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  1. 2nd May 2010, 05:45 AM #1
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    Still flying commercially!

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

    Gulf Oil Spill Fight Turns to Chemicals

    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.

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    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.
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  3. 27th July 2010, 11:15 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm View Post
    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 !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by VladTepes View Post
    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.
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  6. 27th July 2010, 12:59 PM #6
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    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..
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    That easy, eh?

    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.
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    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.
    It's not broken. It's "Carbon Neutral".


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