Hmmm..do you like low flying aircraft?....then here ya go!

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Basler has converted several DC-3s to 3 turboprop engine maritime patrol aircraft.

Is there a reason the USCG is flying old retrofitted airframes, do you know? Because when we're bankrolling F-35's that seems kind of funny, you know?

 

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This is a Super DC-3 with Rolls Royce Dart turbo prop engines. The super 3 has different wings, horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, along with main landing gear doors and a retractable tail wheel. Douglas built about 100 Super DC-3s designated C-117A for the Navy, and about 30 Super DC-3s for commercial airlines. The Super DC-3 was fitted with two 1,475 horsepower Wright R-1820 engines.

 

[marchplumber]

View attachment 865102 This is a Super DC-3 with Rolls Royce Dart turbo prop engines. The super 3 has different wings, horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, along with main landing gear doors and a retractable tail wheel. Douglas built about 100 Super DC-3s designated C-117A for the Navy, and about 30 Super DC-3s for commercial airlines. The Super DC-3 was fitted with two 1,475 horsepower Wright R-1820 engines.
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That's a decent "looking" bird

 

[marchplumber]

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Basler has converted several DC-3s to 3 turboprop engine maritime patrol aircraft.

This is NOT a decent looking bird......just sayin

 

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Five Amazing Facts About The Douglas DC-5 - YouTube Short story on the DC-3 replacement the DC-5, only 12 were built.

 

[Mullaney]

Five Amazing Facts About The Douglas DC-5 - YouTube Short story on the DC-3 replacement the DC-5, only 12 were built.

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Hmmm...
Wonder what it was like to get a EUC approved for an airplane?
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Oh wait.

The government was willing to sell almost anything to the citizenry back in those days.

 

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Douglas DC-6B Low pass and landing at Stavanger - YouTube

 

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Antonov An-124 Low Pass Flyby - Plato Video - 1991 - YouTube

 

[Mullaney]

Douglas DC-6B Low pass and landing at Stavanger - YouTube

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That's interesting Tracer... The DC-8 has a pretty good crab angle coming over the threshold. I noticed in the following image the trees aren't leaning, so maybe the air is different a little lower.

Had to snag a few screen scrapes...







Stavenger is over in Norway and a quick look shows water on three sides - so wind could definitely be a factor!

 

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Stavenger is over in Norway and a quick look shows water on three sides - so wind could definitely be a factor!

Yeah, I picked up on the crabbing also (very cool):

- You can hear the wind in the recording

 

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DC4 Skymaster Flight Sequence - SAAF Harvard 50 Year Anniversary - YouTube JU-52 & DC-4/C-54 Low Pass

 

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Stratolaunch First Landing! - YouTube The Stratolaunch first landing at its home base at Mohave California.

 

[Another Ahab]

Stratolaunch First Landing! - YouTube The Stratolaunch first landing at its home base at Mohave California.

Whoa, nice post Tracer!!

That forest of wind turbines is as interesting as the airframe:

- What is the Stratolaunch designed to do (other than fly)?!

 

[MarkM]

Great aircraft

View attachment 865102 This is a Super DC-3 with Rolls Royce Dart turbo prop engines. The super 3 has different wings, horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, along with main landing gear doors and a retractable tail wheel. Douglas built about 100 Super DC-3s designated C-117A for the Navy, and about 30 Super DC-3s for commercial airlines. The Super DC-3 was fitted with two 1,475 horsepower Wright R-1820 engines.
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Great aircraft and reliable as hell. The best looking jet airliner IMHO was the old DC9. She had such great lines. You guys should read up on the old
https://www.google.com/search?clien...2ahUKEwjO3uya8sn4AhUal4kEHeFEDgUQ3LoBegQIBBAB
de Havilland Comet. Fantastic aircraft unfortunately had a major design flaw in those square windows.

 

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Whoa, nice post Tracer!!

That forest of wind turbines is as interesting as the airframe:

- What is the Stratolaunch designed to do (other than fly)?!

Ahab' Stratolaunch is designed to carry a rocket to high altitudes and then launch the rocket. The smaller rocket can then reach the same orbit as a larger more expensive rocket when launched from a higher altitude, making the cost to launch a satellite cheaper. Stratolaunch was the idea of the late Paul Allen, and it just made its 7th test flight recently from the Mojave Space Port.

 

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Great aircraft

Great aircraft and reliable as hell. The best looking jet airliner IMHO was the old DC9. She had such great lines. You guys should read up on the old
https://www.google.com/search?clien...2ahUKEwjO3uya8sn4AhUal4kEHeFEDgUQ3LoBegQIBBAB
de Havilland Comet. Fantastic aircraft unfortunately had a major design flaw in those square windows.

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Probably the most beautiful commercial airliner ever built.

 

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1960's - BEY, CAI, IST - COMET-4's Action! - YouTube A short video of the successful De Haviland Comet 4. Notice the square windows are gone.

 

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Comet De Havilland 16 mm - YouTube Mexicana was one of the last airlines to fly the Comet 4. I remember seeing them come into LAX in the late sixties.

 

[M813rc]

I saw Comets, both long-nosed and short-nosed flying over every day back in the early 1970s in Ireland. Our house was under the approach path, and about seven miles from, Dublin airport. I always thought they were a graceful looking aircraft. The French Caravelle was another attractive plane of that era.
From home, I got to see all the airliners of the day, and a lot of military aircraft too, since Baldonnel air base was just a few miles away.

The Comet lived on in the anti-submarine and ELINT Nimrod until around 2011. Looking at a Nimrod, you can see the Comet clearly, as it is essentially a Comet with another tube stuck to the bottom to hold the search radar and weapons bay. Some call the Nimrod ugly, but I rather like it (but then, I think F-4 Phantoms are beautiful too!).

Cheers

 

[MarkM]

The old F4 was a great looking aircraft for sure. Now if you want to talk about relatively ugly aircraft but only because of their necessary requirements Look no further the the Guppies.