Hauling the mail

[Willy]

Flight 19 has decided to subcontract to American Airlines to fly some mail on Air Mail route 21 from LaGuardia to Cleveland.

So we loaded up some Gooney birds and headed west to the first stop at Wilkes Barre PA. Nice leisurely flight going low and slow.

[Taco]

Howdy all,

Well, Flight 19 is off and running again! Now, carrying the mail, can you believe we are hauling legal cargo! Who in the world would believe this! hehe. One thing though, is that at least, we need not worry about the local law establishment meeting us at the airports while we are hauling this cargo.

[Moses03]

I always wanted to be a mailman.

[salt_air]

This looks good,


Prolly too late now, but I've been waiting for a chance to use this set up (see link) over a path similar to what Flight 19 is running right now.


Only I wanted to use Ford Trimotors .... have a look.


http://www.dc3airways.com/flights/routes/night_mail.htm


Enjoy your trip!

[Moses03]

Cool Austin. Will check it out.

[Willy]

That looks interesting Austin. The route we're flying is from Ernest Gann's book "Fate is the Hunter". Gann flew for American back in the late 30s on AM21 first as a rookie copilot and made Captain flying it.

We left Wilkes Barre and headed north to Syracuse NY. Nice flight with good conversation. Even if the winds were doing anything but cooperating....

[Taco]

Hey There!

Just a few snaps showing before takeoff and after landing.

[PRB]

Mail runs! Cool. I've almost got my truck ready. Will advise...

[AussieMan]

I find it hard to believe that Flight 19 is actually doing something legit. But if there is money to be made why not.

[PRB]

Well, in addition to the mail, there is, after all, plenty of room in a DC-3 for other, more profitable cargo...

[Moses03]

I find it hard to believe that Flight 19 is actually doing something legit.

[Moses03]

Nice flight in upper state New York to Buffalo via Rochester. The weather was much more calm today. Enjoyed watching all the Douglas airliners roll in loaded down with Sears Catalogs.

[Willy]

Nice flight into Buffalo via Rochester. And the weather seemed to be cooperating for once. From what Gann said in his book though, that's the exception to the rule on this route in the winter.

[Taco]

Hi folks, here we are again.

Nice flight from KSYR to KROC where we all did a one engine stop to unload and load more mail, plus a few goodie which shall, well you know, unmentionables. hehe. As you have noticed we went kind of crazy with the photo taking, shucks, almost forgot about flying the Goon while watching the beautiful scenery. When #1 engine started to sputter then I realized that I forgot to switch fuel tanks, oops, a rockie mistake!

[Taco]

As I said; went crazy with the picture taking.

Note: pictures are not in order on both uploads.