Old warrior at rest by Garlor
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Following on from my post yesterday,this is the aircraft featured. It is a Douglas C47A. I looked into the history of this example. It did spend some time as a troop transport at the end of WW2,then a fair time as an airliner in Australia .For many years it sat outside a fast food cafe in Perth. The current owner towed it with wings off down the main roads for about 100 miles and it now proudly perches on his front lawn near Myalup.
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Richardphotos
I seen many of these birds as dc3's and C47 as I lived close to a Douglas aircraft factory as a child.excellent aerial capture. they were the most prolific prop plane ever being flown all over the world. many are still flown in the US as restored aircraft going to air shows
tallpindo
I worked for Douglas from 1965 until it was merged with McDonnell in 1968. This was when the DC-9 was just emerging from first flight. I witnessed the first flights of the DC-10 and the YC-15 and took my parents and son on a walk through of the DC-10 on it's open house day. The C-47 was well before that and tied to Clover Field and Santa Monica. The only ties I had to that was my first office mate who was a good friend of Don Douglas, Jr. This tickles me that it has it's rudder and propellors. He even has a stairs so he can go inside. The widow of a WW-II C-47 pilot was the dozent guide when my sister and I toured the USAF museum in Dayton. The C-46 seemed to have smoother metal. It was "Bird of Prey" outside, an NC-135 modified with a extra big nose antenna installation at Tulsa for Appollo I showed off. The C-47's from White Lake Township airport flew over our house here on cargo flights for years, recently. Listening to detect the difference between those PWA radials and the 2800's of later planes was a test in looking into an earlier era. B-29 and B-36's with their Curtiss-Wright 3350's sound different. B-17's with Wrights of a similar era to the C-47 have their own sound of 1000 plane raids. The C-47 wasn't turbocharged like the P-47, B-24, and P-38. The last of Douglas support operations for these old planes was the Supercharger Repair Facility at Clover Field while I was with McDonnell-Douglas from 1969 until 1978 and beyond while I was at PWA, Florida in 1978-1981.