Video History Lesson: DC-3 On Amphibious Floats!

 The Douglas DC-3 is truly one of the most amazing aviation accomplishments of all time, and these videos show another pretty cool accomplishment... EDO putting the airplane on amphibious floats!  The first video is a bit long, but includes a lot of WWII era footage of DC-3's operating off the water - amazing stuff to see for sure.

 The second video is from the late 80's showing a privately owned DC-3 on the floats taxiing in on the water, and then right up onto the land via the wheels.  Again, very cool stuff to see.

 I never get tired of seeing DC-3's in action, which means Oshkosh 2010 is gonna be absolutely incredible (duh!) as there's a celebration planned for the 75th anniversary of the airplane.  There's already a 'mass arrival' of 35 DC-3's in the works, and more than that may be on site during the week.  This DC-3's at Oshkosh link has more info, aw well as TheLastTime.org  - I can hardly wait!

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[Kolton]

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