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Aiel Member
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 927 Location: Bangalore
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:09 am Post subject: Article on the experience of flying the DC3 |
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<i><b>Dakota skies - the venerable Douglas DC-3</b>
Many examples of the venerable Douglas DC-3 are still in operation all over the world. So how does this classic aircraft fly compared with its modern counterparts?
The Douglas DC-3 is 71 years old - far older than the vast majority of pilots flying today. How does this pioneering aircraft, considered by many to be the first modern airliner, compare with the latest passenger-carrying types? And were pilots really pilots back when the DC-3 was in its heyday? Flight International set out to discover the answers.</i>
http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/12/19/211161/Dakota+skies+-+the+venerable+Douglas+DC-3.html _________________ My Flickr photos
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the_380 Member
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 2329 Location: Mumbai, India
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:42 am Post subject: |
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Sorry for asking this silly question but are IC's Dakotas preserved anywhere? _________________ http://www.myspace.com/avsatsworld
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JumboJet Member
Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 492 Location: Mind Over Matter
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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the_380 wrote: | Sorry for asking this silly question but are IC's Dakotas preserved anywhere? |
The museum in Delhi, maybe _________________ I love the smell of Jet Fuel in the morning. |
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HAWK21M Member
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 8132 Location: Mumbai, INDIA
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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Airworks India had a DC3.Last watched it get Airborne in the late Nineties.What a gradual climb
One of the better Aircraft ever built.
regds
MEL _________________ Think of the Brighter side !!! |
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JumboJet Member
Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 492 Location: Mind Over Matter
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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HAWK21M wrote: | Airworks India had a DC3.Last watched it get Airborne in the late Nineties.What a gradual climb
One of the better Aircraft ever built.
regds
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Airworks What is it? What do they do _________________ I love the smell of Jet Fuel in the morning. |
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HAWK21M Member
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JumboJet Member
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Thx. _________________ I love the smell of Jet Fuel in the morning. |
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ssbmat Member
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:45 am Post subject: |
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Anybody got a chance to fly in the Indian Airlines DC-3 or the props like HS748 or F27 ?
I know my father flew several times in the Hs748 and F27 and also the Vickers Viscount.
According to him, amongst the props, the Viscount always felt the most solid and reassuring, while the F27 was very smooth! (maybe because of the body-under-wing arrangement)
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HAWK21M Member
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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I remember the F27s for the problematic troubleshooting of Pneumatic Brakes.
regds
MEL _________________ Think of the Brighter side !!! |
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