Let's see your CB1100 out on the road!

[redbirds_imp]

Douglas C-47 I think. One of the most useful aircraft ever produced and many still flying today.

[Bosti]

That's just not an "old plane from WWII". I don't know much about these things, but I am quite sure that there others here that do, but that is an example, if I'm not mistaken, of one of the most significant aircraft models in the history of aviation.

All the more reason that a CB1100 should be in the same photo.

Yes, it is a Douglas DC-3. It is a monument to a first allied airfield in the first liberated area in Slovenia in WWII. That plane has carried many injured people to safety.

[max]

Nice shot, bosti!

Just so happens i caught one of these taking off in Auckland.
It's for hire for trips around the area and whatever the customer wants it for, a real treat to hear it come overhead.

here's a screen grab and the video of it has just finished downloading.




https://youtu.be/jWo3f6UlUg8

Handheld, big zoom so yes, it shakes a little.

max

[Banned_imp]

I got the rare opportunity to skydive out of a DC-3 in '98 in Perris Valley, CA - it was an awesome experience. I was the first guy out the door so I had to hang onto a bar on the fuselage while waiting for everyone else to get into position for the dive. Afterwards I noticed my jump suit was covered in oil from the engine. I was amazed that it could still fly spewing that much oil.

What a great historic plane.

[Nortoon_imp]

[url=http://www.buffaloairways.com/]Buffalo Airlways operate from Yellowknife in Canada's North West Territories. The company's flagship aircraft are the Second World War-era DC-3s and DC-4s, as seen on TV's [url=https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ice+pilots+season+6+full+episodes+]Ice Pilots NWT for six seasons.

[flynrider]

I got the rare opportunity to skydive out of a DC-3 in '98 in Perris Valley, CA - it was an awesome experience. I was the first guy out the door so I had to hang onto a bar on the fuselage while waiting for everyone else to get into position for the dive. Afterwards I noticed my jump suit was covered in oil from the engine. I was amazed that it could still fly spewing that much oil.

What a great historic plane.

It's typical to put large barrels or catch pans under the engines when parked. In flight, they generally burn/leak about a gallon of oil per hour.

I'm also a big fan of the Gooney Bird. Many are still at work, over 80 years after the type first flew in 1935.

I saw this one at West Yellowstone a few years back. It's been converted to turboprop engines and delivers smoke jumpers to forest fires every summer.

[lash_imp]

When I was first starting out flying I always wanted to fly the 3 until I saw one being loaded one day and realised everything you put in it has to be pushed uphill.....never did fly one!

[Wisedrum]

It was cold, dry and sunny but beatiful over a length of 87km. And smokin'. Two bikers crossed my way, one on aTransalp, the other on a BMW Rninet. Both doing the same coldtest round 0° as I did. We could stand it.

Wisedrum

[Ulvetanna_imp]

When I was first starting out flying I always wanted to fly the 3 until I saw one being loaded one day and realised everything you put in it has to be pushed uphill.....never did fly one!

I once flew with Clay Lacy in his "Mainliner O'Connor" DC-3. It's a marvelous plane. Nowhere near as noisy as one might imagine, although the entire interior had been redone by Synchro Aviation with plenty of soundproofing. I had not ridden my CB1100 to the airport that time as I hadn't purchased it yet.

It seemed to lift into the air effortlessly. He did some very steep turns and it was clear the plane was a pilot's aircraft.

And of course, he greased it right in on [url=http://www.onesixright.com]One Six Right.

[the Ferret]

It was cold, dry and sunny but beatiful over a length of 87km. And smokin'. Two bikers crossed my way, one on aTransalp, the other on a BMW Rninet. Both doing the same coldtest round 0° as I did. We could stand it.

Wisedrum

I like how the CB1100 stands out on the side cover of the bottom pic