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Nature's version, watch till the end, amazing footage.
Oh bugger
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Fantastic, poetry in motion.Originally Posted by martybabe
Hardcore Biker
That was an evacuation from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) early in WWII. The DC3 had a damaged wing so they fitted the wing from a DC2 (the DC2 was an earlier and smaller version of the DC3, one flew a commercial route for KLM Airlines and came second in the London to Melbourne air race, behind a racing De Havilland Comet). The plane in Indonesia flew out a load of evacuees in this configuration, and they called it the DC2 1/2.
Low personal B.M.E.P.
In my youth I was tramping in the sounds with a group from Anakiwa, we were working our way up a valley and could hear a plane in the area. As we topped the ridge, so did he....a DC3 still dropping the last of it's load and parting the tussock with it's slipstream...
It was immediate get down as flat as possible and hang on... I'm sure we scared him as much as he scared us 'cause he circled for a look at us....rude gestures on both sides,and yes, he was close enough for us to see his gestures too. Mad prick.
In the riders seat
Bloody hell I didn't realise those planes were that old
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
I'ma get medieval on your ass!
Started with the DC 1 in 1933 built in competition for the Boeing 247, then the DC 2 which was even better, then the DC 3 in 1936. The rest is history.
The metal is always nude.
Flying in the cargo hold of a Herk ain't good for the ears either....
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
Oppan Biker Style
If only they flew the DC3s like that during WW II!
one placenta
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Scooter boy
get past the intro.....and its not bad. 10 best flybys, and some are pretty damn low
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dr2ZB36p9Y
Highway Biker
Wow, look at the focus in those eyes!! Last thing a rabbit or mouse in the field sees.
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I used to love watching Fred Ladd coming in to Sandspit taking passengers to the Barrier. Went up with him once. Have loved the Grumman Widgeon's ever since.
You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
Shorai Powersports batteries are very trick!
Low personal B.M.E.P.
Relax, Ed, it's just Kick getting in a free kick at my expense....it was 1969 and there were still a couple of DC3's being used for topdressing around NZ. That stopped a couple of years later when the first oil price crunch occurred.
And no, I'm nowhere near as old as Fred Ladd, Kick.....
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There was one still operating near Dargaville in 1984. I know because it erupted over the edge of the road on the way from Dargaville to Opononi and then chandelled and dived back down the cliff face it had just flown up. I thought my car was broken. It got really loud all of a sudden, then *BAM* DC3 fills windshield. Closely followed by a stench normally associated with Mother's Rooms in malls.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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LoL! I was privileged to meet Fred again in Taupo a few years before he died. A real character! He was about 45 years older than me at a guess.
You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
Shorai Powersports batteries are very trick!
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