Warbird Information Exchange

Do museums in over seas countries try to connect flying warbird like DC-3, C-47 pasenger types with say old steam train rides so that people can in 1 day experience say a train ride to a near a airport then fly in a old plane abnd then back home on a steam train.

Do these dual heritage runs concept work at all?

Do they attract more people to Warbird and trains?

I am looking at creating some in Australia if there can be a market for such dual runs.

I seem to recall that someone was doing that in South Africa with oldish luxury prop liners and steam trains, but I am not finding it in my search. I'll keep thinking on it.

While there may be many people with interests in both trains and planes, the logistics and costs do not appear to work well together.

A steam Train excursion to somewhere can cater for 100+ enthusiasts/family & friends making per head costs quite attractive, the 28 passenger limit and relatively high cost and time for a flight other than a single circuit would make it difficult to translate the entire passenger load of the train into the DC3? but worth exploring.

I am seperately exploring a museum DC3 excursion flight with overnight stay later this year in Victoria, and a previous flight from Melbourne to Nowra and back cost @$150 per head, as an indication of the economics involved.

regards

Mark Pilkington

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