I had the please of working on a friends Staggerwing for about 30 years! Fun plane to work on and a great plane to fly! I would take a Staggerwing over a Bonanza any day!
WOW THIS STAGGERING BROUGHT BACK FOOND MEMORIES OF BEING THE MAINE WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER OF THE CIVIL AIR PATROL IN 1985. I FLEW IN A RESTORED STAGGERING THAT USED BY THE CAP WWII. WHAT JOY IT WAS GO BACK IN TIME. FRANK POWERS
You can’t make any airplane idiot proof - but Walter Beech did his damndest with the Staggerwing ; one wing stalls ahead of the other to the effect that, it’s said you could hold the stick back and it would just gently porpoise itself all the way to the ground.
The Staggerwing is my "win the lottery" aircraft. Even sitting still it is a piece of kinetic art. Would those be considered from the "Golden Age" of flying and aircraft? (Edited for addition) Listening to that last one reminded me of my old Harley Davidson and the way it used chug like that when it idled.
Also if for whatever reason you remove this video from youtube, please stay in touch. I was unable to be his co-pilot for this event and the footage is so great, I'd really like be able to look back on this footage as the years go on.
@@richtankone glad you liked it. I don’t remember if I offered you a copy or not, but if I still have the original, I can send you a copy if you like. I lost a few files on a crashed hard drive a couple of years ago. You can email me at horsemoney@aol.com. Julie : )
I am, and it was. Like the DC-3, many more would still be flying but they had a problem with the wingspars, so expensive to fix that most were grounded.
Its my fathers 52' beech 18. He's spent years keeping it in mint condition, spent a spring break or two polishing it myself, not my ideal spring break but can appreciate it so much more now that I'm older. It was actually the background plane for at least one discovery channel episode on Amelia Earhart ( We are well aware she flew the lockheed 10, but discovery seemed fine using my dads as the background for interviews). He still keeps it in mind condition to this day.
American radials sound nice but why are they so noisy compared with British ones. The R985 is louder in the cruise than a Bristol Mercury on takeoff? The Mercury even gives you another 400 horses toplay with
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Staggerwings are so beautiful. All the paint jobs, I love!
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You had me at that sweet polished D-18 at the beginning. That's horsepower with class.
2:15 ahh the Cessna 195. The first Corporate single engine airplane. Powered by a Jacobs R-755 9 cylinder radial. What a beauty!
Thats real Engines, I love these Sound.
I long for a flight in a Staggerwing some day! Beautiful!
The Staggering has to be the prettiest aircraft ever built.
It and the Lockheed Constellation!
@@chorton38305 and the German Junkers Ju52
I had the please of working on a friends Staggerwing for about 30 years! Fun plane to work on and a great plane to fly! I would take a Staggerwing over a Bonanza any day!
The Dakota,DC3....The first plane who was taking me in the air,later on the airplane where I used ton work on...Oh boy what a beautifull time....😢
Those radials sound like my old 68 Solid lifter flat tap cammed Super Bee at idle. Some cool Staggerwings and Stearmans
Planes from the past is the real beauties of todays sky!
No doubt 💖!
WOW THIS STAGGERING BROUGHT BACK FOOND MEMORIES OF BEING THE MAINE WING PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER OF THE CIVIL AIR PATROL IN 1985. I FLEW IN A RESTORED STAGGERING THAT USED BY THE CAP WWII. WHAT JOY IT WAS GO BACK IN TIME. FRANK POWERS
You were a lucky man to get to fly around in one of those beautiful Staggerwings Frank!
Fantastic Quality, Really enjoyed that, Thank you for posting !!!
Thank you for watching... Too bad none of the Staggerwings took off from that runway.
Glorious....I half-way expected Charles Lindbergh to wave as he taxied past the camera.
Thankyou for putting this together
Travis Rackley You’re welcome. I sure wish I could have seen the Staggerwings fly
Fantastic Sound.
Beechcraft 17 Staggerwing very nice sound!
You can’t make any airplane idiot proof - but Walter Beech did his damndest with the Staggerwing ; one wing stalls ahead of the other to the effect that, it’s said you could hold the stick back and it would just gently porpoise itself all the way to the ground.
Very nice
The Staggerwing is my "win the lottery" aircraft. Even sitting still it is a piece of kinetic art. Would those be considered from the "Golden Age" of flying and aircraft? (Edited for addition) Listening to that last one reminded me of my old Harley Davidson and the way it used chug like that when it idled.
A Staggerwing sat unused in the hanger in AbuDhabi back in 1978 or so, then it disappeared. I wonder where it went...............
Great video & great sound too!
Thanks, too bad all of the Staggerwings departed on the runway we couldn't see. Julie : )
Yup, s'why I came, and why I'm disappointed, all those Staggerwings, grounded.................
A salute to my father in the beech 18!
Also if for whatever reason you remove this video from youtube, please stay in touch. I was unable to be his co-pilot for this event and the footage is so great, I'd really like be able to look back on this footage as the years go on.
@@richtankone glad you liked it. I don’t remember if I offered you a copy or not, but if I still have the original, I can send you a copy if you like. I lost a few files on a crashed hard drive a couple of years ago. You can email me at horsemoney@aol.com. Julie : )
Wow!!
Holy cow the color on that last one.
If a commenter could list these in order that would be awesome.
God i love all these old airplanes to *death!*
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pro trick : watch series on flixzone. I've been using them for watching a lot of movies during the lockdown.
what`s the name of the first one plane that was polished?
RivieraByBuick looks like a Beech 18 to me, but I’m not a pilot.
yeah. indeed beech 18. thanx
I am, and it was. Like the DC-3, many more would still be flying but they had a problem with the wingspars, so expensive to fix that most were grounded.
Its my fathers 52' beech 18. He's spent years keeping it in mint condition, spent a spring break or two polishing it myself, not my ideal spring break but can appreciate it so much more now that I'm older. It was actually the background plane for at least one discovery channel episode on Amelia Earhart ( We are well aware she flew the lockheed 10, but discovery seemed fine using my dads as the background for interviews). He still keeps it in mind condition to this day.
American radials sound nice but why are they so noisy compared with British ones. The R985 is louder in the cruise than a Bristol Mercury on takeoff? The Mercury even gives you another 400 horses toplay with
Maybe more power, but absolutely none of the Staggerwing style.
I still say it looks as though it was built backwards.