April 21, 201214 yr I came across this on a recent trip to Madeira but I am struggling to come up with an id. Any ideas? 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2 - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base
April 21, 201214 yr Nord Noratlas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Noratlas Al Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
April 21, 201214 yr Nord Noratlas http://en.wikipedia....i/Nord_Noratlas Al WOW- that was quick! :Applause: Thanks!Nick CrateChief Executive OfficerFedEx Virtual Air Cargo
April 21, 201214 yr Author Nord Noratlas http://en.wikipedia....i/Nord_Noratlas Al Excellent - thank you! (Nord N-2501D Noratlas - just found more pictures of it elsewhere) 9950X3D - X870E Aorus Master- TUF 5090 OC - 64GB DDR5 - 1500W HXi - Titan 360 RX LCD - 9100 Pro x 2 - LG 45GX950A - HOTAS Warthog with Ava Base
April 21, 201214 yr Chock,you,re just too good...Impressive... C172P N97674 PPL SEL Complex High Performance
April 21, 201214 yr Nah, I just like old bangers, and the Noratlas was actually used in quite a lot of famous operations, so it is perhaps not as obscure as people might think: For example, it dropped French paratroops at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, it did some sterling work during the Suez Crisis, and was even used by Israel as a makeshift bomber in the Six Day War. Germany supplied Greece with a large number of Noratlasses as war reparations too, and these were used in combat against Turkey. It was also one of the aircraft considered for use in the 1965 movie classic The Flight of The Phoenix, since it had the necessary twin-boom configuration which is a major part of the film's plot, however, it lost out to the Fairchild C-82 Packet which ended up being used, a similarly-configured twin-boom Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar being used in the appalling and completely unnecessary 2004 remake of the movie. Al Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
April 26, 201214 yr I was going to guess a Cessna Cargomaster...would have been wrong! :LMAO: Chris Miller
April 29, 201214 yr Chock[/color]' timestamp='1335045986' post='2346920']it dropped French paratroops at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu Hi Alan Not sure the Noratlas served during the battle. According to the French Wiki article and other sites in French, the plane was barely entering service at the end of the Indochina war and may have served in a few logistic/humanitary missions at the very end of the war but not during the battle itself where C47s and Fairchild Packets were used. Rgds, Bruno
April 29, 201214 yr Yeah, I know they used the Fairchild more, but I've got pictures of the Noratlas in service in that theatre, they are in the book Vietnam Air Wars and I was going off that. I'd trust that over wikipedia; that book even has a picture of a Royal Navy Phantom in the Vietnam theatre, probably flying off a US carrier doing tests, never heard much about that from any other source. Al Alan Bradbury Check out my youtube flight sim videos: Here
April 29, 201214 yr Yeah, I know they used the Fairchild more, but I've got pictures of the Noratlas in service in that theatre, To my knowledge, the Fairchilds were not flown by the French Air Force but by what later became Air America (ie the CIA) And according to this site (written by a former airman but in French - let me know if you are interested in and/or need a translation) the FAF got the Noratlas after the battle. http://anjoucastors.chez-alice.fr/anciens/indochine.htm they are in the book Vietnam Air Wars and I was going off that. I'd trust that over wikipedia; that book even has a picture of a Royal Navy Phantom in the Vietnam theatre, probably flying off a US carrier doing tests, never heard much about that from any other source. And rightfully so. I have a hard time believing the RN would have flown a RN Phantom off a US carrier in SEA ! Bruno
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