I’ve had the plane 22 years. I offer both PIC and SIC type ratings. Anyone with a single engine pilots license or sport pilot cert can fly it left seat. $1800/hr. Anyone can get one takeoff and a short flight and one landing left seat for $500 In this case it was a low time private pilot left seat for the takeoff and landing. Winds were very high, gusting and 60 degree crosswind. I allow the student to do 99% of it do yes it’s wobbly and yes he bounced it on but it doesn’t hurt anything and it’s all part of the experience. He totally enjoyed it.
Agree. When I come across an aircraft vid or any motor driven vehicle vid with music. I immediately stop and move on. I’ll listen to Pandora if I want music. When it comes to motors planes or otherwise, they are what I want to hear. This is a great vid of a grand old lady!!
Yes, it's a cool plane, great history, I think it's in the time frame of the "Connie" not real sure. I know delta flew some DC3's back in the day, my brother worked as AP mechanic for Delta back in the early 90s in Atlanta, I remember seeing some cool historical big model planes like the DC3 in one of the maintenance facilities there.
My mother flew multiple missions in the C47 as a flight nurse in WW2 across the channel into the front..had SO MANY incredible stories..to this day I dream of flying in one..
I am 70 and one of favorite things as a youngster was the sound of twin and four engine piston aircraft at night when I was in bed. My dad was a aerospace engineer and he got me so I could identify different aircraft and what engines they were using by sound.
Yep, in 1950s UK I would hear those tramp steamer kites all the time overhead. At night at 22:00 I would hear the BOAC stratocruiser outward bound from London Airport. I knew most of the piston engine sounds.
I am 71. When I was in bed 5-6 ys old I called them autumn planes, probably because in the fall the runway used from Stockholm BMA often led the starting planes over our house because of the strong eastern winds.
I’m about the same age. The sounds of large piston planes at night made me think about being up in the cockpits. Thinking about it now brings the same feelings. I loved that! Thanks for sharing!
In 1964 my sister graduated from high school and she flew on a DC 3 from Memphis to Columbus Mississippi to start college. Several years later the DC 3 was finally taken out of service. It's a beautiful plane
I bet she flew on Southern Airways in 1964. I remember them in that time period and my first flight was on a Southern DC3 from New Orleans to Monroe in 1966.
We lived in Welkom South africa. In the early 70,s still a very young teenager every afternoon at 4pm a DC 3 flew over our house towards the airport. Me and my brother always made sure that we climbed our big tree in our yard to the top to wave at the DC. Will never forgot those moments and she was always on time. Sometimes we were listening and we could here she is coming😊😊 thanks for your upload....greetings from South Africa Martin
@martinmuller, thanks for the memory jog ! There was an airfield not far from my elementary school, and on more than a few recesses, a couple of us scratched a big " HI ! " into the dirt. I have no idea if anyone ever did, or even could have seen it. Haaa.
@@stephencrowther524 argue a taste thing? You really expected that I would have written: "To my personal opinion...."? The word aesthetically says enough right?
These aircrafts were design and built using drawings, airplanes plans ,pure science, maths, laws of physics and gravity , etc; not like today that they use computers for all those calculations! Those DC-3 are a real man made Masterpiece. Love the looong and wide wings and the precision location of the two huge and heavy engines for balance and weight and perfect performance💪👍🏻 Great video showing a great and beautiful plane!!
How many different planes were the one that won the war? It was a massive group effort. My father flew F6f Hellcats off of carriers in the Pacific, Hellcats had the most kills there, but it wasn't the plane that won the war.
I had the absolute honor to sit right seat when I was just 19 years old. My flight instructor, flew cargo to the Bahamas and would let me go. Many great hours in arguably one of the greatest aircraft ever.
My first flight in an airliner was in 1952 in a Chicago & Southern Airways DC-3 from St. Louis to Memphis. The crew let me sit R/H seat for about 10 minutes. My return flight was in a Connie. When I was in ROTC in 1957, I got an "orientation flight" in a C-47 at Scott AFB in Illinois. I made flying my career and started out doing crop dusting in a Stearman fighting the war against Mr. Boll Weevil.
The DC3 is the first airplane I remember seeing . And I made a few flights in it as a passenger in Africa in the fifties . Still a huge plane in my memory .
I was about 12, my brother 10. Flew a Southern Airways DC3 to Nashville on the way to visit Memphis relatives. We were the only passengers on the first leg. It was an adventure i had only dreamed about until that calm, sunny mid 1950s day. My favorite airplane? Of course!
my first flight was i a DC-3 like this operated by MATS (military Air Transport Service). It was 1953 as a 20 year-old soldier. I'd had completed basic training at Fort Dix, NJ and was assigned to the Armor School at Ft Knox, KY.
I had always dreamed of flying somewhere on a DC-3 but by the time I made it onto a commercial flight Northwest Airlines was flying the Lockhead L188 electra. What a beautiful sight to see the DC-3 in action. As a youngster, I loved listening to those engines come to life, that power surge as it gained momentum down the runway on its way into that space between the clouds and Mother earth. Absolutely magnificent! Thank you for sharing.
You can still get a ride in one Kenny. My wife and I flew in one 4 years ago out of Mecham Field in Fort Worth, Texas. She treated us the ride for my birthday. To say it was a dream come true would be an understatement. You can walk around inside while in flight and take pictures over the pilots shoulders. I have about 60 shots we took of the experience. IIRRC they only offer daytime rides in the summer months, and during the Christmas holidays, there is a night flight around the city. I grew up in the Air Force as my Dad was in SAC. Lots of memories of military planes disrupting our sleep at night with B 52's doing readiness scrambles!
