Podcast: D-Day Squadron At AirVenture

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Key Takeaways:

  • The Daks Over Normandy project is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by flying C-47s to France.
  • The project presents significant logistical challenges, comparable to those faced in 1944.
  • Extensive planning for the event was discussed by Eric Zipkin at AirVenture in an AVweb podcast.
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If flying 1000-plus C-47s to France was a logistical challenge in 1944, it’s no less so in 2019. The Daks Over Normandy project, which will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, showed up at AirVenture this week to talk about its extensive planning. In this AVweb podcast, we talked to Eric Zipkin about how the event is shaping up.

Duration: 4:30

File Size: 4.5 MB download here

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