C47 Update.

[oneway]

I was compressing no lie, i pulled out lightly and i reagined control without ripping my wings off.

I was being somewhat sarcastic...in other words you weren't bored before you dove on the Con?

Either way its funny...and I have at times done some odd things in goons myself...in the piloting sense...

[StokesAk]

I find goons fun to fly, waeving in and out of trees.

[321BAR]

trees are my favorite way of getting evasive, cept not in goons... flying a 109F or G through the trees and hearing a spit16 blowing up behind you is always a good feeling ahaha...

[Nemisis]

 

When I dive in a goon, I always end up pulling up automaticly when I break 350, do I have stall limiter on or something?

[BlauK]

Howabout a perked goon, Li-2 with some guns  

[DCCBOSS]

Howabout a perked goon, Li-2 with some guns  

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+1 with two tater guns one upper and one lower 

[Simba]

"The British put 6 Horsa gliders as close as 40 yards from their objective, Pegasus Bridge, in the dark, on D-Day."

They did indeed. And the Horsas were towed there by Halifaxes.

It's an ill wind, etc. Back in the late 1990s, the tanker Sea Empress disgraced herself by going aground and spilling 80,000 tons of crude oil into Milford Haven, Wales. Air Atlantique Ltd had the contract for maritime pollution control and all six of their C-47/Dakotas/DC-3s flew into Withybush Airport nearby. I lived forty miles away at the time and galloped over the Presellis as fast as I could to see them. Spent a very happy afternoon clicking away with the ol' 35mm while chatting to the aircrews and nearly wangled a ride in the seat between the specially fitted detergent tanks - but even in those days 'the tail was wagging the dog' and their insurers wouldn't let me, even when I offered to sign any waiver they wanted. Sigh . . .

A-A started selling the old birds off soon after. I was lucky to see the largest gathering of Gooney Birds in the UK for many a year - and the last.

 

[Ack-Ack]

Yeah, but did they actually LAND in enemy-occupied territory?

Yes, at least in the 1st Air Commandos did in the CBI to support Wingate's Chindit operations.  The 1st Air Commandos would fly Chindits and engineers in gliders behind enemy lines.  The engineers would then clear out landing strips for the C-47s to come in and land the remaining Chindit brigades, drop supplies and remove any wounded or dead.

I think Merrill’s Marauders also were given reinforcements consisting of a Chinese division that were landed by C47s during the battle to capture Myitkyina but the Marauders were primarily resupplied by air drops from the 1st Air Commandos.


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[Guppy35]

Yeah, but did they actually LAND in enemy-occupied territory?

Heavily contested areas count?

A description of the C47 activities at Wau in January 43 from Steve Birsdell's book "Flying Buccaneers"

"Almost providentially, the weather changed over the mountains and the bloated transports moved out, taking to the beleaguered Wau the first of more then two thousand troops that would be delivered within the next two days.  The Japanese had already reached one end of the uphill strip and mortar fire was thumping into the vital field.  The C-47s had only enough room to land, and as the doors opened the troops jumped to the ground and raced into battle, bullets and shrapnel whining around them.  Some transports were even forced to wait above while the Australians grenaded the Japanese out of the way, but fifty-seven landed at Wau, unloaded with their engines running, then took off to make room for the next planes."

They landed uphill btw on the single strip and took off back downhill so it was one in, unload, take off, next in, etc.

That seems to cover it

[Nemisis]

thanks guppy  and  .

[Ack-Ack]

Heavily contested areas count?

A description of the C47 activities at Wau in January 43 from Steve Birsdell's book "Flying Buccaneers"

"Almost providentially, the weather changed over the mountains and the bloated transports moved out, taking to the beleaguered Wau the first of more then two thousand troops that would be delivered within the next two days.  The Japanese had already reached one end of the uphill strip and mortar fire was thumping into the vital field.  The C-47s had only enough room to land, and as the doors opened the troops jumped to the ground and raced into battle, bullets and shrapnel whining around them.  Some transports were even forced to wait above while the Australians grenaded the Japanese out of the way, but fifty-seven landed at Wau, unloaded with their engines running, then took off to make room for the next planes."

They landed uphill btw on the single strip and took off back downhill so it was one in, unload, take off, next in, etc.

That seems to cover it

That's how the Chinese division was dropped off during the battle at Myitkyina.  When I was reading about that battle, a lot of the Chinese soldiers were shot and killed as they exited out of the C-47s that landed in the battle zone.

And there's the stories of the 1st Air Commandos, must have taken balls of steel to land behind enemy lines just using cut out landing fields in the jungle.


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[Guppy35]

That's how the Chinese division was dropped off during the battle at Myitkyina.  When I was reading about that battle, a lot of the Chinese soldiers were shot and killed as they exited out of the C-47s that landed in the battle zone.

And there's the stories of the 1st Air Commandos, must have taken balls of steel to land behind enemy lines just using cut out landing fields in the jungle.


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Always amazed me that Jackie Coogan, aka Uncle Fester was one of those 1st AC Glider pilots.

[Ack-Ack]

Always amazed me that Jackie Coogan, aka Uncle Fester was one of those 1st AC Glider pilots.

I didn't know that he was a glider pilot during the war, yeah it is amazing that Uncle Fester did that during the war.  Makes me look at him in a whole new light.


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