Re: Douglas DC-3 airplane ...

[mfumu@alphalink.com.au (Bill Robbins)]

In article <76gfa8$fou$6@lynx.unm.edu>, buggie@ben14.unm.edu (stephen e
buggie) wrote:

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>  ** Stephen Buggie  UNM-Gallup,  200 College Road,      Gallup NM 87301 **
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>  **       Douglas DC-3.....Volkswagen Beetle.....Apple ][ forever       **
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> I'm sometimes asked about the DC-3 in the sig.file, above.  About twice a
> year, usually on July 4th and again sometime in the fall, the trusty '41
> airplane is wheeled from the "hanger" in the backyard, all cars are
> removed from the street, the twin engines are fired up, and we "taxi" up
> and down the street.  Oh, all dogs have to be tied up.  Its a great
> neighborhood event.     "But can it fly?"    Ahhh .... Chuck Yeager can
> borrow it for a test flight ... not me!

Put your money on it.  I hadn't thought of the DC-3 for years.  That's one
aircraft that'll fly on half a wing and a prayer.  Believe me, I know.  I
used to commute to bording school in central Africa, over those endless
jungle rain forests in DC-3s, then merely old.  A few stories in that.  A
very good comparison with the Apple II, methinks.

Bill Robbins
mfumu@alphalink.com.au