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Offline Shultzie

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DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« on: November 25, 2010, 09:10:17 AM »
I started an addiction to http://www.avweb.com many years ago...each morning before checking for my daily routine at The Wind Tunnel.

Today's eye candy is this DC-2 worth modeling.
« Last Edit: November 26, 2010, 07:15:56 PM by Shultzie »
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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2010, 10:12:22 AM »
One from the golden age of air travel.  Back when people dressed like they were going to a wedding,  funeral and other sad occasions. LL~ LL~  Had to be an experience to ride in one of those.  Did get a ride in a Ford Tri Motor at an air show in down town KCMo. H^^
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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2010, 10:12:52 PM »
DC-3 was my first airplane ride ever. Age 12 Flight from Jax Fla to Huntsville Al.
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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2010, 10:50:23 PM »
I knocked around the Yukon in a DC-3 doing geophysical work for a mining consortium.  I was 19 and in heaven! LOL
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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2010, 09:36:32 AM »
There are 2 or 3 at the local airport that make daily flights carring cargo.  They fly right over me and every day I look up to see them ... can't help it.

Larry
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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2010, 10:24:55 AM »
They had a BIG "Gooney Bird" reunion at Oshkosh this year.
Took MANY pics! y1

"Tight Lines!"

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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2010, 12:00:46 PM »
Back in the Good Old Days (1950's) we had a C-47 on our base named The Aroostook Rocket.  Our base was in Aroostook County, just outside Presque Isle, ME.  Before the pilots could get the engines started I would be laying on the floor using my parachute as a pillow.  Great airplane.  By the way, I made 24 takeoffs and 23 landings in C-119's and never once loosened my parachute straps in a "Flying Box Car."
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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2010, 06:44:54 PM »
Hi Don,
That is actually KLM's DC-2. The Museum of Flight also has a flying DC-2, in TWA colors.
Chris...
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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2010, 07:17:54 PM »
Quote from: Chris McMillin on November 26, 2010, 06:44:54 PM
Hi Don,
That is actually KLM's DC-2. The Museum of Flight also has a flying DC-2, in TWA colors.
Chris...
Thanks Chris... for correcting another one of my  brain ta' finger glitches!
Hope your Turkey day was a fillin' good one!
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« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2010, 12:26:10 PM »
Donaldo,
I was working over the blessed holiday, as usual. I am still carrying souls to their loved ones, bringing families together.
It's getting old, I think after 25 years I should be able to be at home myself! If I fly like the wind tonight and arrive at base 30 minutes earlier than schedule, I'll get home tonight at midnight!!!
Hope yours was a great one.
Chris...
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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2010, 01:38:57 PM »
I flew from japan to korea in one of  them things 1966.
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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2010, 11:16:46 PM »
Hey Clancy,

I have about 5 minutes of stick time in a C-119, courtesy of the Air Force and the Civil Air Patrol. Of all the Air Force rides I've had, the Boxcar was the only one where everybody wore chutes all the time. About 5 minutes after takeoff the personnel door on the port side blew open and the crew chief had to walk back and grab it and shut it.  That door is only about 3 feet in front of the port engine.  If it had come off, I probably wouldn't be writing this.

Also had a few rides in DC-3's, but not in a -2.

That is a great picture of KLM's DC-2.

John
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Re: DC-2 Eye Candy photo on AVweb cast this morn.
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2010, 11:45:42 AM »
Quote from: Chris McMillin on November 27, 2010, 12:26:10 PM
Donaldo,
I was working over the blessed holiday, as usual. I am still carrying souls to their loved ones, bringing families together.
It's getting old, I think after 25 years I should be able to be at home myself! If I fly like the wind tonight and arrive at base 30 minutes earlier than schedule, I'll get home tonight at midnight!!!
Hope yours was a great one.
Chris...
Love this B&W old photo of what early air travel might have felt like to the pilot and co-pilot soooooo close at hand to the passengers in this old Northrop Alpa?  H^^
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