Spent my summers as a teen in the early seventies on a small island off of Cape Cod. Air New England had a couple of these in their fleet and they would pass over the house at low altitudes regularly. Will never tire of the sound of those big radials 👍
When we lived in the far north (the Arctic in the Northwest Territories back in 1985 and 1986), the Beaver, the DC-3, and the Twin Otter were the workhorses. The DC-3 was an excellent plane with a reliability record to match.
My remembrance of the DC-3 goes back to my induction into the Air Force on the night of 1 October 1964. Heading to San Antonio from Houston. I had on my Florida clothes which did not help to keep me warm at whatever altitude we were flying. It was so cold I think I shivered the whole flight. The plane has an air nozzle right above my seat that I could not close off and I think it was piping outside air right into the cabin.
Thanks for serving our country Brother/Sister ! I was an Aerial Combat Documentary Photographer in the US Air Force 1965/68. I used to fly mainly on B-52s and KC135 Refuelers out of Utapao RTAFB in Thailand in 67/68... but one of the Squadron Commanders liked to fly his favorite C47 (DC3) every so often, and I got to stand in the Open Door area right behind the Left wing and take photographs while flying around Southern Thailand ! *FJB !*
Hadn’t noticed that on my DC3 trips in the 50s and 60s. But had the same problem at a much higher altitude on a flight from Yokota to Travis on a C5A. Could not believe it was that cold!
What a lovely piece of film of this great and venerable aircraft. Beautiful condition and great sound of those P&W radials. No disco music, and all the better for no commentary, thank you!
I was an active skydiver back in the 80s when DC3s were still quite popular for jump aircraft. At some of the large events there might 6 or 7 of them flying jumpers. It was not uncommon for at least one of them to do a buzz job over the packing area at the end of the day. Being right underneath one of these planes as it flies 20 feet over your head is an incredible experience. Always got a big cheer from the jumpers.
As a child, around 7-9 years old, I’d fly from either Logan or Portland to Burlington on a DC 3. My best friends family moved there and my parents would put me on the plane and my friends parents picked me up in Burlington. On one trip, I remember watching a bolt rattle on the wing. It rattled the entire trip. I wasn’t worried at all, just kept me interested as I wondered it it would rattle all the way out. I mentioned it to the pilot when I left. I just remembered he smiled.
My uncle Sander Verburg flew a DC 3 in The Netherlands for tours above Amsterdam. That's when my family and I flew with him one time. He also flew in Africa later on a regular route. The Dutch movie Dakota was filmed in Suriname and he flew that plane as well. This was in the 70s I believe.
Beautiful, upon landing clearly the frames per minute was approximately the RPM of both propellers. And An amazing piece of aviation, history live and available today.
To me, nothing can ever compare the the beauty and classic lines of the DC-3. My very first flight was onboard a DC-3 back in the early 60's owned by Southern Airlines. And nothing sounds like those P&W engines. Truly a one of a kind aircraft.
In Dec '74 I took a hop from Dallas Naval Air Station to Andrews AFB on a AIR Reserve DC-3, which continued on to Italy. Great bird, larger than the commercial DC-3, I'm thinking. I recall the head was in the tail, I placed my head on the curvature to take a whiz.
My first flying experience, in 1966, was in a DC-3, which was still standard for regional airlines in Australia. This created a lifelong fascination with aircraft and air travel. Even now as an old dude in a 787 Dreamliner, I have to sit in a window seat and look at the window, still smiling like that young child. I am sure the teenagers on the aircraft think I am demented. In New Guinea they were affectionately known as 'Biscuit Bombers' by the Australian Troops because they dropped supplies by air into clearings where they could not land.
My first flight was on a Southern Airways DC3 from New Orleans to Monroe in 1966. I also flew on a C47 from NKP Thailand to DaNang, Viet Nam in 1970. I believe the only plane that is tougher than a DC3 is the C130. Hercey Birds are tough.
Many moons ago a flight of these lumbered over my home on final for infantry parachute drop practice once a year. Left an impression. Later in the 70's it was Caribou, but the Dakotas stole my heart.
That big Sheeba is just trying to come back to earth even on take-off. A lumbering, massive air vessel. Dan fights gravity with her, on every flight. So beautiful to see this wonderful work of art.
My dad used to fly the C47 version with the RAAF in WW2 over New Guinea as a biscuit bomber. He loved the Lockheed Lodestart too. Both great planes, and reliable. I hear of a lot of DC3's still flying but what of the old Lodestars. You don't hear much about them anymore.
Jimmy Doolittle (Who’s son, John , came to my retirement ceremony) once said that if an airplane looked right, chances are it would fly right. Few aircraft look as right as the DC3.
Excellent take off. Getting the tail up into the wind right away. Also cool how the props look like they are stationary. The RPM is apparently some multiple of 60.
Both my uncles flew in WW2 ( one in Bomber Command then Africa, the other in P40 in Pacific South West. Both came back and both flew DC 3 aircraft for an Australian airline. I flew in a DC3 many years ago. Lovely aircraft, lovely sound.
A FedEx DC-3 that used to fly right over my house, every night, at about 1,000 feet would send me running outside when I heard it coming just to watch and hear it fly over. It was about dusk and I could see the blue flames coming out of the stacks. And years earlier (abound late 80s) I was in my 172 in Augusta, Georgia when I saw a DC-3 land. I was thinking it would have been some kind of cargo load only to be surprised when it unloaded a hand full of passengers.
