Tag: DAkota

Lancaster.

We prudently arrived early on Sunday for my magic carpet ride on the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museums’ C-47 Dakota and toured the museum to pass the time. The understandably dominant exhibit was, is, the Avro Lancaster, which is one of two worldwide which are flyable. It is apparently undergoing a routine engine change (if ‘routine engine change’ is possible to say about an 80 year old airframe) and therefore temporarily grounded. It was interesting to observe that the #3 engine propeller is feathered.

Magic Carpet II

During my ride on the magic carpet (also known as the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museums’ C-47 Dakota), we flew along the south shore of Lake Ontario and passed over this ship, which may have been the Ganges Star, an oil/chemical tanker.

Magic carpet.

Last Christmas, Faye astonishingly and generously gifted me a flight on the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museums’ C-47 Dakota. My dad flew C-47s in World War II. The C-47 was a transport plane so my dad flew cargo and paratroop drop missions. He served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, flew paratroopers for D-Day and flew more missions in Northwest Europe afterwards.

I recently took advantage of Fayes’ gift. Here’s a photo of the magic carpet I rode in; this specific plane did drop paratroops on D-Day. I’ll post more photos over the next few days.