Donjames's Fotothing

A neat looking plane ,I can remember flying on one of those many many years ago.

Peter there were 8 at the show parked all over the place....my dad came to SA from Scotland on one of these, a four and a half day journey in 1948

this one with modified engine .. 5 blades ..normal 3 ! ... the DC3 is the same size of the engine from a MD11 !! .... you cant imagine to fly four and a half day ...it takes 11 hours now to fly from Amsterdam to CapeTown !

I think this is the turbo prop engine Hans, they removed the old piston engines as they were unable to get spares for them.
My Dad said it was hell flying all that time and they got stuck in Cairo and no aircon those days, they were not allowed to get off the plane either so they just had to deal with the heat until the plane was repaired and they could take off again....

I can't imagine flying 4 1/2 days!! I think 12 hours already is such a long time!!

It looks like this plane has sattelite televison....;-) I guess that is needed while flying so long...;-)

It must have been hell Anna-Maria.....that is the radar Anna-Maria

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Great picture...:-))

My first flight was on a Dakota (I think - it was a long time ago :)) - this one has 5-bladed props, common on some of the regional planes here (Fokkers, I think)??

they brought us food and medicine to berlin during the blockade

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Thank you wijnie

Steve these enjines were fitted as the spares for the original piston engines were no longer available...was yours a long flight?

Junne they really were the workhorses during the war...

I enjoyed reading the comments.

I'm glad you did

Thanks Don - I saw Hans55 & your earlier comments on the replacement engines too. That flight was from a country town to the capital, so only 100 miles or so, across water mostly.

Must have been fun Steve