At 08:12 AM 13/04/01, you wrote:
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:27:42 -0600
>From: Rick Grant <rgrant@cadvision.com>
>Subject: Re: LRO: RE: DC 3's
>
> >
> >the air. The program was cancelled after two C-47s had been fitted
> >with the floats,
>
>I tried posting on this last night but I suspect that there is some form of
>filter in the mailing list that knocks out messages with too many URL's.
>
>Anyhow, if you go to google.com and put the search term "DC-3" and "floats"
>in you will find a bunch of pages with pictures of the DC-3 float
>conversion. 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.
>
>
>
> Rick Grant
These flew in the Yukon. There is a picture of one in the Whitehorse museum.
Chris
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