My dad's ashes were intered at the Southwestern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery today. He was a B-29 gunner during WWII and somehow the sound of these radial engines starting up comforts me greatly. Thanks so much for this video!
We all owe your Dad and others like him a huge dept of gratitude! My Dad is 95 years old and is still with us. He was in the 1st Cav. in Korea. He's slipping, though.
I was part of ship's company on the USS Valley Forge CVS-45 as a Quartermaster in 1958 and they used modified A-1 Skyraiders called "guppies" because of their bulging ventral Radomes. We were anti-submarine warfare, and the ADs were our early warning radar before the Grumman E-1 Tracer replaced them.
Worked for Lockheed in Vietnam for a couple of years and had the honor of working on battle damaged A-1 Skyraiders. The aircraft like the A-10 was nearly indestructible. Even though I remember using parts from 8 badly damaged non-flyable planes to construct a single flyable plane. Actually I worked on helicopters, C-119, C-47 and about anything that was battle damaged. Altogether I spent over 3 years in Vietnam including my military service as a helicopter crew chief. All in all I worked and was an airframe inspector for nearly 30 years.
Worked for LSI, first 2 years Army helicopters, Last 2 years VNAF C130A. Back home in the land of the big PX UH-1M crewchief and OH-58 Observer in the National Guard. And because I like aircraft when I retired 4000 hrs. maintaining a B-17 with the CAF.
VA-122 was called the Spad School when they were training pilots and crew on the A1, after the Navy retired the Spad, it was called Corsair College as they were training pilots and crew on the A-7.
Petrol Burning Thumpers!!!!! Love how they smoke it up a bit whilst being cold-started! Of course, it's because a bit of oil seeps past the rings on the lower cylinders and collects there a little! Then it just gets burned off causing the blue smoke! They sound amazing!!
Douglas as well as many other aircraft manufacturers made the airframes and then fitted them out with the appropriate engine the engine manufacturers had available . These were Wright cyclones , Pratt and Whitney wasps ect .
I loved watching them workout when I was flying in II corps, and later in northern I corps on my second tour. Helluva gunship, they could do it all - 'cept go fast. We used to call them flying dump trucks because they could, and very often did carry so much under the wing ordnance that you COULDN'T help wonder how they could fly at all. I would have to say, in what I seen, the Douglas A4 could carry almost as much if not maybe even match it in total low level badassery ;}>
Ahhhhhhh...there it is....Radial fix for today.... full shhputtt.shiputttt arumparummppp rummp a rumppa. No turbine noise..just music....AND NO CHEESEY MUSIC!. Thank you posting.
The airplane is known by several names... Spas, Sandy, Skyraider. In Vietnam where it was last deployed it outshined every modern airframe of the time in "air to mud" close air support. I was always happy and felt safer and they flew covering support for the air rescue missions I was flying as a PJ.
There's nothing like round sound. If you really want a thrill then stand behind one on startup, the smoke and raw unburnt fuel along with the sound is magical.
Generally speaking, I think Curtis-Wright made bomber engines and P&W made most of engines for radial equiped fighters. I flew C-47s for the U.S. Army Parachute Team and they were fitted with P&Ws. So were Beavers, Ottters and Caribous. Nice video. Thanks for posting.
Ahh, the good old "BOO". The last one I seen was on my first tour and it landed at the airstrip at Camp Holloway, Pleiku-II Corps in jan of '70. By then the AF had taken them over if memory serves, but that Boo still had US Army on it. Damn, that was a LONG time ago when I think back.
We used to call them "AD4" When we worked with the fighter bomber squadron 1/22 Ain in Chad ( Fort-Lamy and Faya-Largeau ). An other french squadron of AD4 was based at Djibouti
The very best. A-1 Skyraider, A-26 Intruder, SBD Dauntless, C-47 Dakota and the B-24 Liberator and the TBM Avenger,...dependable old-school workhorses.
Just an 'fyi' for you. The Douglas A-1 Skyraider was powered by the PRATT & WHITNEY R 2800 I believe. Douglas made the aircraft, NOT the engines.And the R2800 was in a plethora of WWII American aircraft ;}>
@@loganseal4369 R3350 is correct . The first EA-1E is from my first squadron, VAQ-33. We also operated the Navy's last EC-121K. I'm 73 and just retired from 53 years as an Aviation Structural Mechanic, with 20 of it in the Navy. Cold mornings were hard on those engines. I also worked on the last S-2s, C-1s and T-28s in the Navy.
