The original design for the DC3 was to be a sleeper, but then the war came
along, and all was past.
Couldn't have slept many, as the passenger capacity was in the mid twenties.
Compare that to the smallest regioal jet, as fifty or so at 500mph or to the
beech 99, 17 on a twin turboprop at 275 or so.
Just had a flight on a Saab turboprop a few weeks ago, and oy was it noisy.
BIll Pearce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: From the Past
>I never rode a DC3 until about 1962. I looked it up on Wiki and see
> that the DC3 inaugurated a new type of cross-country travel. It could
> fly cross-country in about 15 hours west to east or 17-1/2 hours east to
> west with only three refueling stops. Prior to the DC3 cross country
> flying was actually a combination of flying by day and train travel by
> night. I never knew that. Before I ever did any really long distance
> flying 707s were already in use.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Thanks for the kind words. I rode one cross-country in a C-47 when I was
>> in
>> the USAF during the Korean War. A long time ago. I also rode a C-54 to
>> Washington and back as a civilian. They were both great aircraft.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul Laughlin" <pelaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: From the Past
>>
>>
>>> On 7/14/2010 11:01 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>> This proud old DC-3 could tell a lot of stories. Its most recent job
>>>> was
>>>> to carry sky divers, but, after losing an engine, it just sits here
>>>> hoping for a repair that is too expensive to justify it.
>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/From+the+Past.jpg.html
>>>>
>>> Nice shot, Jim. A bit of nostalgia for me. I have been in and around a
>>> lot of them in the past. I worked as a Radio Mechanic in the USAF for
>>> several years. When the C-54s were taken to Europe for the Berlin
>>> Airlift, they ran the Military Air Transport Service trans continental
>>> passenger service with C-47s. I was assigned to the MATS detachment
>>> that ran that service in '48. Rode a number of them as a passenger
>>> later during my service. A real work horse.
>>> Paul in Portland OR
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