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Published on December 2, 2012 By Jafo In Everything Else


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on Dec 16, 2012

Leo the Lion
I'd give my right arm to fly in that Lancaster!

At last count there are two that are airworthy....the B of B flight one....and one in Canada.

There's a second 'running' in the UK but it's not airworthy and is limited to taxi-ing....

The REAL thing to keep a look out for are those buried Spits in Burma that have come to light.  With luck, airworthy spits might be in for a major leap...

on Dec 16, 2012

You can't do this on a 'commercial flight' ....

on Dec 16, 2012

I flew out of Essendon [Victoria] to the place where I was born [King Island - part of Tassie....in Bass Strait] on a 1945 Douglas C-47 aka [now] DC3.

I hadn't been back there since I left at the age of 3 weeks....58 years ago....in one of these things going the other way....[albeit 58 years younger...me AND the plane].

That's actually pretty awesome.  How'd you get this treat?

on Dec 16, 2012

That's actually pretty awesome. How'd you get this treat?

Saved up.....it was $495 a head ...all included [apart from grog at the dinner...and any cheese, etc bought] ...

I'll certainly do it again.... before the crate runs out of air-worthy hours....[and me too]....

on Dec 17, 2012

@Wiz....lol. Karma 4 U

on Dec 17, 2012

Cool!  I am old enough to remember when those were regular (i.e. common) passenger planes.  I always looked on them as "at least they can glide in a horizontal direction".

on Dec 17, 2012

I remember vividly a flight in a commercial DC3 in about 1965, from Louisville to Evansville during a horrendous storm.  The wings were literally flapping in the wind, it was dippin & slidin, hittin 'bumps' all over & I was certain I was gonna die.

on Dec 17, 2012

My first flight in one was in 1954 .... I was about 3 weeks old so don't remember too much [nothing at all, actually]...

There used to be one stuck up on a stick at Tullamarine Airport [like a gate sentry] but it's since been removed and restored to flying...

on Dec 18, 2012

There used to be one stuck up on a stick at Tullamarine Airport [like a gate sentry] but it's since been removed and restored to flying...

Waste not want not!

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