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Dec 13^th, 2003 at 10:23pm

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Reply #1 - Dec 14^th, 2003 at 3:51am

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Thanks! "Cool" story!
Makes me want to change my weather settings and start flying to Walmart!

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Reply #2 - Dec 14^th, 2003 at 9:35am

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Excelent story and some great sites.
Am going back to visit a couple more!!!!!

QUESTION:

Did not see any wheel/ski combination on your 3,s????

That was standard for us.

Do you operation off compact surfaces only?

Keep those sites comming....much appreciated!!!

Cheers....Doug

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Reply #3 - Dec 14^th, 2003 at 11:12am

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While on the subject, does anyone know of any books or pilot memiors that have been written on the DC3?
I know there is a bunch of books on the DC3 in general but pilot stories of their adventures/misadventures is more what I'm looking for.

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Reply #4 - Dec 14^th, 2003 at 12:10pm

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Thats great that those old birds get up in the air!

Fretnstuff:
A elderly gentleman used to work at my dad's shop. He flew C-47s in the Pacific Theatre in WWII. He told me some really interesting stories. I can tell you some in you like?

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Reply #5 - Dec 14^th, 2003 at 5:26pm

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Sure! Start the stories rolling!!
If you are in contact with the gentleman you should mention to him that he should write them.
I think he would be shocked to know how many people would be interested!!

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Reply #6 - Dec 14^th, 2003 at 8:08pm

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I'm afraid to say that he passed two years ago. Sad

I'll tell you his most interesting story:
It was Thanksgiving 1944, and his gooney bird was filled with pumpkin pie filling for the troops on the ground. Somewhere over the Pacific (God knows where, never mentioned that Roll Eyes

) he ran into a couple Oscar fighters. After dogging their fire for a few minutes, they got some good shots in him. The Oscars broke off, probably either low on ammo or fuel or both, leaving him and his co-pilot to fight with the plane. He managed to crash land it on some island. For two weeks he and his co-pilot ate nothing but pumpkin pie filling, untill they were rescued by a PT-Boat. And he never ate pumpkin pie again.

I don't know how true the story is...I don't know the aircraft numbers or anything, or even how to check records...

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Reply #7 - Dec 14^th, 2003 at 8:21pm

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Ahh The gooney bird, a legend of the skies! Does anyone here ever flown one or been in one? I have ridden right seat but was too young to fly it Sad

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Reply #8 - Dec 15^th, 2003 at 5:22am

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Not yet but I will be soon!! I'm looking forward to it!
If you look around your area you might be able to find some that offer rides. Most places I've found the price is steep but to me it will be well worth it!!
I have hopes of flying one in Feburary, might even try for a rating but that too is costly approx. $1200 per/hr, and it averages 4-7hrs to be rated!

Cool story SOCK!! Could you imagine the "bodily damage" that all that pie filling must have caused? Well I guess they could have been stuck with cheese!

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Reply #9 - Dec 15^th, 2003 at 7:31am

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Ahh The gooney bird, a legend of the skies! Does anyone here ever flown one or been in one? I have ridden right seat but was too young to fly it Sad

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Heck - even I flew as a passenger in a DC-3 (or probably a passenger conversion of a C-47) ... waaaay back in 1959/1960 (can't remember too well when...

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Reply #10 - Jan 23^rd, 2004 at 6:44pm

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There's probably a book about the London Melbourne race... that was a DC-2 but that doesnt matter.

KLM used them to fly from amsterdam to jakarta

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