This one is in active service for a company, but not sure which one. I do know it is not a passenger plane, but maybe photography of some kind from the air. The manager was so nice and let me walk up to it and make some images on the runway.
This one is in active service for a company, but not sure which one. I do know it is not a passenger plane, but maybe photography of some kind from the air. The manager was so nice and let me walk up to it and make some images on the runway.
I love DC-3's. They ought to be depicted next to "airplane" in the dictionary.
I agree with Fr. Mark; the DC-3 is certainly the greatest airplane ever to fly. And that's fine photograph of an unusually clean radial engine, too.
jp- I'm not generally a fan of soft-focus lenses. But you've used yours very well in the two photographs on the preceding page. Well done! And I write as a B-17 aficionado, so I appreciate your subject as well.
Thanks Mark (and Ken).
I had special permission to visit an hour before the public started arriving so I could photograph the shiny subject without reflections of people. Not completely necessary, but VERY helpful.
A DC3 has probably not been at our airport in several decades.. I'd love to photograph one.
Nice to see a piston-engined DC-3 still in service. Glad to hear the manager was nice...not something you see too much anymore, unfortunately.Originally Posted by rrunnertexas
Seroco 5x7 DC3 Front View by rrunnertexas, on Flickr
Second shot with the same camera. Here's to nice managers!
Another great one, thanks! DC-3s really are neat planes...and they first flew about 80 years ago!
DC-3, a workhorse plane. When I worked on the XB-70 program for 5 yrs in the early 60s, the company used DC-3s to shuttle employees to/from Palmdale, CA where it was being built. It was a tough pill to swallow though when, at my first AA Yosemite workshop in June '66, the newspapers arrived with headlines announcing the XB-70 midair. Talk about a real bummer!
And one more with the b17:
Apparently the absurdly big tail is useful at keeping the plane flying straight if it loses engines on one side, or it gets full of holes.
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