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matt weber[_3_] · August 20th 13, 10:29 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:33:57 -0500, "D. Peter Maus"
wrote:

On 8/18/13 14:10 , wrote:
C-47(actually a DC-3) must be the most reliable plane in existence. They are still being used today in several countries . It is an amazing piece of machinery.

Many of the radial engines used for C-47's are no longer serviceable
for civilian use, and are limited to public use, which does not require
the stringent standards of civilian service maintenance schedules.

A good number of the C-47's still flying have been converted to turbo
prop engines. They are eerily quiet when flying overhead.

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.

My recollection is NW retired their DC-3 well before the late 1960's
(I was living in Madison at the time).By the late 1960's they were
operating L-188's and 707's and 727's.

I suspect the aircraft you were on was actually North Central
Airlines, who did operate DC3 into the late 1960's in may of the same
places NW flew. In fact if you went to Huron, I'd bet it was North
Central rather than NW.

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