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

a song via takeover. 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 plane became a vicious weapon sent in by night. following her military career this chameleon of the skies transforms herself 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 sleep dakota candy boma and c 47. has gone for decades i mean what other aircraft can you say has flown for nearly a century and continues to fly. and no off a plane in the wild has been built in such numbers.

the d.c. 3 was launched in california in 1936 and in just 10 years more than 16000 of them were produced. in the u.s. to revolutionise that travel sidelining the railroad for long distance transport. the d.c. three's main competitor was a german plane. the u. 52 as an alum many i'm annoyed structure. it was also popular and reliable because only carry 15 passengers.

the d.c. 3 was superior to the u. 52 in every respect more seats better flight 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 plane became part of history. this one nearly ended up on a highway intersection in dubai. now restored to health former glory she's an offer of an eye catcher to rival the house. she was rescued by who go motus a local businessman 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. to munch butte you can feel the plane when you fly and you have to take it in your hands and experience it once you know me as a pilot i'm important so i have to do it myself both good at something quite special yes but. in 136 swiss i had decided against the german u. 52 choosing the d.c. 3 instead was paris london and berlin among the outlines prime destinations.

switzerland became douglas's bus customer in europe. during world war 2 this west d.c. 3 on usual paint to avoid being shot down by the germans as enemy at craft. not only d.c. 3 is there enjoying as pleasant a retirement as the vintage plane in switzerland. of the 16000 planes built most are now grounded. but even in the ak raaf bone yards a d.c. 3 remains a good value unlike most other aircraft. in wisconsin retired officer waiting 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 it modernize the electronics you put the new engines in it and you have almost played. these veterans up to a given a new lease on life. this we spend. a 2nd career as a retired c 47 the ministry of the d c 3.

over a year so honestly i was. going to be the only girl. ashley has been interested in playing since she was a child she began her career after as. 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 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 quite different the original idea of darkness was to construct an airplane that seats during the day and bags at night. the 1st customers american airlines placed the order with a mansion instead of a formal contract. the service was limited was also very expensive you had 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. being on our staff suddenly became highly sought after korea the sleeper provided great comfort huge seats like living room jazz modern ladies and gentlemen is toilets. and at night the seats became dad's.

hollywood snuff 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 the d.c. 3 kind of change things by making the journey the destination i suppose the sort of slogging it out and getting worried needs go. the planes landed in glendale near beverly hills.

the d.c. 3 response to robust and extremely economical. other airlines also place their orders with doctors for regular service without any baggage this last a stroke of design and make the plate quite comfortable 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 and the peaceable across the united states. we're going to bring it back to what it was in 1930 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 show the world what airline travel was in the mid thirty's. on board the food was freshly prepared. that 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 smog.

i started when i was about 15 years old flying d.c. series 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 family was living and flying in alaska. at the age of 7 glenn with an ounce 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. 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 most family. in oshkosh the swiss hobby pilots has bought enough of the c 3 from the matter. judy. let's talk about my airplane they were going to do together some the workshop manager discussed the rebuilding of the act. during world war 2 judy carried paratroopers in just 2 years from now she will be able to do so again . just was going to get a few get on right 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 1941 the united states entered wild war too. many civilian d c 3 s. including all sleep as well requisitioned and converted into c. 47 military transporters. in addition the united states built up its own stock. it also supplied hundreds of c. 47 has to its allies especially to great britain and the soviet union. in england 100 fast u.s. sample in division was harassing for d.-day for the liberation of western europe. thousands of paratroopers 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 workhorse. we

had number of see far as. 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 sea $47.00. 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. the 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.

they care if they need a break and we need the suppliers we need the ammunition and we need the equipment so the glad is provided that for us we couldn't care workers on a c $47.00 added bionicle hours i'm sure that if we want for the go as i want for the sea for the polling. the mission would never been a kabul is. the gliders were made of wood they did not have to return and with their food designed to be disposable they had a high failure rate. yes.

they are cracked up the minute they hit 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 had cause to be consigned. to motivate his troops general eisenhower the commander in chief addressed them in rounds in terms. 22. 44. please. these pictures 1st has to be received from the streets. of.

our recall very well that everyone was nervous very quiet but very nervous you can see it you could feel it. fire. trucks. in a fust wave around 815 military transport is released 17000 paratroopers coming back in the waves to provide them with supplies. stock. on my flight to france and shames and his cohen rights watch the deployments of hundreds of warships making their way towards the beaches of normandy. the invasion began with

a shot from the naval watch hillary. but even visit opening failed to pave the way for the ground troops they encountered strong john in defense fire. as long as the enemy could supply enough ammunition to a speech 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. edge shame's 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. in talking about 15 minutes to land floating in the hat the men were exposed to german defensive fire. that jumped into a bunch of flak tracer bullets artillery shells flak and so forth. i was a hit never know because the plane did hear the flak bounce off that would get ready to jump not only that our prior shoot was coming down he could hear something going through the prior shoot cutting through the silt and that sound as

never left me to this day. few units jumped off at the right point because the pilots that lost their orientation. a new radar system intended to mark the landing zones did not walk. some units ended up 5 miles from a drop zone others as far as 50 miles away. we were there in no way in slaying an 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 the at. the c. 40 seven's came back again and again pulling the gliders behind them.

