What a beautiful aircraft. My dad took us from Chicago to Miami on a Delta DC7 first class in 1954. I was 5 and will never forget it. Back in those days, i was allowed to go up into the cockpit and they banked, climbed a little to show me how the controls worked. Unimaginable today, eh? What an experience!
+R L Beardsley Same experience. On Western. Yeah, those were the days. Now, the airline experience as a passenger sucks. The prestige, pay, respect and dignity as a pilot has pretty much been ruined as well.
I remember being able to go to the cockpit in the 70's as a 10 year kid. The pilots loved to show kids how things worked...they still do..but the FAA will not allow it any more. That love of flying translated into me getting my license in 90's all the way up to my Multi Instrument Commercial and aircraft ownership for 25+ years. Even had a flying gig for a short while just before 9/11 then got furloughed. Never was able to get back into game due to kids and bills.
In 1957 flew Los Angeles to Winnipeg to Copenhagen with SAS in DC Super 7 on our way to Norway . Can't remember how many hours ,but for a 10 year old kid every minute was an adventure of a lifetime. Can remember watching the exhaust flame in the dark.
The death of Eastern Airlines is a prime example of what can and does happen when greedy unions refuse to help a company but keep demanding more and more. In the end everybody lost their jobs and a great airline died.
Beautiful, that's my favourite piston engined airliner being well flown in one hell of a crosswind. Look at the rudder inputs on the landing roll out. Amazing! They don't make pilot's like they used to!
Beautiful old plane , its really nice to see such an old plane still flying . I am aircraft mechanic ,technician in Europe and i love workin on planes.
My father worked for Eastern from the early fifties till late seventies, I remember when he worked out of Muscle Shoals and there was a dog named Mother that would meet each Eastern flight (Martins) and after the passengers would depart. Mother would climb the steps and the attendant would give her cookies!
A heads up for the ID: this is the restored DC-7B N836D out of Miami-Opa Locka Exec. Airport. And, NO, it is not from somolia as someone below asked. Growing up in Miami, 2.5 miles from 27R to Miami International in the '50's, this sweetheart is a welcome site to see/hear, along with any other Propliner! Thanks JustPlanes.
So beautiful it's not funny!!! Lovely look and sound!!! I don't fly since Eastern went away, so I really appreciate seeing an Eastern plane. Thank you.
This is a wonderfully clean and crisp DVD. Eastern one of my fave airliners in the 60s-70s. EAL, PAA, TWA. Those old guys. Classic airlines with now classic airliners in liveries some of which were elegant masterpieces drafted on to glistening metal fuselages. Beautiful. Now if only Air France would ready one of their preserved Super G's for some round-robin to, say, Nice Cote d'Azur (LFMN), along with some still good lookin' French stewardesses handing out wine & croissants that would be some video to watch, if one couldnt beg a flight aboard. This video is a good'un.
That's nothing but sexist nonsense. Women weren't airline pilots back then because they weren't allowed to be, not because they weren't capable. During the Second World War, many female pilots ferried combat aircraft from the factories to operating military bases because the men were all deployed in the combat zones.
The only DC-7 I've even had the pleasure of flying was a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu to Hilo, Kauai in 1964. The one constant I remember amongst propeller-driven aircraft such as this one and the Lockheed L-1049 Constellation is that it was quite noisy inside the cabin. We tend to forget that when flying today's much quieter jets.
Flew one of these three times from NYC to MIA back in the fifties. Took about six hours at the time. Very spacious and comfortable airplanes with good food and room to walk around. Very pleasant trips all.
PeterNGlore: Not really in today's money. Low capital cost keeps things affordable, problem now'a days is parts. Any turbine plane is outrageous to acquire and operate in cost. Thats why in AK they keep on flying these old birds...cheap to operated, STOL capability and rugged.
That's how we were taught back in the early 80's..in little tiny Cessna 152-172 trainers..never really perfected the technique, but had to use it in a 20kt crosswind @ Tucson Intl Arpt one morning, solo!!..Almost lost the little plane in the grass on r. apron of the runway..But I touched her down on the left (upwind) main gear, tried best to hold it fairly straight with the rudder..Guys in the tower were prob. yukking it up. In hindsight, should've aborted the landing on short final, advised tower, and skedaddled back to Avra Valley Arpt...winds not that much of a factor there that morning. All true!!