Hey that sound gives me goose pumps. Like the video shutter speed that is so close to the propeller cycle speed that looks like they are hardly turning. 😊
My first parachute staic line jump was out of a LSU DC-3 that was purchased from the University of LSU. It was used to transport the football team. Then it was flying Skydivers at Idle Hour Airport in west Mobile Al.
Just imagine the number of different vehicles that have towed that plane over it's lifetime. That would be an interesting display of cars,trucks and tractors from the 80 years of the DC3.
Tara field. Took many check rides there with Bob Mcswiggan before he recently passed. that DC3 was one of his that flew with Academy Airlines years ago. Actually landed in the Everglades giving it the nickname: Ali Gator.
Yup! Back when it was 4A7. It is Atlanta Speedway (HMP) now. I learned to fly out of FFC, but instructor always took me to Tara for crosswind TOL practice, as evidenced in this vid it always seemed to be a crosswind. Short field TOL, too, as it was (relatively) shorter then. I also had my PPL checkride with an examiner out of here. Good memories. Thanks for sharing yours!
Was it ever named "Bear Creek airport"? I learned to fly the Cessna 150 in the early 1970s at South Expressway Airport just off hwy 19/41. Down by the racetrack there was a airport named Bear Creek. When I was 16 years old I would fly around the racetrack low-level. Kinda practice for flying Huey's and Blackhawks in the Army... LOL... just wondering if it was the airport you now call Terra? If
@@willchoate7072 It was Bear Creek before Clayton County - Tara Field, which was weird because it was/is in Henry County. But as I said above, it’s called Atlanta Speedway now. And South Expressway was closed 40 years ago or more. Built a new court / jail / municipal complex there.
@@Ernwaldo I started flying sailplanes when I was 15 at Antique Acres grass strip. I was in the restaurant that's there now and was talking to the restaurant manager. I mentioned to him that I had been flying there when I was 15 and the name back then was Antique Acres. He got huffy with me and flat out told me it had always been Peach State. So a day or two later I went to the FAA sight and checked the history of the airport. Sent him a copy and he didn't reply. Some of these young people just won't admit if they are wrong. Just for the record, I wasn't a rich kid. I would work all week after school at the Texaco station to get the money . I was in the glider club at Forest Park high School back then. I would do the same at the Texaco and wash some airplanes at South Expressway Airport and trade that for a good deal on flight time with an instructor in a Cessna 150.
Some of my first skydives were from a DC3 "Mr Douglas" , supposedly hull #3?.. Great memories, fun plane, good tunes otw to "altitude " (😂) listening to the radials & Hendrix, for 40 minutes!😊
Lived in the FL Keys in the 80s and so enjoyed the Mosquito Control DC 3s flying low and slow in their spraying routes. Often in formation of 2. When they banked for turns the wing tips were mere feet above the water. And the rumble❤❤❤. Thanks for the memories.
Took my first plane ride in a DC-3 around the ages of 3-4. Flew from Huntsville, AL to Little Rock, AR w/ a stopover in Memphis, TN. I still remember the thunderstorms my goodness
Imagine, leaping out the side of one in the middle of the night on D-Day, as flack burst all around and the plane next to yours was turned into a fireball! No GPS...just French resistance with lanterns.
Funny seeing the aircraft image while hearing the helicopter sound. For a second I though my neighbor was coming in for a landing. He commutes in one of his helicopters.
Doing an SiC course with Dan has been on my bucket list for 25 years! To have that rating on my licence would be wonderful. Sadly I stopped flying about 15 years ago so it'll never happen but well done to that PPL for handling it in that wind. Great job.
When I was about 4, my parents and I flew from LA to Tokyo on a American Airlines DC-3. It had small windows over the regular windows, because there were bunk beds over the seats. One engine had flames coming from it, so we stopped at Wake Island for repairs.
Don't often say this about you Tube videos, but who ever did this one nailed it. That take off sequence is about the best I've seen. Excellent, excellent work. You had that plane perfectly centered so well it looked like it was just floating in midair. You could see every movement in detail. Elevator, rudder, aileron movements, gear going up. Until it faded, that unique DC-3 Engine sound and then the flyby. Thank you for a superbly made video. How about doing a video on the F-82 Twin Mustang? Please.
William combs- Agreed. I am only at 21 seconds, and the color, framing, and sounds are beautiful. I saw Dan G's name so I clicked and was glad I did. I am researching something, so I have to quit, but I'll be back.
The Australians in the 1980's converted DC3's to Crop Dusters. Moved the cowl flaps and other controls to the reach of the Captain, and flew them AS CROP DUSTERS WITH ONLY ONE PILOT ON BOARD. Cajuns.
Awesome bird! One of the best planes ever made. My grandfather used to sometimes Co-pilot the NASA C-47 (military DC-3 version) out at Edwards AFB in the 60s.
I had the pleasure of a ride in a DC3 (C47) in 1962 or 63 as a Cadet in The Civil Air Patrol. This is one of the most beautiful looking and sounding creations Man has ever made. God Bless and stay safe.
I have had the pleasure of sitting in the open Para door flying across Lake Kariba watching the props cause a rooster tail in the water.... Sitting in the same door with same pilot a few months later flew down the Nuanetsi river and looked up at the river banks (1976)... The Pilot was a 62 year old second world war pilot who flew that same Dakota on the Berlin air bridge.... What a brilliant memory...
