The Corsair Marines Dream...pilots who did fly the Corsair signed one of the landing gear covers. Kind of cool:

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...end2010007.jpg

Nice pics! :yeah: Thanks for sharing.
Did you see the Lancaster fly?
To hear those four Rolls-Royce Merlins would have been pretty awesome.

To bad you didn't have a chance to go in.

I got to go inside the one at the RAF Museum in Hendon(north of London) with a group I was with back in 1991. I consider it a highlight of my life. We also went in the B-17 there as well. The difference in roominess inside was startling.

:)

It is unfortunate I did not get to hear her engines come to life. She was parked on the tarmac for people to see the insides. Even so, it as great to see the Lanc in person. I have never seen one. She is quite beautiful and I like her lines.

Those Planes and Vehicles are Treasures teeming with History.

I hope they will last forever.

If only they could talk.

If only they could Firewall, the tales they could tell.

What a beautiful line up. :yeah:

Is that a C-47 there too? What a bird she is! :up:

There was three C-47 present.

I don't believe in "bucket lists" but if I did, riding in a DC-3/C-47 would be one of them. Flying one would be better, but just taking a ride would be swell.

The DC-3/C-47 were certianly the workhorses. 2008 show.

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...Weekend001.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...Weekend006.jpg

Beautiful stuff. I must admit I'd love a ride in one myself...and...a little more strangely...I'd like to do a paradrop from one. Dunno why...it's just something I'd like to do. :)

I just suddenly remembered that I have two pics of C-47s on my gallery taken by my grandfather :up::

http://newimages.fotopic.net/?iid=yq...690&quality=70
On board the C-47s bound for Haifa from Bengahzi, May 1947

http://newimages.fotopic.net/?iid=yq...688&quality=70
Disembarking in Palestine, 1947

Some video from my daughters. I think they live a charmed life!

http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q...d2010097-1.flv

http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q...d2010093-1.flv

http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q...d2010090-1.flv

http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q...WW22010069.flv

http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q...WW22010088.flv

You should have been in Arnhem last September on the Battle of Arnhem memorial with IIRC some 1000 parachutists. They mostly jumped from C-130's, but there also were a couple of flights with C-47s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTmm5QaByC0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqjJEGKRtQ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSnYwMYNK64

There were even some Brits jumping in original uniforms:)

Unfortunately I forgot to take my camera so I haven't got any pictures of the droppings myself:damn:

Nice pics AVG. Thanks for sharing.:yeah:

Great pix! You need to come out here and visit me so you can ride on the pt-boat.:D

My dad started his airline career in 1952 flying DC-3s up and down the California coast. I don't remember riding in one then but when I was thirteen I joined the cadet program of the Civil Air Patrol. They wrangled us a ride in a C-47, which in 1963 was still active with the Air National Guard.