Good thing the guy in the shorts and green shirt was there to twirl his arm around, otherwise the pilot would have had no clue about what he was supposed to do!
The DC-3 is the world's greatest piece of mechanical engineering. A design from 1934, last produced 80 years ago, that is still used as a *business tool to make money* in 2024. The only thing that comes close is the DeHavilland Canada Beaver, designed in 1947 and still widely used as the *preferred* workhorse for bush operators, tho out of production for almost 60 yrs.
Interesting! The plane shown starting in the opening sequence is NOT a 'Single Seat' Sky Raider. It is a 4 place version originally used for Electronic Warfare. You can CLEARLY see the Pilot and Co-pilot sitting 'Side by Side'.
I remember reading in my dad's Popular Mechanics that they should put a turban engine in the A-3 to make the perfect infantry support airplane. But of course they couldn't do that because it wouldn't have the cost over runs to line the pockets of the politicians
back in 1975 i was flying one of those across the Gobi desert delivering it to company in China for the Inda government. halfway across the desert we lost all the electronics! i had to sit the old bird down on the sand. me and the flight engineer were the only 2 on the ship. with no radio we were stuck! in about 2 hours a caravan of Kazakhs desert dwellers happened along. we were saved! the chief took one look at the old c47 and was quiet taken with it! i speak some Mongolian, he told us that he would be glad to take us back to civilization if i would give him the old bird! well, i had no choice but to agree. so he sent for a team of camels to come pull the plane to his lair. on the trip across the desert on camel back i noticed the chiefs young daughter, she was a striking beauty! the chief noticed i had taken a liking to her. he felt bad about taking the plane so he told me that he was going to throw in the daughter on the trade! there was no way i could refuse because that would have been an insult! so i took a wife that day in the hot sand. when we got back to America i got a job with an airline and my wife Altansarnai got pregnant. we soon had a girl. then she got pregnant again, this time she had twins, but something was funny, the twin girls looked a lot like my old flight engineer! i had noticed he kept in close contact! mostly with Altansarnai! then she got pregnant again! but this time the kid looked black! and a lot like my co-pilot on the airline i was working for! so i started to drink heavily! then i wrecked the DC 10 i was flying on the runway into a parked 747, i was drunk out of my mind! i was fired. i took a job at a small airport cleaning out hangers, it was a sad thing. i lost my home and had to move into an old c54 parked on and old abended runway at the airport that i work at. the wife's dad gave us a camel and a few goats for food. the girls all got married and then all of them with their no-good husbands moved into our plane home! i became so depressed that i am a full time drunk! as i type this i am looking for a rope to throw over one of the propellers of the c54 and end it all!
Love the sound of the twin Pratt &Whitney R-2800s on the Invaders. One of my favorite aircraft, and without a doubt the best radial engine ever produced. It also powered the Thunderbolt, Hellcat, Bearcat, Marauder, Black Widow, and many civilian airliners of the 1950s.
@@richardfisher9287 Not on the A-26 Invader, those are absolutely, unequivocally P&W R2800s! You can tell because the nacelles aren’t drenched in oil like the fuselage of the 3350 powered Skyraider. 🤪
Some really good footage here, marred only by selection of frame rate. I realize You emphasized the ‘sound’ in the Video title, but the warped speed of the props detracts form an otherwise Good Video. @03:32 Great spin on those props! Just honest feedback. Big Thumbs Up just the same!
The tailwheel on the A-1 Skyraider is a joke. My lawnmower has bigger wheels. When you see one up close you will know what I mean. Its more of a rubber roller than a tire. The rest of the plane is massive and impressive. The first one shown in this video seats 6. The 2 middle seats face backwards and one of the guys sitting there barfed for the entire ride.
How comes no one has pointed out that Douglas built the aircraft, but the engines are either Curtiss, Curtiss-Wright, Pratt & Whitney or Wright engines?