When I was on hot shot forest firefighting crews in Montana and Idaho, we were flown in various Johnson Flying Service aircraft including DC3s, a DC4, and a C46. Some of these aircraft were later acquired by Evergreen, including one they called a DC2 1/2. One wing was from a DC2, and the other was from a DC3.
Beautiful bird! I would love to log a parachute jump out of that DC-3! I have many out of a twin beech and even the old caribou but never a DC-3…. Thanks for sharing and blue skies! 🫡 🪂
My first DC-3 flight was with my mom to visit her parents when I was a few months old. I had many unaccompanied flights on the same route as I got bigger. I would be taken up to the cockpit and given a tin set of wings. My last DC-3 flight was in to Puerto Escondido in Mexico around 1970.
I was an Aerial Combat Documentary Photographer in the US Air Force 1965/68. I used to fly mainly on B-52s and KC135 Refuelers out of Utapao RTAFB in Thailand in 67/68... but one of the Squadron Commanders liked to fly his favorite C47 (DC3) every so often, and I got to stand in the Open Door area right behind the Left wing and take photographs while flying around Southern Thailand ! FJB !
From a seasoned DC-3 pilot who was one of the last one to fly it in scheduled passenger ops which was in late 1978. I flew for a commuter airline based in south central Missouri. We also had 4 Beech 18s so I learned how to fly tailwheel. On your plane Dan, I see the 14 cylinder Pratt & Whitney engines, probably R-1830-92s instead of the 9 cylinder Wrights, 2 piece windshields whereas mine had a one piece, no radar, and deicing boots. Beautiful airplane and I am happy it is in such good hands. I lfew the DC-3A with the 1350 hp R-1830-94s for 1,000 hours and was a company check airman on it, and car parts out of MKCK in the C-47B with Dash 92s. What a world of difference between the Dash 94 and 92!!
Spent days and days flying from Edmonton to Tuktoyaktuk and back several summers in a row. Often we just sat on mail bags or other cargo. Lunch came in a paper bag!
I’ve had the plane 22 years. I offer both PIC and SIC type ratings. Anyone with a single engine pilots license or sport pilot cert can fly it left seat. $1800/hr. Anyone can get one takeoff and a short flight and one landing left seat for $500
In this case it was a low time private pilot left seat for the takeoff and landing. Winds were very high, gusting and 60 degree crosswind. I allow the student to do 99% of it do yes it’s wobbly and yes he bounced it on but it doesn’t hurt anything and it’s all part of the experience. He totally enjoyed it.
You have had an ego problem for 22 years.
@@AlbertHess-xy7kyand this revelation about human behavior that everyone has tells us what captain obvious?
Everyone has some ego. Some have an overbearing ego problem, obviously. . @@billveek9518
Beautiful plane, I'd love to fly along
Dan is the man 👍🏼👍🏼😎😎😻😻
This is one of my favourite DC3 videos. Thanks for not ruining it with crap music love the sound of the PW1830s
Thanks so much! I lucked out too because it was my first day using my new shotgun microphone!
I agree! I wish everyone undertood that the very best "music" for a video such as this is the sound of the aircraft itself!
Right?! Thats a beautiful plane and those singing Pratt & Whitney's are the only music I want to hear
I agree. The sound of those old Aircraft is music to my ears too.:)
Agree. When I come across an aircraft vid or any motor driven vehicle vid with music. I immediately stop and move on. I’ll listen to Pandora if I want music. When it comes to motors planes or otherwise, they are what I want to hear. This is a great vid of a grand old lady!!
Perfect video!!
No crappy music or over dubbed voices,we love to hear the engines and enjoy the sights!
Absolute perfection,thank you!
Thanks!!
DC3s are such elegant, beautiful airplanes. Hard to believe this venerable bird was introduced nearly 90 years ago.
Many of us regard the DC-3 as one of the most beautiful planes ever.
Greatest plane ever built
Practical, not beautiful.
Yes, it's a cool plane, great history, I think it's in the time frame of the "Connie" not real sure. I know delta flew some DC3's back in the day, my brother worked as AP mechanic for Delta back in the early 90s in Atlanta, I remember seeing some cool historical big model planes like the DC3 in one of the maintenance facilities there.
I'm saving my nickles,and coming to see you!!
@@larryrobinson7492 The "Connie" was something VERY special. Gorgeous!
My mother flew multiple missions in the C47 as a flight nurse in WW2 across the channel into the front..had SO MANY incredible stories..to this day I dream of flying in one..
I am 70 and one of favorite things as a youngster was the sound of twin and four engine piston aircraft at night when I was in bed. My dad was a aerospace engineer and he got me so I could identify different aircraft and what engines they were using by sound.
Yep, in 1950s UK I would hear those tramp steamer kites all the time overhead. At night at 22:00 I would hear the BOAC stratocruiser outward bound from London Airport. I knew most of the piston engine sounds.
I am 71. When I was in bed 5-6 ys old I called them autumn planes, probably because in the fall the runway used from Stockholm BMA often led the starting planes over our house because of the strong eastern winds.
I’m about the same age. The sounds of large piston planes at night made me think about being up in the cockpits. Thinking about it now brings the same feelings. I loved that! Thanks for sharing!
My father was a DC-3 mechanic for Allegheny in the 50s. He loved that airplane. We did a lot of trips,on them.
