Sunday, August 25, 2019

Mountain Flying Museum

It's at the Missoula airport.  Underwhelming but still worth the visit.  This replica of the Red Baron's plane was based on a scale model; the builder was unable to locate the original plans.



I recall seeing pictures of this in some magazine, don't recall who made it or what it's called.


The venerable DC-3, military version C-47.  This one was refurbished and flown across the pond to celebrate the anniversary of D Day.

 I rode in these several times, first in the forest service en route to a fire in the Seven Devils Wilderness.  Indeed, it was a Johnson Flying Service plane and may have been this one.  Johnson was an aviation pioneer and pilot trainer, trained several thousand air force pilots.

C-47s were one of the workhorses in Vietnam, flew in them several times.


This is the front end of the plane above.

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