Flying Bulls | take-off | Douglas DC-6B
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2009
- Douglas DC-6B
take-off: 25.06.2009 | Hangar-7
destination: Zeltweg
Pilot:
Frederic Handelmann / Flying Bulls
about:
Als Jugoslawiens "Air Force One" beförderte sie einst Marschall Tito und seine illustren Gäste. Nach Einsätzen in Afrika wäre sie fast zum Ersatzteillager degradiert worden. Jetzt ist sie das Glanzstück der Flying Bulls.
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In 1952 at the age of four my first airplane ride was on a UNITED DC-6B from MDW to LGA. The 2 1/2 hr ride was awesome, especially standing in the cockpit giving the flight crew a no-notice check ride (ha ha). They let us kids up front in those days. I was so impressed I went into the airline industry and retired as a B747 Captain. But it was on that DC-6B where I really started my aviation career.
My dad flew this magnificent machine and I flew it in with him several times within Brazil. The old man, a sparkling pilot coming from the USAAF´s P47, designed and flew the DC6 Real bought from SAS the flight São Paulo-Tokyo-São Paulo, through LA, Honolulu, Wake Island and Tokyo. God bless you Pa. I love you, man.
Great airplane. I've logged many hours across all 3 seats with three different carriers in the Sky Truck 6 throughout the late 70's, 80's and early 90's. Flown both swing tails, N434TA (Zantop) and N867TA (Trans Air Link). I still have microfiche maintenance binders in one flight case, several maintenance and flight ops manuals and flight crew check lists in another, and a case of original like new Bendix ignition analyzer wave form for R-2800 low tension hand books. Nashville (BNA) banning us for pissing 4 spots of black crude on their fresh concrete was a classic :) .
I FE'ed on DC-6's in Alaska in the 90's. Only shut down one engine on one occasion, we were loaded with 4000 gals of fuel oil and had enough engine oil and water/meth mix for three days of remote operation, well over the gross weight, the pilot said the aircraft flew fine on three engines, couldn't even tell number 4 was shut down. We had one cracked spark plug ceramic. With the engine analyzer pinpointing the exact cylinder and plug, it was a 30 minute job, and we were off again. I can guarantee one thing, Douglas forgot more about building large propeller driven aircraft than Piper, Cessna or Beechcraft will ever know. Theres a special feeling you get in a multiengine aircraft, knowing you can shut down an engine, and it only amounts to a slight inconvenience. The DC-6 was, and still is, a great aircraft.
I flew Volpars and a Skyvan up there in the early 90s, and would see those things leaving Anchorage very regularly. Three-turning, one-burning was always the joke. Once I heard a crew on tower frequency, report they had an engine fire and were returning to the airport. But other than that they seemed to always go. They didn't climb very fast, but then again neither did we...
Perhaps this one as seen in my video coming in on 3 at Fairbanks. ruclips.net/video/FWe9M9HXj8g/видео.html
Wow. Beautiful restoration. Perfectly smooth polished cowlings. The last time the aluminum looked this good was when the plane first left the factory.
A grand old airplane. I flew the C118 version as an engineer way back in the last century.
Love the way the pilot checks the map, glances out the window and looks like he's thinking, "This doesn't look right." Seriously, a beautiful old plane and a credit to all involved. Lucky passengers.
Just a beautiful plane! Love those round motors
Lovely to see this graceful aircraft in operation,no comparison with today's cattle trucks. Thanks for great photography too. Terry Offord.
Nice video, and very sharp looking DC-6! I'm sure glad to see at least one of these beauties flying people, even if with a fancy interior and cockpit. Obviously money no object. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice footage and editing. Thank you.
Brilliant footage, beautiful plane. Well done.
Beautiful restoration!
w5cdt, what he said!
The best-sounding propliner ever!
Beautiful classic. .....5:13...that's beautiful too.
Thanks for uploading.
