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Level42:
Well today was a lovely day, and while we stepped outside the house for a nice bicycle ride, I heard a sound that first puzzled me a bit and then immediately I recognized it. The very first thing in my mind said "helicopter" but two seconds later I realised it was something else:



The DC-3 of the Dutch Dakota Association !!!!

Gotta love that sound !!!  And man what a beautiful sight to see it "glide" by on a gracious speed at an altitude of about 500 meters ! :D

I checked their site and it turned out that they were doing "rounds around Rotterdam" today. Since I live very close to the largest accumulation of windmills in the Netherlands (Kinderdijk), I understood that they were flying over them to show it to the passengers on board.

The flights were about 90 euro for about half an hour flight (incl. start and landing) man, I definitely am going to do that next year !

The plane has been in restoration for 12 (!) years. A rep of Boeing/McDonnell Douglas mentioned that the last DC-3 was built in Holland, apparently impressed by the result.

I think there's only one plane that I would rather see fly over (or fly in!) and that's the Conny that they are restoring now in Lelystad:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=72903.0

Anyway, my kid missed it and I told him about it. Couple of hours later it did another flight and it was ALMOST coming right over us and we could see it banking towards the mills and turning back to Rotterdam. Brilliant stuff !!

Level42:
Some video of an earlier flight from Amsterdam Schiphol to Lelystad:



and the flight back:

danny_galaga:

Nice (",)

That's a pretty good price for a pretty rare experience. You gotta do it! DC3's are a good restorer. There were so many built, there are still crates of NOS spares kicking around.

A super Constellation landed in my town a few years ago, after it had just been restored. The specs on those engines were amazing. Each one of those four uses something like 35 litres an hour- of OIL! That is about the same in fuel that the plane i learnt to fly in uses  :o

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on April 25, 2010, 08:47:18 pm ---That's a pretty good price for a pretty rare experience. You gotta do it! DC3's are a good restorer. There were so many built, there are still crates of NOS spares kicking around.
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I remember reading somewhere that one couldn't use NOS parts on restores that were expected to fly. They had to have NEW (ie reproduction parts) within a particular time frame in order to fly. Or am I remembering that wrong and it was scavenged parts that couldn't be used? I think I read about it in an article about restoring P-38's. Or maybe it was a discussion about the graveyard in Texas(?). I'll see if I can find it.

shmokes:
That's pretty cool.  Once when I was about 14 I happened to be outside to see this (or one like it) flying by, which was pretty amazing.  I didn't even know what it was at the time.  I thought it was two planes stacked on top of each other.  Then I saw in the news that it had landed at our airport for a reason I don't remember. 

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