Old aircraft keep going… and going…

[Berries]

Couldn't find the fly past thread so this will have to do.

Needs volume.


Lancaster-bomber-flies-over-eyebrook-reservoir-in-leicestershire

[ellipsis]

...every year for years, at the British F1 GP, the Vulcan nearly stalled, the Lancaster roared through it's four Merlin sideshow, the Hurricane kept wing and the Spitfire tore your heart out, ...at one of them, I could just about feel the pulses of the Vulcan as it slid overhead...P51 is still my perfect baby, by far...

[husaberg]

Managed to find the Gooney Bird article.


2009. Colombia lost one of its AC-47 gunships, apparently to mechanical malfunction. The aircraft carried a five man crew to handle the sensors and weapons. Over the last five years, Colombia paid about $20 million to convert five World War II era C-47 (DC-3) transports to gunships (armed with night vision sensors and a three barrel .50 caliber machine-gun, and some bombs). Such gunships first appeared, using World War II era C-47 transports, in the 1960s over Vietnam. The troops called the gunships, which liked to operate at night, "Spooky."
The DC 3 (or C-47 or "Dakota" in military usage) continues to fly in commercial service into the 21st century. Several hundred DC 3s are still flying worldwide, mostly owned by small domestic carriers in the U.S. and by some Third World air transport companies. A state of the art aircraft in the mid-1930s (during which only 500 were built), over 35,000 DC 3's were produced for use during World War II. The DC-3 was, in fact, the most widely manufactured aircraft of the war.

When allied paratroopers jumped, it was usually from a DC 3 (which could carry 28 troops, but over sixty people were squeezed in during emergencies). With a maximum range of 3,400 kilometers and a top speed of 296 kilometers per hour, the DC 3 was the common cargo carrier (up to 3.5 tons) and general purpose "flying truck." It still is.

The plane that replaced the C47 the C130 is also still in widespread use and they have not been able to find a better platform to replace its versatility.
there was a video when someone tried to tell john McCain that the A10 was replaceable by F16s and f35s

[SaferRides]

The plane that replaced the C47 the C130 is also still in widespread use and they have not been able to find a better platform to replace its versatility.
there was a video when someone tried to tell john McCain that the A10 was replaceable by F16s and f35s

Yeah, the list of possible replacements for the RNZAF C130's includes the C130.