Too bad cameras can’t compensate for proper prop rotation. The slow mo effect is annoying and detracts from the true sense of these wonderful machines. The varying camera speeds are hilarious. The twin engines were better represented but still off.
My dad's ashes were intered at the Southwestern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery today. He was a B-29 gunner during WWII and somehow the sound of these radial engines starting up comforts me greatly. Thanks so much for this video!
My condolences…
@@JamesFolkers Thanks for you kind words. My dad lived a very full life and died of natural causes.
My Dad spent 30 missions in the nose of a B-24 as a lead bombardier. I know how you feel. I'm also a cheese head. My condolences.
My deepest sympathy!
We all owe your Dad and others like him a huge dept of gratitude! My Dad is 95 years old and is still with us. He was in the 1st Cav. in Korea. He's slipping, though.
A-1 Skyraider. My favorite single engine prop aircraft. What a beast!
I was part of ship's company on the USS Valley Forge CVS-45 as a Quartermaster in 1958 and they used modified A-1 Skyraiders called "guppies" because of their bulging ventral Radomes. We were anti-submarine warfare, and the ADs were our early warning radar before the Grumman E-1 Tracer replaced them.
Douglas made airplanes not engines. Wright makes engines. Pratt and Whitney make engines. General Electric makes engines.
Worked for Lockheed in Vietnam for a couple of years and had the honor of working on battle damaged A-1 Skyraiders. The aircraft like the A-10 was nearly indestructible. Even though I remember using parts from 8 badly damaged non-flyable planes to construct a single flyable plane. Actually I worked on helicopters, C-119, C-47 and about anything that was battle damaged. Altogether I spent over 3 years in Vietnam including my military service as a helicopter crew chief. All in all I worked and was an airframe inspector for nearly 30 years.
I did two tours as an Army Helicopter CE. First tour in slicks,second tour in my much loved loh,(OH-6A). Welcome home brother.
Worked for LSI, first 2 years Army helicopters, Last 2 years VNAF C130A. Back home in the land of the big PX UH-1M crewchief and OH-58 Observer in the National Guard. And because I like aircraft when I retired 4000 hrs. maintaining a B-17 with the CAF.
Although I spent a good portion of my adult life working for P&W, I love the sound of all piston-pounding radials. Thunderous power.
My brother was an aviation ordnance man on the USS Hancock CVA 19 during the Vietnam war, they called the A1's "SPADs"
True. Named after the WWI fighter. I don't know of anybody in the navy who referred to them as Skyraiders.
VA-122 was called the Spad School when they were training pilots and crew on the A1, after the Navy retired the Spad, it was called Corsair College as they were training pilots and crew on the A-7.
Before 1962 they were designated AD-1. The single seat ones were "Single-Place-ADs", making a wise-adze reference to WWI Spads.
Petrol Burning Thumpers!!!!! Love how they smoke it up a bit whilst being cold-started!
Of course, it's because a bit of oil seeps past the rings on the lower cylinders and collects there a little!
Then it just gets burned off causing the blue smoke! They sound amazing!!
oils cheap😂
@@AlanMydland-fq2vs It WAS...
Thank you for the information!, always wondered why these old engines smoked on startup.
I could be wrong, but I think the C-47 was the military version of the DC-3.
You are right
AC-47, EC-47 too, each highly refurbed.
You are not wrong.
and the C54 was military version of DC4. Think larger 4 engine version of DC3.
You are correct
Douglas as well as many other aircraft manufacturers made the airframes and then fitted them out with the appropriate engine the engine manufacturers had available . These were Wright cyclones , Pratt and Whitney wasps ect .
Would love to ride in that bad boy…one of my favorite aircraft..the radial engine was a mechanical marvel..
If only we could smell it through the speakers. Great video
👍😀
Smell of burning petrol!
Such beautiful machines.
I loved watching them workout when I was flying in II corps, and later in northern I corps on my second tour. Helluva gunship, they could do it all - 'cept go fast. We used to call them flying dump trucks because they could, and very often did carry so much under the wing ordnance that you COULDN'T help wonder how they could fly at all. I would have to say, in what I seen, the Douglas A4 could carry almost as much if not maybe even match it in total low level badassery ;}>
Until you work on them 24-7. 🙂
Ahhhhhhh...there it is....Radial fix for today.... full shhputtt.shiputttt arumparummppp rummp a rumppa. No turbine noise..just music....AND NO CHEESEY MUSIC!. Thank you posting.
