong19711]

I skydived out of one of these before.

[FireLookoutOregon]

I've got a lot of time (long ago) in T-Bones and Army U-8s. In Viet Nam we called the RU-8Ds with the IGSOs the "WhisperJet." Ha! NOT!

But I can only remember using takeoff flaps for short field work in Army flight school and one time in Viet Nam coming out of Bam Me Thout's city airport (very short runway). Otherwise, why use drag-increasing flaps in an aircraft that ain't that great when an engine fails?

[geeoh480]

3400 RPM @ take-off with the props @ 2175, gotta love these babies!!

[jeffbiggles]

sound like they are ready to explode-same engine in aeromacchi-bosbok

[geeoh480]

Lycoming GSO-480-B1B6 (340 HP) geared, supercharged, and used in the Helio Courier as the Go-480 as well, torque engines with lotsa power!!!

[alaskarallyer]

This aircraft is not supercharged.

[juzzi07]

@geeoh480

it is simply the GO-480 variant...without the blower.

[aerocommanderbuff62]

not crazy at all! love radials to, but the sound of 480S are a rare breed now ,dont hear that beautiful sound much theese days, thanks tbolt!!!

[tboltjohn]

Not crazy! And no slam on radials either as beautiful as they are, but 480's are uniquely special and musical.

[hodgejr]

The sound those GO-480s make to me is the best sound in aviation, period (call me crazy but even better than radials). Hearing them roaring in the distance gives me goosebumps, it's a real shame they're so rare nowadays.