I flew on a DC-7 in 1961 Panamá-Miami-Washington Nat'l-NY Idlewild (later JFK) with Panagra airways, a Pan Am subsidiary. Only long haul flight with piston engines of my life, rest were jets or jet-props. Fine, powerful aircraft the DC-7 was.
My very first time flying was on one of her baby sisters, a Southern Airways DC-3. Then switched in Atlanta (doesn't everybody, no matter where they are going?) to an Eastern Airlines 707. Those were the days when you could ENJOY flying! Now it's such a hassle I refuse to fly anymore. If I can't drive, I don't go.
You got that right! My mom flew from Athens Greece to Idlewild airport (JFK) in1948. Her father spent $650. Anyone can look up an inflation calculator to see how much that is worth today. Oh, the Connie made seven stops and took 34 hours to complete the trip.
I don't know about that. I flew on an Eastern DC7 from Newark, NJ to San Antonio, TX back in '63, courtesy of Uncle Sam. Long flight around 10 hours with a stop in Baltimore, no frills all the way;-) OK, I didn't have to take off my shoes before boarding!!
Real freaking flying , a real plane, the real stuff........not a plane full of computers and screens inside the cockpit,instead this are the planes that make humans love aviation.
Oh, forgot to mention: The DC-6 Prat & Whitney R-2800 engine was really dependable. However, the BMEP (torque pressure indicating system) would ALWAYS make you bring your lunch!!!
The connector at the BMEP transmitter was so relatively fragile and mostly exposed to the full effect of the relative wind, though with the afterbody props they were slightly less vulnerable. Replaced plenty of wires, connectors and conduits. I only spent a few hours one time working a DC-7, and I have no idea where its BMEP system was, though I think a more knowledgeable mech told me there was a flex line to the accessory compartment.
I flew on these Eastern DC-7s between Midway and Charlotte, Birmingham, and Orlando and what a thrill! Is this the one they were working on at Opelyka? That place is the holy grail of historical aviation.
It seems like all the good pilots shine when there's bad landing weather conditions... Its one thing to get these big beauties up in the air - BUT its bringing her back down as smooth as silk that gives the passengers a big rush for sure and many welcome invites to for pilots to have dinner at my home anytime you call...
The aircraft seems to have the mind of the pilot. It looks very determined and focused and is going to land against all odds. It also looks like it is wearing oxygen mask.
Having flown turbine-powered aircraft over a career, the demands of operating complex reciprocating engines are very high. Imagine the adjustments needed by a Flight Engineer with four engines (and fuel ,electrics, pneumatics, hydraulics) to supervise. Remember the RAF Stirling, Lancaster etc? British aircraft in WW2 were designed in almost every case for only One Pilot, and often just an engineer, or flight mechanic to maintain almost all of the systems. And when that One Pilot was wounded or killed?
What a beautiful aircraft. My dad took us from Chicago to Miami on a Delta DC7 first class in 1954. I was 5 and will never forget it. Back in those days, i was allowed to go up into the cockpit and they banked, climbed a little to show me how the controls worked. Unimaginable today, eh? What an experience!
R L Beardsley 9/11 ruined that sadly.
+R L Beardsley
Same experience. On Western. Yeah, those were the days. Now, the airline experience as a passenger sucks. The prestige, pay, respect and dignity as a pilot has pretty much been ruined as well.
I remember being able to go to the cockpit in the 70's as a 10 year kid. The pilots loved to show kids how things worked...they still do..but the FAA will not allow it any more. That love of flying translated into me getting my license in 90's all the way up to my Multi Instrument Commercial and aircraft ownership for 25+ years. Even had a flying gig for a short while just before 9/11 then got furloughed. Never was able to get back into game due to kids and bills.
My father was a Captain with EAL based out of MIA and flew them back in those days.
Came to America in a DC7 when I was 5
In 1957 flew Los Angeles to Winnipeg to Copenhagen with SAS in DC Super 7 on our way to Norway . Can't remember how many hours ,but for a 10 year old kid every minute was an adventure of a lifetime. Can remember watching the exhaust flame in the dark.
