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Happy Birthday, Dakota !

My favorite aircraft of all time, the Douglas DC-3 / C-47 "Dakota" celebrates its 72th birthday today.
Why do I sincerely love this machine since four decades or so ? I don't know. Maybe something to with Design. Look at the DC-3 carefully, and you'll probably understand what Simplicity means.

History and stories of/about the Dakota here, and here.
Photo credit : Gert Jan Kool. See lots of other astonishing photos of stunning airplanes here.

PAL-V : A Dream Made Real ?

   

A new tricycle of some sort ? Quite not. Check this out.

Thanks Andrew for the heads-up.

European Technology At Its Best

Better quality videos of the same demonstration here, by Pedro Monteir Oliveira (quite a Portuguese name ;-). Embedding has been disabled, as well as comments. Don't understand why, as those vids are such a nice promotion for Airbus ;-)