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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

A C-54:



The C-54 was the airplane that made the Berlin Airlift possible.
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7 comments:

Stewart Dean said...

Is that a sextant dome above the cockpit fore celestial nav? I once bought a AF surplus sextant when I wuz a teenager......

11/23/2025 10:40 AM
Comrade Misfit said...

It is, indeed.

Do you still have the bubble sextant?

11/23/2025 12:54 PM
Comrade Misfit said...

To amplify, the Navy published two sets of sight reduction tables, HO 229 and HO 249. -229 was for ships and -249 was for aircraft. A lot of open-ocean navigators used -249 because it was quicker and if you were off by a mile or two, nobody gave a shit.

11/23/2025 12:59 PM
Old NFO said...

CM is correct. We were still using HO 249 tables in the early 90s when I retired. Also, #1 needs a rebuild. Throwing way too much oil!

11/23/2025 3:31 PM
Stewart Dean said...

Lordy, that was 60 years ago and more in my childhood home...long gone. I went to summer camp in ME with a 50' gaff rigged schooner...kids did everything including coastal piloting with a pelorus, chart and parallel rules. I even built a chip log with knots in the line....

11/23/2025 4:15 PM
Bruce said...

Every time I see one I'm reminded of Ernie Gann's book Fate is the Hunter. Compared to the C-87, he thought these handled like fighters. The story of one takeoff from Stephhensville in thick fog only to suffer a fire in a compartment under the cockpit, or departing La Guardia and losing three engines at takeoff resulting in what he thought was the shortest four engine flight on record. A book that I believe has never been out of print and regarded as one of the best books about flying ever written.

11/24/2025 10:38 AM
Comrade Misfit said...

I'm on my third copy of FITH. It's disappeared from my library almost as many times as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas..

11/24/2025 12:16 PM

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