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june 6th 1944 for many the normandy invasion is seen as the defining day of wild war 2. yes even now little is known about the wrong $850.00 transport planes played on d.-day. they were critical to the ally success. of the d.c. 3 is a bit of a jekyll and hyde aircraft because it has a civilian life but it also has its military life. during the 2nd world war the d.c. 3 helps the allied forces secure victory.

in the cold war it st west bonnet from a soviet takeover. gotten kind i'm for that we were not afraid of these kind of bombers we all knew that they had come to help us is. in vietnam however the savior plain became a vicious weapon sent in by nights. following her military korea this chameleon of the skies transforms how self once more she becomes an ally never again and a grand lady of post-war aviation. the d.c. three's many names reflect its long and storied history sky sneak dakota candy boma and c 47. has flown for decades i mean what other aircraft can you say has flown for nearly a century and continues to fly. and no other plane in the world has been built in

such numbers. just. the d.c. 3 was launched in california in 1986 and in just 10 years more than 16000 of them were produced. in the u.s. it revolutionized that travel sidelining the railroad from long distance transport . the d.c. three's main competitor was a german plane. that you 52 at an element him away structure. it was also popular and reliable because the carry 15 passengers.

the d.c. 3 was superior to the u. 52 in every respect more seats better fly performance a modern design it became a role model for several generations of passenger aircraft. but soon the 2nd world war would dramatically change its daily life. in switzerland the american plate became part of history. this 1000000 did out on a highway intersection in dubai. now restored to her former glory she's an awful when i catch up to drive all the house.

she was rescued by who go marcus a local businessman in. the d.c. 3 has become his hobby and now plays an important role in his life. each year he spends about 70 hours in the cockpit. munch butte you can feel the plane when you fly it moves you have to take it in your hands and experience at the age group of me as a pilot i'm important so i have to do it myself because it's something quite special expertise. in 1936 swiss that decided against the german u. . 52 choosing the d.c.

3 instead was paris london and berlin among the airlines prime destinations. switzerland became douglas's bus customer in europe. during world war 2 the swiss d.c. 31 you paint to avoid being shot down by the germans as enemy at craft. not only b.c. 3 is there enjoying as pleasant a retirement as the vintage plane in switzerland. of the 16000 planes built most grounded. but even in the act it's a d.c. 3 retains

a good value unlike most other aircraft. in wisconsin retired house awaiting to take to the skies once again there was a few $1000.00 each. the airframe is fantastic it is after all a d.c. 3 and modernize electronics you put the new engines in it and you have almost a new airplane. advice conversions in oshkosh these veterans of world war 2 a given a new lease on life. the swiss spend it also started a 2nd career as a retired c $47.00 the ministry version of the d.c. 3.

i've only been an aircraft mechanic for a year now over a year so obviously i was extremely intimidated bucket and knowing those can be the only girl. ashley has been interested in playing since she was a child she began her career helping out to africa. to oshkosh home to the wilds not just aviation show. their history i love history so much each aircraft tells a different story and i mean even judy over there obviously that one has quite a history as well and it's just it's amazing what aircraft stories can tell. judy for example could tell how she was shot in the war and how she and several emergency landings.

when judy was missing california the one who quite different the original idea of darkness to construct an airplane that seats during the day and bags at night. the 1st customer american airlines placed the order with a male handshake instead of a formal contract. the service was limited it was also very expensive you have to be fairly wealthy to fly it was not for everyone people dressed in their sunday best to go fly because it was an occasion. when our staffs suddenly became highly sought after career the sleeper provided great comfort huge seats like living room jazz

modern ladies and gentlemen stoners. and at night the seats became beds. hollywood loved the sleeper for the 1st time actors could fly in from new york without any annoying hotel accommodation or train transfers. travel time between east and west coasts was cut by more than half to only 15 hours . including 3 stopovers for refueling. so they do 3 kind of changed things by making the journey the destination i suppose the sort of slogging it out and getting where you need to go . the planes landed in glendale new beverly hills.

the d.c. 3 response to robust and extremely economical. other airlines also place their orders with doctors for regular solders without and beds this last a stroke of design and make applied quite profitable. for. the hollywood sleeper has almost been forgotten today but not in florida. palm trees and the road to the moss family after. when the last knee bone was sold a few years ago the family acted fast the original aircraft registration number is still visible. the family wants to restore the d.c.

