Tri-motor DC-3

Oh boy, that's just wrong!!!

Feels like stabbing me in the heart. The REAL DC-3 is my all-time favorite aircraft.
 
Built for Polar use was it? Best left there, preferably under a glacier, with the DH Mosquito TT Mk.39 ... :barf:

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Here's what I'm flying in in September....
A little 'bigger' than this one...but last time I went I did a paint to match.
Here it is outside of its Hangar 6 [the original war-time terminal of Essendon Airport, Melbourne, Oz]

It's ex-RAAF and one of the 'youngest' airframes still around...;)

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manfredc3 said:
Jafo, can that repaint be downloaded anywhere?????
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Not as yet....although I did it a few years ago...I kinda moved on to other stuff and never got around to doing anything about it.... probably because I was hoping to find a model that exactly matched this particular DC3....it's the closest I had as it has the right looking carbie intakes [?] on top of the engines...;)
 
They cut it in half, well, sort of, & put an extention plug in, as they do with most turbo props.
Yup, a bit ugly, but only in the eye of the beholder. The french also came out with a bunch of real ugly stuff in the old days.
We have the default DC-3, the Super, a turbo or two, it would be nice to have a complete collection of Daks. A formation flight comes to mind!
I could be mistaken, but I'm sure that there were a few warbirds that were tri-motored for research & evaluation?
 
Please no.
Just way too FUGLY.
:dog:

DH Mosquito TT Mk.39 ...like painting an eye patch and a mustache on the Mona Lisa!
 
zswobbie1 said:
I could be mistaken, but I'm sure that there were a few warbirds that were tri-motored for research & evaluation?
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You had B-17s with a turboprop in the nose for tests and you had these back in the war:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/ju252.html
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/ju352.html

An engine right in the kisser does not make an airplane prettier when it already has two of 'em on its wings.


A tri-motor Dak would involve a lot of work which just isn't worth it if only two out of ten people can even stand looking at it without getting sick.
 
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