Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Missing a Significant Aspect, Aviation History Ed.

CNN ran an article about a Lend-Lease C-47 that crashed in Siberia after the war.

It wasn't a bad article. But the stringer who filed it and the editor who approved it missed a bit of history that would have made the article even more poignant:
On May 11 [1947], after almost 20 days in the tundra, a Li-2 transport aircraft spotted the wreck and managed to land next to it to pick up the survivors.
The Li-2 was a license-built copy of, you guessed it, the DC-3. The Soviet Union bought a production license for the DC-3 in 1936. The DC-3, as you probably know, is the big brother of the C-47 and all of its variants.

7 comments:

Old NFO said...

Typical CNN, half assed reporting... sigh...

LRod said...


Big brother nothing, it's the same damn airplane. Okay, maybe on has a cargo door and other doesn't. But it's the same airframe.

LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU retired

Anonymous said...

I think that you're expecting too much out of CNN. If you expect any "journalist" to know anything about machines, physics, chemistry or any historical event before the 2000 election you're going to be continually disappointed.

Al_in_Ottawa

Comrade Misfit said...

Well, not exactly. The DC-3 was the queen of 1930s passenger aircraft. The C-47 was a trash-hauler with the capability for open-ocean nav.

deadstick said...

What LRod said: it's the same airframe. The C-47 version had a cargo door and floor with tiedown fittings, plus a simple roof dome for a navigator, but all these were removable. Most of the postwar DC-3s were actually back-converted C-47s...only about 600 of the originals were built, followed by 10,000 C-47s.

CenterPuke88 said...

Actually, the C-47 also had a reinforced floor (came with the cargo tie downs) and a shortened tail cone (for glider towing).

Anonymous said...

Editing doesn't exist anymore in a real sense.