How DC-3s Flew to England for D-Day
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2019
- In 1942 4% of US Army Air Forces flights across the North Atlantic were unsuccessful. Yet we decided to brave another long flight over open ocean in a 75 year old Douglas DC-3. Today the most treacherous part is facing the U.K.'s system of airspace.
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My Dad just died this month of March 2021 at age 95, 2 months shy of his 96th birthday. In 1943 at age 18, he joined the Army Air Corps and piloted all these planes up to 4 engine. He also was a Korean war veteran (Now the Air Force) and retired from the SAC in 1968. He loved flying, I flew with him on his last piloted flight 25 years ago. He will be buried in his military uniform with honors. The greatest Generation are leaving us by the thousands now. These men and women will leave a great vacuum in our society.
My father was one of the pilots who flew a C-47 from the US to Europe and then in combat. He arrived in England on June 6th 1944
Nothing but total and absolute respect for him and his peers back then. They did the same journey with no ipads , spare pilots or mechanics
WOW !!!
Much respect and thanks to your father for helping save the entire planet from the likes of that Nazi madman. Hitler was so evil that tens to hundreds of millions had to die to take him out, and the young women and men of the 1940 stepped up to take one for the team of all humankind to stop him. I am glad that he had the C-47 around him to keep him as safe as anyone could possibly be in that terrible and tragic time. I am an Apollo 8 era baby but I know that before we had the F-1 engine to take us to the moon, we had the C-47 to help save the population on the origin planet for the Apollo missions.
@@Ebocraze On the plus side, they did have the C-47 / DC-3. A well designed device, even compared with the iPad.
Glad he survived and glad youre here!
I love how the pilots put on the uniform when arriving in Europe =)
@@akplanefreak I was wondering why they put on captain's uniforms before landing....
I liked the Pan-Pan T-Shirt the Co-Pilot was wearing.
@@akplanefreak Where do you get the idea that you need to wear a uniform in the UK? It is not true.
@@neonhomer yeah it was sweet. If you listen early on in the very first video you will find out that both of these pilots are captains in their own rights - one is captain of a 747. Maybe both. Either way very impressed.
@Turick yes…sweet. A perfect final touch.
If this Atlantic Crossing Series isn't up for a RUclips Video Award, something is wrong. I don't usually go in for this kind of hyperbole, but this deserves it.
Icebox ETACCRG do RUclips offer an award scheme?
I hope that content creators don't start aiming to win awards, it would eventually ruin what makes RUclips mostly great.
3 years after: Yep, there is something wrong.
Got to say, this has been the most amazing coverage of such an amazing project to get this DC-3 back to the UK for D-Day 75. Loved the editing style. Well done Matt.
I have to add my congratulations to everyone on this video - it was quite an accomplishment. The best afternoon's RUclips watching ever. Thank you.
This thrilled me on so many levels! All I can say is thank you / thank you! What a great experience !!!
Agreed!
Thank you for putting this together. I am a private pilot who has not flown in a long time and watching this series reminded me of the thrill of flying again. It's difficult not to get emotional when watching this. Very well done, and thank you again!
My wife's grandfather flew over D Day and was ultimately shot down in a bomber multiple times over Germany. He was taken prisoner and managed to survive the war.
This reminded my of my first trip to Europe in 1964. I flew on a TWA Constellation from JFK to Gander to Dublin to Gatwick. That took 18 hours. It was an ordeal. This video was great.
The guy in the right seat has an amazing radio voice
Absolutely loved this series. Thanks so much for sharing!
HighFlight2k2, I was going to say the exact same thing!!
Excellent three parts. Good to hear the R/T, full messages and replies. Good to hear the checks - glad you didn’t gloss over them.
You kept it authentic - with the crew’s thoughts and feelings and the engine problems.
Very enjoyable.
Well done.
I've followed this with great interest. Thanks, Matt, for putting the video together.
70 years ago, I traveled in a C-47 from Miami to Puerto Rico and back in the same airplane each of 3 times. The last four didgits of ifs number were 4311. We called it "my plane, " since we flew in it so often. My father was USAF, and arranged for me to sit in the left seat for almost 30 minutes on one flight. For some reason, my favorite parts were "Gear up" and "Gear down." I can still identify a C-47 or DC-3 by the sound of its engines when it flies overhead. My all-time favorite aircraft. Good job, guys.