3 but they like the money to do so. this is what flagship tennessee look like in our prime back when she flew the rich in the peace of all across the united states. we're going to bring it back to what it was in a 930 secs. as the the oldest d.c. 3 in the world today and you know it's it was a 61 ever built so of all the d.c. there is this one really really deserves to to live again and to to show the world what airline travel was in the mid thirty's. on board the food was freshly prepared that there were no classes like today every ticket was equally expensive. a flight across the united states cost the equivalent of 2 months salary and you even amount to smile.

i started when i was about 15 years old flying to caesars with my dad from from miami to the bahamas turks and caicos and. you know in 2007 we bought our 1st one as a family. in the 990 s. the most spammy was living and flying in alaska. at the age of saddam gland with amount to take control of the plane under his father's supervision of course. it was really something to go to alaska with my parents to be able to fly with my dad from fairbanks to the different indian villages gold mines. places that. really no one gets to go to. the

swiss entrepreneur motus is also following history. however there is a difference of a few $1000000.00 between his ambitions and those of the moss family. in oshkosh the swiss hobby pilot has bought another d.c. 3 from the meadow judy. busy let's talk about my airplane they were going to put it together some the walk shop manager discussed the rebuilding of the aggregate. during world war 2 judy carried paratroopers in just 2 years from now she will be able to do so again. because it was believed to be in the field get on me at now but there is still a lot to be done i knew it when i bought or. buying the plane costs around 120th of what i'll spend in total and by the time i'm finished i'll have invested the same thing 19 times until it's what i wanted to be it's always 3 months ago. in

december 941 the united states entered wild war 2. many civilian d c 3 s. including all sleep as were requisitioned and converted into c. 47 military transporters. in addition the united states built up its own stock. it also supplied hundreds of c. 40 seven's to its allies especially to great britain and the soviet union. in england 100 fast u.s. sample in division was for hustling for d.-day for the liberation of western europe . thousands of power triva supported a landing operation in normandy. one of the units later became known as the. band of brothers. the most important vehicle for transporting supplies was the c.

47 a true one course. we had a number of c. 47. practice jumps in the states and of course after we got over to europe to england we perhaps had 15 or 20 practice jumps. from the c. 47. the americans brought as much as they could to the table. they only had one chance with the invasion so it had to be successful. best surprise attack from behind german lines helped establish the beachheads. for the 1st time in a conquered life supplied the paratroopers the c. 40 seven's totem towards the target zone.

the gladdest care everything in the world and we need the suppliers we need the ammunition and we needed the equipment so the gladdest provided that for us we couldn't care where there's on a c 47 there to be on it lathers i'm sure that if we want for the go as i want for the c. 47 pulling. the missile would never been a kabul is. the gliders were made of wood they did not have to return and were therefore designed to be disposable they had a high failure rate. yes.

they are cracked up the minute they get the ground they cracked up they were no more good and. when it cracked up they cracked up a lot of people with them the paratroopers call them flying coffins because we would have nothing to do with them they were dangerous. as the invasion approached the americans. of course to be consigned. to motivate his troops general meissen our commander in chief and dress them in brown sometimes. finds. these pictures the 1st. streets 42.

i recall very well that everyone was nervous very quiet but very nervous you could see it you could feel it. fs. in a fast wave around 850 military transport has released 17000 paratroopers coming back in further waves to provide them with supplies. start. on their flight to france and shames and his comrades watched the deployments of hundreds of warships making their way towards the beaches of normandy. the invasion began with shock from

the naval lottery. but even this opening failed to pave the way for the ground troops they encountered strong german defense fire. as long as the enemy could supply enough ammunition to its beach fortifications the allied invasion would not be able to succeed. it was the task of the power troopers to cut off the job and supply routes by taking control of all bridges near the beaches so that the allied ground forces could land safely. but. this mission was extremely dangerous the generals expected a casualty rate of 50 percent. and shames and his comrades realized what they were up against. dollars of fred scared.

shaking like anyone else at that time because we knew that was a real thing i was scared to death at that moment. it took him about 15 minutes to land floating in the hat the men were exposed to john the defensive fire. jumped into a bunch of flak tracer bullets artillery shells flak and so forth. our the head i'll never know because the plane you can hear the flak bounce off that feeling you get ready to jump not only that prior shoot was coming down he could hear something going through the prior shoots cutting through the silk and

that sound as never left me to this day. few units jumped off at the right point because the pilots had lost their orientation. a new radar system intended to mark the landing zones did not work. some units ended up 5 miles from the drop zone others as far as 50 miles away. we were there in no man's land enemy territory we had to make contact with the beach forces. which we did after 3 days. once they had landed the paratroopers was supplied exclusively from b. at. the c 40 seven's came back again and again pulling the gliders behind them.

but that is what the german damages were expecting they had flooded the fields and meadows to prevent the gliders from landing safely. in germany is also put up the ladder barriers like poles like trees and fields whereas woodland they did that quite a few places enormity but we overcame up somehow. overcoming the barriers came at a high price to the glider crews $1.00 in 4 songs was was killed in the operation. but those who survived helped turn the tide in favor of the allies. the german

troops ran out of ammunition allowing allied forces to conquer the beaches and advance inland. the vanguard had to withdraw all surrender. after only 3 days the allied forces moved eastward to recapture france. given the high risks faced by the paratroopers and glider crews general eisenhower on the courage of his man but also praised the d.c. 3 as a key factor in winning the 2nd world war. the 1st newsreel footage of the invasion 2 apparent american citizen featured a plane called that saw. this d.c.

