a pointless dc-3 story;

[jsoceanlord]

this story would be pointless, except that nostalgia is good;

for something to do last night, I JSed on a UPS dc-3 contract flight to ponce, PR - i sat in the FO seat and opened the cowl flaps on landing - looking out at the right engine was an experience. i felt like, you know; ernest gann probably once sat here.

the manufacturers serial number plate said; us army air corp was the first owner. there were bullet hole patches from the 1940's and para troop doors were installed while flying for the french foreign legion.

on the night flight home over the mountains the weather required boxing gloves and we passed the site where an AF c-130 crashed 6 months earlier.

 

[WrightAvia]

While riding in a DC-3 called "Mr. Douglass" up to 12,500 or so to skydive, I was siting up front with some friends just ahead of an archway. I dropped some serious SBD ass and with the pilot and co-pilot's windows open, the effluent passed rearward without notice by the 8 or 10 skydivers sitting forward of the archway. The wind carried it to the aft main section of the cabin, which started quite a commotion. There was lots of cussing and movement from the back and all the sudden an Austrailian leaned through the archway and hollered to his American friend sitting across from me, "BOBBY, YOU GOTTA QUIT EATING THOSE SPAM SANDWICHES!".

I really could have logged that flight, but descretion is the better fart of valor.