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Remember the paratroop drop at Normandy last June?
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 6:23 pm
by Mr Kay
I found out where the Dakota involved lives:
A little air museum in upstate New York. We were talking to one of the guys at the museum who flew her over the Atlantic for the celebrations. He very kindly showed us round the inside of the plane. Small world!
Re: Remember the paratroop drop at Normandy last June?
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 7:57 pm
by Blitz
Just goes to show.
Was an impressive site. I got some good pics of the drop
Re: Remember the paratroop drop at Normandy last June?
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 8:00 pm
by Thumper
Interesting. Surprised it had the range to do the Atlantic. Must have carried a lot of extra fuel. Brave pilot though...
Re: Remember the paratroop drop at Normandy last June?
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 9:28 pm
by Mr Shiney
Thumper wrote:Interesting. Surprised it had the range to do the Atlantic. Must have carried a lot of extra fuel. Brave pilot though...
You should see what I have flown the Atlantic in when I was a ferry pilot.....
The Dak is the aircraft I most want to fly.
Re: Remember the paratroop drop at Normandy last June?
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 10:18 pm
by Mr Kay
Thumper wrote:Interesting. Surprised it had the range to do the Atlantic. Must have carried a lot of extra fuel. Brave pilot though...
They stopped in Nova Scotia, Greenland, Iceland, Scotland then France!
The guy we were speaking to was the maintenance director of the museum and also flew a number of the legs to and from Europe. He said that other than basic maintenance which they had provision for, the old bird behaved faultlessly.
Re: Remember the paratroop drop at Normandy last June?
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 11:42 pm
by bth2bth2
you lucky sod. nice one alex.
brian
Re: Remember the paratroop drop at Normandy last June?
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 7:30 am
by gronk
Blitz wrote:Just goes to show.
Was an impressive site. I got some good pics of the drop
