The DC-3 Aviation Museum received this request:
Hi Looking for a dc3 airframe project.
In Australia there appears to be a lack of of unloved airframes. Any leads or leads that may be under my nose would be a great help. thanks Glenn Spry
If any of you have knowledge of a DC-3/C-47/Dakota Airframe in Australia Contact us here.
The DC-3 Aviation Museum received this Message:
“Looking for a horizontal stabilizer for a display aircraft. Project is in central Florida. Please let me know if you have anything in stock. Thank you very much, Tom B.”
If you have any information about where he can find a horizontal stabilizer… Please contact us with a reply…
many thanks “Bear”
THIS IS FROM A RETIRED PAN AM STEWERDESS
Pan Am during WW-2:
They crouched in the excavation, watching the swarm of Japanese planes dive again and again on the nearby buildings, feeling the earth shake when the bombs exploded, ducking as debris and shrapnel rained down on them.
It was unreal. Only two hours earlier, as the seven-man crew of Pan Am's
Philippine Clipper, they had been on a routine flight to Guam.
Then came the unexpected message:
JAPANESE ATTACKING PEARL HARBOR ... RETURN TO WAKE AT ONCE ... CLIPPER NEEDED FOR PATROL DUTY.
Now they were watching with anger and frustration as Pan Am's Wake Island base was reduced to smoking rubble.
Suddenly a Japanese fighter spotted the big Martin 130 flying boat tied to
the dock. It was an easy target. Swooping down the plane opened fire,
raking the defenseless Clipper from nose to tail with machine gun bullets.
In five minutes it was all over. The Japanese left as abruptly as they
had come. Nine Pan Am base employees had been killed, all base facilities
destroyed. Hurriedly the crew rounded up the rest of the Pan Am personnel who had been stationed there and loaded them onto the Clipper. They knew the Japanese would be back Soon.
Riddled with 96 bullet holes, the crippled and overloaded Philippine
Clipper made two unsuccessful tries to take off, then on the third attempt managed to struggle into the air. Three days later, after stops at Midway and Honolulu, it was in San Francisco, where the crew gave one of the first eyewitness accounts of the Pacific War.
Another Clipper didn't escape. Anchored in Hong Kong harbor on December 7 (December 8 Honk Kong time), fueled for a flight to Manila, it was hit by incendiary bullets from attacking Japanese fighters, caught fire, and burned to the water line. The Hong Kong Clipper II had only been in Pacific service for seven weeks.
A third Pan Am flying boat, the Pacific Clipper out of San Francisco, was
on its way from New Caledonia to Auckland when it got the news of the
Japanese attack. Deciding against trying to make it back over an ocean
now patrolled by an enemy, it refueled in New Zealand and then headed
west. Following a route close to the equator, it flew across Australia,
India, the Middle East, across Africa and the South Atlantic, along the
northern coast of South America and then on to New York. On the morning of January 6th, a startled officer in the control tower of New York's La Guardia Airport heard on the loudspeaker: "Pacific Clipper, inbound from Auckland, New Zealand. Due to arrive Pan American Marine Terminal at La Guardia in seven minutes." The incredible month-long, 31,500-mile journey was the longest ever made by a commercial aircraft and the first around the world. The Pacific Clipper had flown over three oceans, made 18 stops in 12 different countries, and crossed the equator six times.
Pan Am's experiences during the early days of World War II were unmatched by any other civil organization, but there was no time to dwell on them.
With the entrance of the United States into the war, virtually all of Pan
Am's equipment and personnel were assigned, directly or indirectly, to the war effort. Pan Am, the nation's only overseas airline, had a very
special responsibility and it called on its 9,000 employees to respond.
They rose to the challenge.
Pan Am's pilots and navigators were called in to advise the military on
the techniques of overseas flying and to start training crews. At the Pan
Am Navigational School near Miami, General Jimmy Doolittle's navigators
trained for his bombing raid. At Pan Am bases, many departments started
working around the clock. Doubling and tripling of maintenance personnel resulted in a 50 percent cut in servicing time and a 100 percent increase in aircraft utilization..
Most Clippers flew twice as many hours, twice as often as they had in
peacetime. The plush interiors of the B-314 flying boats were stripped to
wartime austerity and priority cargo was packed into every available inch
of space. The exteriors were camouflaged by painting them with drab
sea-gray paint. The Pan Am crews now wore khaki when under Army command and green when flying for the Navy.
During the first year of the war records were shattered and re-shattered.
