Which aircraft in Jeep ad?

[Lotz-A-Landies]

The current Jeep Wrangler "The Gear You Need" ad shows a Jeep loading into an aircraft.

Jeep Wrangler - The Gear You Need 60sec (Sound Design by Paul Baxter) - YouTube

Anyone know which aircraft?

[101RRS]

Looks like a DHC-4T Turbo Caribou

[JDNSW]

Yes.

John

[goingbush]

x3 no question at all, Caribou from any angle

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Was what I was thinking, but is it Aussie or who currently operates them?

I thought the RAAF ones were mothballed?

[mudmouse]

Two went to HARS (Albion Park), two(?) went to some joint in QLD running freight to PNG, and others scattered about the place. Maybe even some still at Oakey??

....so, where's my one? :D

There'd be enough in the US to be in an Ad. Ford used a C-123 Provider in a pick-up commercial a few years back...

Matt.

[goingbush]

as far as I knew our Millitary didn't have Turbo Caribou, they were all Pratt & Whitney radials

Aussie Caribous accounted for here
ADF Serials - RAAF A4 De Havilland DHC-4 Caribou (http://www.adf-serials.com/3a4.shtml)

Caribou Cargo - Radial Aircarft (http://www.cariboucargo.com.au/7/radial-aircraft.html)


Hmm, who was looking to transport their 110 from Melb to FNQ in a hurry ???

[101RRS]

That aircraft is a Turbo Caribou - we never operated these in the military - as far as I know we only had the early radial piston engine version.

Garry

[Avion8]

Don't know how you can tell it is the Turbo version, but even that was Pratt & Whitney Canada Powered - PT6A-67R. Judging by the amount of smoke I would guess it was still the Twin Wasp R2000?

[101RRS]

Don't know how you can tell it is the Turbo version,

At 54s you can see that the engines are Turbo Props and not radials.

Garry

[goingbush]

Don't know how you can tell it is the Turbo version, but even that was Pratt & Whitney Canada Powered - PT6A-67R. Judging by the amount of smoke I would guess it was still the Twin Wasp R2000?

yep - good pick up,

3 bladed prop = twin wasp

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/02/543.jpg

[101RRS]

yep - good pick up,

3 bladed prop = twin wasp

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/02/543.jpg

I think you are correct but the engine cowling looks too tight around the engine.

[Gooseneck]

So is it a buffalo or a converted caribou?

[goingbush]

So is it a buffalo or a converted caribou?

At first glance an easy way to tell is Buffalo has horiz stab on top of vertical stab , Caribou horiz stab is on lower half, also the gull wings (like a ju87) of the Caribou are a dead giveaway

[JDNSW]

I think you are correct but the engine cowling looks too tight around the engine.

The cowlings on the Caribou are very tight. The air intake on the PT6 installations I am aware of are all chin intakes rather than annular ones, and this looks like an annular intake. (but I have not found a picture of the turbine conversion of the Caribou) The pictures are not clear enough to be absolutely certain.

John

[goingbush]

The cowlings on the Caribou are very tight. The air intake on the PT6 installations I am aware of are all chin intakes rather than annular ones, and this looks like an annular intake. (but I have not found a picture of the turbine conversion of the Caribou) The pictures are not clear enough to be absolutely certain.

John

The turbine has 5 bladed prop

http://www.flightworks.com/uploader/uploads/DHC-4_Ext_$1$otCIshNK$Hi366VLCicCRkDbKfsX0C.jpg

[Rok_Dr]

Nope it's a bog std radial caribou. Engine nacelles and 3 bladed props are definitely P&W radial.

[rick130]

As a school kid we went through Hawkers at Bankstown and at the time they had the contract for engine maintenance/overhaul on the P&W Wasp used in the Caribou.

I remember the inlet and exhaust valves were big :D

[goingbush]

DHC caribou doing the "wheelbarrow" - YouTube

[ramblingboy42]

they were slow, we left singapore on the "last" official gooney bird flight about an hour after a caribou and we caught up and passed it in loose formation well before we arrived at Butterworth