Author Topic: flying in gv's (Read 1416 times)

Hornet33 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 05, 2007, 09:45:20 AM »

Decent pic of the cargo doors on the C-47 here. No way an M-16 would fit in there.

Now this would be fun to have at the ports and maybe from the CV's.

BaldEagl · « **Reply #16 on:** October 05, 2007, 09:58:24 AM »

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Wow, I've been inside the genuine article and it sure didn't look like you could cram a Jeep in there. I assume there must have been some modifications to the fuselage for that role?

I've been inside one too. It seemed huge to me plus the WWII military M-2 and M-3 Jeeps are tiny compared to todays Jeep (I almost got to buy one a few years back from a private party but by the time I said I'd take it another guy was already writing out a check).

Devonai · « **Reply #17 on:** October 05, 2007, 10:46:21 AM »

Thank you, NHawk. The pilot claimed it was an original C-47, but I have no way of knowing. Nobody said, "hey, look at the riveting on the vertical stabilizer, this is a repainted DC-3!" He did say the Normandy invasion stripes were not genuine.

The interior was in jump configuration with a single door, hence my doubt.

NHawk · « **Reply #18 on:** October 05, 2007, 11:24:28 AM »

A WWII jump or military passenger configuration would have looked like this...

The cargo version looks pretty much the same but with the seats removed.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 05, 2007, 06:42:14 PM »

Jeep being loaded onto a C47

NHawk · « **Reply #20 on:** October 06, 2007, 06:05:38 AM »

That's the photo I recalled seeing. It's probably the only one in existence.

clerick · « **Reply #21 on:** October 06, 2007, 11:09:18 AM »

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Jeep being loaded onto a C47

What a PITA that must have been.

E25280 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 06, 2007, 12:24:09 PM »

We would need gliders to be modeled . . .

M22 Locust

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Twelve of the tanks were landed using the giant Hamilcar glider during the Rhine crossing on March 24, 1945. The British airborne crossing of the Rhine river, called Operation Varsity, utilized over 50 large Hamilcar Gliders delivering airborne tanks and other equipment for the 6th Airborne Armored Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armored Corps, of the British forces. One Locust tank was credited with killing over 100 enemy soldiers.