AFA photo.
Air Force Magazine has identified the previously undisclosed company that uses a single Vietnam-era Caribou airlifter to make daredevil airdrops to the most remote U.S. bases in Afghanistan. It’s Flightworks, Inc.
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Thanks for this. When watching the video, my mind couldn’t decide if it was a DHC-4 or -5 because it had elements of both. Now I know why. It was a DHC-4T. Great pilots.
I posted this on Gizmodo on March 21st …. it took about 5 minutes of searching the web.
“Its not much of a secret the company is called Flightworks Inc. The aircraft which has some history is apparently N124DG … Its now is a DHC-4T Turbo Caribou
[www.dhc4and5.org]
There is also a big demand for used Casa 212′s these days for use in Afghanistan ”
http://gizmodo.com/people/seaalex/
Correction the aircraft was N124DG its now registered as N238PT
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanair/6203737049/
http://www.dhc4and5.org/Turbo.html
Thanks!
Intreresting