In 1964 my sister graduated from high school and she flew on a DC 3 from Memphis to Columbus Mississippi to start college. Several years later the DC 3 was finally taken out of service. It's a beautiful plane
I bet she flew on Southern Airways in 1964. I remember them in that time period and my first flight was on a Southern DC3 from New Orleans to Monroe in 1966.
We lived in Welkom South africa. In the early 70,s still a very young teenager every afternoon at 4pm a DC 3 flew over our house towards the airport. Me and my brother always made sure that we climbed our big tree in our yard to the top to wave at the DC. Will never forgot those moments and she was always on time. Sometimes we were listening and we could here she is coming😊😊 thanks for your upload....greetings from South Africa Martin
I flew joburg nelspruit on a dc3 in the 1990s .. that was real flying
@martinmuller, thanks for the memory jog !
There was an airfield not far from my elementary school, and on more
than a few recesses, a couple of us scratched a big " HI ! " into the dirt.
I have no idea if anyone ever did, or even could have seen it. Haaa.
Thanks for also sharing your interesting memory there I am sure someone saw that greetings 😅
Greetings from Rolla Missouri USA
The sight…and sound, of this magnificent living tribute to American Aviation is breathtaking.
the dc-3 and the 747 are aesthetically the most beautiful airplanes ever build. And then both have an enormous track record and still fly today.
Try looking at the Super Connie.....🤣🤣
You forgot the magnificent Lockheed Constellation, a sculpture in aluminum.❤️
@@computerjantje Ever built ? I don’t think so,with respect.
@@stephencrowther524 argue a taste thing? You really expected that I would have written: "To my personal opinion...."? The word aesthetically says enough right?
These aircrafts were design and built using drawings, airplanes plans ,pure science, maths, laws of physics and gravity , etc; not like today that they use computers for all those calculations! Those DC-3 are a real man made Masterpiece.
Love the looong and wide wings and the precision location of the two huge and heavy engines for balance and weight and perfect performance💪👍🏻
Great video showing a great and beautiful plane!!
Big Beautiful Bird!! The plane that won the war AND one of the most influential airplanes to have ever taken flight!!
How many different planes were the one that won the war? It was a massive group effort. My father flew F6f Hellcats off of carriers in the Pacific, Hellcats had the most kills there, but it wasn't the plane that won the war.
I had the absolute honor to sit right seat when I was just 19 years old. My flight instructor, flew cargo to the Bahamas and would let me go. Many great hours in arguably one of the greatest aircraft ever.
My first flight in an airliner was in 1952 in a Chicago & Southern Airways DC-3 from St. Louis to Memphis. The crew let me sit R/H seat for about 10 minutes. My return flight was in a Connie. When I was in ROTC in 1957, I got an "orientation flight" in a C-47 at Scott AFB in Illinois. I made flying my career and started out doing crop dusting in a Stearman fighting the war against Mr. Boll Weevil.
I love DC-3s. Probably the best, safest airliner in history.
Piston engine powered airliner.
Perhaps.
Beautiful plane! You don't need music in the background, listening to those awesome engines was music enough!
The DC3 is the first airplane I remember seeing . And I made a few flights in it as a passenger in Africa in the fifties . Still a huge plane in my memory .
Those gas engines are the sound of Hotrod Heaven.
I was about 12, my brother 10. Flew a Southern Airways DC3 to Nashville on the way to visit Memphis relatives. We were the only passengers on the first leg. It was an adventure i had only dreamed about until that calm, sunny mid 1950s day. My favorite airplane? Of course!
my first flight was i a DC-3 like this operated by MATS (military Air Transport Service). It was 1953 as a 20 year-old soldier. I'd had completed basic training at Fort Dix, NJ and was assigned to the Armor School at Ft Knox, KY.
I had always dreamed of flying somewhere on a DC-3 but by the time I made it onto a commercial flight Northwest Airlines was flying the Lockhead L188 electra. What a beautiful sight to see the DC-3 in action. As a youngster, I loved listening to those engines come to life, that power surge as it gained momentum down the runway on its way into that space between the clouds and Mother earth. Absolutely magnificent! Thank you for sharing.
You can still get a ride in one Kenny. My wife and I flew in one 4 years ago out of Mecham Field in Fort Worth, Texas. She treated us the ride for my birthday. To say it was a dream come true would be an understatement. You can walk around inside while in flight and take pictures over the pilots shoulders. I have about 60 shots we took of the experience.
IIRRC they only offer daytime rides in the summer months, and during the Christmas holidays, there is a night flight around the city.
I grew up in the Air Force as my Dad was in SAC. Lots of memories of military planes disrupting our sleep at night with B 52's doing readiness scrambles!
Spent my summers as a teen in the early seventies on a small island off of Cape Cod. Air New England had a couple of these in their fleet and they would pass over the house at low altitudes regularly. Will never tire of the sound of those big radials 👍
Grew up in Hyannis in the 1960’s. Use to go to the airport and watch planes take off and land. I remember seeing DC3’d as well as Lockheed Electras.
PBA used them too.
When we lived in the far north (the Arctic in the Northwest Territories back in 1985 and 1986), the Beaver, the DC-3, and the Twin Otter were the workhorses. The DC-3 was an excellent plane with a reliability record to match.
My remembrance of the DC-3 goes back to my induction into the Air Force on the night of 1 October 1964. Heading to San Antonio from Houston. I had on my Florida clothes which did not help to keep me warm at whatever altitude we were flying. It was so cold I think I shivered the whole flight. The plane has an air nozzle right above my seat that I could not close off and I think it was piping outside air right into the cabin.
