I'd love to fly in it for hours and inhaling it's gorgeous fumes through opened door. The sound of wind and roar of engines so loud, proud and beautiful at once. A symphony. They don't make such planes anymore. Sturdy simple and slick.
We have still two of those planes flying in holland. Few years ago done a little trip in the skies above the Arnhem region. The sound of those engine's is what i never forget. You here it miles away. Can you imagine what a few hundred of them must sound like.
Got to fly this Miracle of Aviation w/Jim Terry in the Rt seat coaching me. Priceless experience. Just starting the engines was a thrill. So good I did it twice. My Dad used to fly DC-3's for the FAA many moons ago.
CUANDO TENÍA CINCO AÑOS, MI PAPÁ ME REGALÓ UNO DE ÉSTOS AVIONES EN MINIATURA....Y CUANDO TENÍA 22 AÑOS VIAJÉ EN UNO DE VERDAD, DE ESTOS MISMOS. QUIZÁS ES POR ESO QUE SIENTO TANTO AMOR POR ESTOS DOUGLAS DC 3.-
Oh Man this Beauty is one of my ALL TIME Favorite Planes!!!!! Love it!!! If only I could see one up close, and sit in it ,and take a flight! its on my bucket list but I doubt I'll ever check those off my list! Thanks for sharing
@tedstriker754 Actually, if you've done maintenance work on round engines you know that the carbs will go dry after a period of time, or when serviced. Procedure is to prime the carbs until the overflow piddles and then prime some more. It's not possible to dump fuel into the cylinders with the prime. Overflow dumps down a tube that exits below the cowling. We will count 6 to 9 blades.The 'locking' you see is the engine attempting to start with tired batteries. We ARE the experts. Come see us!
@64jorthom They were being primed after having been serviced. You prime them until the overflow dumps out the tube at the bottom of the cowling. That's one of the reasons there is a fire guard during startup!
About that generator. What's wrong with it? Is it motoring, rather than producing? Is it just not outputting or inputting anything at all? Is it's accessory segment connected and working?
Just a curiosity.....been wondering for a while now. Fire extinguiser dude usually behind the engine at start up...WHY? i know being in front is very dangerous obviously...but how well does a fire extinguisher work into a 120 m.p.h. wind?
Standard procedure for radials; it pumps oil out of the lower cylinders and into the upper ones so that the engine is properly lubricated before starting. You may have seen footage of people "walking" the props through by hand, which has the same effect, but requires much more muscle power. Indeed, the startup procedures I've seen say to hold the starter switch and count a specific number of prop blades going by before flipping the mags on, to ensure that there's been sufficient oil pumping. (Failure to do so can result in excessive engine wear on the upper cylinders... and, depending on how long it's been sitting and how much oil has pooled, possibly hydro-locking the lower cylinders and bending connecting rods, breaking them, or even blowing cylinder heads off... not good for the engines.)
@@rdfox76 Actually its not totally corect,Exept for what you state its also to prevent bend rods due to hydrolock if there is any oil in one off the lower cilinders, there is always a chance that lube oil or feul is present into one of the lower combustion chambers, giving it 8 props before the mags are switched on prevents blowing up the engine in case of hydrolock (it will kick back on the starter easier then a partly starting engine.).. (in the video you can clearly see that almost going wrong, after the initial start it floodes, running way to rich..,(pilot didnt react right on the mixture leaver, Engine flooded and stalls, The pilot did not switch off the mag and turned it over whitout spark, But leaves it on, hydrolocking it a few times under power! )... Y would have kicked that pilot doing it like this!
+Dave M That was gasoline. The carburetors had just been overhauled and 'piddling' is part of standard procedure. The engine does occasionally spark a small fire but those huge blades put it out quite quick. There's also a guy just off camera with a 200lb firebottle in case something goes wrong.
IK THESE PEOPLE MY GRANDPARENTS ARE FRIENDS WITH ONE OF THE PILOTS HIS NAME IS JIM TERRY OR I THINK THATS HOW YOU SPELL IT I FLOWN IN THAT PLANE BEFORE IT WAS AMAZING I FREAKING MISS.. THE TIMES I FLOWN ON THIS PLANE. HE ALSO OWNED A B-25 MICHELLE 'PACIFIC PROWLER'
One of the original D Day DC 3 Gooney Birds has recently been found and is in the process of returning to the air for the 75th anniversary of that historic day here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n5clU9Z-z4c.html
That's how you prime a newly rebuilt carburetor on the DC-3. The guy outside (off camera) tells the pilot when there is fuel dripping out and he knows the carburetor bowl is full of fuel
