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C46 Commando, C-17 and C-130
Wow, what a time to not have a camera.
Today I drove into town to do some grocery shopping. One of the last turns on the road from out North into town, it leaves a clear view of any airplanes on final for the runway. Today a C-130 was on short final for the airport, behind him was a C-46 Commando and further out was a C-17! Talk about a hertiage flight! Sure wish I had a camera!!!! Here in Kenai there is always a chance to see some of the military doing instrument approaches. They usually don't land just practice their missed approach and go around for another. That is what was happening today. The C-46 is based here as well as a couple of DC-6's. They haul fuel to the villages located to the west, where there is no road access. Anyway, going to start carrying my camera with me. Best regards, Mike Bauer |
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Great experience, Mike! Wish I had see that.
I remember the C-46 fondly. In 1971-72 I jumped from ROKAF C-46s at Han River Drop Zone Number 1. If I may intrude on your thread, the best fly in I can recall was one that took place when I was at jump school at Fort Benning in 1962. We had a day off and I had slept in. Around 7:00 in the morning, I was awakened by the sound of old reciprocating engines. I was sleeping in an Army cot in a WWII era barracks. Glenn Miller music was playing on the radio when I looked out the window. All I could see was the hangar, with its old Army Air Corps emblem. There were no automobiles or other indicators of modern times in sight, and the airplane coming in to land was a silver B-18 Bolo. I later learned it was a crop duster, but for a moment I thought I had been transported more than 20 years into the past. Don |
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Hi Don,
This thread is about the sounds of those old engines....Every time a DC-6 or the C-46 fly overhead here where I'm living, nothing gets done until they are located and finally disapear from sight. This is one of the C-46 based about 12-miles from the house. Photos were from last summer, taken while outside test flying some Stomp Rockets... Best regards, Mike Bauer |
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Nice! I think one of the C-46s and a ROKAF C-54 (which I have also flown in) have been preserved at the Republic of Korea War Memorial.
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Yes, both are in that museum right outside Yongsan army base in Seoul. Been there many times. I even went inside a captured N Korean AN-2 bipe.
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Back when I was passing gas at the "working aircraft museum," we had two civilian aircraft we fueled up as required. Both belonged to Reeve Aleutian Airway, which was contracted to resupply island units.
The two aircraft were a C-47 and C-46. During a refuel of the C-46 we would send out an AVGAS truck and an oil truck. One particular day, I was on the oil truck and was pulling out the hose to hand to the crewman on the wing, when it got stuck. So I grabbed the nozzle and leaned back, putting my weight into it. Suddenly, the nozzle popped off, I slammed backwards into the tarmac and when I came to, I was covered in thick engine oil, and two people were standing around me, looking down. One of them, the person on the AVGAS truck asked if I was alright. Thinking I was just dazed, I said I was ok and began to sit up. On the apron where my head was, lay a nice pool of blood. I had split my skull open. I laid back down, stared up at the port side engine, thinking, "It's all your fault, you dumb Commando." A month later, I was transferred to midshift on the opposite of the base where I helped the Combat Pacers, a Military Airlift Command group whose job was to recover as quickly as possible, cargo aircraft resupplying the Vietnam War. I never worked near the C-46 again, and never really saw it again. But one thing I remember about it...it held its nose very high...for good reason.
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