Joe Scoggins did your father fly in the war, USAAF? If so, has he told you any interesting stories during the experience?
Most all that are still flying are c47
On my 8th birthday in 1951, my Grandfather booked the two of us on a Northeast Airlines DC-3 for the short, 30 minute flight, from Logan Airport in Boston to Hyannis, Ma. on Cape Cod where he and my Grandmother lived. I had never before been in an airplane and I was beyond excited. Ten minutes into the flight, the Captain approached my seat and invited me to join him on the flight deck. I stood almost between the seats as he explained all the controls to me. To this day, 69 years later, it remains one of the memorable thrills of my fortunate lifetime.
Matt, that was absolutely outstanding. Thank you for bringing us along.
how those crews made it to the uk during the last war without modern radar and such, is amazing , good old Dakota and the sturdiest of men. i have great respect.
I'm a WWII buff. My father fought in North Africa as a demolitions expert. His 4 brothers all fought, 3 of them in multiple theaters. One of his brothers jumped into Italy I can't remember if it was the 101 or 82nd but if I recall the Italian jumps were the very first live-action jumps by American airborne units. Much has been said about that generation of men, but my father and his younger brothers were deeply impacted by the Great Depression, which I think hardened that generation and made them infinitely more seasoned than Hitler anticipated of our "civilian" soldiers. That generation belongs with the founding generation and together they stand alone in the history of America.
How this hasn’t been commissioned for television I don’t know!. Absolutely fantastic episodes of your journey. I watched all of the DC-3s fly over to Normandy from my home town of Essex and it was such a great sight.
I’ve just found your page and the videos are brilliant. I look forward to the next. Well done. Round of applause.
Because television is dead?
Great town is Essex
@@ala0284 And I live in the City of England. 🤪
Because (cable/commercial/programmed) television is a medium only serving the most average content there is, to appeal to the biggest number of people. In order to do that you would have to sensationalize the fuel tank swichover about 10 times harder than they did, perhaps include some turbulence, overdo the confusion when you don't understand something on the radio etc etc etc.
By that time, the programme is utterly ruined.
I am so incredibly happy with RUclipsrs making content like this. If it were TV, it would not be as good as it is...
@@mfbfreak England is My city!
That was just terrific! As an Army Air Corps pilot, my dad flew a C-47 up to BW-1 Greenland in late 1945 or early 1946 with his wife and 7 year old daughter, and there they lived until they returned to the States in late 1947. Dad told me the approach to BW-1 involved a hard turn (left, I think) at the entrance of the fjord and then there was the runway. You landed up hill and took off downhill. Winters were long summer was too short. He loved the C-47 but always said it sort of flew like a truck. Thank you for the ride.
Great documentary, just watched the whole thing from start to finish. Very entertaining, informative and educational. Everything from the filming, editing, musical score and dialogue was so well done! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am now 70 and used to fly on Piedmont Airlines in one of these aircraft out of Frankfort, KY. I had no idea of the work it took to keep one of these birds in the air. It gives me a whole new perspective of just how talented those WWII pilots and crews were making the exact same trip. I am amazed that they could pull it off with primitive instrumentation, radios and navigation systems., and without two mechanics and six pilots on board. Amazing. My Dad was in Tinian during WWII, on the island with the Enola Gay when it took off. We had a love for these warbirds spending a lot of time in Oshkosh, and airshows. He's gone now, but I am still looking up in the sky at airplanes, and watching videos about them on here. Count me as "SUBSCRIBED"!
Fantastic view of England's biggest lake, Windermere, and to its right, Coniston Water in the Lake District National Park at 21:16.
What a stunning footage mate ! Amazing video
Lovely stuff. I was a structural engineer on the design of the American Air Museum at Duxford. Glad you toured it.
You flew over my house I live near Duxford, I remember this when it happened. Very nice 😀
Wow that series was better than everything Netflix could offer ❤
Binge watched all parts in one sitting! 👌🏻
This whole thing was absolutely amazing. I loved every bit of it, many parts gave me chills. absolutely love to hear the screaming purr of those engines as they too give me chills.
