Originally Posted by
l1011
On cool thing about OU, they do have a really cool DC-3. I don't no what they use it for as the entire time I was their I only saw it pulled out of the hanger twice and saw it actually fly once.
They use it for research through various grants. When I was there they had the largest grant awarded by NASA. Once a year they load it up with all sorts of sensors and take it to FL and try to get it struck by lightning.
I worked the gear in their King Air C-90 one day when they were testing a new gyro for spacecraft.