My father retired from the old Eastern air lines in 85 just before it was ruined and went bankrupt was at one time a very well run airline .
The death of Eastern Airlines is a prime example of what can and does happen when greedy unions refuse to help a company but keep demanding more and more. In the end everybody lost their jobs and a great airline died.
My dad left in 1963. Went to FAA to be an air traffic controller.
Beautiful, that's my favourite piston engined airliner being well flown in one hell of a crosswind. Look at the rudder inputs on the landing roll out. Amazing! They don't make pilot's like they used to!
Beautiful old plane , its really nice to see such an old plane still flying . I am aircraft mechanic ,technician in Europe and i love workin on planes.
My father worked for Eastern from the early fifties till late seventies, I remember when he worked out of Muscle Shoals and there was a dog named Mother that would meet each Eastern flight (Martins) and after the passengers would depart. Mother would climb the steps and the attendant would give her cookies!
Man !!!!!!! What a beautiful airplane,from the times when pilots really flew. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely gorgeous plane with perfect crosswind technique.
The dream aircraft and airport combination. Up close and personal with the stunning Dc7 and her beautiful sound.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow...throw me into the time machine! Used to seeing 747s and 777s landing in St Maarten but this is really cool!
A heads up for the ID: this is the restored DC-7B N836D out of Miami-Opa Locka Exec. Airport. And, NO, it is not from somolia as someone below asked. Growing up in Miami, 2.5 miles from 27R to Miami International in the '50's, this sweetheart is a welcome site to see/hear, along with any other Propliner! Thanks JustPlanes.
So beautiful it's not funny!!! Lovely look and sound!!! I don't fly since Eastern went away, so I really appreciate seeing an Eastern plane. Thank you.
Great job. Excellent crosswind landing as I learned in the text books.
Thanks for sharing
This is a wonderfully clean and crisp DVD. Eastern one of my fave airliners in the 60s-70s. EAL, PAA, TWA. Those old guys. Classic airlines with now classic airliners in liveries some of which were elegant masterpieces drafted on to glistening metal fuselages. Beautiful.
Now if only Air France would ready one of their preserved Super G's for some round-robin to, say, Nice Cote d'Azur (LFMN), along with some still good lookin' French stewardesses handing out wine & croissants that would be some video to watch, if one couldnt beg a flight aboard.
This video is a good'un.
That right wing down... Fantastic crosswind technique!!! So exciting to see!!
One of the best X-wind landings ever seen, old school craftsmanship! (Clearsky47, 6.000+ landings)
What a beautiful old bird.
Perfect landin on the unique wheel in the wind
What a beauty. When you fly this, you are a real pilot.
That's why women were not piston airline pilots.
+NetCerpher i know of a few few women pilots that fly old piston pounders.
I've flown on a DC3 piloted (very ably indeed) by a woman.
That's nothing but sexist nonsense. Women weren't airline pilots back then because they weren't allowed to be, not because they weren't capable. During the Second World War, many female pilots ferried combat aircraft from the factories to operating military bases because the men were all deployed in the combat zones.
Women were flying piston-engine airliners likely long before you were born. You are plain sexist; get some facts, if you dare!
Wow what a gem!
Wonderful crosswind landing, one for in the books!
The only DC-7 I've even had the pleasure of flying was a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu to Hilo, Kauai in 1964. The one constant I remember amongst propeller-driven aircraft such as this one and the Lockheed L-1049 Constellation is that it was quite noisy inside the cabin. We tend to forget that when flying today's much quieter jets.
Flew one of these three times from NYC to MIA back in the fifties. Took about six hours at the time. Very spacious and comfortable airplanes with good food and room to walk around. Very pleasant trips all.
+Norman Mcgill Comfortable but expensive to operate. ...
PeterNGlore: Not really in today's money. Low capital cost keeps things affordable, problem now'a days is parts. Any turbine plane is outrageous to acquire and operate in cost. Thats why in AK they keep on flying these old birds...cheap to operated, STOL capability and rugged.
Bit of cross wind action on landing. Check the rudder movement. This is a preserved DC 7 in period Eastern Airlines livery. Great clip !
My grandfather flew these for Eastern. Pretty plane.
