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  1. August 18th, 2014, 22:54 #1
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    Tri-motor DC-3

    To complete our DC-3 lineup...

    How about a Tri-motor Turbo'd DC-3?
    http://www.douglasdc3.com/polair/polair.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conroy_Tri-Turbo-Three
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  2. August 19th, 2014, 05:17 #2
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    Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!


    Nope, nope, nope, too ugly, nope.
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    Have to agree. That's just wrong.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bjoern View Post
    Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!


    Nope, nope, nope, too ugly, nope.
    I have to concur.

    Fortunately the Gooney Bird I'll be on next month wasn't bashed to death with the ugly stick....
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  5. August 19th, 2014, 08:14 #5
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    Oh boy, that's just wrong!!!

    Feels like stabbing me in the heart. The REAL DC-3 is my all-time favorite aircraft.
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    Built for Polar use was it? Best left there, preferably under a glacier, with the DH Mosquito TT Mk.39 ...

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  7. August 19th, 2014, 09:16 #7
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    Love it! Yes, Please with skis. How soon?

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    Just yuck!!!
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    Pretty funky looking, sure but at the same time pretty neat!
    ...things will go as they will; and there's no use hurrying to meet them.
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    Here's what I'm flying in in September....
    A little 'bigger' than this one...but last time I went I did a paint to match.
    Here it is outside of its Hangar 6 [the original war-time terminal of Essendon Airport, Melbourne, Oz]

    It's ex-RAAF and one of the 'youngest' airframes still around...

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    Jafo, can that repaint be downloaded anywhere?????
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    Quote Originally Posted by manfredc3 View Post
    Jafo, can that repaint be downloaded anywhere?????
    Not as yet....although I did it a few years ago...I kinda moved on to other stuff and never got around to doing anything about it.... probably because I was hoping to find a model that exactly matched this particular DC3....it's the closest I had as it has the right looking carbie intakes [?] on top of the engines...
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    Quote Originally Posted by zswobbie1 View Post
    To complete our DC-3 lineup...

    How about a Tri-motor Turbo'd DC-3?
    ...
    The third motor propably changes the centre of gravity. How do they handle that?
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  14. August 19th, 2014, 22:49 #14
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    They cut it in half, well, sort of, & put an extention plug in, as they do with most turbo props.
    Yup, a bit ugly, but only in the eye of the beholder. The french also came out with a bunch of real ugly stuff in the old days.
    We have the default DC-3, the Super, a turbo or two, it would be nice to have a complete collection of Daks. A formation flight comes to mind!
    I could be mistaken, but I'm sure that there were a few warbirds that were tri-motored for research & evaluation?
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  15. August 20th, 2014, 00:22 #15
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    Please no.
    Just way too FUGLY.


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    Quote Originally Posted by zswobbie1 View Post
    I could be mistaken, but I'm sure that there were a few warbirds that were tri-motored for research & evaluation?
    You had B-17s with a turboprop in the nose for tests and you had these back in the war:
    http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/ju252.html
    http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/ju352.html

    An engine right in the kisser does not make an airplane prettier when it already has two of 'em on its wings.


    A tri-motor Dak would involve a lot of work which just isn't worth it if only two out of ten people can even stand looking at it without getting sick.
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