Thanks for serving our country Brother/Sister !
I was an Aerial Combat Documentary Photographer in the US Air Force 1965/68. I used to fly mainly on B-52s and KC135 Refuelers out of Utapao RTAFB in Thailand in 67/68... but one of the Squadron Commanders liked to fly his favorite C47 (DC3) every so often, and I got to stand in the Open Door area right behind the Left wing and take photographs while flying around Southern Thailand ! *FJB !*
Hadn’t noticed that on my DC3 trips in the 50s and 60s. But had the same problem at a much higher altitude on a flight from Yokota to Travis on a C5A. Could not believe it was that cold!
Nice to listen to an aircraft without music 😊
Way too much incongruous music on You Tube that adds nothing if not detracting from the video.
What a lovely piece of film of this great and venerable aircraft. Beautiful condition and great sound of those P&W radials. No disco music, and all the better for no commentary, thank you!
Many thanks!
Yes, to see a plane have to cooperate with the air is a wonderful thing…
I was an active skydiver back in the 80s when DC3s were still quite popular for jump aircraft. At some of the large events there might 6 or 7 of them flying jumpers. It was not uncommon for at least one of them to do a buzz job over the packing area at the end of the day. Being right underneath one of these planes as it flies 20 feet over your head is an incredible experience. Always got a big cheer from the jumpers.
As a child, around 7-9 years old, I’d fly from either Logan or Portland to Burlington on a DC 3. My best friends family moved there and my parents would put me on the plane and my friends parents picked me up in Burlington. On one trip, I remember watching a bolt rattle on the wing. It rattled the entire trip. I wasn’t worried at all, just kept me interested as I wondered it it would rattle all the way out. I mentioned it to the pilot when I left. I just remembered he smiled.
Just something majestic about an old war bird making a pass…. still puts a lump in my throat 🤷♂️🇺🇸💪🙏
My uncle Sander Verburg flew a DC 3 in The Netherlands for tours above Amsterdam. That's when my family and I flew with him one time. He also flew in Africa later on a regular route. The Dutch movie Dakota was filmed in Suriname and he flew that plane as well. This was in the 70s I believe.
Beautiful, upon landing clearly the frames per minute was approximately the RPM of both propellers. And
An amazing piece of aviation, history live and available today.
What a majestic bird!
To me, nothing can ever compare the the beauty and classic lines of the DC-3. My very first flight was onboard a DC-3 back in the early 60's owned by Southern Airlines. And nothing sounds like those P&W engines. Truly a one of a kind aircraft.
DC3 first and most remembered flight when I was 8-year-old. Now 84 year old and experience still vivid in my mind.
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Daks will never die, they just get better with age !.
What amazes me is how efficient these propellers are! They’re barely turning and this puppy is rocketing down the runway!
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It's an optical illusion. Every time the props rpm hits a multiple of 30 (the frame rate of the camera), the props will appear to slow to a stop.
@@ralphtkane1106 I understand it’s frame rate, I was jesting. Like the helicopter video where the blades appear to not be moving.
A clever high quality advert for a beautiful old aircraft!
In Dec '74 I took a hop from Dallas Naval Air Station to Andrews AFB on a AIR Reserve DC-3, which continued on to Italy. Great bird, larger than the commercial DC-3, I'm thinking. I recall the head was in the tail, I placed my head on the curvature to take a whiz.
The DC-3 is one of the very best vintage aircraft still in use today.
@@frankbutta9344 Todavía vuelan en Colombia ,Bolivia Perú , Chile , lugares de selva y pistas de tierra .
The best and greatest aeroplane ever built. Thats what you call a true legend,
My first flying experience, in 1966, was in a DC-3, which was still standard for regional airlines in Australia. This created a lifelong fascination with aircraft and air travel. Even now as an old dude in a 787 Dreamliner, I have to sit in a window seat and look at the window, still smiling like that young child. I am sure the teenagers on the aircraft think I am demented. In New Guinea they were affectionately known as 'Biscuit Bombers' by the Australian Troops because they dropped supplies by air into clearings where they could not land.
The DC-3 changed the world for the better in many ways. Great video! Thanks!
No doubt! Thanks for the support!
My first flight was on a Southern Airways DC3 from New Orleans to Monroe in 1966. I also flew on a C47 from NKP Thailand to DaNang, Viet Nam in 1970. I believe the only plane that is tougher than a DC3 is the C130. Hercey Birds are tough.
Many moons ago a flight of these lumbered over my home on final for infantry parachute drop practice once a year. Left an impression. Later in the 70's it was Caribou, but the Dakotas stole my heart.
My first time I saw a plane was a DC 3 like this one and love it
That big Sheeba is just trying to come back to earth even on take-off. A lumbering, massive air vessel. Dan fights gravity with her, on every flight. So beautiful to see this wonderful work of art.
I love this bird I've got about 500 hrs in it. I flew 1 or 2 legs in the right seat then checked out as a Captain.
If you were flyn say Beech 17's as captain, is not that difficult. But i flew only Aztecs then right seat dc3's. Was a very different bird.
I had a lot of time in Beech 18 taildraggers so fly the DC3 was way easier
@@bobbys2160makes Sense. I flew 18's only an hour 45 + years ago. Most of them crashed in Florida, Bahamas and south of the border..wink, wink.. LOL.