They weren't dumping fuel, that's a vapor vortices coming off the tip of the flap. It's very common when the humidity is high.
man these guys earn their money, straight forward landing is one thing but with the cross winds I reckon they do a magnificient job.. Cheers
+Barry Durrant Anyone who can land an airplane can land that same airplane with a crosswind.
Beautiful plane... Grace, elegance...
What a gorgeous view ! thanks for sharing this
Wow. Nice. That is a legendary aircraft of course, and that was real flying.
That is poetry in motion......i am going to replay at least 10 times...and put it in my fav's tee's up & scribed long ago......thanks!!!
Pure magic
wow some crosswind ..great catch
That, my friends, is how you land in a crosswind! I'm sorry so many of my airline colleagues are unable to correctly do this!
Nice X wind landing on the starboard wheel first... Cool!
That's how we were taught back in the early 80's..in little tiny Cessna 152-172 trainers..never really perfected the technique, but had to use it in a 20kt crosswind @ Tucson Intl Arpt one morning, solo!!..Almost lost the little plane in the grass on r. apron of the runway..But I touched her down on the left (upwind) main gear, tried best to hold it fairly straight with the rudder..Guys in the tower were prob. yukking it up. In hindsight, should've aborted the landing on short final, advised tower, and skedaddled back to Avra Valley Arpt...winds not that much of a factor there that morning. All true!!
He was really kicking in that rudder.
The dc7 has to be one of my top 3 favourite planes
textbook landing and beautiful airplane! Great job!
I would love to see this from the cockpit. Great video.
This is actually from a cockpit film you will find our website JUSTPLANES.COM
I flew on a DC-7 in 1961 Panamá-Miami-Washington Nat'l-NY Idlewild (later JFK) with Panagra airways, a Pan Am subsidiary. Only long haul flight with piston engines of my life, rest were jets or jet-props. Fine, powerful aircraft the DC-7 was.
My very first time flying was on one of her baby sisters, a Southern Airways DC-3. Then switched in Atlanta (doesn't everybody, no matter where they are going?) to an Eastern Airlines 707. Those were the days when you could ENJOY flying! Now it's such a hassle I refuse to fly anymore. If I can't drive, I don't go.
Very nice!
Great stuff! love seeing these old birds still flying...
What a CLASSIC BEAUTY!
Anyone else hear that guy yell "DAMNIT" @ 0:46?
I guess the guy missed out on a photo.
Nope. You’re hearing things...
Nope. You’re just deaf...
@@samiam619 no, u a daf
That was a clear damnit
The golden age of the air transport.
The era when flying was a privilege and every passenger was treated as a human being !
You got that right! My mom flew from Athens Greece to Idlewild airport (JFK) in1948. Her father spent $650. Anyone can look up an inflation calculator to see how much that is worth today. Oh, the Connie made seven stops and took 34 hours to complete the trip.
itsmegp46 The inflated total is $6,330.68... Delta Airlines offers flights on the same route for ONE SIXTH of that today!
I don't know about that. I flew on an Eastern DC7 from Newark, NJ to San Antonio, TX back in '63, courtesy of Uncle Sam. Long flight around 10 hours with a stop in Baltimore, no frills all the way;-)
OK, I didn't have to take off my shoes before boarding!!
+Pete Forlenza Lucky you flying on that beauty
+bobduvar And every passenger acted like a human being...
Wow!!! Amazing, how cool. This is a treasure for any commercial aviation fanatic, like myself thank you for sharing.
Beautiful airliner!
A real plane that a real pilot actually has to fly. Nice.
Real freaking flying , a real plane, the real stuff........not a plane full of computers and screens inside the cockpit,instead this are the planes that make humans love aviation.
My father flew these out of MIA back in the day, then went to DC-8s and more.
@ATCkeepsUsafe Less hands on. More like flying a computer. Turing dials and toggling switches.
Absolutely fantastic landing!!!
Outstanding. Great piloting.
Text book crosswind landing. Pilot in command kept the right wing down right before flare. Very nice.
Great Camera work as always!!!! Nice DC-7 as well!!!!
very lovely "One gear touch and turn crab crosswidn " landing - thanks
Beautiful. You can actually see the proper cross-controlling (opposite ailerons & rudder) technique used for this kind of situation.
