|
|
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 56,174 Likes: 16
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 56,174 Likes: 16 |
Yup, one of the most enjoyable rides in my aviation experience. Love the Gooney.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,553
Campfire Regular
|
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,553 |
My dad was washed out at the very end of pilot training at Luke Field because of varicose veins by a new reporting flight surgeon.
He was sent to New Guinea as a crew chief on B17's. But ended up flying second seat on Gooney birds.
Later on when i was catching hops in VN i often wondered if the C47 i was catching a ride on had ever been in New Guinea.
I also caught a couple of hops on C117's.......Super DC3....."White Hat Airlines" out of Tan Son Nhut.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 7,589
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 7,589 |
In addition to my previous post on this thread I also had the privilege of catching a hop on the Admiral of Pensacola's personal aircraft in May 1959 to Los Angles from NAS Norfolk. It was a two day trip spending the night at NAS Memphis. The aircraft was the Navy's equivalent to the DC-6B, an R6D with the interior being in Executive Dress. The pilot was one of the last Navy Enlisted Silver Eagles still on active duty. Upon arrival at Lockheed Airfield in LA I learned that the flight was the last place they sent aircraft for refurbishing before they fell out of the air.
de 73's Archie - W7ACT ![[Linked Image]](https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t1.0-9/s180x540/532227_701629896563809_1743684631_n.jpg)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 22,274
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 22,274 |
My company bought WAA around 1979, just after the Airline Deregulation Act and in time for the second "oil shock" that wiped out its profitability. Contrary to what Merrill Wien, Noel's son, apparently thought, we were not corporate raiders at all, but simply stupid, thinking that the airline acquisition would "smooth out" earnings cycle from our financial businesses.
We loved the airline (and its three fishing camps in the Katmai National Monument) and we intended to build it up, but the purchase was a big mistake, as it turned out. The airline industry is a glamorous business, but extremely risky and almost never profitable.
Don't feel bad, I think a few years later Warren Buffet commented that not investing in airlines was a lesson he had to learn the hard way. 
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 21,810
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 21,810 |
In 1960, I flew in a NW Airlines DC-3 between Billings, Helena, Bozeman and Missoula (MT) on my way to a summer job in Montana. In 1963 and 1964, I flew and jumped out of C-47's (Military version of the DC-3) as a Smokejumper. Some really neat memories.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 15,289
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 15,289 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 10,896
Campfire Outfitter
|
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 10,896 |
We used to fly that close orbit out at the bomb dump on occasion.Sappers always trying to roman candle those guys. 
You better be afraid of a ghost!!
"Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops
Woody
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 15,289
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 15,289 |
We used to fly that close orbit out at the bomb dump on occasion.Sappers always trying to roman candle those guys. In this shot, Spooky is working over an area directly behind the ROK camp, wasn't very far at all.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 28,172
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 28,172 |
I flew in them a lot as a kid. Bonanza Airlines here flew them regionally. This line later became Hughes Air West.
Hunt with Class and Classics
Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 19,820 Likes: 1
Campfire Ranger
|
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 19,820 Likes: 1 |
My first flight was in a DC-3, Kansas City to Chicago.
Some years later flew from Lusaka, Zambia to Chipata in one.
Both flights were great adventures but for different reason.
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
|
|
|
|
|
597 members (160user, 1beaver_shooter, 1936M71, 204guy, 1badf350, 70 invisible),
2,981
guests, and
1,297
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,193,195
Posts18,503,558
Members73,993
| |
Most Online11,491
Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|
![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/medium/45390.png)
