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    Jul 03, 2018 3 minutes

    I greatly enjoyed “The Immortal DC-3” as it brought back fond memories of my experience with a C-47. Back in the 1950s our Boy Scout troop went to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois for a weekend. One of our activities was a flight in a C-47. Once in the air we could go up into the cockpit. When it was my turn I asked the pilot what the different gauges were

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