stoldriver
Registered User
Arizona
I mentioned in another thread that I had done some DC-3 flying. Spent one season in Alaska flying fish mostly out of Bristol Bay and Cape Yakataga. Based in several places, Kodiak, Kenai, Yakutat for some of it. I also mentioned blowing a cylinder and I'm trying to learn how to post photos so here, hopefully, is a photo of the engine after we landed in King Salmon. The cylinder was completely off but hanging out in the bottom of the cowl. An intake tube was gone and is still somewhere northeast of King Salmon, I suppose. I mentioned already that we were mostly empty but could not maintain altitude which was not the norm for single engine work in a DC-3. I'm pretty sure it was mostly because of the disrupted aerodynamics. Second photo, if it works, is at Cape Yakataga, north of Yakutat. I was in the Salair bird. That airplane, N3433Y, eventually crashed off the end of Spokane, burned up killing the crew. Third photo is also at Cape Yakataga showing a bent 180. I talked to the owner and he told me he knew the pilot was marginal but he needed a pilot and I guess, didn't feel like he had any choice. If it was his only choice, I guess it wasn't a very good one. This was the summer of 89, I think.
Wayne
Wayne