Daks over Duxford Wed 5th June
Posted: 07 Jun 2019, 20:30
I had a wonderful day at Duxford on Wednesday, watching the take-off of twenty one Dakotas heading for 75th D-Day anniversary commemorations in Normandy. Even though they didn't get all the Dakotas they hoped for, and two of those present went U/S, it was an astonishing thing to see and hear. This video was shot from very near where I was standing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KYw6xOvRzo
The first aircraft you see starting up, HA-LIX in the pale blue trim, is the only Soviet license-built Li-2 still flying. The first ten aircraft to take-off were the ones carrying the 'paratroopers' who recreated the drops over in Normandy later in the day. Also present was the only C-41A ever built ( the one with the horizontal red stripes on the rudder ), and Robert Randazzo with his pristine PMDG DC-3 ( the Pan Am one, Clipper Tabitha May, with the horizontal strips in the nose ).
How anyone can not like old aircraft is beyond me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KYw6xOvRzo
The first aircraft you see starting up, HA-LIX in the pale blue trim, is the only Soviet license-built Li-2 still flying. The first ten aircraft to take-off were the ones carrying the 'paratroopers' who recreated the drops over in Normandy later in the day. Also present was the only C-41A ever built ( the one with the horizontal red stripes on the rudder ), and Robert Randazzo with his pristine PMDG DC-3 ( the Pan Am one, Clipper Tabitha May, with the horizontal strips in the nose ).
How anyone can not like old aircraft is beyond me!