I was flight crew on R6D (DC6)with Naval Air Squadron VR-3 in early60's. We had missions all over the world in this great aircraft. Took the Signal Corps to Vietnam in 1962 .
Have been inside on the ground, at ILA Berlin 2012. met part of the fantastic team making it still flying. This aircraft is a dream !
Wow, I just found this video. I would love to sit in the jump seat of one of these things again for a take off and landing. I was a crew chief/flight mechanic on a VC-118B USAF version of the DC-6, tail #51-835 from 1968-72 out of Norton AFB. Flew around the world delivering IG teams and VIPs to various US and NATO bases. This was close to the end of recip aircraft in the USAF inventory. But we went places the jets couldn't, and in comfort, though low and slow. They also performed better than you can imagine. More than once on training flights we made max-performance takeoffs with little weight on board going vertical after a short roll. Once with a couple of VIPs in both front seats we flew down into the Grand Canyon, its walls at times a few yards off our wingtips. You can't do that now. We also and all over Australia at low altitude after island hopping the Pacific. Amazing where we could put that 105 foot long airplane. Though flight time was 10 hours to Hawaii from Norton in SoCal, we were low enough at times to smell the ocean, and once half way to Hickam spotted a small sail boat adrift with a broken mast, saving the family on board. In hundreds of hours on the old birds, the only real emergencies I ever experienced were two forced landings due to a prop governor failure, and a radar failure that allowed us to fly into a storm cell over Ohio resulting in a lightning strike, which took out the rudder. And radar failure at night while skirting a typhoon got us lost for hours, nearly running out of fuel trying to find Fiji with the Secretary of the Air Force and his staff on board on a Presidential mission. My job while sitting in the jump seat between the Pilot and Copilot, I would give the pilot the power he wanted, and maintain the fuel balance between wings, and operate the autopilot, but mostly I was essentially dyno tuning four compound supercharged and water injected 2500 hp engines every flight, and every maintenance run-up. The only really bad part was post flight inspections often found that in spite of safety wire, the exhaust stacks had shed a few fasteners, and my long arms needed a second elbow to replace them.
I was stationed at Hickam AFB 1968 -1970. HQ PACAF. Had distinct pleasure of relying on "Old Shaky's" (C-124 Globemasters) for occasional job related transit to and from Hilo on the Big Island.I feel sorry for anyone who loves aviation (as I still do) that did not have an opportunity to fly or to ride in a big radial engine aircraft. The sound and fury of those four banks of huge cylinders burning lots of high octane fuel during take off is unlike any other. Best wishes from another airman of that bygone era.
In 33303?
I can't decide which looks better; the plane or the flight attendants? They are both spectacular!!!
Indeed! They were called, stewardesses back in the day.
The blonde was smokin' hot. Was there a plane in this video?
I was a flight engineer on the C118 in the usaf 60s and 70s loved the plane and my job
@AmazonChitlin
This is correct. I was just trying to say that the aircraft type does not make the engine sound, but it's the engine/prop combination. The Allison turboprops of the re-engined models all have these special props, same as on the Hercules, Electra or Orion. But I am referring to the original Pratt R2800, which was identical to the DC-6 engines, except the CV-440 had mufflers.
All DC6B in Australia were bought new from Douglas and based at Melbourne's Essendon & flown on internal routes (given Australia's size) by ANA. No crash ever occurred & popularity was assured.
I flew on an AF MATS version of this in the late 50s on emergency lv when stationed in Libya.. plane was diverted from Dharan Saudia Arabia, going via Azores and Gander fuel stops. I was a very young 2nd Lt. doing celestial nav training in the desert at nites.Will never forget the help and assistance I received when the message via the Red Cross way way out in the desert arrived one Am.The aircraft was loaded with mostly dependents returning to the US, and to divert a scheduled MATS flight was a huge help. I was 36 hours in transit from Libya MacGuire AFB Grand Central Station in NYC and Buffalo. C-119s were the latest MATS then and I kept all my papers and fotos, of that trip,,,,,A Grand grand aircraft from the Douglas Corp
props to Red Bull for doing some cool shit
The sound of the engines of a DC6 is really sweet.
