WW2 Weekend 2010 A LOT OF PICS!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Platapus

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.

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.