They never should have stopped building this plane.
I have it on good authority that, in his spare time, God listens to radial aircraft engines, steam locomotive whistles and Beethoven. 😊
The airplane is known by several names... Spas, Sandy, Skyraider. In Vietnam where it was last deployed it outshined every modern airframe of the time in "air to mud" close air support. I was always happy and felt safer and they flew covering support for the air rescue missions I was flying as a PJ.
What a wonderful Airplane.
My dad was a Radioman on a SBD in the Marine Aircorp. He was eighteen.
There's nothing like round sound. If you really want a thrill then stand behind one on startup, the smoke and raw unburnt fuel along with the sound is magical.
Most of the men who flew these when they were new are now dead. Rest in peace.
I'm primarily a RR Merlin fan, but those big radials are wonderful.
Allison V-1710's sound great too...as do the German Daimler Benz DB601/605's...IF you are ever lucky enough to see one running....
Generally speaking, I think Curtis-Wright made bomber engines and P&W made most of engines for radial equiped fighters. I flew C-47s for the U.S. Army Parachute Team and they were fitted with P&Ws. So were Beavers, Ottters and Caribous. Nice video. Thanks for posting.
Ahh, the good old "BOO". The last one I seen was on my first tour and it landed at the airstrip at Camp Holloway, Pleiku-II Corps in jan of '70. By then the AF had taken them over if memory serves, but that Boo still had US Army on it. Damn, that was a LONG time ago when I think back.
Nothing better than the sound of a round engine.
Bad to the bone. Sandy / Spad saved many lives in Vietnam .
Brave , crazy men , those Sandy guys :D
Always amazed that the Skyraider could carry up to 10.000 lbs of bombs, which was more than a typical combat load of a B-17.
LUV the SPAD!!! hard to believe that TINY engine can DRAG that BEAST & ALL it's damn HARDWARE into the SKY!!! a LEGENDARY BEAST!!!
Gotta love the way spinning propellers show up
01:50 I like how he takes it out of gear and the prop stops turning.
Yes indeed I travelled in a DC3 as a kid from Perth to Geraldton to visit family. Noisy, but a wonderful experience.
This is what we came for. Thank you very much!
That's a Wright Duplex Cyclone. DAMN it sounds impressive.
Loved them for close air support.
What beautiful brutes!
Bloody Lovely...
Loved working on the A1Spads 69/70. Great aircraft for SOG and SAR Missions.
It sounds and runs like a Harley Davidson. Heavy like one too.
The Skyraider also had an incredible bomb load capacity.
Backfiring out of the #2 air intake at 2:40 🔥
It amazes me that they put a B-29 engine on an A-1 and created perhaps the greatest piston driven fighter-bomber ever.
Ça fume, ça fait du bruit, merci pour la mémoire des hélices !
We used to call them "AD4" When we worked with the fighter bomber squadron 1/22 Ain in Chad ( Fort-Lamy and Faya-Largeau ). An other french squadron of AD4 was based at Djibouti
If you were "over the fence " , and in the shit . One of these may have well saved your ass , as it did ours many times . TY Sandy pilots !!
The very best. A-1 Skyraider, A-26 Intruder, SBD Dauntless, C-47 Dakota and the B-24 Liberator and the TBM Avenger,...dependable old-school workhorses.
The first one sounded like me on the toilet this morning!
This was the primary trainer for The United states Navy for years.
Skyraiders are freakin huge when you see one in person.
Just an 'fyi' for you. The Douglas A-1 Skyraider was powered by the PRATT & WHITNEY R 2800 I believe. Douglas made the aircraft, NOT the engines.And the R2800 was in a plethora of WWII American aircraft ;}>
Nope, Wright R3350 duplex cyclone. The prototype was r2800 powered but all service models that I am aware of use the Cyclone.
@@loganseal4369 That's even better.What else was powered by that beast?
