Kates plane

[Joe91]

On 2 of the official lost websites, www.abc.com/primetime/lost under a suvival game and www.oceanicflight815.com under images you see the front section of a white plane with a black stripe, i compared what i could visibly see to kates model plane and i think there the same plane, is there a connection ive missed

[Hodgepodge]

Cantgetoceanicoutofmyhead, let me welcome you to Lost-TV. I'm sure you're going to enjoy the community. Make sure to read the Welcome forum, it's easy to get lost. Now to your post.

I don't venture outside of Lost-TV, so I have no idea what the other sites offer. But, have you asked the same question at those sites?

And again, :welcome:

[Joe91]

thanks 4 the welcome, i havnt asked the other forums for 2 reasons, there 2 hard to navigate, and this forum is much beter. if it helps, i think it might be a DC-3

[Joe91]

note; i think the plane i saw might be another front section of the plane, watching the box set i saw them filming in this front cut??? who knows

[Badger]

I just looked at the Oceanic Air site and the aircraft you're referring to is a Lockheed L-1011 forward fuselage section (the one with the aluminum ladder against it). It is definitely not the same aircraft as the model Kate had, which was of a Douglas DC-3 as cantgetoceanicoutofmyhead (http://www.losttv-forum.com/forum/member.php?u=6965) mentioned.

[Drake]

the . . . aircraft . . . model Kate had, . . . was . . . a Douglas DC-3

Douglas DC-3, I think, is better known as the Dakota.

They are often called 'DAKs' in many parts of the world. First ones were placed in service on 17th December 1937, and a remarkable number are still in use throughout the world.

Nothing quite matches the sound of its radial engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney, which deliver 1,200 horsepower each. Wicked ! Dit ruk !

When Douglas unveiled the first Dakotas, the planes were hailed in the press as 'The Definition of Dignity.'

Now, so many decades later, an airborne Dakota is more like 'The Defiinition of Defiance.'

And if an engine should backfire as loudly as rocket-assisted artillery, then not to worry.

That's just the sound of the airplane talking to us.

'What's it saying?,' a bosbefok passenger might ask.

The bokkie pilot would reply confidently: 'It's saying "VASBYT ! NEVER QUIT !"'

Dakotas are a useful symbol inasmuch as, even on the ground, the same kief principle of DEFIANCE still applies.

DEFIANCE. I like the sound of the word. To me, it means doing what 'they' say can't be done, . . . or what 'they' will most certainly give us hell for doing.

It means never letting your thoughts or decisions or actions be ruled by anyone else's influence or approval or permission or tude.

DEFIANCE is a duidelik quality I admire. Deep in the souls of all real rebels, . . . or in the magic machines whose memories carry us back in time.

[LQ Jones]

I posted the following info on another thread (Episode Discussion - S1):

There are, however, some useful clues which follow a common thread:

(1) The toy plane is a replica of the DC-3, built by Douglas Aircraft.
As I have pointed out before, the DC-3 was the work-horse of the USArmyAirforce (USAAF) during WW II.
It is best remembered for it's flights over the mountains of Tibet, bringing badly needed supplies to the troops of Nationalist China during the Japanese occupation. This operation was better known as "flying over the hump."
Variants of the DC-3 were still in service during Korea and Vietnam as well.

(2) The pilot wings found by Kate are USAAF issue, circa WW II.

(3) Kate's father is in the military.



http://www.centercomp.com/dc3/gallery/collections/target/tgt_09s.gif


For an enlargement of the image, go to:

http://www.centercomp.com/dc3/