I was an instructor on Chanute AFB in the 80's. That missile silo was not an exhibit. That was the Minuteman Missile Crew Training School and was real (except for the missile). Do some research on the aircraft before you finish production. All the info is out there.
I did add a little info on the silo and the C 133a. I’m usually pretty good with identifying aircraft, but that cargo plane stumped me. Thanks for watching!
I went on a school field trip to there in 1984 and I asked a question that they couldn't answer! Because it was top-secret! LOL we even got to eat lunch in the cafeteria! It was awesome!
For anyone wondering what the story is with the scrapped planes is, they’re from the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum which opened on the former site of Chanute AFB which opened in 1994 just after the base closed, and itself closed in 2015 due to a lack of funds. The museum was located in the base’s Grissom Hall which was a Minuteman Missle maintenance facility when the base was active. When the museum closed most of its collection was transferred to other museums, but sadly a lot of its larger aircraft including the Douglas C-133A Cargomaster in the video were in bad shape due to being stored outdoors and were sold for scrapping. The other scrapped aircraft were a Douglas VC-47B Skytrain, a Grumman HU-16B Albatross, a Republic F-105B Thunderchief, a Boeing C-97G Freighter, a Douglas JRB-66 Destroyer, and a North American CT-39A Sabreliner. The Sabreliner is in the video, the back of it is the part he says looks like a private aircraft, the front is the smaller intact contact. The cockpit of the F-105 is see lying on its side in the video, next to what looks like the rest of its airframe. The museum also had a real decommissioned Minuteman 1 outside of it but I’m finding conflicting reports of if that was scrapped or not. A Lockheed EC-121K Warning Star was set to be scrapped but thankfully was saved by the Yankee Air Museum for restoration.
I went to Tech School at Chanute twice in my career, once in 1964 then in 1970. At its peak it handled thousands of Airmen and NCOs in its training schools. it had new one-thousand-man dorms. The area in Illinois is beautiful.
@@TimKline I agree it’s very unfortunate what happened. It’s a sad fate for many large aircraft stored outdoors at museums that don’t always have good weather. Stuff like the Sabreliner, the F-105, and the C-47 are all common aircraft to get scrapped when museums like these close. The EC-121 Warning Star being saved is at least one silver lining.
Very cool. Looks like the C-133 was part of the museum exhibits, since the stairs going up to the cockpit were not at all what you would find on an active aircraft - that was definitely built specifically to provide ease of access for visitors.
It was indeed part of the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum until 2015 when the museum closed. It and few other of the large aircraft (a Douglas VC-47, a Grumman Albatross, and a Boeing C-97) from the museum were in incredibly poor repair which is partially why they ended up going for scrap. The only large aircraft that was saved was the Lockheed Warning Star which is fortunate at least. The museum also had a Minuteman 1 ICBM on display out front too, but that unfortunately I believe has been scrapped as well due to disrepair.
My husband and my sister worked in that Hangar. I worked across the street. I've been in the above ground silo. They had real missiles in a secure area. They just didn't have any payload. I don't know if that's the right term. The abandoned aircraft are so sad. None of these aircraft ever flew again once they came to Chanute to be used for training. The based ceased all military flying long before the base closed. It was no longer an operational base. My parents both worked there. In fact my dad came there in 1939 to enlist in the Army Air Corps. Chanute will always hold a place in my heart.
C 133 A. Better known as either the Weinie wagon, or the Widow Maker. These planes were thrown together during the Cold War, but none of them were thoroughly tested before being called to service to haul heavy cargo, including various ICBM's. These planes had a tendency to easily enter a Stall situation in flight, and when the Pilot pushed the control yoke forward, and the Flight Engineer pushed the throttles forward to max power to try and bring the nose back down, the gearboxes for the engine props would suddenly switch into full reverse, and the plane would roll on it's back, and drop like a brick. There are still 3 or 4 C 133's sitting at the bottom of the Delaware Bay after taking off from Dover AFB, and falling out of the sky after going into a stall.
