Still flying commercially!

[JDNSW]

I was interested to see the picture in this news item today.

Gulf Oil Spill Fight Turns to Chemicals (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100430-energy-gulf-oil-spill-chemical-dispersants/)

Here we see a DC-3 being used for aerial spraying 75 years after the type first flew, and 65 years after the end of production.

To put this in perspective - how many 80" Landrovers are still in revenue service? And they ceased production almost ten years after the DC-3.

There are almost certainly still a few DC-3s flying scheduled passenger services in some out of the way places.

Up to the end of the 1970s they were still flying a majority of the world's scheduled airline flights. What brought this to an end was the effects of the Vietnam war, where very heavy use of the type by the US badly depleted the vast stock of spares left over from WW2.

John

[Bigbjorn]

There was a DC fuselage on a 1940's International truck chassis at the David Hack Memorial Day at Toowoomba airport today. He carries around a mechanical music machine that slides out the back.

When Dave Inc makes it as easy to post photos on here as it is to e-mail them using Yahoo (Three mouse clicks) I might post some photos.

[VladTepes]

When Dave Inc makes it as easy to post photos on here as it is to e-mail them using Yahoo (Three mouse clicks) I might post some photos.

Sorry Brian but the system is what it is. There's no ay the money to upgarde to an entire new gallery system (if we could find a suitable one) can be justifed just for one person who can't upload pics or run a photobucket !

[Scouse]

There was a DC fuselage on a 1940's International truck chassis at the David Hack Memorial Day at Toowoomba airport today. He carries around a mechanical music machine that slides out the back.

So that's where it ended up. It was at one of the NRMA Motorfests in Sydney a while ago then was sold through Shannons a year or so afterwards.

[Bigbjorn]

Sorry Brian but the system is what it is. There's no ay the money to upgarde to an entire new gallery system (if we could find a suitable one) can be justifed just for one person who can't upload pics or run a photobucket !

Not "can't" but "won't" as one small voice of protest against an obsolete and un-necessarily complicated system. My photos are stored on my computer in Windows My Pictures and i can e-mail them with three mouse clicks.

[incisor]

you can attach them with 3 clicks if on your hard drive...

1st click manage attachments

2nd click browse button and select the pic you want to upload

3rd click upload button

then hit preview or submit as you usually would..

[scrambler]

Thanks Inc, never knew that.

Did take a few more clicks with the browsing, but point taken.

BTW this is the 1982 Camel trophy course. From 1977 - 1981 I lived just out of Mt Hagen, and this course travels through country I am very familiar with flying over. Some of the places visited I thought ONLY had foot or air access.

And to finally get back on thread - at that time the PNG "airforce" consisted of DC-3s.

[abaddonxi]

:D:D:D

I have trouble using itunes, so hate to think where I fall on that scale.

[Sprint]

damn that warms the heart......

[VladTepes]

When I went to Brazil years ago (well maybe 17 years ago or so) they still had Super Connies flying commercially ! Saw a few in a regional airfield near Sugarloaf in Rio.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

http://www.buffaloairways.com/sites/default/files/dc3s-rad-jkm-wir.jpg

These ones still fly regular passenger and cargo flights in Canada's frozen north. Aircraft Fleet | Buffalo Airways (http://www.buffaloairways.com/aircraft-fleet)

There is even a reality TV show about them Ice Pilots (http://www.icepilots.com/)

BTW: there is still an 80" LR doing spraying work in central Victoria, a number of daily driver 80"s and a lot of farm hack 80".

[lewy]

often seen one flying around darwin,
Census of Australian DC-3s (http://www.dc3.adastron.com/ozcensus.htm)

[zulu Delta 534]

And to finally get back on thread - at that time the PNG "airforce" consisted of DC-3s.

Which were ex RAAF and today one of those aircraft (ex RAAF then ex PNG) can be found in a stationary display situation at a pub adjoining the strip at the Southern end of Narrabri NSW
Regards
Glen

[Bigbjorn]

Here are photos of the DC3-International truck and music machine, and one of a WW2 Guiberson radial diesel engine. David Hack Day earlier this year at Toowoomba airport.

[Killer]

There was a DC fuselage on a 1940's International truck chassis at the David Hack Memorial Day at Toowoomba airport today. He carries around a mechanical music machine that slides out the back.


Owned by Werner Kroll, lives in Brisbane, owns a business repairing machine tools.

Cheers, Mick.

[p38arover]

When Dave Inc makes it as easy to post photos on here as it is to e-mail them using Yahoo (Three mouse clicks) I might post some photos.

Crikey! You really don't know how to use the system, Brian. :eek:

It's dead simple to attach pix to posts. Have a look at the Manage Attachments button.