@@loganseal4369 R3350 is correct . The first EA-1E is from my first squadron, VAQ-33. We also operated the Navy's last EC-121K. I'm 73 and just retired from 53 years as an Aviation Structural Mechanic, with 20 of it in the Navy. Cold mornings were hard on those engines. I also worked on the last S-2s, C-1s and T-28s in the Navy.
@@gotchagoing4905 Planes like the B-29, Lockheed Constellation, C-119. Look up the R-3350 on Wikpedia and there will be a list of aircraft.
@@gotchagoing4905 To name a few, P2 Neptunes. late series Lockheed Constellations ( both civil and military variants ), DC7s, most C119 Boxcars.
Like a bunch of Harleys!
I never would of guessed an A1 had so much chop
Awww give him a break. He’s got some nice clips.
Amazing that the aircraft could move, with the prop turning so slowly.
That was a YUUUGGGE fan in front.
Love these planes especially the DC3
The last really cool airplane.
Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone radial engine
Good thing the guy in the shorts and green shirt was there to twirl his arm around, otherwise the pilot would have had no clue about what he was supposed to do!
The DC-3 is the world's greatest piece of mechanical engineering. A design from 1934, last produced 80 years ago, that is still used as a *business tool to make money* in 2024. The only thing that comes close is the DeHavilland Canada Beaver, designed in 1947 and still widely used as the *preferred* workhorse for bush operators, tho out of production for almost 60 yrs.
Interesting! The plane shown starting in the opening sequence is NOT a 'Single Seat' Sky Raider. It is a 4 place version originally used for Electronic Warfare. You can CLEARLY see the Pilot and Co-pilot sitting 'Side by Side'.
A man's airplane.
No, it was an R3350. The EA-1E with "GD" on the tail was from my first squadron, VAQ-33. 🙂
It was a Wright R3350-****. Twin Row, 18 cylinder 0:55 with Super Charger and Water Injection for additional cooling.
Water injection isn’t for cooling it allows in increase in manifold pressure and higher compression for short periods of higher horsepower.
The pratt in whitney thirty three hundred
i know this sound, A1-E, for real, 2nd Air Commandos, 633 CSG, Pleiku AB, SEA, '66, '67.
Was this the same engine as the B29?
Yes
@@yan24to the Skyraider was angel from above to those doing battle below.
Nice to see the guy in the yellow shirt pointing to which engine should be started up.
I remember reading in my dad's Popular Mechanics that they should put a turban engine in the A-3 to make the perfect infantry support airplane. But of course they couldn't do that because it wouldn't have the cost over runs to line the pockets of the politicians
Douglas aircraft, Pratt & Whitney engine!
title should be Wright and Pratt&Whitney engines cold start.
Sounds like a sick engine with so much sputtering.
Once it's online it's a terror.
3000 hp
Thats just the a radial sound after startup at low throttle settings till they clear out the oil and warm up
@@massmike11 Well, that is relieving to hear - thanks 👍👍
Wright 3350 engines were used in these
Douglas didn't make engines.
Did your mother drop you on your head when you were young?
True true.
PRATT@ WITNEY 3360.
@@davidbell1619Wright Aeronautical
back in 1975 i was flying one of those across the Gobi desert delivering it to company in China for the Inda government. halfway across the desert we lost all the electronics! i had to sit the old bird down on the sand. me and the flight engineer were the only 2 on the ship. with no radio we were stuck! in about 2 hours a caravan of Kazakhs desert dwellers happened along. we were saved! the chief took one look at the old c47 and was quiet taken with it! i speak some Mongolian, he told us that he would be glad to take us back to civilization if i would give him the old bird! well, i had no choice but to agree. so he sent for a team of camels to come pull the plane to his lair. on the trip across the desert on camel back i noticed the chiefs young daughter, she was a striking beauty! the chief noticed i had taken a liking to her. he felt bad about taking the plane so he told me that he was going to throw in the daughter on the trade! there was no way i could refuse because that would have been an insult! so i took a wife that day in the hot sand. when we got back to America i got a job with an airline and my wife Altansarnai got pregnant. we soon had a girl. then she got pregnant again, this time she had twins, but something was funny, the twin girls looked a lot like my old flight engineer! i had noticed he kept in close contact! mostly with Altansarnai! then she got pregnant again! but this time the kid looked black! and a lot like my co-pilot on the airline i was working for! so i started to drink heavily! then i wrecked the DC 10 i was flying on the runway into a parked 747, i was drunk out of my mind! i was fired. i took a job at a small airport cleaning out hangers, it was a sad thing. i lost my home and had to move into an old c54 parked on and old abended runway at the airport that i work at. the wife's dad gave us a camel and a few goats for food. the girls all got married and then all of them with their no-good husbands moved into our plane home! i became so depressed that i am a full time drunk! as i type this i am looking for a rope to throw over one of the propellers of the c54 and end it all!
