Vince: Got a tear in my eye after seeing your picture of my old bird. We used to fly a lot of airborne out of Ft.Bragg & Ft. Campbell. Learned not to stand by ramps when the troopers loaded for their first jump, seems like they had a little trouble with breakfast. Here I thought you were going to ask me what a C-53 was? We got a lot of TDY,from Germany to Deep Freeze at Antarctica. Sure do miss it. big max 1935