Tag: warbird

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.

Warbird

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

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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.

 

Warbird in flight

Among the many planes at last weekend’s air show was this P-51D Mustang.

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A special plane ride

My dad flew the C-47 Skytrain troop transport airplane in World War II. I had the great good fortune to ride in one the other day. The experience gave me the opportunity to experience a tiny sliver of how he spent about 2 1/2 years of his life.

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