Buffalo C-46 made belly landing in NWT
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From: S 51 N
Okay, two good remarks.
Unfortunately I do remember that the first 4 aircraft after WW II restart of Lufthansa were Convair 340īs. Ordered in 1953 and in service as of April, 1 1955.
Therefore fijdor might have it at the right end!!
Unfortunately I do remember that the first 4 aircraft after WW II restart of Lufthansa were Convair 340īs. Ordered in 1953 and in service as of April, 1 1955.
Therefore fijdor might have it at the right end!!
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Thanks for the photo!! One is never too old to learn !!
I checked in Wiki and there is brief sentence that DLH used leased C-46 as freighter in 1961. Okay, that was 8 years before I started my ATC career.
I checked in Wiki and there is brief sentence that DLH used leased C-46 as freighter in 1961. Okay, that was 8 years before I started my ATC career.
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From: schermoney and left front seat
Speaking of ATC and C-46 plus Germany, my dad was the ATCO on duty in EDDS (Stuttgart) when a Seaboard & Western C-46 belly landed in thick fog... must have been 1960ish...
I remember that, cause dad had used one of the switches of the (then broken up) Commando on my go-cart, I had lights and a siren on it !!!
I remember that, cause dad had used one of the switches of the (then broken up) Commando on my go-cart, I had lights and a siren on it !!!
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From: se england
growing up v close to Heathrow in the fifities and sixties I had never seen a C46 and rather hopped to as they looked cool in pictures. Then one morning a strange piston sound ade me turn my head and there was the said C46 Commando dragging itself into the air.
It was marked upas Capital airlines and I was thrilled-of course it reappeared at much the same time for the next several years and was indeed on charter to Lufti so I guessed it was one that I had seen all those years ago when someone refered to the LH Crane on the nose. I never saw one in LH colour s though and it does look good in them.
If I remember correctly Capital (Capitol) also operated a C124 Globemaster into LHR around that time. Another non climbing aicraft and quite monster even before the put the second deck on and called it a C124 B which resembled a piston A 380
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It was marked upas Capital airlines and I was thrilled-of course it reappeared at much the same time for the next several years and was indeed on charter to Lufti so I guessed it was one that I had seen all those years ago when someone refered to the LH Crane on the nose. I never saw one in LH colour s though and it does look good in them.
If I remember correctly Capital (Capitol) also operated a C124 Globemaster into LHR around that time. Another non climbing aicraft and quite monster even before the put the second deck on and called it a C124 B which resembled a piston A 380
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