The music and editing were spot on, well done Matt! Thank you for this amazing video experience!!!
So glad you were able to be a part of this, thanks for sharing it with all of us!
Fantastic Finale! Very well chosen music. The whole story and series was top flight. I don't won't this to end!! Great, great job.
You said it Jimmy, just as I was thinking it, 1 year hence.
I can’t thank you enough for this series, and the wonderful owners and crews who flew this mission . To the owners your contributions to the next generation of pilots is unmeasurable.. I as a just a private pilot, ex Air Force mechanic, can’t thank you enough. Being old I now fly VR sims, and able to join you once again in our wonderful world of aviation.
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I'M NOT CRYING, YOU ARE! Fantastic and touching video guys. What a labour of love.
My team is in the process of making a multiplayer VR game about the Berlin Airlift - specifically about Gail Halvorsen, the OG 'Candy Bomber'. It's purpose is to teach leaders the lessons of that largest, aerial humanitarian mission. We recently installed the Microsoft Flight Simulator with the full Boeing Yoke and throttle pack...and I swear, starting the DC-3 'That's all Brother' up in VR and taking off from Wiesbaden to Berlin Tempelhof brought tears to my eyes. It's amazing how much has been forgotten already about D-Day and the Berlin Airlift here in Europe. And what a monumental task it was, helping a people you just bombed the sh*t out of...We are blessed in that we no only have the help of the Allied Museum, but also one of the last remaining veterans of the Airlift - Ralph Dionne - is supporting us with what it was like in those planes loaded to the hilt with coal, flour, camels and just about anything else....being buzzed by Russian Yaks, fighting weather, weariness and wear of the planes (most of which had flown over Normandy).
Thank you guys, your video inspired me. Us. If you ever want to try the game, we are releasing for the 75th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift in 2024. You will be more than welcome. Just drop me a line.
You can just watch the fuel pressure dial-needle starts to buffet and that’s when to switch tanks from the auxiliary tanks to the main tanks. It’s about a 5 to 7 second warning before the engines are starved. Switch over and also hit the fuel boost pump.
Of course only do this in a big pinch. It works. I had do it a couple times in my high Arctic expeditions in my DeHavilland Beaver.
Funny, the captain’s hand is GLUED on that fuel tank valve just like I used to, and you wouldn’t blink. I hope he is looking at the fuel pressure dial. (ha, now after watching the full video he did exactly as I mentioned, kudos)
But this way you’re using every drop, and then you know what you really have left when faced with conditions like increasing headwinds that puts making your destination in jeopardy.
Lovely to have knowlegeable commenters along.
Jean Burk ~ Lighten up, life is good...really...I promise.
Works in a Navajo Chieftain also...
@@bushpilotexplorer1920 I have every respect for bush pilots. I live in B.C. Long time hiker mid-coast so i see them all the time. See Joe Robinet videos about getting stranded in the Ontario bush when the flight couldn't get in, to get them. Fabulous set of vlogs.
I used to jump from a beaver down in Headcorn in Kent. Many years ago.
A beautiful tribute to what my Dad and thousands of others did. Thanks.
My grandpa(father's side) was a Norden technician in the 8th Air Force and spent most of his time at RAF Bassingbourn. My other grandpa(mother) was a jeep driver in the 90th ID and landed on Utah Beach D+1 and served until the end of the war in Czechoslovakia. This meant a lot to me at the end. My dad passed his love of aviation on to me, being next to UND helped and I was the only non-avit student in our group of aviation photographers.
TO MY MIND,-THE "D.C..3"-IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AEROPLANE,EVER BUILT,--AND, SOMEWHER,IN THE WORLD, ONE IS STILL DOING IT'S JOB TO-DAY !!-WHAT A TESTAMENT !!
Dunno why this series popped up on my RUclips recommendations but I just watched all 4 and loved it cheers!
You are an outstanding cinematographer and narrator, Matt! And a damn good pilot as well! Thank you for allowing us all to experience this incredible journey along with you.
Remembering that so many times I flew on a DC3 in Azores Islands where my father was a 1º pilot in SATA Air Azores
The guy sitting right seat that flys for UPS has the most calming pilot voice ever
Ya know so did my X wife. Lmao
Superbly done, Matt. Thank you for taking us along with you on your epic journey.
