Can't keep a good Dak down

[tor lives]

Hi folks,
A couple of us kicked this around on FB this morning.
It's a great little tale of the recovery of a "stacked Dak" from her icy tomb.
Knotty....you will like this if you haven't seen it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn8OTFUBMrE
And remarkably.....her sister.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwQuQfquRI
TOR

[Adam the Akrodude]

Hey Paul

It would be worth suffering a little frostbite working on that Dak 'ey! - amazing story.

[Knotty]

What a massive job ,in what must of been terrible conditions at times . I wonder what the time frame for the repair was .

[hrtpaul]

Hey Paul

It would be worth suffering a little frostbite working on that Dak 'ey! - amazing story.

And that's why engineers ARE the best

[tor lives]

Hey Paul

It would be worth suffering a little frostbite working on that Dak 'ey! - amazing story.

And that's why engineers ARE the best

I have to say.....they are a pretty impressive bunch in this case. Good thing it was a durable and tough ol bird like a DC-3.... and not a friggen Airbus
TOR

[tor lives]

This is pretty cool also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqryALqiQW0
Although how they didn't manage to rip the bottom out of the poor, ol Goose "taxiing" it on it's belly across the ice is beyond me .
TOR

[oz rb fan]

here is a 16 minute doco on Lidia's recovery....she had helped recover Mia in 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn8OTFUBMrE
DAK'S for ever

[hrtpaul]

This is pretty cool also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqryALqiQW0
Although how they didn't manage to rip the bottom out of the poor, ol Goose "taxiing" it on it's belly across the ice is beyond me .
TOR

They didn't wreck the hull cos it's a real plane that's made of metal, not plastic