Early days of Ryanair

[hkgdave]

Ryanair is well known in Europe at least, with its almost exclusively B737 fleet since the -200 model... it now has a fleet of several hundred -800s an -8MAXs and many more on order.
But it started in a much more modest way. Since Aeroclassics has an HS748 mould, it would be nice if they could use it for this beauty.

 

[Jolly Roger]

Ryanair was founded in 1984 as "Danren Enterprises" by Christopher Ryan, Liam Lonergan (owner of Irish travel agent Club Travel), and Irish businessman Tony Ryan, founder of Guinness Peat Aviation. The airline was shortly renamed "Ryanair". It began operations in 1985 flying a 15-seat Embraer Bandeirante turboprop aircraft between Waterford and Gatwick Airport. In September 1988 the ATR 42-300 EI-BXR was added to the fleet.
The donor model(a 600 series) had 6 bladed props but the 300 series has 4 bladed props. To overcome this issue I made some “spinners”, but the got hold of a couple of 4 bladed props. Which do you prefer?

 

[thiscooldude]

Ryanair was founded in 1984 as "Danren Enterprises" by Christopher Ryan, Liam Lonergan (owner of Irish travel agent Club Travel), and Irish businessman Tony Ryan, founder of Guinness Peat Aviation. The airline was shortly renamed "Ryanair". It began operations in 1985 flying a 15-seat Embraer Bandeirante turboprop aircraft between Waterford and Gatwick Airport. In September 1988 the ATR 42-300 EI-BXR was added to the fleet.
The donor model(a 600 series) had 6 bladed props but the 300 series has 4 bladed props. To overcome this issue I made some “spinners”, but the got hold of a couple of 4 bladed props. Which do you prefer?View attachment 19833View attachment 19834

What mould was the donor?

 

[LeoMuse747]

Ryanair is well known. in Europe at least, with its almost exclusively B737 fleet since the -200 model... it now has a fleet of several hundred -800s an -8MAXs and many more on order.
But it started in a much more modest way. Since Aeroclassics has an HS748 mould, it would be nice if they could use it for this beauty.

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This would be very interesting indeed!

 

[Jolly Roger]

What mould was the donor?

The donor was a 1/200 scale Herpa ATR 42-500

 

[Jolly Roger]

The Ryanair Embraer Bandeirante

 

[thiscooldude]

What about an.... Ryanair Short S-25 Sunderland 5?

 

[LeoMuse747]

The Ryanair Embraer BandeiranteView attachment 19838

How I wish we had both the Bandeirante and the Brasilia in 1:400!
3D Printing is currently the only option for these two...

 

[Alzyerpal]

Ryanair was also a BAC 1-11 operator briefly.