Today I saw a real beauty

[Biggles]

I was on my way to central Stockholm to do some arrends. When crossing Tranebergsbron over the lake Mälaren with the subway, I spotted a plane heading towards the bridge. (Tranebergsbron=The Tranebergs bridge). I could barely believe my eyes, but I took out my camera and went to the other side of the train to wait until it passed over us. And sure enough, it was an old DC-3, or C-47 if you wish.
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I am very pleased with these photos, not to talk about the quality! I had no idea my camera was this good!:D

This made my day:up:

[Platapus]

The DC-3 what a beautiful airplane.

I have been in several on static display and would very much like to get a ride in one.

Classic aircraft. :up:

[August]

Wheels are down. Must be getting ready to land.

[Biggles]

Wheels are down. Must be getting ready to land.

Probably Bromma Airport, not far from that location.

[Jimbuna]

Great proven and reliable workhorse of the past. :up:

Your country must be updating their airfleet :p

;)

[Skybird]

A flying legend, a taste of freedom and adventure - and Hollywood. :lol: A flyer not liking the DC3 is no flyer.

[Sailor Steve]

I have been in several on static display and would very much like to get a ride in one.
Neener neener:p . When I was 13 I joined the local Civil Air Patrol. They got us rides in all kinds of planes, including a C-47. Of course that was 45 years ago.

When my dad first went to work for United in 1952 he was a co-pilot on DC-3s flying up and down the California coast.

[Biggles]

Your country must be updating their airfleet :p

;)

Wouldn't surprise me if this would be the standard freighter of our military soon, with the cuts from military budgets we've had in recent years:doh: :dead: :roll:

Oh and Skybird pretty much summoned up this plane! Good on ya mate!:up:

Oh and Steve, you and your father are a very lucky pare of chums! At least in this regard...

[Oberon]

A C-47 occasionally flies over head, we think it's a Dutch based guy who pops over into the UK from time to time in it, beautiful aircraft, beautiful sound :up:

[Biggles]

A nice quote I just heard about:

The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3.:yep: To think that the plane is still used at some places as cargo planes....

[bert8for3]

There was a regional carrier some years back called Cape Cod Airways. They flew some DC-3's and I did a few flights on them. What a hoot. :up: Felt like you were really flying.

[Platapus]

I have been in several on static display and would very much like to get a ride in one.
Neener neener:p . When I was 13 I joined the local Civil Air Patrol. They got us rides in all kinds of planes, including a C-47. Of course that was 45 years ago.


You suck. I hate you. :lol:

[Task Force]

Those dc-3 are realy nice planes, I fly them in FSX. Havent been able for the past fiew weeks because of my joystick craping out on me.:shifty:
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Those little smudges make it look like it is being shot at with Flak.

[August]

I have a dream to static line jump from a CH-47 some day.

[Sailor Steve]

You suck. I hate you. :lol:
I know. I hate me too. Maybe we can get together sometime and complain about me.:sunny:

[Biggles]

Those little smudges make it look like it is being shot at with Flak.

Indeed, I thought that myself:hmm: Well I guess that in Sweden we use old weapons againts old planes:lol:

[Biggles]

Time to revive this ol' thread! Because I saw the ol' beauty again!

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Gosh, she really is a sight to behold...one day I'll board one myself, I'm sure of it!

[Tchocky]

A C-47 occasionally flies over head, we think it's a Dutch based guy who pops over into the UK from time to time in it, beautiful aircraft, beautiful sound :up:

KLM run a restored DC3 around the Netherlands from time to time.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/8/8/3/2114388.jpg

Saw it landing here in Maastricht last week, wonderful sound and a nice change from the usual 737s and 747 freighters :D

[Gargamel]

No flak this time?

[Biggles]

No flak this time?

Nope! :D

I just noticed that this must be the very same plane that is on the article photograph for Wikipedia's page about the DC-3. :yeah:

[Falkirion]

I hear the DC-3 flying out of Essendon occasionally. They do twilight dinner flights from there. Beautiful aircraft regardless of how crappy your camera is at the time, those lines will always look beautiful.

[Rockin Robbins]

Two of them are operational at the DeLand airport. These old beauties keep trucking on!:salute:

[gimpy117]

Honestly, The WORLD owes the DC-3 A lot. Lets face it, there are few aircraft that have saved whole countries, the DC-3 is one of them

I remember here In Kalamazoo at a Western football game I look up, and see an F4U Corsair flying over. It was nice seeing a prime example of whistling death

[JU_88]

Great photos and a great airplane, takes me back to a few years ago (2007 i think) I heard the most terrific din over the skies above my flat, the building was shaking!
I opened the back door just in time to see a Spitfire and Hurricane trailed by a Lancaster!
Turned out to be the VE day memorial flight. The best surprise airplane I sighting I can remember. :)
Mind you I spotted a civilian looking Russian Mi-17 over Hyde park in January, not sure what that was about! it was unmistakable though, the bloody thing looks like a house with rotor blades. Maybe Putin was in Town :haha:

[Sailor Steve]

My dad started his airline career back in 1952, flying DC-3s up the California coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco, with several stops along the way.

I got to go for a ride in an Air National Guard C-47 in 1963. The Civil Air Patrol had a youth program. We got uniforms and occasional rides in different aircraft.

[Herr-Berbunch]

BBMF (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/) is only 40 miles South from where I live, but we rarely see them around unless displaying in the area. However, I'm only a handful of miles from Humberside Airport where Eastern Airways provide the major servicing for the DC3, usually over the winter period. Then it becomes 'our' DC3 for a while. :rock:

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[Sailor Steve]

:rotfl2:
I didn't realize this was an 'old' thread. I just read page one and found out I said pretty much the same thing I did four years ago. :dead:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Me neither :o

[Biggles]

Haha, yeah, I remember starting this thread back in 2008, so I thought I'd revive it rather than start a new one :D

[Sailor Steve]

Not your fault I'm too stupid to figure things out before it's too late. :oops: