[jacquesm]

Those are such labors of love. Last year there was a big event here to remember the liberation and a number of these old warbirds flew right over our offices in Baarn. I can't really describe the kind of sound, but even with the windows closed it was like all hell broke loose. 10 of those radials at less than 500 meters high is very impressive.

I've visited the old hangar (Hangar 10, for the locals) on Schiphol Oost a couple of times when the PH-DDA (which had a horrible accident by the way) and another DC-3 were being worked on, the PH-DDA was still flying at the time and the other one was in a state of complete overhaul, painstaking part-by-part reconstruction. I'm not quite sure whatever happened to the second plane but the PH-DDA will return to Schiphol Oost soon so volunteers can continue to work on it. This is good because there is a lot of knowledge about those old planes floating around the old Schiphol airport, this is where Fokker (now bankrupt) had part of their assembly lines.