3 became a legend of the war. when the crew baptize the plane with this name the paratroopers intended to send a message to. that's all. after the war the famous sacrifice disappeared without a trace until it was miraculously rediscovered at baseline in oshkosh 70 years later. we actually didn't even know we had it it was sold to us by a gentleman who was down on his luck and had pretty much run his operation out of money and he wanted to sell their point to us and we put it back with the other airplanes in our bone yard recall back in the grass and it sat there for several

years i think 7 maybe and we just didn't even know we had. by sheer chance historian recognized that song by her serial number. suddenly had a superstar le mans but also a problem many wanted to buy the famous war horse including swiss enthusiastic who go modest. but in the end he had to make do with judy. it was annoying because they had promised i could buy it but i understand the historical reasons it was plain belongs to america to say good to america.

in oklahoma city the fate of many vantage plains rests in the hands of owens. ra is giving the right heel legend's a thumbs up or down no pilots would ever data disagree with roy's assessment a well maintained engine is the best life insurance the pilots can have. this behind us is the area here into the command there disassemble from there they go to cleaning from their. polishing and inspection before their bill. everything was handmade and everything is so precise there's an amazing engine. today judy's radial engine is under inspection it's dismantled to see if it cylinders still watch thankfully enough whether they've been pushed on the tilting hard.

the d.c. 3 has 2 engines with 14 cylinders each each cylinder. $86.00 horsepower generating a total of $2400.00 horsepower. it's . logs bearing asteroid bearing and i think hugo motus roy has any bad news today there is total lack in almost all of judy selling as well as. they are heavily used and very used you. like a newer better quality service and he would not fit your needs i don't feel. so there are new cylinders available every so this is given out is just was a bit of

a dust we knew that it was used but i did not expected to be so extreme the engines are completely exhausted just gets to the eco scale a effect. of a swiss plan as it's a base uphill to swallow 14 new simonis for a whopping $50000.00. but as an engineer he knows that parts of this quantity come at a price. a week later the brand new old engine will be on its way to oshkosh to become a part of judy. when a hobby become serious passion may be what is most required. but knowledge is

equally crucial. mobility has become more important to us than ever before but so too has for not happen to see. such strength determine success or defeat. i'm not only an all time and not enemy on the d.c. 3. not even the engineers the doc this kind of gas that some 80 years later that design would be considered the most successful plane in aviation history. by land not to the 2nd world war was a city in ruins. the german capital had paid heavily for its role at the heart of the conflict. its people lived in holes and sadness they were starving. so-called rubble women cleared the sites of the bombed out houses. but then the victors began to argue. in june the 148 the soviet union blocked all

land routes into batman so that the western allies could no longer get supplies to their sectors of the city. the americans and the british decided to supply 2000000 people from the end. it would become the most ambitious and left ever attempt is. d.c. 3 s were brought in again including 300 british dakotas. lynas call them candy bombers one of the pilots was gale however since he is filming with his camera. many pilots still new bonnet from the wall. only look closely. you wouldn't we have got used to aircraft noise as children from the elevator air raids in the war. but after the war there wasn't much at traffic

over bilin. now it started again in $148.00 with the airlift. we were not afraid of these candy bombers we all knew that they had come to help us . in june 1948 germany was divided into 4 occupied sectors. the candy bombers reach west bound them using 2 car doors from hamburg and frankfurt as they with a fast accor doors in the wild. as soon as the planes were unloaded they returned to west germany using a 3rd return corridor towards hanover. the berlin was probably the busiest airport on the planet for a brief period of time anything from food the coal the milk everything that the berlin population need it was slow in it it was amazing.

