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Price: R170.00 and includes
delivery within South Africa
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Dakota
DVD
Douglas DC 3
The Dakota
A new film on the legendary
Aircraft the Dakota has been
launched in the
A lot of the footage and interviews were done in
She flew for the 1st time on the 17th
of December 1935 and is still doing operational service
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This film is a must for the enthusiast.
This is the story of an aeroplane that changed the face of aviation
forever, Christened as the Douglas Sleeper Transport and known as the
Dc3
Over the years she got more nicknames than any other aircraft, some
called her the C-47 some called her the Sky train others the Gooney, Old
Methuselah; The Placid Plodder; Dizzy Three; Old Bucket Seats; Duck; Dak;
Dakleton Vomit Comet
(Nickname used by US Army paratroops during the Normandy invasion.) but
she was called the Dakota by the British armed forces and is still to
this day fondly known as the DAK.
13.650 Daks were built 800 as commercial aircraft and the balance
as military versions. Licensing agreements to produce DC3's
outside the US had been granted to, Mitsui Busson in Japan and the
Amtorg Trading Company in Russia Some were still in service with the
Russian Air Force in the 1990s.
2930 were manufactured in
the
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