Title: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: Brian(Liverpool boys) on May 06, 2008, 02:59:57 pm
Saw this advert in Saturdays Daily Express, trips from £99, Part of the Dakotas farwell tour.
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http://www.reader.travel/ReaderNew/booking1.php?eid=67&Agent=PEN
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http://www.reader.travel/ReaderNew/booking1.php?eid=67&Agent=PEN
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: Steve Pyro on May 06, 2008, 04:53:44 pm
I last flew in a Dakota DC-3 from the southern end of Mexico up to Oaxaca in 1986. I was highly amused that the 'ground crew' had to clear the grazing animals from the grass runway before our take off.
Big windows, unpressurised, comfy wicker seats and the drone of the radial engines above the Sierra Madre, superb.
The airline was called Aerovias de Oaxaquenas. I see from this website http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm (http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm) that they are now derelict wrecks :'(
Big windows, unpressurised, comfy wicker seats and the drone of the radial engines above the Sierra Madre, superb.
The airline was called Aerovias de Oaxaquenas. I see from this website http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm (http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm) that they are now derelict wrecks :'(
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: DelBoy on May 06, 2008, 05:02:01 pm
I last flew in a Dakota DC-3 from the southern end of Mexico up to Oaxaca in 1986. I was highly assumed that the 'ground crew' had to clear the grazing animals from the grass runway before our take off.
Big windows, unpressurised, comfy wicker seats and the drone of the radial engines above the Sierra Madre, superb.
The airline was called Aerovias de Oaxaquenas. I see from this website http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm (http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm) that they are now derelict wrecks :'(
Big windows, unpressurised, comfy wicker seats and the drone of the radial engines above the Sierra Madre, superb.
The airline was called Aerovias de Oaxaquenas. I see from this website http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm (http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm) that they are now derelict wrecks :'(
A bit like some of their previous passengers, apparently ;). I assume you meant you were amused that the ground crew etc...
Del
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: Steve Pyro on May 06, 2008, 05:04:46 pm
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The airline was called Aerovias de Oaxaquenas. I see from this website http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm (http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm) that they are now derelict wrecks :'(
The airline was called Aerovias de Oaxaquenas. I see from this website http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm (http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm) that they are now derelict wrecks :'(
Ooh, Google has found me some pictures ;D
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: Steve Pyro on May 06, 2008, 05:17:12 pm
This is what the old bus used to look like when I flew in it.
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: nickliv on May 06, 2008, 05:57:40 pm
Air Atlantique were advertising Le Mans trips by dak last year. About £300 per person, but I haven't seen anything for this years.
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: MIKE C (Liverpool Boys) on May 06, 2008, 06:12:28 pm
Flew from Liverpool to Dublin in a DAK in 1962. Chucked up all the way, I was only 3. :D
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: Andy Zarse on May 06, 2008, 06:23:23 pm
I flew on this grumpy old sod to Guernsey from Southampton in 1988.
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: nickliv on May 06, 2008, 06:27:52 pm
20,000 rivets in close formation. None of them tight.
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: nickliv on May 06, 2008, 07:36:05 pm
I read an astonishing AAIB report concerning one of AA's Daks at Cov, but it'll probably keep until mid June.
Nothing to do with the aircraft, more to do with one of the occupants.
Nothing to do with the aircraft, more to do with one of the occupants.
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: Chris24 on May 06, 2008, 10:59:15 pm
fancy a flight in a B24 Liberator? ;D
The Liberator would be good, but much prefer the flight I took in the B17 over some little place somewhere in mid Florida that I can't remember the name of. Think it may have begun with the letter "S" though. ;)Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: Lawnmower Man on May 07, 2008, 12:04:54 am
I flew on this grumpy old sod to Guernsey from Southampton in 1988.
The Dakota was the first plane I ever flew in. Brum to Jersey in the very early 1950s. I don't remember much about it other than being given cotton wool for my ears and a Barley Sugar sweet.
t.
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: Canada Phil on May 07, 2008, 06:23:03 am
On my ride north from Sebring I stopped in at the Warbirds Museum near Titusville. They have one that is still flown regularly. It is one of the many that dropped the US Airborne troops on D Day and flew in the Berlin airlift.
Canada Phil
Canada Phil
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: chop456 on May 07, 2008, 11:57:34 am
Phil, if you ever feel the need to fly a DC-3 from the middle of nowhere all the way to the edge of it... ;D
http://www.buffaloairways.com/passenger.htm
http://www.buffaloairways.com/passenger.htm
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: landman on May 07, 2008, 11:02:28 pm
Flew in a Dak courtesy of Air Atlantique a few years ago.
They used to do an open day at Coventry and allowed you to access all areas.
Superb day out and not pricey
Highlight was the Dak ride, up to Brunters and back. Noisy, but fun!
What we really wanted was a ride in the Shackleton
ooh! contra rotating props anyone?
Landman
They used to do an open day at Coventry and allowed you to access all areas.
Superb day out and not pricey
Highlight was the Dak ride, up to Brunters and back. Noisy, but fun!
What we really wanted was a ride in the Shackleton
ooh! contra rotating props anyone?
Landman
Title: Re: Last chance to fly in a Dakota.
Post by: Canada Phil on May 10, 2008, 03:13:42 am
Phil, if you ever feel the need to fly a DC-3 from the middle of nowhere all the way to the edge of it... ;D
http://www.buffaloairways.com/passenger.htm
Thanks Chop,http://www.buffaloairways.com/passenger.htm
just getting ready to put my daughter on a flight to Dawson City wich is further West and North ;D She is planning to get to Tukteuctuk (?) which is the northern most town in the NWT.
Phil