every pilot had to make a successful 1st landing in by then or fly back immediately without landing at all that schedule was excruciating the tight. food and cold with the primary supplies flown in on the d.c. 3 s. . german workers had 30 minutes to unload the jack raft that was break time for the pilots. gale is filming the snack bar where the pilots got their sandwiches they flew savannah and up to 7 times each day. affected by the abject poverty he saw among the children of batman save some candy from his own rations and dropped it out of his plane attached a little parachutes soon the other pilots began to do the same. the german children loved it. with this gesture the americans won by hearts and minds of the west

germans. then no wind of there was a persian coming down then hundreds of children would run through the streets and chase it. it was an adventure for us. as though you had found some golden treasure yes a bar of chocolate i didn't know a single child back then i had a whole chocolate bar for themselves to give me out of atlanta and all of. today thousands of people barbecue every summer. when boris france got looks out over the abandon tempelhof affeldt the old by an airport he wonders how many of them know about the role it played some 17 years ago.

after the airlift the d.c. 3 served as a passenger plane for a few more years. but the emergence of faster and more comfortable jets simple as it out of business. the boeing began to take control of the skies for us the 707 on long haul flights then the 7 to 7 for middle distance routes and in the mid 1960 s. the boeing 737 for short was. but even in the jet age the veteran who brought back to life. in vietnam the d.c. 3 and her final nicknamed puff the magic dragon after a well known hippie anthem. in

vietnam the armed cargo version a c 47 did not rain chocolate but rather a fire and that. first trace around me mission was shot to the attacks and illuminated the targets at night. then came a hail of machine gun bullets firing up to 6000 rounds a minute. the magic dragon became the messenger of death. there were 3 large guns set up and the rear port side of the aircraft and because of it it's turning capability and because it was a slower aircraft it could actually swing around in a pylon formation and hit extremely tight targets just continuously so they could basically hold down the enemy and in a basically a firing pattern just circle around them and keep them pinned into this this one

area. the crew flew until they run out of people fuel i mean each. of the. thanks to the gunships the u.s. our forces managed to stop several enemy offensives. but this time not even the d.c. 3 the time around them but the trouble. after the u.s. withdrawal from vietnam the d.c. 3 finally seem to be consigned to history in most parts of the wild. bot as it turns out its story was far from over. there are still new and exciting chapters to

be written in the 1990 s. the d.c. 3 is old but shoes are being enhanced with new technology such as top o. engines and a molten cockpit vintage aircraft being reborn as base lets. the top 3 combines the best of 2 wild from the past the original license and frame and the aviation features and from the present the safety of a modern copies so i have. i when stuck in the engines you can immediately forget the difference the top of sounds like it you must see.

the scene so that you sit. up and 3 just look up. and i mean how quickly can that looks like lampshades and this millhouse of. this plane will soon be commissioned by nasa to carry out my snatch at the south pole. i mean alfred bacon and shoot it's also boys to talk about classics and equip them with sophisticated technology the power to recycle i thinks will soon be setting off for the north pole. was i'm releasing the coupling now. before leaving for the arctic research grant grace caffie test it. is carried like

a cruise missile under the home ok i just wrote oh oh. oh. oh. oh oh am bad is a great system we fly at low level and the instrument records the thickness of the c.i. is from 25 meters above its surface as the subject of. our listening splice nguni at 300 kilometers. and very low this would be a serious disadvantage in passenger transportation as it allows the researchers to gather accurate data over long distances. i'm going to let's me on we have seen in recent years that the ice is getting thinner and thinner in 2001 we found our eyes about 2.20 meters thick in summer it was about half of that last year and now we're curious to see what the eyes looks like this year on it's a minute it was spawned us as males.

the results of these research flights provide evidence of climate change for example in greenland. greenland loses 3 times as much ice every year as there is in the entire european alps. the original features of the d.c. 3 include a sextant. this announce the pilots and navigate with the sun in case his g.p.s. files. may have a north pole the magnetic fields are a risk for modern navigation. weather permitting the team cruises over the north atlantic for up to 6 hours a day. within 2 weeks 3000 kilometers will be screened and a huge amount of data gathered. busy busy

station north is the northernmost point of greenland inhabited by only a few soldiers. the gravel runway of this danish military post is not a problem for the d.c. 3 she manages well on uneven surfaces and can even land on snow and ice. if you put it on wheels as normally you put it on skis you can use it in the winter time off frozen rivers and lakes you can use it in deserts you can use it in small airports you can use it in mountainous areas it is a fantastic aircraft that can take off from fairly short fields using the technology that was available at the time. the 1000 lives of the d.c. 3. was an exceptional journey through the 20th century. not

sure is hollywood sleeper. cargo carrier the savior of west palm then and now be age of 80 helping to solve the riddle of climate change. no other aircraft has done more to shape the course of history. keep at it old go. i'm stood on is a beautiful city that draws people to thomas mechanistically the debts capital has become so popular. that locals can barely afford to live there anymore tensions occasion exploding prices high demand this is real estate prices and the squeeze

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