El Piloto Chido
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Roger on all the above. The last cargo outfit I saw that took halfway decent care of their -3s was Rhoades. They had an oldish guy work on them, sometimes falling asleep on his ladder, but he really cared for those engines. Their piston Convairs were a different story though.
God's grace no one ever got hurt at my outfit, everyone was always able to limp to a runway single engine.
Thanks amigo,during those years we were flying in excess of 100 hours per month,those airplanes were imprinted in our DNA,still are,the DC3 is the finest ship ever known to man,and it was the grace of God we never hit the wrong equation of bad load,high density altitude,too short runway,bad weather plus engine failure all at the same time. God's grace,we all survived a graduate level education right out of the Ernie Gann,and St.Ex school of hard knocks.Awesome flying,horrible lifestyle,but truly awesome flying.Which says a lot for the airplane.....and the pilots