Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Arctic USAF aircraft from the 50's

Pictures are from Douglas K. Rhodes when he was a Capt for the USAF.  All aircraft shown are from Thule Greenland. 


The first  aircraft was called the "Thule Princess".  It fly the boss to Sonderstrom, Goose Bay ad places south. Also flew into a couple of Canadian weather stations Eureka, Alert and a Danish site called Nord on he NE corner of Greenland.








Below classified as an SC-47. Used for search and rescue. Plus to fly people and resupplies to the village of Quaanak, north of Thule.

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