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Yep, three. And fast, by all reports. 644 MPH at sea level.

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Lost out to the Canberra.

That landing gear configuration was developed using a modified B-26 dubbed the Middle River Stump Jumper:

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grelmar said:
It's quite literally impossible to post too many DC-3/Dakota/C-41 pictures. For partly rational, and partly irrational reasons, this is my all time favourite aircaft.
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You're absolutely right, and there's nothing irrational about it! Some of the best performing aircraft are also the best looking.

Also, Ray Hanna's low pass down the straight at Goodwood in 1998

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grelmar said:
It's quite literally impossible to post too many DC-3/Dakota/C-41 pictures. For partly rational, and partly irrational reasons, this is my all time favourite aircaft.
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...but they sucked to work on. I was replacing an ADF indicator in the instrument panel on the one Kenn Borek Air had. Screwdriver slipped out of my hand and rolled out the cockpit door and aaaaaaall the way down the cabin floor to the back. Sigh.Hike down the incline to go get it then "climb the hill" to get back into the office to finish the job.

Auggie D.
 
grelmar said:
It's quite literally impossible to post too many DC-3/Dakota/C-41 pictures. For partly rational, and partly irrational reasons, this is my all time favourite aircaft.
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Ah yes, they are beautiful. I may be a bit partial, having flown them for 10 years, and what an adventure it was.
 
Auggie Doggie said:
...but they sucked to work on. I was replacing an ADF indicator in the instrument panel on the one Kenn Borek Air had. Screwdriver slipped out of my hand and rolled out the cockpit door and aaaaaaall the way down the cabin floor to the back. Sigh.Hike down the incline to go get it then "climb the hill" to get back into the office to finish the job.

Auggie D.
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Try loading 17 million lbs of freight up that hill, much of the time slippery with snow and ice. But I wouldn't trade it now.
 
They are a great looking old bird...

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Info on this specific aircraft, FL618:

Ex USAAF C-47A-1-DK, serial number 42-92248. Used by No. 32 Operational Training Unit, RCAF Stations Patricia Bay or Comox, BC. Converted to synthetic trainer on 1 March 1944. To Trans Canada Airlines as CF-TDP, 1945. Later to US civil register as N9184R, then N166J. Off US register by 2008.

last date: 5 December 1945 - Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal
 
Gibbs505 said:
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That's a lot of big bullets!
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This one makes an impression (probably why the pic gets shared so much on the Web).

The USS New Mexico (ship in the pic) and her sisters carried up to 900 of these 14 inch shells aboard ship. The AP shells weighed just shy of 1,500 lbs apiece. (The ones in the pic are HC shells, weighing about 1,272 lbs each.)
 
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