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Can't keep a good Dak down

PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2016 7:57 pm
by tor lives
Hi folks,
A couple of us kicked this around on FB this morning.
It's a great little tale of the recovery of a "stacked Dak" from her icy tomb.
Knotty....you will like this if you haven't seen it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn8OTFUBMrE
And remarkably.....her sister.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwQuQfquRI
TOR

Re: Can't keep a good Dak down

PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2016 11:48 pm
by Adam the Akrodude
Hey Paul

It would be worth suffering a little frostbite working on that Dak 'ey! - amazing story.

Re: Can't keep a good Dak down

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2016 9:07 am
by Knotty
What a massive job ,in what must of been terrible conditions at times . I wonder what the time frame for the repair was . ;)

Re: Can't keep a good Dak down

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2016 4:02 pm
by hrtpaul
Adam the Akrodude wrote:Hey Paul

It would be worth suffering a little frostbite working on that Dak 'ey! - amazing story.

And that's why engineers ARE the best 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

Re: Can't keep a good Dak down

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2016 4:09 pm
by tor lives
hrtpaul wrote:
Adam the Akrodude wrote:Hey Paul

It would be worth suffering a little frostbite working on that Dak 'ey! - amazing story.

And that's why engineers ARE the best 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)


I have to say.....they are a pretty impressive bunch in this case. Good thing it was a durable and tough ol bird like a DC-3.... and not a friggen Airbus 8-) 8-)
TOR

Re: Can't keep a good Dak down

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2016 9:55 pm
by tor lives
This is pretty cool also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqryALqiQW0
Although how they didn't manage to rip the bottom out of the poor, ol Goose "taxiing" it on it's belly across the ice is beyond me :shock: .
TOR

Re: Can't keep a good Dak down

PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2016 12:06 am
by oz rb fan
here is a 16 minute doco on Lidia's recovery....she had helped recover Mia in 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn8OTFUBMrE
DAK'S for ever

Re: Can't keep a good Dak down

PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2016 4:33 pm
by hrtpaul
tor lives wrote:This is pretty cool also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqryALqiQW0
Although how they didn't manage to rip the bottom out of the poor, ol Goose "taxiing" it on it's belly across the ice is beyond me :shock: .
TOR

They didn't wreck the hull cos it's a real plane that's made of metal, not plastic 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)