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Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Nov 2016, 17:18

Username Protected wrote:

Last week I did put a deposit on a C46... Unfortunately, I don't think they ever were on skis. That would be really cool! :thumbup:

My favorite airplane of all time! Lots of time in it as pilot and instructor with Air America (1963-1968) and again in about 1995 - 2005, as Training Officer with the CAF.

You after one of the Everts airplanes? Or perhaps one of the two in the Lower 48? A couple in Canada, but I've pretty well lost track there.

Please keep me posted? Those old birds are a part of me, I think.

I don't know of any that had skis, but I'll ask Merrill Wien, he'd know.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Nov 2016, 17:37

Username Protected wrote:

This one is North of Winnipeg, an F model. No hydraulic controls, thankfully.

Yah, that's good. Probably one of Buffalo Joe's airplanes. We had both, some modified. Those old Hydraulic systems were the pits, heavier on the controls than the F model. I guess Curtiss didn't know about flying/spring tabs.

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I remember as a little kid I would run down to the end of the runway and hide behind the river bank so the departing C46 would go about 10’ over my head. The sight and sound of those 2800’s at full power in the black of the arctic winter night with fire pouring out of the stacks is burned into my memory. If Mom would have known she would have killed me.

I can't wait to fly it!

A man after my own heart! In 1949 Dad went bankrupt in NJ, and moved us to Sarasota FL, where we lived in an old converted Army barracks, on the SE corner of the airport. I was 9 years old. I used to lie awake at night, wondering at the awful groans coming from the airport, wondering what on earth they were. I found out they were C-46 BRAKES, one day after one went AOG and stayed the day for repairs. Belonged to Aerovias Sudamericana Airlines (ASA), and they had a nightly cargo run that came through Sarasota. I never dreamed I'd be flying them, 20 years later!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Nov 2016, 17:48

I loved flying the 46. John was my mentor...
Taught me so much.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Nov 2016, 17:52

I've not done anything cool like move a tractor. ....but I love my 185. Absolutely a great utility plane.

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Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Nov 2016, 19:21

Username Protected wrote:

I don't know of any that had skis, but I'll ask Merrill Wien, he'd know.

I did, he came back with:

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From: Noel Wien
Subject: Re: Skis on a C-46?
Date: 2016/11/24 at 13:44:28 PT

Hi John,
I have never seen skis on a C-46. Many C-47/DC-3 had them.
Barbara and I are doing fine with many Doctors visits but no complaints.
Sure miss the hands on the throttles.
Hope all is well with you.
Merrill

That's pretty definitive!

Username Protected · **Posted:** 30 Nov 2016, 14:10

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After all the discussions of the past few days regarding various weighty issues, I thought something a little lighter might be in order.

Here is an example of how you move things that won't fit thru the door. :scratch:

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!

Now, that is utility value.

How to move a Kubota Tractor with a C185