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[super-bee_ski]

Latest news:
19 January 2017 it is reported that two B-2 Bombers from Whiteman AFB, MO performed a bombing mission inside Libya on "ISIS targets"
Reportedly "Precision Guided bombs"

"Time for a nice cold beer fellas"

 

[oldbee]

USS Essex off the coast of Korea-1950's

 

[super-bee_ski]

An old Cannon deck

She was commissioned ‎31 December 1942
The lead ship of the 24-ship Essex class built for the United States Navy during World War II.
She was the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name.
A "POST" Pearl Harbor ship

 

[kiwigtx]

Anyone up for a burger?

 

[super-bee_ski]

Yummy
A C-47

 

[Bladecutter]

Yummy
A C-47

Or DC-3. Is it single row 9 or double rows of 7? On Douglas topic.....I finally got my own copy of the letter my Dad received from Douglas when They presented Him with the First set of Wings They issued to a Test Pilot. Faded from time, but is legible under zoom.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Keep it out of the sun Jimi

 

[Budnicks]

Anyone up for a burger?
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That'd be a cool Mickey Dee's

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[barnfind]

 

[Bladecutter]

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Ain't that a bitch.....all those P-40's stacked for the scrapper.....damn!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Yummy
A C-47

Are you sure it's not a DC-3?

 

[super-bee_ski]

Are you sure it's not a DC-3?

Could be a DC-3
(I think I originally asked that but no definite conclusion except Jimi)
C-46 had "round" windows
I'd bet a DC-3

 

[Bladecutter]

Could be a DC-3
(I think I originally asked that but no definite conclusion except Jimi)
C-46 had "round" windows
I'd bet a DC-3

C-46 is a Curtiss. C-47 & DC-3 were very close to the same A/C, one of the significant differences being the C-47 had double doors & the DC-3's usually had airstair doors. Probably a lot of the Birds that got converted to executive a/c in fifties, sixties were C-47's, Like Twin Beech 18's, which in Military were C-45's. Both A/C types have also seen their share of hauling weed

 

[Photon440]

Just going by numbers, the odds usually favor C-47. Out of over 10,000 air-frames built plus over 5,000 more made under license in other countries only 607 of them were the actual civil DC-3 version. This one (the McDonald's shown is in New Zealand) was built in 1943 so it's a C-47. Also, it has no seatbelts.

The whole story.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/t...age-luxury-PLANE-cabin-crew-not-included.html

Thanks Kiwigtx for finding this one.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Good info

 

[68gtxman]

I miss this plane at the diner (now gas station)!

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Auggie56]

Trade-A-Plane, July 1972.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

Here's the story ,Sadly the pilot died.
Update: Pilot's Body Recovered After Vintage WWII Plane Crashes In Hudson River: Gothamist