Simviation Forum - The DC-2½

Mar 11^th, 2007 at 6:48am

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A truly amazing story!! Cool

http://www.douglasdc3.com/dc2half/dc2half.htm

Cheers Theis

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Reply #1 - Mar 11^th, 2007 at 9:13am

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Indeed.

To be fair "1/2" marks are actually reasonably common, often ending up as prototypes of the later model. You also get them with cars too - the facelifted Mazda MX-5 Mk 2 was the Mk 2.5! Grin

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Reply #2 - Mar 11^th, 2007 at 11:46am

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Charlie wrote on Mar 11^th, 2007 at 9:13am:

Indeed.

To be fair "1/2" marks are actually reasonably common, often ending up as prototypes of the later model. You also get them with cars too - the facelifted Mazda MX-5 Mk 2 was the Mk 2.5! Grin

It's not an official mark in this case... it was not a prototype, it was a jury rig.
One of my favorite "Gooney" stories... that site, BTW, has tons of great DC-3/Dak info.

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Reply #3 - Mar 11^th, 2007 at 12:08pm

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beaky wrote on Mar 11^th, 2007 at 11:46am:

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It's not an official mark in this case... it was not a prototype, it was a jury rig.

"1/2" marks generally aren't official - if they were they'd usually go up to the next number... Another example I was thinking of earlier would be the Meteor Mk 7.5, used by Martin Baker for ejection seat testing - the fuselage and wings of a Mk 7 and the tail assembly of a Mk 8...

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Reply #4 - Mar 11^th, 2007 at 9:20pm

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Charlie wrote on Mar 11^th, 2007 at 12:08pm:

beaky wrote on Mar 11^th, 2007 at 11:46am:

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It's not an official mark in this case... it was not a prototype, it was a jury rig.

"1/2" marks generally aren't official - if they were they'd usually go up to the next number... Another example I was thinking of earlier would be the Meteor Mk 7.5, used by Martin Baker for ejection seat testing - the fuselage and wings of a Mk 7 and the tail assembly of a Mk 8...

What I mean is, this wasn't a production concept- it was hobbled together that way in the field out of desperation.

I don't know which would be scarier... flying the "2 1/2" or flying that other DC-3 that brought the DC-2 wing over... bolted under the fuselage!! Shocked

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Reply #5 - Mar 12^th, 2007 at 12:44pm

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Old story, and an unsurprising one. Somehow, the Douglas planes were a lot more... robust and durable planes that a lot of others their contemporaries and even more modern ones. Proof is the still important number of re-engined DC8 and DC10 in the cargo business still around, while there's almost no contemporary plane to compare them to, nowadays (not to talk about the not little number of DC3 still flying, some even converted to turboprop).

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Reply #6 - Mar 12^th, 2007 at 1:35pm