DC-6 in the weeds facts

[Chris Brame]

That was a DC-4. Google "Polk County Pot Plane" and you'll get the crazy details.

[hang the expense]

DC-6 Folks;

Talkig about shor landing DC-6s. Anyone remembers in AC magazine a drug running DC-6 that landed in S. Alabama in less that 1000 ft dirt strip?? c. 1980s.

I believe that polk county is in Georgia.I was a teenager when that happened and we all went to see the plane.We didn't care what it was hauling as we thought the plane was cool as hell.They flew it out of there IIRC.

[WallyB]

They flew it out of there IIRC.

Now at Castle AFB
http://www.castleairmuseum.org/douglas_r5d4.html

[Rod Schneider]

DC-6 Folks;

Talkig about shor landing DC-6s. Anyone remembers in AC magazine a drug running DC-6 that landed in S. Alabama in less that 1000 ft dirt strip?? c. 1980s.

I believe that polk county is in Georgia.I was a teenager when that happened and we all went to see the plane.We didn't care what it was hauling as we thought the plane was cool as heck.They flew it out of there IIRC.

I remember that one, too! I was in High School at the time. A couple of friends of mine and I drove out to look at it one afternoon. VERY primitive strip on the side of a hill. Hard to believe they pulled off a landing there at night!

[zorro7]

DC-6 Folks:

Tks! that was it! A DC-4 N67038 somewhere in S. Georgia c. 1975!!

[Kyleb]

DC-6 Folks;

Talkig about shor landing DC-6s. Anyone remembers in AC magazine a drug running DC-6 that landed in S. Alabama in less that 1000 ft dirt strip?? c. 1980s.

I believe that polk county is in Georgia.I was a teenager when that happened and we all went to see the plane.We didn't care what it was hauling as we thought the plane was cool as heck.They flew it out of there IIRC.

Polk County is in NW Georgia. I have friends who (claim to have) heard the plane go over their houses on the way to landing. I'm a little younger than Hang The Expense (he's really old), but remember the incident from my pre-teen years. We went to an airshow (At Bear Creek Airport - now Gwinett County, IIRC) where the DC-4 sat for a while after being flown out of the barely prepared strip...

[Firebird]

Not the one in question, but this is an impressive landing of a Six into a dirt strip field in South Africa a couple of years back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hmx1yqB3XQ

[Chris Brame]

And here's the whole movie In Hot Pursuit, starring N67038:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zicffBtRYcI
VERY hairy landing at 1:15:30!

[Cherrybomber13]

Wow that movie brings back some memories... They don't make them like that anymore. No CGI. No Green Screen.

[Chris Brame]

No CGI. No Green Screen.

According to the credits, no stunt men either.
And I'm tempted to say no actors, for that matter...

[bdk]

Not the one in question, but this is an impressive landing of a Six into a dirt strip field in South Africa a couple of years back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hmx1yqB3XQ

Odd that they rolled out with #4 feathered?

[bdk]

And here's the whole movie In Hot Pursuit, starring N67038:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zicffBtRYcI
VERY hairy landing at 1:15:30!

Are you sure? Seems unlikely that they used the actual smuggling aircraft in that movie. By then it may have already received a new registration.

Anyone know for sure?

It also says in the credits that no stunt men were used in the film. Sounds like the actors playing the pilot and copilot may have been the real deal!

[Chris Brame]

More info here; sounds like N67038 is the real deal:
http://www.apocalypselaterfilm.com/2013 ... -1977.html

[Ztex]

I wonder how many of these old props were landed in the sticks during their smuggling days?

One landed near Corsicana, TX back in 1982...they left the drugs behind...never have heard what happened to the pilots...I think the plane was scrapped.

[bdk]

More info here; sounds like N67038 is the real deal:
http://www.apocalypselaterfilm.com/2013 ... -1977.html

Wow! Thanks for clearing that up. Truth really is stranger than fiction.