Talk:Lockheed Model 10 Electra

message: Article makes no mention of the R2O and R3O versions of the US Navy. Drutt (talk) 15:54, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, they were erroneously given as R20 and R30. This has been corrected. Drutt (talk) 16:04, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: US Navy

message: Ansett Airways bought new L10 Electras for their mainly South Australia & Victorian operations in South Eastern Australia in the mid to late 1930's. Based at Hamilton in Victoria, their main large city headquarters was in Melbourne utilising Essendon Aerodrome. Additionally, interstate routes were served eg. Melbourne - Adelaide (South Australia) & Melbourne - Launceston (Tasmania), & Melbourne - Sydney (New South Wales).
Ansett's Hamilton origins came about when Reginald Miles Ansett, a Hamilton man, attempted to run large stretched limousines to Melbourne but the Victorian Government refused permission as such a service would compete with the rail service run by the Victorian Government. Ansett decided to sell a piece of fruit for ten pounds & throw in the coach ride free. Next he continued the same ruse with a Fokker Universal, & ultimately, Lockheed Tens.  Ansett Airlines continued until after the new Millennium operating all over continental Australia, the South Pacific, & beyond with a very large fleet ranging from B747 to BA146, B737, B767 etc..
The only accident with an Electra 10 (Electra 188s were later used) was on descent into Adelaide in poor visibility when the aircraft, with gear up, landed in a paddock whilst on descent. No-one was hurt, & the aircraft soon resumed duties. 
Alan Pace,
Melbourne.
59.101.205.25 (talk) 12:05, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ansett Airways Civil Operations. South Eastern Australia. 

message: Hello everyone, could someone please give me the stall speed and Vmc (minimum control speed) for an Electra 10-E with 6,600 lbs of fuel on board?  I need these numbers for a song I've written about Amelia Earhart, called "The Plane that Never Returned".  There's a line I've put in there that says she was "flying just fast enough to steer" (i.e. flying just above Vmc) after she leveled the plane out just above the water, and I want to double-check if that would be realistic or not.  If not, then I guess I'll have to find some other rhyme for "the crowd all gasped in fear".  Thanks!
76.21.37.87 (talk) 06:37, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry but this is really a talk page for discussing improvements or problems with the article. For general question you might want to try Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science. MilborneOne (talk) 11:35, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Velocities? 

message: Greater Romania Campaign over Stalingrad 1941-1943
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Source, Ministerul Fortelor Aerului R56 02478 BIBLOTECA 11.834/4, hence ,public domain,Library of Air Ministry of Romania, books?Aristiderazu (talk) 10:52, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Still not sure why you are dumping this text on different talk pages. MilborneOne (talk) 18:26, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greater Romania Campaign over Stalingrad 1941-1943 Lockheed 14 and 10 

message: As it stands, the article states that between the Electra 10-A and Electra 10-B the horsepower decreased (450 to 440) but the kilowatts increased (336 to 340). Surely this can't be correct? Also, when I manually convert either "imperial" or "metric" horsepower to kW, I get 450 hp as 331 kW, not 336 kW. My conversion of the lower 440 hp engine produces even greater deviation from the existing text, so I suspect the conversion from 440 hp to kilowatts may be the main error in the section. Does anybody have confirmed values for the power of these engines? "Pij" (talk) 04:39, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I have applied Template:cvt to all the power values in that section, hopefully that has solved the problems.  The template resolves 450 hp to 336 kW () with a significant figure modifier, its default rounding is 340kW (done for encyclopedic reasons), Convert.exe conversion programme produces 335.5649 kW. Editors doing conversions manually will sometimes round up or down. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 10:23, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horsepower to kilowatt conversions