This series inspires me so much, keep them coming Matt!
Love the series! Great filming and editing Matt! And congrats to all involved on this accomplishment! Thank you gents!
My late father fought in Burma and always said that there was a great relief of being airlifted in a Dakota followed by a sense on terror as they were flown fast and low over the jungle not knowing if a Japanese fighter would pick them off along the way. He always had a great affection for the plane.
Thank you so much for taking us along with you on your journey across the Atlantic!
This has been a great series. One of the best on RUclips!
Who cannot love those old birds still flying today and crossing the pond as well. Amazing how far aviation has come but still those old birds are built solid. Alot of them survived the war to end all wars.
What a great experience! So glad you were able to do this trip, and thanks so much for sharing it with us. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for posting these videos! They have been really enlightening to watch.
Beautifully filmed, beautifully done. Very impressive. Thanks very much for some really superlative viewing.
Matt, I’ve truly enjoyed this series, thank you and the crew for vlogging it!
Thanks for letting us ride along, Matt! My dad was a WWII transport pilot, and flew for the airlines after the war. I had a lot of DC-3 rides as a kid, and even got to sit in the right seat a few times. Wonderful airplanes, I'm glad there are some still flying, thanks to people like those in this series.
This was a wonderful production Matt. Thanks so much for your hard work.
Matt this was epic, this whole series of videos put me in a state of aww, and amazement. This is inspiring to see these old aircraft still being flown today.
Fantastic set of videos. Thanks for taking the time to put them together to share with the rest of us.
Love it. You're living the dream - thanks for bringing us along!
This type of series which is a historic recreation using period aircraft has been spectacular and would love to see more of these. To the Gentlemen that flew the aircraft what an outstanding job of explaining what you are doing and very professional. Would watch any of them do this type of flying anytime! I want to thank you all for taking us along on the flight for Dday!
It's not often that I watch 10 minutes of a RUclips video like this one. I watched the whole series.
Some thought is hereby offered to the women who put an even half million rivets into each and every DC-3 / C-47. I'm good at putting new strings on my guitar but I never put a half million rivets into anything.
This series was absolutely incredible. I loved every minute of it. Thank you so much.
a joy to watch! amazing footage, very good editing. Thank you for the videos!
Wonderful! Fun being a part of this journey.
A wonderful series, great job by all of you, thank you!
Thanks for taking me along. I loved the history , engineering and just the whole adventure. Brilliant
This has been an amazing insight and an adventure to watch, and wonderfully edited. Amazing work all round.
Outstanding series, truly amazing, educational as well as entertaining.. thank you so much for taking us along for the flight.
Thank you for sharing with us this amazing experience!
Such an epic trip, loved every minute of it, many thanks for sharing!
Well done... thanks for posting this Matt
I have very much enjoyed this series! Thank you for all your effort in sharing this adventure! Happy flying!
Amazing series of videos. Watched them all back to back.
thank you matt for bringing me along. even if only by video, you still brought me along.
Many thanks for letting me ride along ,
Thank you so much for filming this and sharing this with us. Litteraly had a lump in my throat at the end there. She just looked fantastic. Thanks again for sharing this with us. I hope you get the chance to do more of this type of content in the future.
This has to be one of my favorite series of aviation videos I’ve watched here on RUclips! The perfect mashup of aviation history and practical knowledge!
Outstanding, the in-cockpit footage really makes me feel like I'm in the airplane. Enjoying how comprehensive your videos are. Thanks Matt !
Fantastic series, thanks so much for putting it together.
thanks Matt for taking us on that nostalgic journey - brilliantly done.
Simply brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing your journeys with us, and wishing you many, many more!
Thank you. Thank you very much for sharing this with us.
Fantastic series Matt thank you for putting these together and having us on this amazing trip with a great team on that DC-3
aaa thanks to all who gave there all the veterans would be so proud!!!!
I'll add my voice to the congratulations for such an amazing video series. Thanks to all for making it possible. It was a joy to watch.
