I’ve had the plane 22 years. I offer both PIC and SIC type ratings. Anyone with a single engine pilots license or sport pilot cert can fly it left seat. $1800/hr. Anyone can get one takeoff and a short flight and one landing left seat for $500 In this case it was a low time private pilot left seat for the takeoff and landing. Winds were very high, gusting and 60 degree crosswind. I allow the student to do 99% of it do yes it’s wobbly and yes he bounced it on but it doesn’t hurt anything and it’s all part of the experience. He totally enjoyed it.
Agree. When I come across an aircraft vid or any motor driven vehicle vid with music. I immediately stop and move on. I’ll listen to Pandora if I want music. When it comes to motors planes or otherwise, they are what I want to hear. This is a great vid of a grand old lady!!
These aircrafts were design and built using drawings, airplanes plans ,pure science, maths, laws of physics and gravity , etc; not like today that they use computers for all those calculations! Those DC-3 are a real man made Masterpiece. Love the looong and wide wings and the precision location of the two huge and heavy engines for balance and weight and perfect performance💪👍🏻 Great video showing a great and beautiful plane!!
Meant to fly over the rocky mountains on one engine it can on a takeoff roll jump over a shell crater and continue takeoff roll and climb out like a homesick àngel
To me, nothing can ever compare the the beauty and classic lines of the DC-3. My very first flight was onboard a DC-3 back in the early 60's owned by Southern Airlines. And nothing sounds like those P&W engines. Truly a one of a kind aircraft.
I had always dreamed of flying somewhere on a DC-3 but by the time I made it onto a commercial flight Northwest Airlines was flying the Lockhead L188 electra. What a beautiful sight to see the DC-3 in action. As a youngster, I loved listening to those engines come to life, that power surge as it gained momentum down the runway on its way into that space between the clouds and Mother earth. Absolutely magnificent! Thank you for sharing.
You can still get a ride in one Kenny. My wife and I flew in one 4 years ago out of Mecham Field in Fort Worth, Texas. She treated us the ride for my birthday. To say it was a dream come true would be an understatement. You can walk around inside while in flight and take pictures over the pilots shoulders. I have about 60 shots we took of the experience. IIRRC they only offer daytime rides in the summer months, and during the Christmas holidays, there is a night flight around the city. I grew up in the Air Force as my Dad was in SAC. Lots of memories of military planes disrupting our sleep at night with B 52's doing readiness scrambles!
I was about 12, my brother 10. Flew a Southern Airways DC3 to Nashville on the way to visit Memphis relatives. We were the only passengers on the first leg. It was an adventure i had only dreamed about until that calm, sunny mid 1950s day. My favorite airplane? Of course!
Spent my summers as a teen in the early seventies on a small island off of Cape Cod. Air New England had a couple of these in their fleet and they would pass over the house at low altitudes regularly. Will never tire of the sound of those big radials 👍
My remembrance of the DC-3 goes back to my induction into the Air Force on the night of 1 October 1964. Heading to San Antonio from Houston. I had on my Florida clothes which did not help to keep me warm at whatever altitude we were flying. It was so cold I think I shivered the whole flight. The plane has an air nozzle right above my seat that I could not close off and I think it was piping outside air right into the cabin.
Thanks for serving our country Brother/Sister ! I was an Aerial Combat Documentary Photographer in the US Air Force 1965/68. I used to fly mainly on B-52s and KC135 Refuelers out of Utapao RTAFB in Thailand in 67/68... but one of the Squadron Commanders liked to fly his favorite C47 (DC3) every so often, and I got to stand in the Open Door area right behind the Left wing and take photographs while flying around Southern Thailand ! *FJB !*
Hadn’t noticed that on my DC3 trips in the 50s and 60s. But had the same problem at a much higher altitude on a flight from Yokota to Travis on a C5A. Could not believe it was that cold!
In Dec '74 I took a hop from Dallas Naval Air Station to Andrews AFB on a AIR Reserve DC-3, which continued on to Italy. Great bird, larger than the commercial DC-3, I'm thinking. I recall the head was in the tail, I placed my head on the curvature to take a whiz.
Many moons ago a flight of these lumbered over my home on final for infantry parachute drop practice once a year. Left an impression. Later in the 70's it was Caribou, but the Dakotas stole my heart.
Tara field. Took many check rides there with Bob Mcswiggan before he recently passed. that DC3 was one of his that flew with Academy Airlines years ago. Actually landed in the Everglades giving it the nickname: Ali Gator.
Yup! Back when it was 4A7. It is Atlanta Speedway (HMP) now. I learned to fly out of FFC, but instructor always took me to Tara for crosswind TOL practice, as evidenced in this vid it always seemed to be a crosswind. Short field TOL, too, as it was (relatively) shorter then. I also had my PPL checkride with an examiner out of here. Good memories. Thanks for sharing yours!
Was it ever named "Bear Creek airport"? I learned to fly the Cessna 150 in the early 1970s at South Expressway Airport just off hwy 19/41. Down by the racetrack there was a airport named Bear Creek. When I was 16 years old I would fly around the racetrack low-level. Kinda practice for flying Huey's and Blackhawks in the Army... LOL... just wondering if it was the airport you now call Terra? If
@@willchoate7072 It was Bear Creek before Clayton County - Tara Field, which was weird because it was/is in Henry County. But as I said above, it’s called Atlanta Speedway now. And South Expressway was closed 40 years ago or more. Built a new court / jail / municipal complex there.
