Flying "The Hump" by steelrazer
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During WW 2, allied pilots flew supplies from India to China across the eastern Himalayas. They nicknamed the route "the Hump". The transport flights, originally called the "India-China Ferry" was begun in 1942 after the Japanese closed the Burma Road and alternate supply routes needed to be found. The effort was mostly comprised of US Army Air Force personnel and equipment, but was augmented by British and Indian-British, Chinese, and Burmese efforts and personnel. This airlift is credited with 650,000 tons of supplies airlifted with considerable cost to the aircrews and equipment. The flight was very dangerous due to weather and the dangers associated with passage over a mountain range that hosted very unpredictable and severe weather conditions and wind gust that could flip a plane upside down in a flash. The Douglas C-47 Skytrain, or Gooney Bird,as it was affectionately nicknamed by pilot and crew. This was a very heroic effort that lasted 42 months, until 1945. One of my favorite planes! If I was a pilot/adventurer, I'd have one of these in my hangar roster for sure.
C-47: Excellent model from Cybertenko here at Rendo, with a bit of texture tweaking.
Models posed and set up in PoserPro2014; composed, texture tweaks, lighted, and rendered in Vue6nfinite; some postwork in PS Cs3
Comments (9)
AliceFromLake
Yeah... The Hump. Most of the aircrafts used, were C-46 and C-47. Sometimes B-29 were used as transports. Whenever B-29 were transfered to the China bases, the bomb bays were stuffed full of what ever they needed in China. The jungle in Burma up to the Hump was full of hidden wrecks and the surviving pilots had a hard way back to home. On most occasions they survived only with help from locals. It was nearly impossible for rescue teams to find wrecked planes in the dense jungle. Today Burma is well developed, but in ww2 Burma was mainly a dense jungle with villages mostly along the rivers and a few streets only.
Well made picture.
steelrazer
Thank you for the additional information. It was a heroic effort and the conditions were brutal all around. It must be pretty interesting for an explorer to root around the Burmese jungle and stumble on these wrecks and relics. And, thank you for your kind comment.
T.Rex
Thanks for the excellent image and the great text. I wonder how many are aware of these flights? The whole world was at war, even so remote places as the Himalayas. Keep up the good work! :-)
rajib
Wonderful work with Vue. Nice to read the background information.
DigitalOrigami
Beautiful image
rsand55
Love it. Really nice effort. This aircraft is probably Mr. Douglas' most iconic and legendary designs.
RodS
A beautiful render of this historic operation! Very meaningful for me, as my dad was involved in that operation. Very well done!
jpiat
Excellent
contedesfees
It's interesting to note that the USAAF had a three-tier rating system for flight school graduates. Those with the highest scores became fighter pilots, those who earned second-class marks were trained to pilot bombers, and the third-class - the ones who weren't skillful enough to fly fighters or bombers - were assigned to fly transports. Army intelligence: a contradiction in terms.
iborg64
Stunning image and very realistic looking interesting reading too