World War-2 Vintage Douglas C-47 departs Richards Field, Florida after "resting" on the ground for a few years. A more complete video will be posted later.........
I learned to fly and soloed at Richards field in 1978. I'm now a 757/767 Captain eligible to retire after 30 years working for a company in love with the color brown. Whenever I smell a freshly mown field, I think of Richards field and the joy of learning to fly.
My dad flew these in WWll .. He flew The Hump if you know what that means .. He flew B-24s , B-25s and a few other aircraft .. He passed away in 2015 .. Like so many others from the greatest generation .. Miss you dad ..
I have no idea about what group .. Most people know about the European theatre and the pacific theater of WWII but most have never heard of the third theater of the war .. The China , Burma and India theater of WWII .. There was a book that came out about twenty years ago about the hump pilots .. It was called the aluminum trail if i remember correctly .. They called it the aluminum trail because of all the aircraft that crashed in the Himalayas..
Correct. Alaska and the Aleutian Islands were actually a fourth theater. My grandfather was a pilot and later Commander of the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron in Burma.
Vendo agora, em 01/11/2019 5:45h. Fantástico, me chamou atenção por me lembrar quando menino, por volta de 1957/60 (sou de 53), via quase que diariamente um desse levantando voo sobre a nossa chácara, época da Construção de Brasília! Ficava maravilhado com aquela (essa) máquina voadora rsrs. Acredite, as vezes recebia um aceno de quem estava pilotando. Pensei que estavam mantendo os motores em funcionamento, mas quando vi que saiu voando, fiquei maravilhado. Adoraria ver isso de perto. Parabéns a esses veteranos do ar! Orgulho, muito orgulho.
Bom dia !!!! Eu já ví um DC 3 de perto, mas nunca funcionando. Voando então, só pelo RU-vid mesmo. Imagino a emoção e as ótimas lembranças que o senhor deve ter. Muito bom mesmo. Obrigado por dividir conosco essas histórias. Que DEUS abençoe. Grande abraço......
I worked on this airplane at Point Barrow Alaska at the NARL site back in the 1974 / 76 time era. While it may have been WW2 vintage back in the seventies it was still very much a work horse! The oil coolers are now in the original position's but while we had it they were mounted on the inboard side of the nacelles for wheel ski installation. That got changed when Northern Air Cargo did the last major mod to it before it left Alaska I believe. VERY GLAD TO SEE THIS VIDEO!
Hi, just a question re this dc3. Was this a ‘hipper’ version? It appeared to have the accessories mounted to the top of the gear case, like an R2000 P&W. I know the std P&W fitted was the R1830 and from memory, they all had a pretty clean looking snout. Thankyou in advance.
@@harrothepilot my real information on this aircraft was back in the 1970,s. I believe the engines have been changed since the time I worked on it and it's last flight more than once. So what is the version under the cowlin at the time of the video. I really could not say. While I was involved they were p&w 1830-94.
@@canada3016 No worries, Thankyou for the reply. It just peaked my curiosity when I saw the gear cases. Who knows, maybe they were still the 1830’s with some front mounted accessories. Apon further inspection of the R2000, the output shaft is quite a bit longer and prop is further forward than the R1830’s in the DC3 installation. Cheers from Aus.
@@harrothepilot Don't seem able to attach photos to this email. But do have some snaps of the nose gear box we had to change due to it making metal. Also was going to add some wedgetail photos while I worked for Boeing did make it down to Brisgane, Newcastle and Ipswich. So no worries.
This big beautiful Douglas C -47 Was such a badass airplane , look how she runs down that grassy field, that huge tail dragger gets right up and lifts off so nicely, what a beautiful sight, those huge double radial engines coming to life, that bird had plenty of extra power because of its massive cargo capacity, some of these were even used early in Nam , i used to see them all the time in the sky in the 70s Now they are few and far between Man what a joy to see this beauty lift off so easy and nimble !! Love it Thanks for a great video
That C-47A model is still flying and it is the original model used during WWII and still working just fine. I flew on some of the newer models during the Vietnam War and they was nice. The first time I flew on one the airplane had engine problems, but the second and third times was just fine and I could have flown on them even more as I was hooked.
My father flew 100+ combat missions in the heavier EC-47Q a reconnaissance workhorse out of NKP RTAFB Thailand in the early 1970s. His Squadron was the 360th TEWS they were called the "Antique Airlines"... because they were old then!
What a beautiful old aircraft. Certainly got the patina of age. I have an old Airfix kit of the C47 in my loft and I was wondering what markings to do it in. This just made my mind up. Off to search for pictures of this one.
