Frontier Airlines summer 1950-part 13

[beaky]

The company has a small terminal building at Rawlins; another DC3 is waiting there to take passengers on to Salt Lake City at 1155. They make radio contact and find there's a gusty crosswind blowing across the runway...






The captain soon realizes he's a bit high... he calls for more flaps as he pulls the throttles back a little more. They're already 15 minutes behind schedule...got to drop her in quickly.




The high approach leads to a small bounce on touchdown; almost a little too much wind correction as the ship briefly becomes airborne again, dropping a wing into the wind.








Quick taxi to the gate, then it's off to Laramie.



Next: Rawlins to Laramie

[cheesegrater]

That must have been one hell of a descent.

[cspyro21]

Lovely Rotty, I'm enjoying every part of this little story.
Looking forward to the next part!

[beaky]

Lovely Rotty, I'm enjoying every part of this little story.
Looking forward to the next part!

Rest assured there is more in the pipe: finished the run to Denver, and now I've got the crew taking the trip to Salt Lake the following morning...  cloudy conditions and very high terrain...

[zeberdee]

The landing must have been quite hard Look at the dent in the fuselage top in shots 3 and 4

[beaky]

The landing must have been quite hard Look at the dent in the fuselage top in shots 3 and 4

LOL... nope, a DC3 will only bend if you make a hard 3-pointer...
That "dent" is just a weird quirk of the otherwise excellent textures... only looks like that from that one angle.

[zeberdee]

LOL... nope, a DC3 will only bend if you make a hard 3-pointer...
That "dent" is just a weird quirk of the otherwise excellent textures... only looks like that from that one angle.

Yeh yeh yeh  you'll say anything Next you'll say it will polish out!!  ;D
Nice story. Regards Chris

[beaky]

Whatever... it still flies straight.