DC-3's are tough machines. Hats off to the crew for getting down safe.

MooseMeat wrote:DC-3's are tough machines. Hats off to the crew for getting down safe.

Yes, good tough birds. We flew them to the jungle, short and muddy strips.
Single engine quite a turkey, only flew the normal DC-3's with the 1830's, never a super DC-3.

A friend lost one engine just after T/O from 600' feet elevation. Must have been around 30 celcius.
They were unable to make it back to the airport due to performance and made a forced landing.
Total loss but no one got a scratch.

Roll control requires more yoke travel than any other aircraft I have flown. Believe that thing can rotate almost 180 degrees!
Burns about 100 gls/hr, cruise 165KTS TAS. 800 gls total.
Only plane I have flown with passing lights. Landing lights had an extra bulb, kind of redish one so you would not bother the passing pilots eyes.

Juan Brown talks about the gear up landing. He speculates on a few things but does have some interesting details and specifications on the R4D super DC3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHGUyEy3dM