@@Ernwaldo I started flying sailplanes when I was 15 at Antique Acres grass strip. I was in the restaurant that's there now and was talking to the restaurant manager. I mentioned to him that I had been flying there when I was 15 and the name back then was Antique Acres. He got huffy with me and flat out told me it had always been Peach State. So a day or two later I went to the FAA sight and checked the history of the airport. Sent him a copy and he didn't reply. Some of these young people just won't admit if they are wrong. Just for the record, I wasn't a rich kid. I would work all week after school at the Texaco station to get the money . I was in the glider club at Forest Park high School back then. I would do the same at the Texaco and wash some airplanes at South Expressway Airport and trade that for a good deal on flight time with an instructor in a Cessna 150.
Imagine, leaping out the side of one in the middle of the night on D-Day, as flack burst all around and the plane next to yours was turned into a fireball! No GPS...just French resistance with lanterns.
Took my first plane ride in a DC-3 around the ages of 3-4. Flew from Huntsville, AL to Little Rock, AR w/ a stopover in Memphis, TN. I still remember the thunderstorms my goodness
Beautiful craft and great vid. About 20 years ago a bunch of us flew from Sydney to Mudgee here in Australia in a DC3 for lunch at a winery. There was hardly a dry eye in the thing as we took off. Fabulous plane with such an incredible history.
Splendid footage, and certainly looking forward to seeing more contents in the coming of times, keep up the fantastic work and keep the momentum’s up as evermore. Hoping you had a great time in the makings of this and always for the previous contents. 😉👍✨✈️💯
The Australians in the 1980's converted DC3's to Crop Dusters. Moved the cowl flaps and other controls to the reach of the Captain, and flew them AS CROP DUSTERS WITH ONLY ONE PILOT ON BOARD. Cajuns.
Saturday October 31/1964 , I at 22, my birthday, & my wife to be flow DC3 from Waterloo Iowa to Minneapolis MN & back on standby tickets. It was my first plane ride & we had apple pie & cinnamon ice cream on 12th floor Dayton's Department Store. It will be 60 years this coming October & I would like another ride or at least sit inside & take a couple pictures. I will call.
One a trip to Alaska, years ago, I was looking for signs that I wasn't totally insane riding my motorcycle there....well, first a Corvair with Alaska tags passed me than I look up and there is a DC3, heading north... trip went fine....I live in Macon, Ga, the plane was south of Atlanta... I occasionally see a DC3, wonder if it's just Dan flying from here to there....
I love those new hidden prop RPM reducers. hahaha...Amazing thrust given with only 1.5 RPM at low altitude. Animal Rescue? I am starting a dog rescue with an airport on site for aviation drops. You should get ahold of me!!
Very nice job keeping the propeller tips off the runway until the tail came down. Nice wind, too. Tail-dragger equals 3-point my aunt's sister's cat. Way to land that gooney bird.
God bless you grandpa keep on Flying.more power to you . " YOU are the reason I became a Airforce pilot as well as airline pilot flying for America Airlines for 30 years. God bless America. ❤
Only the Conny sounds better! The best in flight coffee I ever had was on a NASA DC-3/C-47. The gal that served it wasn't bad either! It was back in 65 and I did a lot of space available hops getting from A to B.
My parents moved to south Florida after retiring in 1977 . I will never forget my first visit during Christmas that year. Early one morning I was awakened by a ground shaking thunderous roar . When I looked out the window there were 3 big planes flying low and wingtip to wingtip . My first thought was war had started and we were being invaded . Later my father told me it was Lee County Mosquito Control . Using DC-3's to routinely spray . Mind blowing to see those planes flying so slow and close to the ground .
Yes, it's a cool plane, great history, I think it's in the time frame of the "Connie" not real sure. I know delta flew some DC3's back in the day, my brother worked as AP mechanic for Delta back in the early 90s in Atlanta, I remember seeing some cool historical big model planes like the DC3 in one of the maintenance facilities there.
My mother flew multiple missions in the C47 as a flight nurse in WW2 across the channel into the front..had SO MANY incredible stories..to this day I dream of flying in one..
In 1964 my sister graduated from high school and she flew on a DC 3 from Memphis to Columbus Mississippi to start college. Several years later the DC 3 was finally taken out of service. It's a beautiful plane
I bet she flew on Southern Airways in 1964. I remember them in that time period and my first flight was on a Southern DC3 from New Orleans to Monroe in 1966.
I flew as a passenger to the Florida Keys from Orlando (where I lived) on DC3s many times in the 70s. Air Sunshine or Sunshine Air, (something like that) was flying them. We used to jokingly refer to them as Air Sometimes.
We lived in Welkom South africa. In the early 70,s still a very young teenager every afternoon at 4pm a DC 3 flew over our house towards the airport. Me and my brother always made sure that we climbed our big tree in our yard to the top to wave at the DC. Will never forgot those moments and she was always on time. Sometimes we were listening and we could here she is coming😊😊 thanks for your upload....greetings from South Africa Martin
@martinmuller, thanks for the memory jog ! There was an airfield not far from my elementary school, and on more than a few recesses, a couple of us scratched a big " HI ! " into the dirt. I have no idea if anyone ever did, or even could have seen it. Haaa.
How many different planes were the one that won the war? It was a massive group effort. My father flew F6f Hellcats off of carriers in the Pacific, Hellcats had the most kills there, but it wasn't the plane that won the war.
