Hi All--
Larry Smith wrote:
>
> Ok folks, we've talked about Land Rovers, coffee, boats, planes, etc.
>
> I have a birthday coming up and have an unfulfilled fantasy. I want a ride
> in a DC-3/C-47. Don't care whether I go as passenger or cargo (Hey I
> retired after 22 years in the Army - I'm used to going as cargo!)
Indeed you do! Maybe not the same level of cargo as hopping up and down
Vietnam in asthmatic C-130s for three weeks trying to get to your
assignment station. I don't think I *saw* a seat in a plane till I took
the Freedom Bird out. ...
> I've
> ridden in a lot of military aircraft, but never one of these.
>
> Anyone know of a Charter or Scheduled flying, preferably on or near the East
> Coast, I can hook up with? If so, please respond off list.
>
I wish you luck. I can't help, but I can give you some advice. The
*first* airplane I ever rode in was a DC-3, when I was six or seven.
That would have been 1953 or 54. Ozark Airlines used to have a fleet of
them, and were the only airline to serve Peoria IL, so gooney birds were
the only planes I flew in till Ozark bought turboprops in the sixties
(we called those "screaming mimis"). I remember looking out of the
window of my first gooney bird at the engine and thinking, "Gee, I
wonder if those rivets are supposed to bounce up and down in their holes
like that?" Then I remember thinking, "Gee, is the engine supposed to
spit fire like that every now and then?" I don't think that ever
changed in all the DC-3s I flew in.
So my advice to you is either don't look out the windows at plane parts
_or_ start drinking heavily.
<rye-whiskey-rye-whiskey,-rye-whiskey-i-cry>-ly y'rs,
Ivan;-)
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