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Offline Tupac

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Got to see a C47 today.....
« on: May 28, 2011, 08:47:57 PM »
over at T82 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJRdkIIeGIw

mute the audio, wind is really loud



lots of oil
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2011, 08:54:41 PM »
You seen that show Ice Pilots? They still have a C-47 doing cargo trips, coolest thing.
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2011, 08:56:31 PM »
those radials spit oil everywhere. Our C-123K has oil on the nose from reversing the props during the engine warmup/runup.

any entire a/c pics?
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2011, 08:57:24 PM »
Quote from: F22RaptorDude on May 28, 2011, 08:54:41 PM
You seen that show Ice Pilots? They still have a C-47 doing cargo trips, coolest thing.
They use C-46's and DC-6's a lot still in northern Canada.
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2011, 08:57:32 PM »
Quote from: flight17 on May 28, 2011, 08:56:31 PM
those radials spit oil everywhere. Our C-123K has oil on the nose from reversing the props during the engine warmup/runup.

any entire a/c pics?

Ive got some video of him shutting down and You can actually hear the engines. I'm uploading it, but I was way to excited to wait to post them all together.
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2011, 09:28:21 PM »
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2011, 09:30:11 PM »
Is that the closest you could get up to it?
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2011, 09:34:09 PM »
Quote from: F22RaptorDude on May 28, 2011, 09:30:11 PM
Is that the closest you could get up to it?

I COULD have gotten closer, but they had 2 sets of orange cones set up to confuse simpletons like myself. After everyone disembarked I gave my customary "I'll trade you 30 minutes in your C47 for an hour in my 172"

As usual, I believe he took it to heart, but politely declined my generous offer. They were offering rides, but they were $50 dollars for a lap around the pattern, and they werent going again until 7 o clock
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2011, 09:55:42 PM »
do you know, is this DC-3 stationed in the plains? i cant remember which state, but there is a group in a plains state that has 2-4 DC-3 that they use to reenact paratrooper drops. Was curious if this was one of theirs...
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2011, 09:57:59 PM »
Quote from: flight17 on May 28, 2011, 09:55:42 PM
do you know, is this DC-3 stationed in the plains? i cant remember which state, but there is a group in a plains state that has 2-4 DC-3 that they use to reenact paratrooper drops. Was curious if this was one of theirs...
EAA? or am i thinking of the wrong place?
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2011, 10:54:59 PM »
Just saw one in Oklahoma City.
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2011, 11:09:55 PM »
Quote from: skorpion on May 28, 2011, 09:57:59 PM
EAA? or am i thinking of the wrong place?
no, they are their own foundation. The only reason i know about them was because i tracked a N-number down of a DC-3 i had pictures of from florida from a couple of years ago and it was now flying with this group as a c-47.
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2011, 11:12:06 PM »
So a good bit of C-47's are still in the air flying then?
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2011, 11:34:14 PM »
well ponder this... over 16,000 were made...

there are hundreds still flying commercially
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Re: Got to see a C47 today.....
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2011, 11:37:48 PM »
Quote from: flight17 on May 28, 2011, 11:34:14 PM
well ponder this... over 16,000 were made...

there are hundreds still flying commercially
There were over 33,900 BF-109's built and one one is air worthy to this day and even then it was built in Spain. Not to say my facts are right (Cause I used Wiki), I just thought since many of the planes back then were produced in huge numbers there would be more flying still today.
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