Bom dia !!!!!! Na minha humilde opinião, melhor Aeronave da história. Ele foi o primeiro e gigantesco passo para a evolução da Aviação. Graças ao DC 3 a Aviação é o que é hoje em dia. Muito obrigado pelo vídeo e parabéns pelo canal. Abraço do Brasil.......
Was an Engineer on a C-47 Forty Years ago back in the UK and watching them dip the fuel and oil brought it all back as if it was only yesterday. Love the low fly through
I love this plane, the DC-3. It's beautiful. I've loved it ever since I was a boy, seeing it fly over my house from Greater Rockford Airport to Chicago's O'Hare Field. Then I got to fly in one from Moline, Illinois, to Greater Rockford Airport, where my parents picked me up.
She may look tired and in need of a good paint but she sounds absolutely gorgeous in that low fly bye amazing to think she’s out lived her design team what a work horse.
john howe I do not think, that Donald Douglass,,had in his wildest dreams that the DC3, C47,,or The HARVARDs would be still flying, lots of people confused the C46, ( Curtis Commando) with the C47
I remembered my GRANDFATHER when he was in a company of the 501 air transport transported the jump in Normandy some time later I told my father about these planes ... God bless everyone and my GRANDFATHER
Awesome! Is it just me, or did they take off with the crew door still open...? I thought it was still just visible, flapping during the take off roll towards the camera..... And what is it they say about there not being any 'Old and Bold' pilots? I think there just might be!
Harry Jones DH Taxis Ltd yeah, your probably right! Since viewing this and writing that comment, I have been fortunate enough to fly in the incredible WWll veteran, 'Drag 'em oot'!! Through a contact with a friend of a friend......I just happened to be in the right place at the right time and was told, "Get on, were going!". It was a truly incredible experience which I can never forget.
When I was a kid in the '50s, I would spend the summers at my aunt and grandmother. Flew from Louisville Standiford in a TWA Connie to Pittsburgh, then an Agony Airlines DC-3 to McKeen Regional near Bradford. DC-3s were the puddlejumpers everywhere....
236 hardcore commies disliked this video! - How can somebody dislike a DC3 / C47 video? Gee. Thanks for posting! Regards from Alaska (where these planes still fly for a living and serve 82% of our communities!)
Incrível ! tive a oportunidade de ver um c 47 destes na base aérea dos Afonsos no RJ a sensação de saber q estes dinossauros , foram os aviões de combate na segunda guerra mundial, ficava olhando e admirando-as, e agora vendo os mesmos c47 levantando vôo, meu Deus ñ tem o que falar, apenas observar e tentar entender como isto foi possível ?. Ele é muito lindo, o pouso vem planeando como se fosse uma ave.
I understood from something I read years ago that spares were no longer being made for the P&W radials fitted to most of the few DC3 variants still flying, and that Russian engines were having to be sourced and installed to replace the P&Ws: was that true or not-anyone know?
Wasn t Andy divine a hoot in that movie. He usually played a silly character. But he played his part well. I always got a kick out of him pulling that little clamp thing out of his pocket so his hands would stay warm Flying was serious stuff back in the 50s No one even thinks about flying over the oceans now. The high and the mighty was a cool flick too
Excellent video, both the subject and the quality, glad to see her up and flying again. @coyoteold1, it's a combination of both. The engineering & nature could go either way, but we see grace in the lines and proportions and use those lines that fit both our needs and nature's and we tend to make choices of design that are pleasing to the eye, with a few exceptions. It's these exceptions that prove that it doesn't have to be pretty or skinny to fly lol.
Just another stupid comment: I'm the 3400 like of this video. Anyway, it's very rare see these amazing old aircraft in flight....this video it's pure gold for aviation enthusiasts.
❤️ C47/DC3! Nice lo-pass flyby! My Dad was nearby the hump flying B-25s - bridge and RR missions over China Burma India. Clips of a film he made @ “Bobofgloucester b-25 fenny india”
I didn't know RF was still down there - thought it'd be houses by now : ) - glad that left engine worked out its issues, reminded me of The Flight of the Phoenix...
She looks like she's ready to leap into the air! I often wonder if the aesthetic of some of these aircraft is simply a natural product of the engineering, or whether it is deliberate for beauty's sake.
I think perhaps when design was mostly about people drawing from their own eye, with far less science behind every single curve, that the natural tendency to make things elegant was part of how they tried to make them aerodynamic. Without a computer you'd never design anything to look like an F-117 for instance.
