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Why the DC-3 is such a Badass Plane
Eight decades after its first flight, the DC-3 remains an aviation legend. (www.popularmechanics.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Recall watching them in use during the 1970s in the Channel Islands. Still a beautiful design.
We have one Dc3 named Daisy in Sweden, flown by flying veterans, everyone can become a memberand take a trip to europé.
I neglected to mention that in 1973 I crewed on a 117D out of El Toro piloted by CWO (Gunner) Henry Wilfang! He came out our way from Cherry Point on a TAD 'IG' trip to inspect VMGR-352. He insisted on getting some stick time on a shiny C-117 that had just returned from PAR - on the hop to MCB (at the time) 29 Palms, we landed on Marston matting - the only operating runway on the base back then.
(Wildfang)
I got to fly one in central America in the late 1960s. Such a sweet bird.
Better is the store of a friend of mine who was, in the old Frontier Airlines, its chief pilot. On a trip from Durango Colorado to Denver Colorado in a snowstorm, they felt a bump, and figured it was turbulence. On landing in Denver, they found they were missing 13 feet of the left outboard wing. The next summer, it was found on a mountaintop. Thank God these days for better altimeters, being able to fly over storms, and lots of other things.
But, the feeling of landing and taking off so slowly in a DC-3, and its superb handling characteristics, is unforgettable.
Better is the store of a friend of mine who was, in the old Frontier Airlines, its chief pilot. On a trip from Durango Colorado to Denver Colorado in a snowstorm, they felt a bump, and figured it was turbulence. On landing in Denver, they found they were missing 13 feet of the left outboard wing. The next summer, it was found on a mountaintop. Thank God these days for better altimeters, being able to fly over storms, and lots of other things.
But, the feeling of landing and taking off so slowly in a DC-3, and its superb handling characteristics, is unforgettable.
D-Day 1944, Berlin 1948-49, Harvey 2017 and others too numerous to mention.
They just keep going and going and going.
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