As Churchill said never have so many owed so much to so few , brave men who flew those aircraft back in the day , what a generation they were 👏👏👏👏
Oliver JH That was specifically about the just under 3000 men of fighter command during the battle of Britain,but I admire you're sentiment in relation to all the pilots of WW2.
Thank you all for the hard work you put into this trip. I very much enjoyed watching this series.
I'm surprised at how emotional this made me. Thank you for a wonderful series.
Fantastic series! History is something that is being rewritten with a disgusting and disturbing lack of accuracy and more often than not, to promote a specific narrative which in itself should be of great concern for everyone.
This documentary is absolutely fantastic and brilliantly well done. Thank you to everyone involved with this project. History has, for a change, been accurately documented and transitioned into modern times. Well done. Well done indeed!
“Because that’s history- not what happened, but what people make themselves believe must have happened.” - Alistair Cooke
Epic adventure, impressive video footage, fine editing. I've been checking yt for this...
Matt this whole journey was incredible and I thank you and all involved in this project for sharing it with us!
What a joy to watch! You are awesome Matt and all the pilots and mechanics on this journey are wonderful..
Amazing, totally in awe of this series of flights. We are spoiled today, a transatlantic flight is so easy for us as passengers today. Yes we all have connections to WWII. My father was attached to a land-based fighter squadron in the Solomons in 1943 - 44. He was a member of the ground crew for a squadron of F4-U Corsairs.
What a fantastic series! Thanks for bringing us all along.
Great flying and beautiful story telling. Thank you for taking the time to share this experience. Godspeed.
Truly magnificent and absorbing series. One of the best I have seen for a long, long time. Congratulations to all concerned. A very humbling experience. Thank you for sharing this journey.
Flying with you guys just makes me happy, what a great aircraft she is, truly amazing ❤️🇺🇸❤️
A terrific piece of film making. The whole team captured the spirit of this trip. The original pilots ,so many of whom gave their lives in WW2 would be proud of your endeavours. Just wish you had been able to use the Clipper call sign.
Matt - Thanks for sharing the journey and the memoriam was very touching and deserved. We'll always be indebted to that generation!
I spent a very good time with you during this beautiful trip. Thank you !
What a fascinating series of videos! Your arrival in Scotland was particularly interesting to me, being Scottish! In fact, as a young schoolboy, I used to spend some of my Summer Holidays in Prestwick, so knew that area quite well! A visit to Prestwick Airport was a MUST! Thank you for posting the whole series of videos covering your journey from the USA to the U.K.!
Ditto what everyone else said. Thank you for doing an amazing presentation. Felt like we were part of the adventure and the history.
Loved this series, excellent editing, just a fantastic show.
Goosebumps guys. Thanks for coming. And thanks for coming when we really needed you. Love from UK.
I can't imagine how difficult it must've been navigating across the Atlantic in the 1940's with no modern navigation aids, all they had were maps, compasses and sextants, and most of the time it was cloudy and yet they still were able to find their destinations.
The C47 flight crew were four. Pilot, Co Pilot, Navigator and Flight Engineer. Both Navigator and Flight Engineer were trained to fly the plane when needed.
The 4% that crashed represents 400 aircraft losses - who knows how many souls were lost in the icy waters
JR
that was no milk run, think they had quite a few ladies ferry these things over as the guys were needed for combat, they flew in groups, plus almost always in the range of a catatlina, Short, or a convoy, so if they splashed down ok and got into a raft, a good chance they would get picked up.. but still, tense times..
Breaks my heart to think about it.
@@planegaper You can be dead within 2 minutes if you have to be in open Ocean water in Winter or spring. My father witnessed an example of that in November, early in WW2. A damaged German aircraft ditched, and stopped within 100 yards of his fishing boat. The uninjured pilot signalled to them before diving into the water, as the plane started to sink. But the crew could not save the pilot, who was unresponsive as he came up from his dive. His body froze to the deck.
@@RWBHere I could imagine, I read they tried to mitigate losses as much as possible but I've been in frozen water for my MED training, and unless you got GUMBY suite on, yeah , yer pretty much done at those latitudes.. brave people back then..
What an incredibly well done documentation. I can't thank you enough for making this. I will be watching all of it again.
Amazing edit, thanks for capturing and sharing this experience!