The propeller/ shutter speed of the camera synching makes the plane’s flight seem surreal!
Had the joy of a lifetime as a crewmember on a dc3 in 2010 on mission flights to Haiti,both on radial and turbo prop engines
Thats awesome!
My dad used to fly the C47 version with the RAAF in WW2 over New Guinea as a biscuit bomber. He loved the Lockheed Lodestart too. Both great planes, and reliable. I hear of a lot of DC3's still flying but what of the old Lodestars. You don't hear much about them anymore.
I gotta love this DC-3 what a beautiful plane! What a pilot! 🫡🫡🏁🏆🏁🇺🇸
Jimmy Doolittle (Who’s son, John , came to my retirement ceremony) once said that if an airplane looked right, chances are it would fly right.
Few aircraft look as right as the DC3.
Beautiful video ! One of the absolute best videos of any plane flying in the air and this one I’d Dan Gryder’s DC3 is fabulous ! Thank you for this 👍🏻
Wow!! Thank you so much for that! I really appreciate your support!
The DC3.. one of the most graceful aircraft to ever fly.
I loved every hour I spent in the left seat.
I rode in an Ozark Airlines DC3 on the way to Basic Training in 1967, in a thunderstorm, never forgot it
Excellent take off. Getting the tail up into the wind right away. Also cool how the props look like they are stationary. The RPM is apparently some multiple of 60.
Both my uncles flew in WW2 ( one in Bomber Command then Africa, the other in P40 in Pacific South West. Both came back and both flew DC 3 aircraft for an Australian airline. I flew in a DC3 many years ago. Lovely aircraft, lovely sound.
I have flown as a passenger on one of these. Was amazed that you can land like that and not scrape the props. Cool video.
A FedEx DC-3 that used to fly right over my house, every night, at about 1,000 feet would send me running outside when I heard it coming just to watch and hear it fly over. It was about dusk and I could see the blue flames coming out of the stacks. And years earlier (abound late 80s) I was in my 172 in Augusta, Georgia when I saw a DC-3 land. I was thinking it would have been some kind of cargo load only to be surprised when it unloaded a hand full of passengers.
These old planes have an amazing look that no newer plane has
Love a DC3!
the iconic lady still looks great.
Treat her nice! She is Aviation Royalty. 👑
Hey that sound gives me goose pumps.
Like the video shutter speed that is so close to the propeller cycle speed that looks like they are hardly turning. 😊
I enjoyed watching the old bird. Great camera work also. Thank you.
One of my favorite aircraft of all time. Dan does a great job sharing it.
Thanks for keeping her flying
My first parachute staic line jump was out of a LSU DC-3 that was purchased from the University of LSU. It was used to transport the football team. Then it was flying Skydivers at Idle Hour Airport in west Mobile Al.
Just imagine the number of different vehicles that have towed that plane over it's lifetime.
That would be an interesting display of cars,trucks and tractors from the 80 years of the DC3.
Tara field. Took many check rides there with Bob Mcswiggan before he recently passed. that DC3 was one of his that flew with Academy Airlines years ago. Actually landed in the Everglades giving it the nickname: Ali Gator.
Yup! Back when it was 4A7. It is Atlanta Speedway (HMP) now. I learned to fly out of FFC, but instructor always took me to Tara for crosswind TOL practice, as evidenced in this vid it always seemed to be a crosswind. Short field TOL, too, as it was (relatively) shorter then. I also had my PPL checkride with an examiner out of here. Good memories. Thanks for sharing yours!
Was it ever named "Bear Creek airport"? I learned to fly the Cessna 150 in the early 1970s at South Expressway Airport just off hwy 19/41. Down by the racetrack there was a airport named Bear Creek. When I was 16 years old I would fly around the racetrack low-level. Kinda practice for flying Huey's and Blackhawks in the Army... LOL... just wondering if it was the airport you now call Terra? If
@@willchoate7072 It was Bear Creek before Clayton County - Tara Field, which was weird because it was/is in Henry County. But as I said above, it’s called Atlanta Speedway now.
And South Expressway was closed 40 years ago or more. Built a new court / jail / municipal complex there.
@@Ernwaldo I started flying sailplanes when I was 15 at Antique Acres grass strip. I was in the restaurant that's there now and was talking to the restaurant manager. I mentioned to him that I had been flying there when I was 15 and the name back then was Antique Acres. He got huffy with me and flat out told me it had always been Peach State. So a day or two later I went to the FAA sight and checked the history of the airport. Sent him a copy and he didn't reply. Some of these young people just won't admit if they are wrong. Just for the record, I wasn't a rich kid. I would work all week after school at the Texaco station to get the money . I was in the glider club at Forest Park high School back then. I would do the same at the Texaco and wash some airplanes at South Expressway Airport and trade that for a good deal on flight time with an instructor in a Cessna 150.
@@willchoate7072Yes. This airport used to be named Bear Creek Airport. Now it is Atlanta Speedway.
Some of my first skydives were from a DC3 "Mr Douglas" , supposedly hull #3?.. Great memories, fun plane, good tunes otw to "altitude " (😂) listening to the radials & Hendrix, for 40 minutes!😊
Lived in the FL Keys in the 80s and so enjoyed the Mosquito Control DC 3s flying low and slow in their spraying routes. Often in formation of 2. When they banked for turns the wing tips were mere feet above the water. And the rumble❤❤❤. Thanks for the memories.