A fantastic machine!
Nearly as old as I am too!
I would jump at the chance to fly aboard this beautiful lady!
what a beautiful old bird xx
I went back from Hong Kong to Brussels via Singapore Karachi Teheran Cairo Rome Geneva Brussels, I was 11. What a souvenir. The company was Sabena in joint venture with SAS.
Beautiful flight attendant +DC-6
gosh what a time it was when we relied on torque rather than speed such a more pleasant experience it seems.
neat video i like this i hope they keep this plane
Wonderfull plane..👍
I worked on the USAF's version, the C-118A. (Instrument shop). Much different panel layout, however, there were many gauges, as in this aircraft. Lots of problem systems, in the old DC-6's: Worst was the BMEP and the fuel quantity - would work two men and a boy to death!! Had a lot of Autosyn Synchro style engine (& hydraulic) indicating systems; also, the Magnesyn style engine instruments. But those PW R-2800's were totally reliable. Nice video, thanks, N-6395T
I got a chance to fly in this plane when it still belonged to SAA... They brought it up to Berlin EDDB/SXF during the ILA. Offered sightseeing flights. Capt Flippie Vermeulen gave me and buddy free tickets for the very last of these flights. Unfortunately, Engine No. 3 lost oil and had to be shut off during our flight. They never got it back to flying during that ILA... Man, it must have been either '94 or '96...
What an exquisite aircraft!
pity that the cockpit is not original, because I note it has undergone a small change by the GNS 530 so in reality was not equipped, it was classic flights VOR to VOR NDB ! thank's for sharing from ALGERIA :))
@s062dd
What exactly is "Convair" sound? It's the engines that make the sound.
Prima!
I always thought the DC-7 used those conical spinners, but they were usually absent from the DC-6? Learned something new.
DC-6 speed kit.
Wissen diese jungen Piloten, welches großartige Flugzeug sie da fliegen dürfen - ich nehme es an und beneide sie zutiefst! Vielen Dank für dieses Video - über die Art der Inneneinrichtung der alten Dame kann man sich streiten - ist wohl ein Zugeständnis an den Betreiber
@PeterNGloor Nothing sounds so sweet as a radial engine
A very nicely restored DC-6. Don't care for the interior. I would've left it in passenger form.
I have over 4000 hrs in the jump seat as an F/E on the C118 B while in the USN.
so?
Nicest-sounding radials ever!!!
Looks like a few upgrades in the cockpit. I wonder how much of it is still original?
She’s so beautiful
First plane I ever flew in.
WONDERFUL.... !!!!
I bet it even has the superchargers on the outboard engines working for functional pressurization. I loved the airplane, but man.. I hated dealing with the Skydrol for the superchargers, that stuff is nasty. I also wonder if they have the two speed blowers operational on the R2800's, although I do believe you need 108/135 Octane fuel to get 2500HP out of those Pratt's
Are you talking about the "altimatic cabin system" which maintained a cabin altitude of say 8,000 ft while the plane was actually at 18 or 20,000 ft. If so yes, they removed them but mainly to increase payload. As for the R2800 engines' turbochargers, my understanding is that they worked fine.
R-2800 engines do not have turbochargers. Those normally mounted on the DC-6 series (CA-15, CB-16/-17 have a two stage supercharger.
A Cathay Pacific DC6B Formerly Reg VR-HFK is now owned and operated by Everts Air CARGO, ALASKA, AS PART OF THEIR VINTAGE FLEET.THIS SURELY SPEAKS VOLUMES FOR THE RELIABILITY OF THE P&W ENGINES, IT MUST COST PRETTY HIGH IN SPARE PARTS HOWEVER, AS THE YEARS GO BY, i CAN'T SEE AN AIRBUS A380 LASTING MORE THAN TEN YEARS.(sorry about the 'shouting' my Caps lock is giving me a spot of bother. Terry Offord.