Throwback Thursday - A10 Warthog
Correction: they were powered by the R3350 - 18 cylinder normally asperated ralial engine.
NO aircraft engines were "Normally aspirated, all were supercharged !!!! DUUUUHHH!!!!
440 a12 or 426 hemi or 413 wedge motors firing over after sitting....
Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone engines, aways sounds great nothing like them .
Douglas engines? Not even going to watch this video.
Title WRONG, clips RIGHTEOUS!
Love the sound of the twin Pratt &Whitney R-2800s on the Invaders. One of my favorite aircraft, and without a doubt the best radial engine ever produced. It also powered the Thunderbolt, Hellcat, Bearcat, Marauder, Black Widow, and many civilian airliners of the 1950s.
It's a Wright 3350!
@@richardfisher9287 Not on the A-26 Invader, those are absolutely, unequivocally P&W R2800s! You can tell because the nacelles aren’t drenched in oil like the fuselage of the 3350 powered Skyraider. 🤪
The radial is a man's engine they bark, grumble, and smooth out when down to business. Jets are like lebrals all they do is whine.😅
A Wright 3350
Some really good footage here, marred only by selection of frame rate. I realize You emphasized the ‘sound’ in the Video title, but the warped speed of the props detracts form an otherwise Good Video.
@03:32 Great spin on those props!
Just honest feedback. Big Thumbs Up just the same!
Man, talk about grouchy old bears! Seems like none of these wanted to be woke up!
Any way to turn DOWN YOUR SHUTTER SPEED?
I would go up 0n the flight deck just to hear them start up USS Kitty Hawk 62 till 66 was disappointed when they phased them out
... Wright engine; but it still sounds good.
Why would somebody 'not believe the sound Of DOUGLAS Engines On A COLD Start! ??
Because they did not make engines 🤷🏼♂️
@@Patrick-xd8jv smart alec
@@YEWGYZE just telling the truth
These engines were not built by Douglas!!! They were built by Wright!!!
@@Patrick-xd8jv My quibble was a reference to the clickbait title.
Wright R3350 engine
Carried almost as a B17.
The tailwheel on the A-1 Skyraider is a joke. My lawnmower has bigger wheels. When you see one up close you will know what I mean. Its more of a rubber roller than a tire. The rest of the plane is massive and impressive. The first one shown in this video seats 6. The 2 middle seats face backwards and one of the guys sitting there barfed for the entire ride.
first 2 mig`s shot down in Viet Nam were shot down by Skyraiders.
I certainly did not believe the sounds I just heard.
A Spad
How comes no one has pointed out that Douglas built the aircraft, but the engines are either Curtiss, Curtiss-Wright, Pratt & Whitney or Wright engines?
It's been pointed out MANY TIMES, you just never read the comments...
Sorry : the Skyraider was powered by a P/W R 3350 18 cylinder radial
I was an ADR in the USN in the late 60s and worked on them.
Its a Wright, not a Pratt and Whitney
Wrong. A-1 skyraider has 3350 WD 2700 hp. Not 2800. That ww2 acft.
why have a bloke waving his arms around when starting the engine i am sure the pilot knows what he is doing.
The guy in the lime green shirt lol...... like he's letting the pilot know "the prop is spinning" sir
You're right I won't believe. Douglas did not make engines.
Pratt-Whitney engines, Douglas made airframes.
R3350 was a WRIGHT engine !!!! DUUUUUHHH!!!!!
wrigh+ 3350.
Too bad cameras can’t compensate for proper prop rotation. The slow mo effect is annoying and detracts from the true sense of these wonderful machines. The varying camera speeds are hilarious. The twin engines were better represented but still off.