It's called a slip
Superb Airmanship! That's real flying there.
You related to Waldemar?
These big piston powered airliners with their trans oceanic capabilities meant the beginning of the end for the Oceanliner ships.
wow! for those circumstances that was a perfect landing....
kudo"s for the captain of that flight!
that was wonderful.
Nice landing in a strong crosswind.
On the beginning seems like FSX
xitoroman I clicked on the video because I thought it was FSX! :D
+xitoroman dude is this fsx im still lost
sebol931
It's real! :)
Lord Sandwich Lol it even has a frame drop on the landing just before touchdown just like fsx :))
+sebol931 thats just ur computer
Nice rudder work!
que bonito avion no cabe duda que me gustan mas estos que los modernos. saludos
Totalmente de acuerdo!
Oh, forgot to mention: The DC-6 Prat & Whitney R-2800 engine was really dependable. However, the BMEP (torque pressure indicating system) would ALWAYS make you bring your lunch!!!
The connector at the BMEP transmitter was so relatively fragile and mostly exposed to the full effect of the relative wind, though with the afterbody props they were slightly less vulnerable. Replaced plenty of wires, connectors and conduits. I only spent a few hours one time working a DC-7, and I have no idea where its BMEP system was, though I think a more knowledgeable mech told me there was a flex line to the accessory compartment.
Now I'm going to hit the bar and party like it's 1959!
Saw this plane sitting at the Former Museum at Charlotte Airport about two weeks ago...
Oh that's just unbelievably cool.
Remember a pilot that told me that the DC7 was nicknamed the DC6 1/2 since they evidently flew quite often on 3 engines.
That was crazy as!
Beautiful aircraft ! Awesome video !
I flew on these Eastern DC-7s between Midway and Charlotte, Birmingham, and Orlando and what a thrill! Is this the one they were working on at Opelyka? That place is the holy grail of historical aviation.
Nice, pretty badass crosswind. Was proably close to the aircraft's max x-wind component limit.
It seems like all the good pilots shine when there's bad landing weather conditions... Its one thing to get these big beauties up in the air - BUT its bringing her back down as smooth as silk that gives the passengers a big rush for sure and many welcome invites to for pilots to have dinner at my home anytime you call...
The aircraft seems to have the mind of the pilot. It looks very determined and focused and is going to land against all odds. It also looks like it is wearing oxygen mask.
What the 50s sounded like
Back when 5 wheels were enough to hold up the plane.
Beautiful old bird👍👍. Love it!🌹
I'm in Addison, TX and the old planes were out last night, maybe tonight too
Nice
Nice landing.
What year was that? you guys obviously like St Maarten, and quite right!
just beautiful
I love DC-7
Guys! Eastern is re-launching! Their first plane arrives this summer!
Javier Bullman Not yet but this is the official website for the new airline easternairlines.aero/
The Eastern name is relaunching.
@@tuffguy428 Wheres Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker now when we need him at the helm?? Lol! Hah!!
This is awesome!!!!
Wow. I had no idea that those three entities (EA, DC-7, SXM) could even coincide since y'all started making videos. This is a rare find indeed.
look in the video good, the new terminal is there is a currant video :)
No spoilers on that badboy. Looks tough to keep pinned down once it touches.
Fantastic 'stick'n rudder' pilot; no blasted computers trying to over-ride his input.
great pilot
good job, pilots!
Damn...... Its way too awesome..... 😊😊
I saw this on the Basler ramp at KOSH.
glad to see the old school is still flying and in great shape by the way which company was that maybe i schedule my next flight
..That plane was in the livery of the old Eastern Airlines, back yonder when..
boy he drilled that one on
I wish we would be flying again. To beautiful not to!
Magnificent airplane.
when was this?
when was this taken?
Having flown turbine-powered aircraft over a career, the demands of operating complex reciprocating engines are very high.
Imagine the adjustments needed by a Flight Engineer with four engines (and fuel ,electrics, pneumatics, hydraulics) to supervise. Remember the RAF Stirling, Lancaster etc? British aircraft in WW2 were designed in almost every case for only One Pilot, and often just an engineer, or flight mechanic to maintain almost all of the systems. And when that One Pilot was wounded or killed?
This is piloting ! ;-)
brilliant