Feats that would have been considered miraculous in normal times were now
all in a day's work. In 1942 Pan Am Clippers made 1,219 Atlantic
crossings. The amount of cargo carried increased sharply from 16,500
pounds in 1941 to over three million pounds in 1942!
It seemed that transatlantic flight crews were in the air more than they
were on the ground.
Captain H. E. Gray, who was to serve as president of Pan Am in the 1960's,
made nine crossings in nine days. Pan Am pilot Joe Hart made 12 in 13
days. Captain R. O. D. Sullivan made a total of 103 crossings of the
Atlantic in 1942. When he became the first person in history to make a
hundred aerial crossings, he wasn't even aware of it. Bringing his
oil-stained, camouflaged Clipper down on Long Island Sound, he had to be
told of his achievement by Pan Am's ground personnel. Asked to describe
his feelings at reaching this aviation milestone he answered, "Well, I do
feel a little hungry."
Although the Japanese had taken over all of its Central Pacific bases
except Honolulu, Pan Am nevertheless continued to be active in Asia. Pan Am's affiliate on the mainland of China, the China National Aviation
Corporation, made a heroic evacuation of some 275 U.S., British and
Chinese civilians from Hong Kong, accomplished by pilots and ground crews working without rest for 72 straight hours. In April, 1942, Pan Am played a key role in evacuating more than 4,000 civilians and wounded soldiers from Burma, at the same time flying in supplies for the forces struggling to hold back the Japanese invaders-much of it accomplished in violent monsoon weather and under constant threats from enemy aircraft.
To expedite shipments to the Asian and African war zones, Pan Am formed a new Africa-Orient Division. Its exploits are legendary. The famous "Cannonball" route was established; stretching 11,500 miles from Miami to South America, across the Atlantic to Africa and from there to India, it was the longest, fastest, big-scale air transport route in history and an important supply line for the entire Far East. At its peak, seven flights a day in each direction were being scheduled, and one day there were 16 Pan Am-operated C-54 transport planes over the ocean at the same time.
This steady flow of arms, ammunition and supplies was later given a large
share of the credit for driving the Japanese out of Burma.
The Africa-Orient Division also flew supplies to China over the Himalayas,
a route known as the "Hump", one of the wildest, most rugged areas on
earth with the high mountain peaks and almost constantly turbulent
weather. Frequently planes were forced to struggle up to 20,000 feet to
clear the peaks, sometimes without oxygen for the crew, often fighting
100-mph winds. Violent updrafts and down-drafts tossed planes around like leaves. Ice was severe. The ever-present enemy fighters also took their toll. One Pan Am plane came back with over 3,000 bullet holes. For three years the flights over the "Hump" were the sole source of U.S. and other outside help to otherwise-isolated China.
In addition to its regular flights across the Atlantic and the Pacific,
and into Africa and the Orient, Pan Am allocated aircraft to special,
often secret, missions. A Pan Am B-314 flew President Roosevelt and his
advisors to the summit conference at Casablanca. Franklin Roosevelt
celebrated his sixty-first birthday aboard the Dixie Clipper on January
30th, 1943 while over the Caribbean, on his return trip from his secret
meeting in Casablanca with Winston Churchill and Charles De Gaulle.
Other Pan Am aircraft carried top U.S. generals and admirals, Britain's
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the Netherlands Queen Wilhelmina,
Greece's King George and scores of other high-ranking diplomats and
military men. Pan Am flew more than 700 of these special missions.
Although there were many acts of heroism and moments of high drama, Pan Am's major contribution throughout the war was doing what it had learned to do so expertly in peacetime: the building and outfitting of overseas air bases and the fast, dependable transportation of people and cargo over long distances.
During the war years Pan Am built some 50 airports in 15 different
countries, almost all of them in remote, often hostile areas. As the
largest air transport contractor to the army and the navy, Pan Am flew
over 90 million aircraft miles for the government and made more than
18,000 ocean crossings.
An advertising illustration from the Saturday Evening Post, November 22,
1941, shows workers unloading much-needed engines for use on military
planes. In the first years of the war, before the operation was taken
over by the U.S. Air Transport Command, it ferried 542 bombers and
transports to the war zones. Pan Am also trained more then 5,000 military
pilots and thousands of mechanics, and established schools and procedures for the training of many more thousands.
And Pan Am paid the price: more then 200 employees gave their lives, an
unknown number were imprisoned in enemy prison camps, at least a dozen aircraft were lost.
