Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:27:42 -0600
From: Rick Grant <rgrant@cadvision.com>
Subject: Re: LRO: RE: DC 3's
>Plus a page that lists all variants of the DC-3 which
indicates that only one C-47 was converted during the war. That not only
flies in the face of Marin's research but also a vague memory I have of
once seeing a photograph of two float equipped C-47's sitting side by side.
The person who told me only two C-47s had been mounted on floats
was the head of the float division at EDO. That's not to say he
couldn't be wrong, but based on his overall knowledge of seaplanes
in general and EDO in particular, I would tend to believe him. I don't know
if either of the converted C-47s was actually operated by the Army Air
Corps, or if the project never got beyond Ed's facility on Long Island. I
recall, however, that Jay Free (the head of the EDO float division) told
me that more than two sets of the 29,400 pound displacement floats
were manufactured. But I may be confusing that with the F4F Wild
Catfish project, which mounted the Grumman fighter on floats. About
ten sets of Wildcat floats were produced, and several planes were actually
converted, so maybe I'm thinking of those numbers instead.
___________________________
C. Marin Faure
(original owner)
1973 Land Rover Series III-88
1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
Seattle
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