Posted on 07/21/2018 1:31:09 PM PDT by DFG
Don’t know if the video was the problem, but the left prop doesn’t appear to be turning.
From the looks of the burned out wreck the elevators are in the neutral position.My bet is the control locks were not removed.
It might just be the frame speed of the video, but it looks like the port engine stalled.
Way too much gravity.
But really a legendary passenger plane. The great DC-3.
Puff was a C-47 with miniguns added, 3 IIRC. Dad told me about watching them in action in the distance from the roof of his BOQ in Vietnam. Said it was like a red hose of tracers coming out of the sky.
Maybe a bad engine in the mix. It just looked like it didn’t have enough lift for whatever reason, wings wobbled and stalled. Pilot’s rule of thumb is that no single thing causes an accident but rather a series of things if you trace it back.
Not much of a crash.
Luckily for them.
I would not bet against you.
Good landing.
Are you sure your Dad wasn’t flying the larger & more powerful C-46 Commando? That’s the only one I’ve seen in photos of the Hump.
This is easy for me to say, but that take off should have been aborted instead of rotating. Even the guy taking the video could tell something was wrong during the roll.
Around 1976 or so I flew in a Florida Air DC3 from Sarasota to Fort Myers to Miami. We flew over the everglades at a fairly low altitude.
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Just saw one flying cargo in from the Bahamas last week. Great sounding engines.
They are rugged as hell.
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Too bad it caught fire, otherwise they could have patched it up.
Thanks for the vid.
I’ll wager that “oh sh!t” was said in the cockpit.
5.56mm
Nope C-47. He did a few hours in the C-46 but much preferred the C-47.
“Charlie 47,” “ Skytrain ,” “ Skytrooper ,” and “Tabby.”
The British called it the “Dakota” and the “ Dak .”
The RCAF called one squadron of Dakotas , “The Flying Elephants.”
The Russians called it the “PS-84,” and the “Li-2.”
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) gave the Russian Li-2, the code name, “CAB.”
The French Navy called it, “The Beast.”
It even enjoyed the fleeting nickname, “Biscuit Bomber,” after dropping 5,000 cases of rations to General Patton's troops in France .
Civilian pilots called it the “Three,” “Old Methuselah,” “The Placid Plodder, “The Dowager Dutchess ,” “The Flying Vagrant,” and the “Dizzy Three.”
In Vietnam , it earned the sobriquets “Puff the Magic Dragon,” “Puff,” “Spooky,” and “The Dragon Ship.”
http://www.dc3history.org/didyouknow.html
That one is not coming back. :(
They have a C-47 at Republic, in Farmingdale NY. for about 370.00 you can suit up and go for a flight. Been trying to talk Mrs. Tal to let me take Jr. for a ride in it. So far NO DICE!
Always trouble with the ‘Left.
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