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Title: Breitling Douglas DC-3 World tour
Post by: EHM-2589 David on March 21, 2017, 09:08:48 am

If is possible to fly for our next PP tour or is to long with the DC-3
Thanks.
More information:
https://www.breitling.com/en/airtime/breitling-dc-3/ (https://www.breitling.com/en/airtime/breitling-dc-3/)

Title: Re: Breitling Douglas DC-3 World tour
Post by: EHM-2758 Peter on March 21, 2017, 03:17:22 pm

Hi David, great idea. Visited the website and it looks great. If I'm right they left from Paris some days ago and are to land, as I type this message, in Dubai. Huge operation (in realty I mean). I already mentioned the possibility of a historic PP event in a forum topic some time ago and I guess this Breitling tour would serve this purpose just fine. Oke, it's a very long one, but that won't bother me at all.

I'll have a look at it tomorrow and see if it can be fit in a reasonable flight schedule that we can fly during an evening's duration. And of course with the permission of Euroharmony's managment.

Meet you on Mumble tomorrow evening,

Peter

Title: Re: Breitling Douglas DC-3 World tour
Post by: EHM-2387 Eric-Jan on March 22, 2017, 07:13:31 am

As a Matter of fact, I alread started to collect ICAO codes to set out the event ;) Saw it coming by on facebook and started to follow the Breitling crew on their journey around the globe. Mega project indeed! And as far as a tour or event goes, indeed there needs to be a little re-shuffle to make it all out of legs flyable in a single evening. Some are just too long.
Somethng to discuss this evening on Mumble?

As a bonus for all you DC-3 lovers out there... check this out:
http://skymaster.pme-legend.com/ (http://skymaster.pme-legend.com/)

Title: Re: Breitling Douglas DC-3 World tour
Post by: EHM-2387 Eric-Jan on May 29, 2017, 02:15:23 pm

Activated the Event on the site today  ;D

Here's the flight reports thread: http://www.fly-euroharmony.com/forum/index.php/topic,7797.0.html (http://www.fly-euroharmony.com/forum/index.php/topic,7797.0.html)

Title: Re: Breitling Douglas DC-3 World tour
Post by: EHM-2758 Peter on May 29, 2017, 06:12:09 pm

Wow, that must has been a hell of a job to put this one together.... and even more .... will be a hell of a job to complete this event: sixtyfour legs that will keep us busy for sixtyfour weeks.

Tknx Eric-Jan

Finally this old bird has a chance to prove herself

(https://www.dropbox.com/s/69vq2ykeamho9qh/020.jpg?raw=1)

Title: Re: Breitling Douglas DC-3 World tour
Post by: EHM-2387 Eric-Jan on May 29, 2017, 07:32:43 pm

Yep, we're in for a real treat here  ;)

Some legs are terribly long, though. It's going to be tough to fly 600nm over water with no autopilot...