Watching from Cartagena here in Colombia. Another great and informative documentary from this team. This series and the few others that are related make RU-vid so much more impressive to me. Don't change a thing team! But do keep exploring more locations and showing us more amazing content!
@@soakexp6955 Nope. Don't speak for others. People from all around the world saying hi and what time to others all around their world is neat. And I was here 9:55 PM from, NEW YORK CITY 🖕🏼
The DC-3 is such a workhorse, it's been around since 1935 so 86 years already and there is 70 year old DC-3's still flying today, that just shows you how tough these old aircraft are. There is a company that converts DC-3's to turboprop engines they are called Bt-67 and since 1990 they have converted 66 DC-3's and all the DC-3's they convert are given zero airframe hours, so basically it's like a brand new aircraft from a factory because they upgrade the airframe and add longer wingtips.
My late grandfather flew the DC3 Linda Ann at Normandy and as a career after at North East Airlines DC3 Yellowbirds, Boston to Miami, I got the jump seat many times in the 60's
The DC-3 or Dakota as they were called by us British and other allied countries during WWII is on my all time favourites list for military transport/cargo aircraft, along with the Blackburn Beverley, the VC-10, Tristar, Hercules and C-5 Galaxy. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Those pilots are.. just wow. That must take nerves of steel, my goodness. Doing repairs in mid-flight. I'd be shitting diamonds that whole flight from start to finish. If I was holding a solid metal rail, my fingers would be embedded in it by the end of the flight.
aquí estoy prácticamente sembrado en el sofá.ya voy con algo mas de 100 horas en 9 días mirando los documentales de el señor Toni Comiti y paul comiti me producen gran fascinación todo hecho para cautivar y provocar verdaderas ganas de vivir xq las historias que muestran enseñan que por grandes que sean los problemas se pueden resolver.cuantos en momentos de impaciencia por esperas insignificantes hemos estrellado el celular o abandonado algo importante.yo al ver la paciencia y verraquera conque sus invitados llevan avante sus quehaceres día a día sin importarles si les toca aguantar hambre o muchas noches durmiendo en terrenos tan agreste y condiciones tan precarias me hace replantearme y dar gracias al creador por tantas cosas que me ha dado y ya me queda claro que jamás de los jamases me voy a dañar la mente por nada ni por nadie
The British narrator was probably trying to say "flight engineer". This video is adapted from French, and in that language a flight engineer is a mécanicien navigant.
The people who live in the remote villages and towns of the Amazon basin have lived their lives without the internet,tv, mobile phones etc and probably don’t even know what such things are, to me it seems like an idyllic but tough and dangerous way to live, but ass our planet shrinks due to technology and the greed off those wanting to strip the Amazon rain forest for profit that lifestyle is under increasing pressure and threat, and that’s a disaster for the planet and the people who live in relative harmony with the land, and i for one hope that the day of irreversible damage never happens. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative documentary, very enjoyable. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴 P.S I spent 24 years in the RAF as a ground engineer and in all that time I only ever saw one place with facilities as archaic and rudimentary as those shown here, and those were in a Slovakian airforce base, that’s not to say they were poor or of bad workmanship from the mechanics and engineering personnel, in fact the were invaluable in helping us repair a major component that, if not repaired, would have meant an aircraft grounded for days at best, weeks at worst, just because things are old doesn’t mean that they are dangerous or unable to do what is needed, the DC3 is a venerable old lady of the skies, and will still be flying somewhere in the world when aviation fuel runs out, and even then someone would find a way to keep them flying. One thing that I will never understand though is why people in these remote areas do crazy things like stand on the runway, they just don’t seem to realise the danger.
Every time I land in Cucuta Colombia the whole plane is praying that we actually land and nothing happens. 50% of the time my flights have to abort the landing at the last second. Always an adventure for sure.
Cucuta - looks like a nice place to live. Do you speak the local lingo? After my mis-adventures in Detroit, I moved to Mexico City for my high school years and was fluent after 4 years. Now spend time in Costa Rica whenever money permits 🙂 Pura Vida baby!
AMAZING HOW THEY FILMED THE PRODUCTION OF COKE....NEED STRONG NERVES TO FLY OVER THE JUNGLE....VERY SKILLED PEOPLE TO FLY AND MAINTAIN THE OLD PLANES....
Similar places in my country but we cant have a land flat enough for plane as big as DC 3 instead its only ATR turboprop with same challenge, wheather, grounds and rebels. Needs more generous peoples like the missionaries to educate them and also guard those rich island from greedy capitalist. Anyway did the government consider to provide the replacement with Lockheed L 100M, civilian version of C 130J super hercules?
dope doc. you gotta love Colombia and its people-yes, even the “bad ones” that shall go unnamed. these people are just so innovative and industrious. also, to my unworldly friends, it’s NOT COLUMBIA but Colombia. as Joe Biden would say, “come on, man!”
39:00 omg I cant have a closed can of gas in my car without dying of fumes - what is this man doing in the back of this plane? This flight alone will take years off of his life.
The video is, again very disconnected with important and fundamental facts. The drug business in Colombia is not exclusively control by the guerrilla FARC ( when this group was active) most of the cocaine was and still is, controlled by the paramilitaries (far right groups.