but that is what the germans vam out or expecting they had flooded the fields and meadows to prevent the gliders from landing safely. the germans also put up the ladder barriers like poles like trees and fields where the arrows were land they did that quite a few places in normandy but we overcame up somehow. overcoming the barriers came at a high price to the glider crews $1.00 in 4 tsongas 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 ally forces to conquer the beaches and advance in the land. divan markets had to withdraw or surrender. after only 3 days the allied forces moved eastward to recapture france. things. 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 fust newsreel footage of the invasion into apparent american theaters featured a plane called that saw brother. 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 aircraft 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 by a gentleman who was down on his luck and had pretty much run his operation out of money and he wanted to sell the airplane 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. they sent us suddenly had a superstar on their hands 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 duty. it was annoying because they had promised i could buy it but i understand the historical reasons this plane belongs to america to take to america. in oklahoma city the fate of many vintage planes rests in the hands of brawn owens

. rai is giving the radio 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 you're here or engine kermie and they're just. from there they go to claiming from their. polishing their inspection before their bill. everything was handmade that 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 safely enough or whether they've been pushed on the field so you hot.

the d.c. 3 has 2 engines with 14 selland as each each cylinder. $86.00 horsepower generating a total of $2400.00 horsepower. gods bearing asteroid bearing my fate hugo motus roy has any bad news today there is total lack in almost all of judy selling his film is. very heavily used and very used you. like a newer better quality service and leave i would not fit your needs i don't feel. as though there are new cylinder available harry so this is given out is just was

theater because we knew that it was used but i did not expected to be so extreme in the engines are completely exhausted just gets to the fico scale a bit. of a swiss pinus it's a base a pill to swallow 14 senators for a whopping $50000.00. but as an engineer he knows the odds that this policy comment 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 maybe 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. and not only an auto. and not only on the d.c. 3. not even the engineers at douglas could have guessed that some 80 years later that design would be considered the most successful plane in aviation history. lennart 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 cellars they were starving. so-called rubble women cleared the sites of the bombed out houses. but then the victors began to argue. in june 148 the soviet union blocked all

landru its into by men so over 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 area. 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 gail house and is filming with his camera. many pilots still new bonnet from the board. we had got used to aircraft noise. from the allied air raids in the war but after the war there was much at traffic over berlin. 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. 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 needed was slow in it it was amazing. every pilot had to make

a successful fast landing environment 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. john walker's had 30 minutes to unload the jack raft that was break time for the pilot's. galas filming the snack bar where the pilots got their sandwiches they flew up to 7 times each day. affected by the abject poverty he saw among the children of batman gale 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 the hearts and minds of the west

germans. then know why and if there was a persian coming down then hundreds of children would run through the streets and she said. 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 give maddalena isn't off. today thousands of people barbecue every summer. when doris france guy looks out over the abandon tempelhof affeldt the old by then apples he wonders how many of them know about the role it played some 17 years ago.

after the alledged 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 than the 7 to 7 for middle distance routes and in the mid 1960 s. the boeing 737 was shorter. but even in the jet age the veteran roared back to life. in vietnam the d.c. 3 and her final nickname 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. fast tracer ammunition was shot to detect and illuminate 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 pile in formation and hit extremely tight targets just continuously so they could basically hold down the enemy in a basically a firing pattern just circle around them and keep them pinned into this this one area.

the crew flew until they might be the fuel i mean. thanks to the gunships the u.s. a force managed to stop several enemy offensives. but this time i'm not even the d.c. 3 could turn around them in the triple digits. after the u.s. withdrawal from vietnam the d.c. 3 finally seem to be consigned to history in most parts of the wild. but as it turns out its story was found from over. there are still new and exciting chapters to be resident in the 1990 s. the d.c.

3 days old virtues are being enhanced with new technology such as turbo engines and a modern cockpit vintage aircraft are being reborn as a base less how about those the turbo d.c. 3 combines the best of 2 worlds from the past the original license the airframe and the aviation features and from the present the safety of a modern caucus. i when starting the engines you can immediately get the difference the taco bell sounds like you just.

like. listening so that he's. talking free just looking for help from a. good many companies like him that looks like. this may account for. this place will soon be commissioned by nasa to carry out ice mission of the south pole . i the john alfred bacon and shoot has also boys to talk about classics and equip them with sophisticated technology the powder research i will soon be setting off for the north pole. was i'm releasing the coupling you know. before leaving for the arctic the research grant grace cafferty test it. is carried like a cruise missile under the home ok honest row oh well. that's

. how i am bird 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. if. i were listening splice loony at 300 kilometers. and very low. this would be a serious disadvantage in passenger transportation but it allows the researchers to gather accurate data over long distances. i'm done and that's leon we've 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. it's a minister who's respond to us as you know as.

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 allows the pilots and navigate with the sun in case his g.p.s. files. may have a north pole the magnetic fields are risk from 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.

station north is the northernmost point of greenland inhabited by only a few soldiers. the gravel runway at this danish military post is not a problem for the 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. a cargo carrier the savior of west palm and. 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. to. the job. hunting chances faced tough cuts in. the ocean effortless. more and more artificial intelligence is playing a role in hiring procedures. a change for the better. or just plain frightening to

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