#skytrainer

[tokyozilla]

posting her full form separately for full appreciation, she's the vancouver skytrain

[thestonecuttersguild]

Oshkosh 2024

[nocternalrandomness]

1944 Douglas R4D-6 Skytrain on display at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Pennsylvania

[usaac-official]

Wild Kat, the WWII Airborne Demonstration Team's C-49 Skytrain. This was their first time jumping from their own aircraft at Reading's WWII Weekend, in the past they've usually jumped from the C-47 Placid Lassie or C-46 Tinker Belle.

Taken on my K1000 with Ektachrome 100D film at sunset. This was my first time trying to shoot slides during anything other than bright sunlight and tbh I don't think it turned out great.

[huariqueje]

Skytrain Departing - Peter D. Harris , 2022.

Canadian, 1974 -

Oil on canvas, 24 x 26 in.

[stone-cold-groove]

They packed the attack... Douglas Aircraft Company ad - 1944.

[usafphantom2]

17 September 1944. The Netherlands, operation Market Garden began. Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in WWII. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time.

@ron_eisele via X

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The union representing rapid transit and rail workers in Metro Vancouver has notified its members that all transit may be shut down on Monday. That includes the SkyTrain, buses and SeaBus systems. Global News has obtained a copy of an internal memo from CUPE 7000, which states: “Our friends at CUPE 4500, transit supervisors at Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC), are getting ready to walk out Monday morning. They are meeting with a mediator (Sunday), but if they don’t get a fair deal, they will be withdrawing all services at 3:00 a.m. Monday morning for 48 hours. This will mean a complete shutdown of all bus and SeaBus services in the Lower Mainland for two days.” CUPE 7000 said CUPE 4500 has filed a complaint with the Labour Relations Board against TransLink, BC Rapid Transit Company, West Coast Express and Protrans for taking steps to reduce the impact on customers during the strike escalation.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[webdiggerxxx]

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[blackthorn-faerie]

Evening commute 😌💖

I saw two people on the skytrain like this and immediately had to draw these old men™️

[ghostwarriorrrr]

1944 Douglas R4D-6 Skytrain on display at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Pennsylvania

[thestonecuttersguild]

Placid Lassie run up. Oshkosh 2024

[nocternalrandomness]

Skytrains stacked at chino

[usaac-official]

The WWII Airborne Demonstration Team's Wild Kat drops a half stick of paratroopers at the WWII Weekend in Reading, PA, June 2024. The winds were too high on Saturday to properly jump but the ADT gave us a good show on Sunday to make up for it.

Shot on Ektachrome 100 with my K1000.

[brawnsleloenigmadoublesonic]

Skywarp fucks everyone? Including Astrotrain then??

-✨💜💫

Oh absolutely! Skywarp out here making sure everyone gets laid. It's great for morale.

[aviationgeek71]

Ballad of a Gooney Bird

Gazing skyward, her tail-wheel configuration appears as if she's ready to fly—embracing the celestial world above, loving the heavens like her airmen within.

Pulling chocks from her wheels, line personnel scramble beneath her soft beautiful lines. Aerodynamic curves, waiting to serve her desires, a calling to the sky.

The calm before flight, interrupted by the captain's call, "Clear, right!" A signal to anyone nearby to remain clear of the right propeller.

Pressing the primer, starter, and vibrator switches to the right, the first officer watches as her three-blade propeller begins to rotate on the starboard engine. On the twelfth rotation, puffs of smoke pour from the exhaust as the C-47 rumbles to life—vibrating the entire airframe.

Quickly releasing the starter switch, the first officer keeps pressure on the remaining switches, monitoring the response from the engine. As the rumble transitions to a roar, he releases the vibrator switch while gently advancing the mixture lever, he continues to work the primer until her engine settles into a consistent hum. 

Waiting for the signal from the captain, the first officer prepares to repeat the procedure on her left engine—accomplishing the same series of steps that would be repeated countless times through the decades prior to each flight.

Whether preparing for her daring airborne drops over Normandy; flying the Hump between India and China; to rescuing U.S. forces from the frozen world of North Korea; or supplying the Berlin airlift; the rumble of each engine start still echos through aviation history today.

While her civilian sister, the Douglas DC-3, would serve U.S. airlines, the C-47 Skytrain—sometimes referred to as Gooney Bird—operated as a military transport aircraft from WW2 to Vietnam. While so many other aircraft steal the spotlight, the U.S. C-47 played a major role in conflict, a role unmatched during her era of flight.

Even today, her DC-3 sister still rumbles off runways, serving poorer nations around the globe. A testament to superior aircraft design, a soft simple beauty only recognized by her airmen.

My photos: Douglas C-47 Skytrain Mott's Military Museum, Groveport, October 16, 2021.

By @aviationgeek71