Celebrating 85 years of the DC 3

Check out my other clips from this flight: Dakota engine start: and the soothing hum of the engines from a camera looking out the window. The 17th of December 2020, marked the 85th anniversary of the first flight of the DC3 and to celebrate at HARS Aviation Museum, we flew this military version of the DC3 over Sydney Harbour. It was thirty two years to the day after the Wright brothers first took to the air when the prototype DC3, known as the Douglas Sleeper Transport, took to the skies over Santa Monica. The DC3 became instrumental in establishing the airline industry in the 1930s and made air travel popular.