![]() ![]() Here’s the plan for this VSL C-47 review. I test the C-47 on an iMac with macOS Big sur 11.2.3 and X-Plane version 11.53r1. As of this writing, April 2021, the model has been updated to version 3.0c. I’m looking forward to explore the VSL C-47 Skytrain although to me it’s also the DC-3. Blankets and mattresses weighed another 195 pounds.ģ,900 feet of tubing, 8,000 feet of wire and approximately 13,300 square feet of sheet metal were used in the construction of each DC-3. Material used for sound insulation in the DC-3 weighed 240 pounds. The total length of the control cables used on the DC-3 was over 2,850 feet, more than 0.5 mile. ![]() To light an ordinary room in those days only 100 watts was required.Īpproximately 6,000 men and women were employed in building a DC-3. More than 90 lights were used in each plane. The lighting system of each DC-3 plane was sufficient to light an eight room house. The average size used in the manufacture was approximately 3-8 inches long, and if laid end-to-end, the rivets would cover a distance of 15,625 feet or more than three miles. …… some statistics?įive hundred thousand rivets (500.000) were used in the manufacture of the Douglas DC-3 airplane. The Basler BT-67 is one of the turboporp conversion variants of the DC-3.”Īnd this is just one site of the many websites that offers DC-3/C-47 information.īrought to you by the DC-3/Dakota Historical Society, Inc. 2010 – many DC-3 remain in commercial operation. The DC-3 was also license-produced in Japan as Nakajima L2D. The Lisunov Li-2 was a copied variant of the DC-3 with production in the Soviet Union. After WWII thousands of surplus C-47 Skytrain were converted to be used as civil airliners. The DC-3/C-47 was produced in countless variants. The DC-3 is a development of the Douglas DC-2. The military main-variant was the C-47 Skytrain. No, the only reason I took this historical aircraft is because I love the way it’s made and being Dutch, having great memories with old historical aircraft like the DC- Uiver or PH-AJU.īut what’s the difference between a DC-3 and C-47?Īccording to “The Douglas DC-3 is a twin-engined short-to-medium-range Airliner with a capacity of maximum 32 passengers and a military utility transport aircraft produced by the US-American manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company. ![]() Just to make this clear this review deals with the VSL C-47 Skytrain and I’ve got no intentions to compare the flight dynamics with the Aeroworx model nor how realistic the 3D external model including the 3D cockpit is versus the Aeroworx. Perhaps you own already the VSkyLabs (VSL) C-47 Skytrain Flying L§ab Project, and perhaps you’ve been flying around with it for a while or you wasn’t aware of this VSL C-47 model at all and only knew the Aeroworx C-47 freeware model. Want to know more about this gorgeous aircraft? Then check out the DC-3/Dakota Historical Society, Inc. “Americans called it the “Gooney Bird”, “Doug”, “Dumbo”, “Old Fatso”, “Charlie 47”, “Skytrain”, “Skytrooper” and “Tabby.” The British called it the “Dakota” and the “Dak.”The RCAF called one squadron of Dakotas “The Flying Elephants”.Civilian pilots called it the “Three”, “Old Methuselah”, “The Placid Plodder”, “The Dowager Dutchess”, “The Flying Vagrant” and the “Dizzy Three.” According to this society “Most people remember and still call the C-47 the “Gooney Bird”.There are several versions of how it got that name.Some say the name came from the South Pacific where small atolls were the home of the wandering albatross, the giant seagull-like bird noted for its powers of flight, and sometimes unflattering but safe landings.Some GIs said the C-47 looked like the bird, with a heavy body and long wings, and mimicked the bird in its struggle to get off the rain-soaked dirt fields.”īut this is just one of the nicknames the DC-3/C-47 had. I, Angelique van Campen from X-Plained.Com, present to you the Gooney Bird. On behalf of the DC-3/Dakota Historical Society, Inc. ![]()
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