My job takes me across many rural miles in the north and east parts of Alberta. A few years ago, I was very surprised to find a slowly disintegrating DC-3, aground beside a quiet rural highway about 30 miles NE of Edmonton. I hadn't been this way in quite some while, but this was the first time I had my camera.

This old DC3 isn't in very good shape. Much is missing, but it gave me a neat feelling to be near it. Manufactured sometime between the mid 1930s and the late 1940s, this old girl must have been to many places carrying many things. I took about 40 higher res pictures, 2048X1536 pixels in size. Email me if you want some. Click on the footer at the bottom of the page for my email.

The old bird was right next to this place. Coyote Antiques in Chipman, Alberta.

Control cables, under the cockpit floor.

That's a blue sky. It sucks to be grounded.

From some angles she looks like she's ready to hump some more cargo into the air...

looking in, through the port cargo door. The first time I came out here the fuselage was jammed full of parts. Wing components, parts of the empennage, etc...

Standing in the tail, looking forward, you can see the where the front windows of the cockpit were. That's an aileron on the floor.

Someone has been salvaging bones off this old skeleton since the first time I saw it 3 years ago, There is less and less of it every time I (very infrequently) pass this way...

You can see most of the cockpit, and all of the nose is gone.

On my way to an appointment Friday, I happened accross an old DC3, mostly stripped, parked alongside highway 15, next to a roadside antique shop. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and I like old planes. I had to take some pictures.

More Waste Now!

I wish this were true. Thank's Sondra K, for posting it.

Unfortunately, Canada's Liberal Prime Minister is not leading his cabinet in a round of cost-cutting motiviational cheers, but rather is attempting to get his special "bribe the socialist NDP budget" passed. Money allocated for spending without plans for how, canceled tax-cuts, and all hopefully at the cost of getting the opposition conservatives to abandon their support for the traditional family in exchange for (only) a delay in the liberals new same sex marriage legislation.

Oh how I wish that 'toon reflected reality...