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From a original photo taken in 1995 at San Juan Puerto Rico.Built in 1943,C/N 25778. Four Star Aviation ceased ops. in Dec.2001
El Douglas DC-3 es un avión que revolucionó el transporte de pasajeros en los años 1930 y 1940. Fue desarrollado por un grupo de ingenieros encabezados por Arthur E. Raymond y voló por primera vez en 1935. Su diseño fue tan perfecto y avanzado a su época, que aún hoy día, mas de 80 años después de su primer vuelo, se encuentra operando en número considerable en distintas partes del globo.
Here's our progress so far. A Technic spine has been added throughout the length of the fuselage. A wingbox has been added which the gear can be loaded onto. And here's everything stuck together temporarily just to show how all the components combine, including roughly where the engines, propellers, landing gear, tail gear, and nose will be.
There's plenty to still do including:
-Clean up the nose, and choose which approach
-Figure out how to loft the fuselage cross section between what's built and the nose
-Pilot door
-Underside of the wingbox
-Widen the landing gear mounts by a stud, due to larger props
-Fill out the engine nacelles, figure out the colour line break between top (white) and bottom (grey)
-Is it crazy to add some electrical elements?
-Wings and how to attach them with dihedral
-HStab
-Empennage
-VStab
-Order proper colour parts off BrickLink
-Tripod mount balancing
It's actually starting to look like a DC-3!
Douglas DC3 Dakotas G-ANAF and KK116 carrying Royal Air Force Transport Command livery at Coventry on the 28/1/17
Last night I dreamt that they dropped a bomb. The seas ran dry and the winds had calmed. Everything fell and crumbled to dust and skeletons of steel were covered in rust.
And everything I loved and feared had all at once disappeared.
Colours were drained straight from the sky and nothing living had survived. Mountains were merely removed from the earth and silver and gold had lost all its worth.
D-Day is celebrating its anniversary today, 75 years after the 1944 landing in Normandy. The official name for the event was Operation Neptune and was the largest scale seaborne invasion in history. The effort from more than 200,000 heroic allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, unclasped Adolf Hitler’s hand from Europe. In celebration of their brave efforts today, the Imperial War Museum will release a fleet of aircraft which will take a route over England and towards the English Channel with a final descent on France.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8kkGIh_NXQ
www.thesun.co.uk/news/9219317/dakotas-heroes-d-day-fly-ag...
Approximately 280 paratroopers, made up of 130 UK troops from 16 Air Assault Brigade and 150 from the French Army’s 11e Brigade Parachutiste, will carry out a commemorative parachute descent onto fields on the outskirts of Sannerville, Normandy.
In the early hours of 6th June 1944, the same fields served as Drop Zone ‘K’ for the 8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion, tasked with the destruction of bridges to restrict German freedom of manoeuvre.
Following the military parachuting The Red Devils, the Army and Parachute Regiment freefall display team, will do a display, including a tandem jump with D-Day veterans Harry Read and Jock Hutton. On D-Day, Mr Read, now 95, was a 20-year-old wireless operator and Mr Hutton, now 94, was a 19-year-old in 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion.
This aircraft was delivered to the RAF in 1943.
The DC3, otherwise known as the Dakota or C-47 Skytrain, was used in large numbers as a troop and supply transport during the WW2 conflict and beyond for many years.
This example is kept at the air museum at the former RAF Elvington, near York and the many aircraft and artefacts there are well worth a visit.
I believe that the tail number on this beauty is NC16008, which means that this is American Airlines' Flagship Missouri. It went into service in November 1936, and I'm assuming that the plane is on display in St. Louis for locals to see.
Unfortunately, the Flagship MIssouri crashed on October 15, 1943 in Centerville, Tennessee when the plane lost altitude due to ice on the wings or propeller and crashed into a hill, killing all aboard. Here's more information about the accident:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_63_(Flagship_Missouri)