Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Red Badger
If I could have my choice for air travel, I'd take a DC3.

6 posted on 03/07/2025 11:10:39 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Governor Dinwiddie
If I could have my choice for air travel, I'd take a DC3.

I'd rather take one of these:

10 posted on 03/07/2025 11:19:17 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Governor Dinwiddie

“If I could have my choice for air travel, I’d take a DC3”

My very first flight was on an Eastern Airlines DC-3 from Daytona Beach to JAX. I was about 7 years old. I remember looking down and seeing a huge field of parked WWII fighter planes.


22 posted on 03/07/2025 11:44:53 AM PST by ryderann
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

To: Governor Dinwiddie
"...If I could have my choice for air travel, I'd take a DC3..."

Awesome planes. I was on Cape Cod a couple of years ago, heard the unmistakeable sound of reciprocating engines low overhead, and looked up to see this:

When we continued up the road, I saw these in a big grass field:

Just superb. They even retrofit these with turboprop engines!

28 posted on 03/07/2025 12:16:21 PM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson