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Mark Hickey
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"A Muzi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>"Mark Hickey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> One of my favorite aluminum aircraft stories involves the venerable
>> DC3. After they had been in service a while, the maintenance engineers were baffled by little
>> dents in the aisle's flooring. It looked like someone had spent hours with a little bitty
>> ball peen hammer, banging little dimples all over the place.
>>
>> Finally someone did some calculations on the pressure exerted by a woman's spike heels when
>> walking down the aisle (and in a DC3, you DO walk "down" half the time since it's a tail
>> dragger). Problem identified (if not exactly "solved").
>
>Mark, the last time I was in a DC-3 the floor was plywood. Is that the normal floor???
It's been a long time since I was in a '3 (LONG after they were introduced), but I'm betting the
plywood was added to prevent the dimples.
I once took a buddy to the Key West airport, after he had a few drinks. He walked up the steps,
stepped into the plane, and fell toward the tail (he hadn't ever been in a tail dragger before), and
was caught by a stewardess (apparently this happens a lot in Key West).
Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $695 ti frame
>"Mark Hickey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> One of my favorite aluminum aircraft stories involves the venerable
>> DC3. After they had been in service a while, the maintenance engineers were baffled by little
>> dents in the aisle's flooring. It looked like someone had spent hours with a little bitty
>> ball peen hammer, banging little dimples all over the place.
>>
>> Finally someone did some calculations on the pressure exerted by a woman's spike heels when
>> walking down the aisle (and in a DC3, you DO walk "down" half the time since it's a tail
>> dragger). Problem identified (if not exactly "solved").
>
>Mark, the last time I was in a DC-3 the floor was plywood. Is that the normal floor???
It's been a long time since I was in a '3 (LONG after they were introduced), but I'm betting the
plywood was added to prevent the dimples.
I once took a buddy to the Key West airport, after he had a few drinks. He walked up the steps,
stepped into the plane, and fell toward the tail (he hadn't ever been in a tail dragger before), and
was caught by a stewardess (apparently this happens a lot in Key West).
Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $695 ti frame