Hola. el avion pilatus que aparece es de la Fuerza Aerea Mexicana ? por que parece que ostenta el triangulo de la FAM
saludos y gracias desde Mexico
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This aircraft is in an Amazin state! :D
Any reason for the escort other than maybe for photos? The stews look better.
Fitz207, I agree 100% with both!
PMDG, Xplane ... Can't wait :)
Servus Cocpit! Super! STR
What is the wheel in the fwd dash? Looks like a Tiller to steer the aircraft on the ground. Great Plane! Dad flew this bird and the Connie at National and Pan American.
Rudder trim
WOW. At least a jewel of old time fying times crossing AMERICA from LOS ANGELES TONEW YORK and watching the GRAND CANYON and THE ROCKIES during the flight. Still in operating conditions.
Got a little carried away with the editing effects there.
КРАСАВЧЕГ!!!!!!!✌️😎👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
i am a l-1011guy but dam i love this airplane how sweet
wow!
Can't imagine I have been flying the DC 6 across the Atlantic trough the weather systems. How risky was that?
sehr schönes Video - besonders die Innenaufnahmen sind toll, denn die sieht man nicht so oft wie die Flugvideos der DC6
She's 'ah clean machine...
@theMagicMan555
Austria, Salzburg
carnival magic
A lot of throttles on the DC 6
Nice bird but why is every flight movie done at the wing and engine seat its blocking the view of the scenery
Where is this?
Looks like Salzburg, where the Red Bull base is.
That's the shell of a DC6
@PeterNGloor P&W R-2800's...doesn't get any better than that.
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Is the de-icing system for leading edges and props still installed, so the plane can fly in IMC conditions?
Yes, it is. You can see the electrical leads for the prop deicing on each blade at the base going into the spinner. Prop heat is a huge current draw, so only one prop is deiced at a time, but the airfoil heat is really anti-icing. It is not necessary for IMC though, only for flight into icing.
Modernizado
Well, with Red Bull money I guess you COULD fix it up a little, eh? Is it nicer than John Travolta's Boeing 707? Maybe. It IS a sweet DC-6, that's for darn sure!!!
Not the convair sound, bad
I may be wrong, but is this not the plane that belonged to Yugoslav President Tito?
Yes, it was his equivalent of Air Force One.
"President" is a kind title for Tito.
@0exrxixc0 & Zeltweg ^^
Hot Stews. Does it still fly perfect at 30,000'? Strange camera work. Stick with the straight stuff, it's better.
As Yugoslavia's "Air Force One" it once transported Marshal Tito and his illustrious guests. After working in Africa, it had been almost downgraded to spare parts. Now she is the highlight of the Flying Bulls.
Shhhush
yeah our cargo company has 2 of these things. theyre stinky, old, and make a complete mess everytime they take off. theyre from 1948 and need to be scrapped already in my opinion
Scrapped or Restored.
EscapeforMankind . well i mean we stil fly them multiple times a day. theyre not in good condition at all but they work i guess. but not in scrapped condition either
chinchillawrangler This plane in particular is in Pristine condition and if I were rich I'd own it.
EscapeforMankind . i wouldnt own one even if it was brand new...ours break down at least every day. we've cancelled a flight everyday this week cuz our 6's keep breaking down..they make a huge mess on the ramp and are hella loud...thats why i prefer working with the DC9's we have..much easier to load and cleaner atmosphere
EscapeforMankind . besides. if you really wanted to buy a used 6, you could probably get one for like 100 grand. thats cheap as far as aircraft go. i know our company never pays much for all the ones we have. and weve got a fleet of like 8(?) i think...idk, wikipedia "everts air cargo" and itll tell you how many dc6's we got
If you make a living working on this plane you'd best save your money ~ Red Bull just bailed out of sponsorship on their 2 car NASCAR team!!!