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Fork · Oct 15, 2012

French Air Force Rafale Burn by Forkie, on Flickr

Frecce Tricolori by Forkie, on Flickr

Red Arrows by Forkie, on Flickr

nikonpup · Oct 16, 2012

my first long distance air ride was in a connie.

madcapmagishion · Oct 16, 2012

My very first long distance air ride was in a Douglas DC-3 or as the US Navy refers to them as a C-47 Dakota. I don't have any pictures of that plane as I was only 3 weeks old when I took that flight, from New York's Laguardia Airfield to Cristobal Panama, Canal Zone Naval Air Station. My mother and I were flying down to the Canal Zone to join up with my father at his new duty assignment. He had already been there 2 weeks when we arrived. I stayed in Panama 4 years before returning to the USA.

PhotoAV8R · Oct 16, 2012

madcapmagishion said:
My very first long distance air ride was in a Douglas DC-3 or as the US Navy refers to them as a C-47 Dakota.

If it was Navy, it was very likely an R4D Skytrain or C-117 Skytrooper. The Army and Air Force used the C-47 designation.

madcapmagishion · Oct 16, 2012

PhotoAV8R said:
If it was Navy, it was very likely an R4D Skytrain or C-117 Skytrooper. The Army and Air Force used the C-47 designation.

Actually my father says it was a commercial TransAir DC-3 flight. Went from Laguardia to Raleigh, NC. to Jacksonville, FL. to Miami, FL. to Guantanamo, Cuba (which wasn't fenced off then) To Balboa, Panama Canal Zone.