Posted: 7/2/2009 12:22:42 PM EDT
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To make me forget about modern commercial aircraft!
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Last VX-6 UC-1 Otter Flight On The Antarctic Continent. UC-1Otter Retires With A Traditional Naval Ceremony Complete With Sideboys. Last Otter Flight information: Pilot: M.E. Morris Copilot: Joe Holick Date: January 23, 1966 Aircraft: U-1B 144670 Flight time: 1.9 hrs McMurdo - McMurdo USN BUNO 144670 US Navy Type/Model/Series NU-1B De Havilland Constructors Number 151 This aircraft is still flying with the US Navy, it's the last U.S. Military Otter flying! The sole remaining active duty Otter is based at PAX River with the Naval Test Pilot School. 
Here it is landing at Williams Field, Antarctica. 
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http://www.vaq34.com/vxe6/lastottersideboys.jpg Last VX-6 UC-1 Otter Flight On The Antarctic Continent. UC-1Otter Retires With A Traditional Naval Ceremony Complete With Sideboys. Last Otter Flight information: Pilot: M.E. Morris Copilot: Joe Holick Date: January 23, 1966 Aircraft: U-1B 144670 Flight time: 1.9 hrs McMurdo - McMurdo USN BUNO 144670 US Navy Type/Model/Series NU-1B De Havilland Constructors Number 151 This aircraft is still flying with the US Navy, it's the last U.S. Military Otter flying! The sole remaining active duty Otter is based at PAX River with the Naval Test Pilot School. http://www.vaq34.com/junk/144670_NU-1B_TPS_2009_05_22.jpg Here it is landing at Williams Field, Antarctica. http://www.vaq34.com/junk/otter_landing_at_williams_field_1963.jpg My wife has base privileges at Pax River. I'll have to go see it. |
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Those Beavers and Otters are pretty. But you can make money with one of theses all day long. http://www.arcticcircleair.com/Photogallery/C207%20Profile%20view%20PG.jpg http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/5/0/3/0137305.jpg http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/6/8/6/1362686.jpg I see someone can't read. 
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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y236/Iron_Airship/Supercub.jpg In the days before tundra tires.... Now that, I can say I haven't seen before. Wonder how it works? Better than the big tires? Still in use? Definitely different. |
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Those Beavers and Otters are pretty. But you can make money with one of theses all day long. http://www.arcticcircleair.com/Photogallery/C207%20Profile%20view%20PG.jpg http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/5/0/3/0137305.jpg http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/6/8/6/1362686.jpg I see someone can't read.
I guess you have never been to THE BUSH. i'll post more pictures of real bush planes later. Ever see a 10 seat piston twin land on a 1800 foot gravel strip. I have, from the pilot seat. |
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Plenty of area filled in between the back and the rudder on this one. 
Here it is on floats. 
And after it landed in someone's backyard. Literally. Fence all around. A one-in-a-million miracle. 
I've flown in this one on both skis and amphibs 
Flown in this one, too. 
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For those that like "romantic" old bush planes: 
There is a 7300lb 10 seat twin in 4 of these pictures.  Plus a Amfib twin and a 4 engine piston cargo plane. All pictures taken in real bush Alaska. Guess which plane only operates 4 months of the year. The others all work 365.
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http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s248/benspics_bucket/DSCF0196.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s248/benspics_bucket/Taka7014.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s248/benspics_bucket/IM000326.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s248/benspics_bucket/IM000335.jpg For those that like "romantic" old bush planes: http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s248/benspics_bucket/Taka7106.jpg There is a 7300lb 10 seat twin in 4 of these pictures. Plus a Amfib twin and a 4 engine piston cargo plane. All pictures taken in real bush Alaska. Guess which plane only operates 4 months of the year. The others all work 365.
Sure, welcome to the present day. It's like looking at my Willy's Jeep and my F250. One of them only drives a few days a month, the other tows a lot regularly. But, of course, the Willy's was a farm truck in Maine for most of it's life, and now it's resting. 
I loved Wager With the Wind when I was younger, and I've had the good fortune to travel on many a bush plane. And yes, I like the romantic ones best. 
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