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| Starting today's first flight from Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris | Starting up the engines... | ...and taxiing to runway 24 |
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| Lining up for takeoff | Rolling... but the crosswind is pushing me off the runway, even though I'm applying full right rudder! | Getting the DC-3 airborne before I end up in a ditch |
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| Takeoff successful (barely) | A close-up of the DC-3, with the Eiffel Tower in the background | |
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| Turning on course to Chambéry | Passing Villacoublay Airport | |
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| Encountering hail and very heavy turbulence all of a sudden | Will have to cross Orly Airport at only 1000 ft: any higher and visibility will be zero because of the low clouds! | |
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| The crosswind is pushing the plane sideways above Orly | ||
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| A very unsteady departure from Paris - autopilot engaged to hold 1000 ft | The smaller Melun Villaroche Airport | |
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| Approaching the edge of the Paris photo scenery and still slipping sideways (this shot is taken directly along the plane's velocity vector, the tail is that far left because of the crosswind!) | Making a course correction for Bray sur Seine VOR | |
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| Normal rain instead of hail here (and much less turbulence) | A random window view of the winter landscape | |
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| Passing near Bray sur Seine and continuing north | ||