plane to carry bikes?

("Morgans" wrote)
I wonder if someone was to invest in the tooling to put the DC-3 back into
production, how much demand there would be, and how much they would have
to charge per copy to break even?

Perhaps use a turboprop, but offer a radial, also.


That would be fun - CubCrafter DC-3.

Twin Diesels. 50 gallon per hour (total) fuel burn ...um, not sure who makes
such an engine g. 200 mph cruise. Clean up the plane a little - lighten it
up a little. Glass cockpit.

http://www.baslerturbo.com/
DC-3 Turbo conversions

http://www.baslerturbo.com/performance.html
Performance numbers

I'll be seeing someone tonight who was a stewardess for NWA on DC-3's. She
said there were some routes where they were up and down 10-12-15 times into
small airports per flight. The procedure for flight attendants was to go
"up" to the front of the plane before each take-off and do their safety
talk. She said many times they did it from the rear door because they didn't
want to hump it "up" to the cockpit area for the umpteenth time, plus the
poor guy flying from Madison to Omaha had already heard it umpteen times.

http://www.goldenwingsmuseum.com/Air...Bushmaster.htm
Story under the pics. Bushmaster - no market. Two built.

http://www.caranddriver.com/article....ticle_id=10442
Dodge Challenge 'Spy' photo - maybe this idea will take off.

https://www.neodata.com/hfmus/cdri/
Picture of Dodge Challenge on the cover.


Montblack