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Fascinating frankenplane: https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/frankenplane-180976754/ https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/frankenplane-1...
by gvb 5y ago
Fascinating frankenplane: https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/frankenplane-180976754/ https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/frankenplane-1...
"With no DC-3 wings to be found, maintenance crews repaired the damaged aircraft with a DC-2 wing, five feet shorter than the original."
- jacquesm 5y agoAnd from my reading of that article it was only the right hand side wing that they replaced, not both sides so it was asymmetrical for the duration of that flight. What an amazing story, and what a great case for modular design.