CAF Museum Tour

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God bless the man who had the insight to save that nose art and the CAF for preserving and displaying it.

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Astounding of course you know the nose art was to confuse the German fighter pilots so they would look at the nose art whist forgetting to hit the trigger giving the gunners that vital pause to open up with the fifty's - If you guys want a good read about the Dc - 2 - 3's and the C-47 get a copy of "Fate is the Hunter" By Ernest K Gahn at the end you will be truly amazed at what this man did and survived (Nearly cleaned up the Taj Mahal) some of the hair raising stuff will honestly have you glued to the book.
He flew over the Hump and was in the Berlin airlift with one plane landing every 30 seconds from memory, there is another stunt where he circles is it Mare Isl going down and just makes the strip after just taking off from it with another plane taking off towards them as he is semi crashing on the same runway? He also unknowingly solved an unporting problem that killed other crews by sheer luck otherwise allot more crews and passengers would have perished before the problem would have been found.

Anyway he was pre war air mail, then air transport and post war an airline pilot I have read the book twice and am due to have another

CINDERS, your father was a HERO! I was the 'Crew Chief' of my local group for over ten years. We had to work a LOT on the engines etc, but she was a GREAT aircraft!!

We were flying IFR here and rain dripping inside. Our R4D is thee ONLY aircraft in the CAF that may IFR.

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Double Posted in error.

[Paul S.]

I've ridden in dozens of 'Daks' back in the day and have been fortunate enough to have flown two (from the right seat). It will always be the greatest transport aircraft ever made as far as I am concerned.