"D. Peter Maus" wrote in message ...


My experience with that aircraft came in the late 60's when Northwest
was flying DC-3's and I was a passenger from Minneapolis to Huron
South Dakota. Those twin 9 cylinder Wright Cyclones were astonishingly
loud in the cabin, and the aircraft was very rough flying. I didn't stop
hurling until two hours after we landed. Like early V-tail Bonanza's,
the DC-3 would fishtail in straight and level flight. It was like riding
in the back of a 63 Galaxy on the interstate.

Finger lickin' unpleasant.

But still, one of the most historically significant aircraft ever built.


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Ah, yes... the unparalleled joy and comfort of a DC-3.. United was still
using those things for regional service during my last trip to the states
back in 2001. I had to fly on one from Dulles to Charlottesville, VA. I was
already in bad shape from bad food on the flight from Seoul to Dulles, then
I had to wait for nearly 6 hours since my flight out of Dulles never showed
up, and it took them that long to get another plane there. Finally got out
on the tarmac and there was a DC-3, in all it's glory... it looked from the
outside like it should have been mothballed after WWII, but, alas, it wasn't
and I had to fly on her. I spent most of the flight in the lav, the rest
with a huge headache and my stomach doing flip flops, all accompanied by
that deafening roar. Never again. I'll take a taxi.