Back in W.W.II there was a Dakota / C-47 put on floats as a trial. Din’t really work as they kept dropping the stuff in the water when trying to load it. 😀 Think it was an amphib too.
In the last decade or so, another Dak was so converted, and I think appeared at Oshkosh.
The reason for asking is we are looking for some good publishable pics in a model mag if it. Anyone got any they’d like to share?
By: JDK - 20th October 2005 at 10:33
Thanks Neil.
By: DazDaMan - 19th October 2005 at 15:45
Looks like fun! 😀
By: Guzzineil - 19th October 2005 at 15:31
James… theres some piccies here..
http://www.douglasdc3.com/float/float.htm
Neil
By: jeepman - 19th October 2005 at 13:50
IIRC there was an article about it and a conversion by Alan W Hall in an Airfix Magazine way back when.
It was probably converted from a Short Stirling or a B-Type bus. Thats how they used to do conversions in the olden days before resin, etched brass and sunken panel ines were invented…….
Although the original was a C-47, IIRC the “replica” was a DC3 or C-41(?) with the small door
Anybody tried replicating the CG-47 yet………. :dev2:
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