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Posted on 12/07/2017 11:51:02 AM PST by Beowulf9
This plane passed over my house today. It flew low and looks like an old time plane. I'm thinking it has something to do with Pearl Harbor Day?
I heard it as it passed over, flying pretty low. Had an old time motor sound and so I ran out to see what kind of plane it was, bringing my camera as I did. Snapped the shot as it was flying over my neighbors yard. Wish I had caught it over my own yard, would've been a better shot.
Anyway going to ask if anyone out there recognizes this type of plane.
That rough of a flight, that the box lunch passed out??? :)
Thank you for saving me the time. I just knew I wouldn’t be disappointed.
DC3
Okay, I must be falling into a FReeper coma here. Scary when I have the same image in mind and then - poof - there it is.
Goony Bird.
Here is an example of the sound of that plane. Even sitting in the house I heard that beautiful thrilling sound of that motor.
Looked it up on Youtube for anyone who wants to hear that!
This was very thrilling for me to learn about and read these comments. How wonderful on FreeRepublic so many are knowledgeable, here! I’d otherwise never know this incredible information about this beautiful plane.
Thank you :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_dB6mjKQPU
“the aircraft had landed gently all by itself in a meadow “
Incredible. Any idea if the planes were still serviceable?
Flew in a DC-3 once many years ago. We flew out of a small airfield (Governor’s Harbour) in Eleuthera, Bahamas back to Miami. Mackey Airlines. Fun ride.
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The small Chino airport in SoCal has a number of WWII airplanes that are in flying condition. If you’re lucky you can sometimes hear a flight of three or four going overhead.
Yup. Spot on. And man are they loud at takeoff.
My first flight was in a DC-3, North Central Airlines, from Madison, Wisconsin to O’Hare Field on the way to Louiseville, Kentucky in 1959.
It was my only flight in a DC-3.
I flew from Norfolk to Amarillo for military leave, purchasing first class tickets. The Braniff leg of the trip from Dallas to Amarillo was a DC-3 with no first class service. So, the stewardess sat with me when she wasn’t serving stuff, and served me first. She was a honey and the best flight I ever had.
The plane was something else. You could look out at the wings during flight, and see them actually flapping up and down. Noisy as hell, too.
The other they painted up as the Orange County Express by American Airlines.
A great group of old timers man the place. And do they have some stories. Better yet, they love to tell them.
One of the finest airplanes ever built, IMHO.
Are you in Florida by chance? I’m asking because I think I saw a very similar plane today while driving home from work. It caught my attention because it was not something we see here often.
I read a story of one C47 that shear a wing tip off after flying in over ‘The Hump”! The ground crew used a wing from a
scavenge-red DC2/C46 to make a repair and fly it out.
I believe the DC2/C46 had a wing 3 feet shorter than DC3/C47
I just now looked it up. Real story here!
Good music w/story!
http://cnac.org/aircraft02.htm
I was doing training jumps with the Honduran Airborne battalion who jumped from the C47. The tail wheel doesn’t retract on them and if the jumper doesn’t get a vigorous exit his chute can become entangled and become a towed jumper.
The Honduran jumpmaster explained this to us in Spanish and one of our guys interpreted it as he spoke and pantomined and the recovery sequence went something like this.
1) if you were conscious you’d pop your cape wells and then pull your reserve as you fell away.
2. If you were unconscious he pulled out a rope ladder, showed it to us and said he would climb back to you as the plane was flying and then cut you loose as he activated your reserve.
The last option was that the pilot would fly real slow and low over the ocean and then they’d cut you loose and the Honduran navy would recover you.
Needless to say I made a vigorous exit.
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