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.

Warbird

This vintage, World War II-era C-47 Skytrain visited a local airport today.

Version 2

I had booked a ride; alas a thunderstorm arrived at the scheduled taxi time so the flight was cancelled. I was disappointed, yet such is life.