Took my first plane ride in a DC-3 around the ages of 3-4. Flew from Huntsville, AL to Little Rock, AR w/ a stopover in Memphis, TN. I still remember the thunderstorms my goodness
Magnificent antique, still flyable and operational
Imagine, leaping out the side of one in the middle of the night on D-Day, as flack burst all around and the plane next to yours was turned into a fireball! No GPS...just French resistance with lanterns.
D-Day troops jumped from C-47s. Close but different …
Funny seeing the aircraft image while hearing the helicopter sound. For a second I though my neighbor was coming in for a landing. He commutes in one of his helicopters.
Doing an SiC course with Dan has been on my bucket list for 25 years! To have that rating on my licence would be wonderful. Sadly I stopped flying about 15 years ago so it'll never happen but well done to that PPL for handling it in that wind. Great job.
Got to work on them at Republic Airlines at MSP, MN loved them..
Wow wow wow, that was bloody brilliant thanks everyone involved
When I was about 4, my parents and I flew from LA to Tokyo on a American Airlines DC-3.
It had small windows over the regular windows, because there were bunk beds over the seats.
One engine had flames coming from it, so we stopped at Wake Island for repairs.
I just love the sound of the piston pounders flying off the deck! Thank you for shooting the clip and sharing👍
Don't often say this about you Tube videos, but who ever did this one nailed it. That take off sequence is about the best I've seen. Excellent, excellent work. You had that plane perfectly centered so well it looked like it was just floating in midair. You could see every movement in detail. Elevator, rudder, aileron movements, gear going up. Until it faded, that unique DC-3 Engine sound and then the flyby. Thank you for a superbly made video. How about doing a video on the F-82 Twin Mustang? Please.
William combs- Agreed. I am only at 21 seconds, and the color, framing, and sounds are beautiful. I saw Dan G's name so I clicked and was glad I did. I am researching something, so I have to quit, but I'll be back.
Step on the BALL Dan!
You noticed that too.
It's howling. Did you see all the top rudder in the climbing turn out? He's got it, ok?
What are you talking about?
@@CS_247Why would top rudder be necessary in a climbout?
@@oscarb9139 Whole lotta yaw going on. May be asymmetrical power....those big radials produce a lot of torque/P Factor
The Australians in the 1980's converted DC3's to Crop Dusters. Moved the cowl flaps and other controls to the reach of the Captain, and flew them AS CROP DUSTERS WITH ONLY ONE PILOT ON BOARD. Cajuns.
Awesome bird! One of the best planes ever made. My grandfather used to sometimes Co-pilot the NASA C-47 (military DC-3 version) out at Edwards AFB in the 60s.
I had the pleasure of a ride in a DC3 (C47) in 1962 or 63 as a Cadet in The Civil Air Patrol. This is one of the most beautiful looking and sounding creations Man has ever made. God Bless and stay safe.
Thanks for sharing!
What a magnificent design, this is one of if not the most durable and forgiving passenger planes ever built.
I have had the pleasure of sitting in the open Para door flying across Lake Kariba watching the props cause a rooster tail in the water.... Sitting in the same door with same pilot a few months later flew down the Nuanetsi river and looked up at the river banks (1976)... The Pilot was a 62 year old second world war pilot who flew that same Dakota on the Berlin air bridge.... What a brilliant memory...
When I was on hot shot forest firefighting crews in Montana and Idaho, we were flown in various Johnson Flying Service aircraft including DC3s, a DC4, and a C46. Some of these aircraft were later acquired by Evergreen, including one they called a DC2 1/2. One wing was from a DC2, and the other was from a DC3.
Beautiful bird! I would love to log a parachute jump out of that DC-3! I have many out of a twin beech and even the old caribou but never a DC-3…. Thanks for sharing and blue skies! 🫡 🪂
Ya gotta love the classics....it may seem like a strange comparison, but the DC-3/C-47/R4D is like a Harley, with that unmistakable engine sound!
My first DC-3 flight was with my mom to visit her parents when I was a few months old. I had many unaccompanied flights on the same route as I got bigger. I would be taken up to the cockpit and given a tin set of wings. My last DC-3 flight was in to Puerto Escondido in Mexico around 1970.
Fantastic aircraft. So versatile. Definitely one of my favorite.
I was an Aerial Combat Documentary Photographer in the US Air Force 1965/68. I used to fly mainly on B-52s and KC135 Refuelers out of Utapao RTAFB in Thailand in 67/68... but one of the Squadron Commanders liked to fly his favorite C47 (DC3) every so often, and I got to stand in the Open Door area right behind the Left wing and take photographs while flying around Southern Thailand ! FJB !
From a seasoned DC-3 pilot who was one of the last one to fly it in scheduled passenger ops which was in late 1978. I flew for a commuter airline based in south central Missouri. We also had 4 Beech 18s so I learned how to fly tailwheel. On your plane Dan, I see the 14 cylinder Pratt & Whitney engines, probably R-1830-92s instead of the 9 cylinder Wrights, 2 piece windshields whereas mine had a one piece, no radar, and deicing boots. Beautiful airplane and I am happy it is in such good hands. I lfew the DC-3A with the 1350 hp R-1830-94s for 1,000 hours and was a company check airman on it, and car parts out of MKCK in the C-47B with Dash 92s. What a world of difference between the Dash 94 and 92!!
Spent days and days flying from Edmonton to Tuktoyaktuk and back several summers in a row. Often we just sat on mail bags or other cargo. Lunch came in a paper bag!
I love the color, it's like a friendly ghost. Looks brand new also.