Not from the Paris Air Show: Move Over; riding in a DC-3

In a week dominated by Paris Air Show news, we have a couple of unrelated items.

We saw this car in a parking lot and couldn’t resist taking a picture. Note the writing on the windshield and how it would be legible in your review mirror as the car comes up behind you.

Porsche.

And then back to aviation, we took a ride in the ex-Pan Am DC-3 over the weekend. It’s owned by the Historic Flight Foundation in Everett (WA).

PA DC-3

Photo by Scott Hamilton

PA-DC-3_2

Photo by Scott Hamilton

6 Comments on “Not from the Paris Air Show: Move Over; riding in a DC-3

    • It was actually pretty quiet. The airplane went from Pan Am to a corporate conversion and had additional insulation. It still had the corporate interior and the aft windows, if you look closely, had been modified for the corporate use. The DC-3 was quieter than the DC-7B we rode in during our May 2011 excursion. Of course, that had four, larger pistons.

  1. I flew in a DC-3 back in 1997, from Havana to a smaller island south of Cuba. Quite a fun experience. I don’t think it was done up as nice as the one Scott flew in.

  2. What was the price per seat and how long was your flight?

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