Last chance to fly in a Dakota.

[Brian(Liverpool boys)]

Saw this advert in Saturdays Daily Express, trips from £99, Part of the Dakotas farwell tour.
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http://www.reader.travel/ReaderNew/booking1.php?eid=67&Agent=PEN

[Steve Pyro]

I last flew in a Dakota DC-3 from the southern end of Mexico up to Oaxaca in 1986.  I was highly amused that the 'ground crew' had to clear the grazing animals from the grass runway before our take off.
Big windows, unpressurised, comfy wicker seats and the drone of the radial engines above the Sierra Madre, superb.

The airline was called Aerovias de Oaxaquenas.  I see from this website http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm that they are now derelict wrecks 

[DelBoy]

I last flew in a Dakota DC-3 from the southern end of Mexico up to Oaxaca in 1986.  I was highly assumed that the 'ground crew' had to clear the grazing animals from the grass runway before our take off.
Big windows, unpressurised, comfy wicker seats and the drone of the radial engines above the Sierra Madre, superb.

The airline was called Aerovias de Oaxaquenas.  I see from this website http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm that they are now derelict wrecks 

A bit like some of their previous passengers, apparently  .  I assume you meant you were amused that the ground crew etc...

Del

[Steve Pyro]

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The airline was called Aerovias de Oaxaquenas.  I see from this website http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC3%20Canada%20and%20Latin%20America%20Census.htm that they are now derelict wrecks 

Ooh, Google has found me some pictures 

[Steve Pyro]

This is what the old bus used to look like when I flew in it.

[nickliv]

Air Atlantique were advertising  Le Mans trips by dak last year. About £300 per person, but I haven't seen anything for this years.

[MIKE C (Liverpool Boys)]

Flew from Liverpool to Dublin in a DAK in 1962. Chucked up all the way, I was only 3.

[Andy Zarse]

I flew on this grumpy old sod to Guernsey from Southampton in 1988.

[nickliv]

20,000 rivets in close formation. None of them tight.

[nickliv]

I read an astonishing AAIB report concerning one of AA's Daks at Cov, but it'll probably keep until mid June.

Nothing to do with the aircraft, more to do with one of the occupants.

[Chris24]

fancy a flight in a B24 Liberator?

The Liberator would be good, but much prefer the flight I took in the B17 over some little place somewhere in mid Florida that I can't remember the name of. Think it may have begun with the letter "S" though.

[Lawnmower Man]

I flew on this grumpy old sod to Guernsey from Southampton in 1988.

The Dakota was the first plane I ever flew in.  Brum to Jersey in the very early 1950s.  I don't remember much about it other than being given cotton wool for my ears and a Barley Sugar sweet. 

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[Canada Phil]

On my ride north from Sebring I stopped in at the Warbirds Museum near Titusville. They have one that is still flown regularly. It is one of the many that dropped the US Airborne troops on D Day and flew in the Berlin airlift.
Canada Phil

[chop456]

Phil, if you ever feel the need to fly a DC-3 from the middle of nowhere all the way to the edge of it... 

http://www.buffaloairways.com/passenger.htm

[landman]

Flew in a Dak courtesy of Air Atlantique a few years ago.

They used to do an open day at Coventry and allowed you to access all areas.

Superb day out and not pricey

Highlight was the Dak ride, up to Brunters and back.  Noisy, but fun!

What we really wanted was a ride in the Shackleton

ooh! contra rotating props anyone?

Landman