Image by Jonathan Sieuw
When the going was good!
Just as New Zealanders are being urged to do something new this summer, the Air Chathams DC-3 is here to help. Step aboard this grand old dame of the skies for a trip back in time to the fabulous fifties and swinging sixties when everyone wore hats, it was pounds, shillings and pence, and Kiwis were learning to fly.
In the late 1940s, as New Zealand and pretty much everywhere emerged from years of austerity and loss, it was too soon for most to realise that the Second World War had also brought something of a sea change in transportation. Air travel, once the preserve of prime minsters (rock stars hadn’t been invented yet) had become commonplace to our men and women in uniform – and it was about to become available to the rest of us.
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