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.

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

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

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:

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.

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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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:

Me neither :o

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

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