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I grew up next to LAX and remember going to sleep to the sounds of the old piston engine planes and later to the sounds of jets. Nothing like the sounds of the 3350's of the DC-7 and Constellation. Dad travelled all the time and died on a UAL flight in 2002. I did 24 years, seven months, three days, five hours and ten seconds with UAL. Retired and loving seeing ol tin.

I fell in love with flying at about 10 years old when I was sent to school in New York. In 1959, I would travel on KLMs Flying Dutchman from the Caribbean island of Curaçao 🇨🇼 to Idlewild (JFK). A 7 to 8 hour flight on KLMs DC7C. Every minute of flight was a treasure! 8 hours was not long enough for a smitten young boy! This lasted for 3 years before the plane was replaced by the DC8 jet! Although thrilling and exciting it has never replaced that DC7C! The start of the engines, the smell of the back fire smoke, the rattle of the cabin, the beginning spin of the blades, the roar of the engines, the roll of the plane and the lift of the cabin into the wild blue yonder! What a thrill. I still miss it! No, current, sleek jet provides the thrill of that KLM DC7C! The Flying Dutchman. If I could only turn back time for an eight hour flight on that magnificent bird! Yes! It’s fun to watch the video! Thanks 🙏💝 it brought back sweet memories. The KLM stewardess were very sweet. To keep me entertained they asked me to help them run meal trays in coach! Thus, I became a flight attendant until I retired, from the big jets!

When aircraft were aircraft. Beautiful.

Rather doubt this is the last airworthy DC-7?!

I only see 2 engines.

My family flew on US Army DC-6B on September 1962 from Munich Germany to Fort Dix, New Jersey with two stops for 17 hours. Two months the Army retired all DC-6s. Peter

As aeronaves movidas a hélices têm uma magia contagiante para nós que as vimos em plena atividade, mas atualmente quando vejo um video feito com essas camaras digitais fico um pouco triste pois, elas quebram a energia das hélices girando e as colocam em um compasso lento que não nos tramite a real energia dos motores.

the flight over crater lake was spectacular !

DC-7 starboard engines retirement flight.

There's no place to land over not using solar batteries

Boring video of two engines on a plane. Congratulations….

Came to America as child in one of these

In 1967 I flew from Amsterdam to Toronto and back in a DC7 from Schreiner Airways. The flight back was the last flight of Schreiner; the company was liquidated.

You should donate this to the EAA at Oshkosh these iconic birds of our history need a great home to posibily be refurbished and flowen again. ?

What is that metallic clanking noise I hear in the back ground as the plane is lining up for take off? Maybe some kind of hydraulic pump?

Brilliant! I have recorded engines on a Skymaster ruclips.net/video/RCMTYmldfRk/видео.htmlsi=mQo78tEm3W_WpapQ

A wonderful sight and sound bringing back memories of a time the transition era when the last of the prop liners and the early Jets could still be seen over our suburban skies.

This was almost like reliving the flight I took as a child.

As a kid i flew on one from Nashville to Atlanta in 1962. Such a thrill. I loved these prop driven planes.

Nice vídeo

So beautiful !!! I flew on a DC-7C in 1962 from LAX to Gatwick.

You'd think there would of at least been a small crowd of people that had some affinity/experience with this old girl waiting on that apron, but maybe Sir Donald Douglas himself was there in spirit to effectionately caress her propeller, "Good job old girl".

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Nací en noviembre de 1956, poco después los aviones comerciales con propulsión a chorro comenzaron a desplazar a estas maravillas de motores a piston de las principales aerolineas.. Mi docena aproximada de vuelos, han sido en Boeing 727, Douglas DC 9 y Fokker F27.. Magníficos aviones todos ellos, pero siempre quedaré con las ganas de volar en un pistonero como Este, un Constelation etc.. Magnífico (Aunque triste video).. Muchas Gracias por compartirlo! Saludos desde España, rinconcito OE de Europa junto con Portugal, a todos los que llevamos está pasión aeronáutica en nuestras venas..

Great sounding aircraft, how did the interior quality feel?

Love this ! Thank you.

Please tell us of her fate!

The thing I notice is how fast this plane is. I've flown in other propeller aircraft, and by comparison, this one really goes. For reference, cruise speed of the P51 Mustang was 362mph. For the DC7, it was 365mph. Watch how fast this covers ground after takeoff. It's no slouch at all.

People with fear of flying are having an mental breakdown watching those wings with that much soot 😭💀

Entendre ou plutôt reentendre vrombir ses moteurs est pour moi un plaisir , celà me rappele mon enfance, lorsque gamin je regardais parir les dc6 air afrique et UTA ou les constellations d'air france, des souvenirs moi même ais voyagé sur DC4 , et constellation 749 et 1049. J'adore le constellation et surtout le 1649 une belle machine haute sur pattes et surtout sa ligne majestueuse.

a pity the movie was filmed with a (cellphone?) camera that makes such a mess of the propellers.

I flew as passenger about 5 round trips on a DC-7B of United Airlines. These trips were about 5 1/2 to 6 hours. I got to love the DC-7B.

Nice video! Please, don’t erase it never, never.

What’s that “horn click” sound during the initial taxi? That’s such an interesting sound…these old birds were so alive with mechanized magic.

thank you so much

one can feel the end is near

magnificent aircraft and flight.raw beauty. thank you

A Beauty

Beautiful! Nice Crater Lake flyby too 😮

that not noise - that's music

I don't know what heaven is, but it must be very close to this!!

Welcome to Estonia! 🙂

its almost like she's screaming to be put out of her misery...

I'd take THIS sound-track on a loop, over background or 800-number "music" ANY day. I loved the Delta 7s... and all this bunk about 777s and such; the DC-7 cabin noise was far less annoying that those odious pitches and harmonics of big "fans"... didn't NEED noise-cancelling... a few minutes in the air, and I was ASLEEP.

Flew on a DC-7 when I was 3 years old, San Diego to Cinncinati with my mother. Flame covered the engire chord of the wing on startup. Impressive sight for a yound man.

Did anyone else see the AN125 in the background?

I wish we could have seen the outside of this great aircraft..

I flew on them when I was young in the 50's . American and Eastern . Today they don't know what the meaning of elegance is .

looks to me like the props are in reverse thrust as in slowing the plane after landing !!

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