It is on National Geographic right now here in the midwest.

They got a ton of cool pictures on their Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/icepilotsnwt?sk=photos

So far it looks like a good show. Hope they keep the whiners out this time.

Watched an episode last night..very good. Had no idea that a C46 was still used as a commercial carrier..thought the only ones remaining were in museums.

Everts Air in Alaska still operates several C-46s. They are major load haulers. When I built a cabin on a remote lake, I hired them to deliver 14,500 pounds of "stuff" to the site, landing on the lake ice late in spring.

The C-46 missed out on all the glory accorded to the C-47/DC 3, but in fact, the C-46 hauls much bigger loads, and has much better altitude capability. The C-46 was the primary load hauler over the Hump in Burma during WWII.

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When I visited Bolivia in 2001 we landed at La Paz on the way to Santa Cruz. Saw some C-46's sitting there but they didn't look to be in very good shape. Remembered reading how they would fly down to the lowlands and pick up freshly butchered beef and fly it back up to La Paz and that the dogs enjoyed licking up what got hosed out after a run.

C-46s and C-47s still do a lot of heavy hauling up here. As a military brat, I used to live in Turkey but went to high school school in Germany where I lived in a dormitory. We usually took the C-47 to school and would refuel and spend the night in Athens, Greece.

The link below is a video of a C-47 (DC-3, Gooney Bird) landing on skis at Chelatna, Alaska. There is also a short story about it in the Alaska Dispatch :
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/d ... latna-lake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx11k1r1Pm8&hd=1