What you Didn’t Know about the Amazing DC-3!

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2. Hmmm you have missed the biggest knock on the Boeing 247, the main wing spar ran though the passenger cabin. The spar took out at least two rows of seats worst of all, for the pilots, stewardesses, and passengers in the first two rows seat of the plane you had to crawl over that main wing spar. It was impossible to crawl over the main wing spars in any kind of dignified manor and almost impossible for the pilot or the passengers in front of the wing spars to evacuate in any kind of emergency. Besides the delays in getting the new Boeing 247 due to United Airline bias the impossible wing spar lay out in the passenger compartment was the honest in TWA managements mind major reason why they were not that disappointed by 247 lack of availability and immediately started look at other airplane manufactories for better designs. And the DC 1, DC 2 and the plane that changed the world the DC 3 all fit the bill nicely and the rest is history.

3. amazing

4. My mother was a stewardess (before the days of flight attendants!) for Eastern Airlines from 1952-1958. During that time she crewed on both DC-3s and Super Constellations. She felt that she had flown on virtually every DC-3 operated by Eastern, so most likely had worked the one hanging in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. She told stories of flying NYC to Miami routes where they'd have stops at major cities along the coast– DC, Charleston, Savannah, etc. Back then there was a full meal service on each leg of the flight and, as there was only one stewardess, the co-pilot would leave the cockpit to assist with the meal service!
   As always, thanks for sharing your expertise by creating these videos!

5. I flew with my mother as a 4 year old from Christchurch NZ to Rotorua NZ in 1957! I still remember looking out the porthole and being amazed at the size of the houses below!

6. love this and the Chanel. Love a dc 3 of any model. Hope for a ride some day some where some how.
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7. I worked at a company called Sky Freighters back in the 90s out of Sydney BC Canada. C117s I was 8n maintenance. One of the best jobs I ever had.

8. I flew on that plane in the 80s and 90s here in México… My first love with wings

9. If I could wave my magic wand and suddenly have whatever I wanted, when that wish comes to WW2 Aircraft I'd want a P-51D Mustang, a F4U-4 Corsair, and a C47(DC-3)!

   Sure, there are other fighters and combat aircraft I'd want, but 3rd choice on such a wish list says a lot about that aircraft itself.

   There is an elegance, a romanticism, the legendary durability, the impossible missions, the versatility about that aircraft that is indescribable and irresistible.

   The fact that the numbers in which it was produced, the length of the production run(s), the length of time it actively served in various militaries and civilian services, and has been flying for close to 90 years now is proof and testament to its enduring legacy.

   Thank you for the wonderful video.

10. I flew on a DC-3 just 1 time. It was 8 weeks after I had joined the US Air Force in 1968. I was on my way to Robins AFB, Ga. and the connecting flight from Atlanta was on Delta Airlines to Macon, Ga. 90 miles away.

11. I loved this video! Thank you!
    My father, Capt. Damron Clay Owen Jr flew the C-47 in WW2 from beginning to end. He took part in every Airial invasion of the war including D day and Market Garden. He had over 1700 combat flight hours by the end of the war.
    Thanks again!

12. DC-3 is an amazing aircraft. It (named as Li-2) was in service of Soviet Polar aviation till 1970-s. I saw one landing in the city of Novosibirsk in 1978.

13. I have never flown a DC3. They are supposed, from what I hear, to be very stable and forgiving to fly. An old guy I knew said to me once"If you can fly a Stearman, you can learn to fly a D C in about half an hour …"

    Are the magneto switches placed up there so that the pilot can see their position when doing ground checks? – that's all I can think of, and the large shiny switch knobs would seem to suggest that's the reason?

14. I had the previlege to fly on a DC-3. Or C-47, I can't say. Some say they are quite the same airplane. For my "non-expert" eyes they look like so. It was 1988 or 89. I looked to it and said something like "holly s***, no way!" But, once in the air I was so surprised by its "flyabillity". Proportionaly enormous wings enabled it to fly SOOO smothly in (by jet-age standards) its low speed. A real wonder! I never felt so safe on a plane again!

15. When I was 11 years old, in 1958, I flew in a C47 (tail number ending in 5559) from Tachikawa AFB to Misawa AFB in Japan to join my father at Misawa. It was the 1953rd AACS squadron airplane. My dad was second in command of that squadron. Even got a short stint in the copilot seat. Things were different then. Something I will never forget. What a great airplane.

16. When you going to talk about the Embraer Bandeirante EMB-110?

17. My dad had great and fond memories of the Gooney Bird, or C-47. He drove a B-25 in WWII and dropped chickens, pigs, and cows (at 1,000 feet) out of a C-123 over Nam in the early '60s. He loved the Spooky, or PuffTheMagicDragons which sometimes accompanied the flights. One black pajamad fella threw an AK slug up at him and when he landed, it was embedded in the wooden portion of his seat about an inch directly below his man-parts. I've always loves seeing them at air shows and in movies. Thanks for giving us all that extra info we were missing.

18. Buffalo Airlines operates the last commercially used DC-3…. there we go at the 20 minute mark..

19. I flew on a DC-3 out of Los Angeles to Kansas. I was about 4 or 5, my parents sent me and my older sister back to Grandpa's farm in Hutchinson, Kansas for the summer after my mom had our baby brother. I don't remember much about it, except we stopped in Alburquerque, NM and I learned to say the name of that town! I remember the "stewardess" (Flight Attendant today) taking us both by the hand and taking us into the terminal at Alburquerque to go to the bathroom and get a treat to eat. That's the extent of my memory of that trip! My first plane ride and I loved it at the time. Many years later, I was learning to fly and my CFI had an old DC-3 bird at the airport and I got to enter the aircraft to look at it! The FBO was a friend of mine and took me up in his yellow Stearman! He was sewing fabric onto a wing of a plane he was building or repairing, and I got to sew a few stitches on it! So the old DC-3 was the first bird I ever flew on as a child — great old war bird, sturdy aircraft!

20. it's amazing that many of these iconic aircraft are still flying after almost 90 years.

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