Not many people know about Pan Am's role in World War II...there was
almost no publicity. There were no medals, no glory. It was all done in
the line of duty. Pan Am's Herculean efforts to keep supply lines open
throughout the world was one of America's most valuable secret weapons. When the war ended, Pan Am could look back with pride on a job well done.
Its unique experience, gained during years of pioneering air
transportation in Latin America and across the Atlantic and Pacific, had
been the basis for the country's entire wartime international transport
operations and significantly influenced the war's outcome.
And yet today Pan Am is gone!!
But not forgotten!!
For more information see:
http://www.fsvintageair.com/PanAm/propliners.html
Hello All,
... Well another year has raced past us all... We (the staff and I) wish for you all, every happiness ... We thank you for your continued support of this project...
...We have a dream and as we aim for its completion, we find that the journey toward it is as great an adventure as any that we have ever had...
...We wish to you... the feeling of our Merry Christmas... because no matter what the faith or belief ... there is a spirit that prevails this time of year... of Good will and Peace to all... it is in this vein that I send this to you all...
"Bear"
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Afrikaans - Geseende Kerfees en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar
Arabic - I'D Miilad Said ous Sana Saida
Argentine - Felices Pasquas Y Felices Ano Nuevo
Armenian - Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri - Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia - Selamat Hari Natal
Basque - Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali - Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian - Vesele Vanoce
Brazilian - Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo
Breton - Nedeleg laouen na bloav ezh mat
Bulgarian - Vasel Koleda; Tchesti nova godina!
Catalan - Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Cantonese - Gong Tsok Sing Dan, Bing Ho Sun Hei
Choctaw - Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Cornish - Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian - Pace e salute
Crazanian - Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree - Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Creek - Afvcke Nettvcakorakko
Croatian - Sretan Bozic
Czech - Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish - Glaedelig Jul
Duri - Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch - Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Egyptian - Colo sana wintom tiebeen
English - Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Eskimo - Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto - Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian - Ruumsaid juulup|hi
Faeroese - Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi - Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish - Hyvaa joulua
Flemish - Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French - Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année!
Frisian - Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Gaelic - Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ur!
Galician - Bo Nada
German - Froehliche Weihnachten
Greek - Kala Christouyenna!
Hausa - Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian - Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew - Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi - Shub Naya Baras
Hungarian - Kellemes Karacsonyiunnepeket
Icelandic - Gledileg Jol
Indonesian - Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi - Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish -Nollaig Shona Dhuit
Italian - Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese - Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish -Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
Korean - Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Latin - Natale hilare et Annum Nuovo!
Latvian - Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian - Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lithuanian - Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon -Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Maltese - Nixtieklek Milied tajjeb u is-sena t-tabja!
Mandarin - Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Manx - Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori - Meri Kirihimete
Marathi - Shub Naya Varsh
Navajo - Merry Keshmish
Norwegian - God Jul
Occitan - Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papua New Guinea - Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na
Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German - En frehlicher Grischtdaag unen hallich Nei Yaahr!
Polish - Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia
Portuguese - Boas Festas Rapa-Nui - Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Pushto - Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui - Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian - Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche - Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian - Sarbatori vesele
Russian - Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami - Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan - La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian - Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic - Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serbian -Hristos se rodi
Serb-Croatian - Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
Singhalese - Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovakian - Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce
Slovak - Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene - Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
Spanish - Feliz Navidad y Prospero Ano Nuevo
Swedish - God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog - Maligayang Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil - Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal
Thai - Sawadee Pee Mai
Trukeese - Neekirissimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Turkish - Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian - Srozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu - Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
Vietnamese - Chung Mung Giang Sinh
Valencian: Bon Nadal i Cap d'Any
Welsh - Nadolig Llawen
Xhosa - Siniqwenelela Ikrisimesi EmnandI Nonyaka Omtsha Ozele Iintsikelelo
Namathamsanqa
Yayeya - Krisema
Yugoslavian - Cestitamo Bozic.
Yoruba - E ku odun, e hu iye' dun!
Zulu - Sinifesela Ukhisimusi Omuhle Nonyaka Omusha Onempumelelo
Eric Hake of Foreflight sent us this link to the AOPA tribute to the birthday of the DC-3…
http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pilot/2010/december/feature_dc3.html?WT.adv=adv1
Eric
The DC-3 in this single event, with all its variants, has rippled through the Aviation World for over 70 years. Competing designers have proclaimed the demise of this valiant workhorse, with each new aluminum show plane, but to no avail.
I received mine and it is fantastic … plenty of DC-3 pictures…Great gift for DC-3 lovers
Price: $14.99
Item Number: 2265745000000
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