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Offline Hornet33

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« 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.

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« 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).
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« 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.
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« 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.
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« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2007, 06:42:14 PM »

Jeep being loaded  onto a C47

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« 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.
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« 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.

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« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2007, 12:24:09 PM »
We would need gliders to be modeled . . . :)

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