yxcapt:
The DC3 is truly a pilots delight, what you fly usually is determined by when you upgraded. I just happened to start flying for an airline during the DC3 era so put I in about five thousand hours in them. But the hands down best airplane from a Jesus look what Ive got my hands on machine has to be the Catalina. Just something about the beast that nothing else I have flown can come close to. I hate to sound insulting but a turbo prop or a jet just dosen't have that certain sound and romance of a big radial.
As soon as the weather gets flyable over the North Atlantic I have to move a Cat from London to Virginia Beach, and it just ain't like rocketing up to FL390 and monitoring a multi colored video game. We have no radar, no anti ice and the world moves below us about 120 knots on a good day.
Do you remember the good old days when Fed Ex started with Beech 18's?
Oh hell I have to go to bed.
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The hardest thing about flying is knowing when to say no.