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Old 12th Oct 2011, 12:08
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LeadSled
 
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Staionair8,
Loved it, already having plenty of tail wheel time made it easy, compared to the blokes who had never been near a piston engine, let alone a tailwheel.
I made the acquaintance of one chap in PNG who had accumulated something over 32,000 hours on Daks, went straight from RAAF basic to the then brand new aeroplanes, was still flying them right up to the time Air Nuigini ---- about 31,940 hours more than I managed at the time.
Actually got my hands on a DC-2 in US about 15 years ago, just a few circuits --- that one had Wright engine, also had some time lined up on a DST (model between the DC-2 and DC-3) but fate (aka Scheduling) stuffed the chance to be able to say I had flown all three.
Tootle pip!!
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