My dad was an F/E on a DC-8 and a number of times I sat in the seat behind him and I had a wonderful time. It was a grand time. I loved the dc-8 55 all 150 feet 6 inches of her.
I was a jump seat junkie when I was a kid in the 70's. My most memorable flight was from New Orleans to Dallas on Branniff's Convair 990. Man the view out of the front really blew me away.
I use to load these planes at emerys hub in dayton, ohio. Was a great job, stayed until they closed in june 2006 when ups bought them and moved to louisville.
Man ...memories memories memories.... I used to work for emery (12 yrs) I was in ops and sales iin ATL but I had the chance to jumpseat a couple of times . While in sales training in Dayton I wiggiled my way to the DC-8 simulator and the guys were cool enogh to let me fly a bit.. Dam I miss those days
Emery's hub was Dayton and we also had a hub in Brussels, Belgium (HBR). Got the chance to jump seat one of these wonderful birds DAY-JFK-BRU pre 9/11 and before we changed over to a MD-11 with World Airways.
@seeburg220 That sounds really awesome! I jumpseated on Fat Albert (Branniff again) on a ferry flight from Carswell AFB to DFW after an airshow in 1979, but that cockpit was not that much larger than the 'small' other aircraft I had been in. There's a vid of some Russians or Bela-Russians flying an IL-76 out of Antarctica to South Africa. Talk about lack of automation ... And they have a nixe tube GLONASS terminal!
I flew Emery's last flight to ICELAND Aug 13 th just before 9/11 I miss that bird and if I find the time to transfer my old cockpit video to dvd, I will post it. Former Captain Pete S
As nostalgic as this is, we are probably a lot like some people were back when jets were first introduced. I'm sure there were lots of pilots and others, who liked the prop planes - like the DC-3 and DC-7, Constellation - better. I can't stand new jets like the Regionals, E145's, etc. Gimmie some loud, old, smoking JT8D engines hung on the side of a Boeing !
My dad was an F/E on a DC-8 and a number of times I sat in the seat behind him and I had a wonderful time. It was a grand time. I loved the dc-8 55 all 150 feet 6 inches of her.
I was a jump seat junkie when I was a kid in the 70's. My most memorable flight was from New Orleans to Dallas on Branniff's Convair 990. Man the view out of the front really blew me away.
I use to load these planes at emerys hub in dayton, ohio. Was a great job, stayed until they closed in june 2006 when ups bought them and moved to louisville.
Great video. Some fantastic landings there
Man ...memories memories memories.... I used to work for emery (12 yrs) I was in ops and sales iin ATL but I had the chance to jumpseat a couple of times . While in sales training in Dayton I wiggiled my way to the DC-8 simulator and the guys were cool enogh to let me fly a bit.. Dam I miss those days
Emery's hub was Dayton and we also had a hub in Brussels, Belgium (HBR). Got the chance to jump seat one of these wonderful birds DAY-JFK-BRU pre 9/11 and before we changed over to a MD-11 with World Airways.
Day, Dayton,Oh.been there alot in Convairs 600`s,back in the 80`s.
@seeburg220 That sounds really awesome! I jumpseated on Fat Albert (Branniff again) on a ferry flight from Carswell AFB to DFW after an airshow in 1979, but that cockpit was not that much larger than the 'small' other aircraft I had been in. There's a vid of some Russians or Bela-Russians flying an IL-76 out of Antarctica to South Africa. Talk about lack of automation ... And they have a nixe tube GLONASS terminal!
I flew Emery's last flight to ICELAND Aug 13 th just before 9/11
I miss that bird and if I find the time to transfer my old cockpit video to
dvd, I will post it.
Former Captain Pete S
Great memories I loved my freight dog days!
What year was this video filmed, or when did you acquire it? Very interesting night freighter action!
I spent a lot of years on loading-offloading these planes…Dayton hub.
At 1:06, looks like you're going pretty faaaast! Thanks for the video, it's pretty damn smooooth!
COOL THANKS FOR PUTTING THIS UUP UP AND AWAY LOL
who was the captain?
As nostalgic as this is, we are probably a lot like some people were back when jets were first introduced. I'm sure there were lots of pilots and others, who liked the prop planes - like the DC-3 and DC-7, Constellation - better. I can't stand new jets like the Regionals, E145's, etc. Gimmie some loud, old, smoking JT8D engines hung on the side of a Boeing !