DC-6 Landing

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Important Note: This is not a crash landing, or an emergency landing. This is a fully planned landing!
Incredible footage of a DC-6 landing with an amazing dust cloud!


DC-6 Empress of Suva
c/n 45329
ZS-MUL

Restoration of the started in November of 2008 for the Ferry flight from Swartkop Airforce Base, Pretoria, South Africa to her new owners at the Wonderboom Military Museum located in Waterval, Wallmansthal just north of Pretoria, South Africa. Google Maps (https://maps.app.goo.gl/63CuH8CCwq3w3...)

The ferry flight to off at 07:13 on 4 Dec 2010 and she landed at 07:50 on the makeshift landings strip. The result of the landing were and incredible dust cloud blown up by the reverse thrust!

The pilots were Johan van den Berg and Laurie Raath both at the time from South African Airways and Flight Engineer Mike Mayers.

See this video of her fly-by prior to the final approach
   • DC-6 Ferry Flight  

More information pictures of the event can be found at
http://dc-6.co.za/45329%20ferry%20fli...

The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, it was reworked after the war to compete with the Lockheed Constellation in the long-range commercial transport market. More than 700 were built and many still fly today in cargo, military, and wildfire control roles.