@@madmanmechanic8847 The USAF did not do any kind of flight tests on the C133's when they were built, because they needed a plane that had the ability to carry the ICBM's ASAP. The C5's of today were not yet built, or even in the planning stages. Some of the C133's were sold to a Pipe Hauling Company up in Alaska after being retired by the USAF, and they were used to haul piping, and other needed equipment into Alaska during the Construction of the Trans Alaskan Pipeline, but they were never quite certified as fully airworthy, so the flight crews were not allowed to fly over any land that was populated by people, so they had to fly over the Ocean in the event of a potential crash. Even when the Last Flying C133 was finally retired from it's Alaskan Pipeline Job, and flown back down to California to be retired at the Jimmy Doolittle Museum at Travis AFB, jt's Fljght Crew decided to o flh it out over the Pacific Ocean until it was close enough fo fly into Travis AFB to avoid flying in over populated areas.
Ditto to Vic Gregg, the plane was a C-133A, an ICBM transport. It did fill other roles but was specially built for the ICBM role. So, let us honor this old bird for what it did...carry hardware and personnel.
I worked on that C-133A (2009) in 1966-67 at Dover AFB as a two striper. I have set in that engineers seat and worked that panel during engine runs. It's sad to me to see her there and in that shape, really sad.
6:15 You say the Minuteman missiles "were" our first line of defense. Minuteman missiles ARE our line of defense. The United States still has 400 Minuteman missile silos spread across three missile fields in the Western United States.
Most of the serviceable C-133 aircraft went to civilian cargo airlines in Alaska and were used to haul pipes as it was one of the few aircraft long enough.
Yes, and the last one was retired about 10 years ago, and flown down to California, and is now on permanent Static Display at the Jimmy Doolittle Museum.
That’s the Douglas C-133 Cargo master! It looks like a C-130 Hercules but it’s much bigger. It was taken out of service in 1971 due to major cracks being found in the main spars.
I found out a coworker from my job who was in the USAF trained here in 83 and 84. He did hazmat and some weapons training here. He was based in White hall building. They had a pretty nice leisure on the base. Sucks they just left it all there...
It’s especially sad to see the condition of the former Chanute AFB and the museum, which had some real gems of historical artifacts and aircraft. I remember walking up to a Corsair B-58 Hustler and a B-47 Stratojet on static display on the base by the hospital shortly after it was turned over to the city and private industry in the mid 90’s. Awesome aircraft from the Cold War you could walk up and touch. Also, a little historical context about Chanute’s importance to U.S. military aviation history: Eddie Rickenbacker received his military training here in WWI as did the Tuskegee Airmen (the “Red Tails”).
How cool is that to grow up around an abandoned airbase and have all of those planes and buildings to explore. Wish I had that when I was a kid or teenager.
The military government should be forced to remediate bases once they are closed. If they are turned over to the city/county/state then fine. But to have the government walk away from such stuff is just criminal. And they flooded that silo for a reason! Keeps people like you out.
They do, the airport facilities at Chanute (at at most former military airfield) are used for commercial purposes now for the city of Rantoul in Illinois. The planes are actually from an abandoned Aerospace museum that was part of the site’s redevelopment. The silos are actually the bases training silos, as Chanute was mainly used for missile maintenance training, which later became exhibits at the museum. The main feature of the base itself was a large building called White Hall, which was the largest military building in the world until the Pentagon but it was demolished a while ago because it was decrepit.
Chanute @ Rantoul, Ill. My late dad went there for training in 1940-41 in the USAAC. I visited in 1998 and shot a couple rolls of pics and showed them to him soon before he passed away. Made him very sad to see the delapiaated condition of everything, but he still remembered what all the older buildings were and all. There was an RC-121 on the ramp there near the 133, as I recall.
Awesome channel! Subbed! Only thing is your volume levels keep changing drastically. A slight problem when my roommate is sleeping and I'm casting to the TV lol
Feathering a prop means if an engine has to be shut down due to a problem or failure, the blades are turned sideways into the wind to eliminate the drag on them. The bail out alarm just signals the crew to bail out. There was no ejection system. This was an incredible find! Great job on the post edit too!
Thanks for the info! The only thing I knew about the prop feather was that you use it when your engines go out. I didn’t know what it did to compensate for the loss of an engine. And thanks for watching!
That's Chanute AFB-a training base. Rantoul, Ill I was there for sheetmetal training in 1985. I didn't know the static a/c were left behind. The "museaum" as you called it, was the training classroom. If I could find my old picture, I'd show you how it looked.
Yup I missed going to chanute for sheet metal tech school by a few years. By the time I enlisted and went in to ASM 2A753 tech school it was located on a Navy base and still is at Pensacola NAS. That was interesting mingling with navy and marines. The tech school was longer by then since they rolled corrosion and eventually low observable into the ASM career field by then.
I assume you were at Chanute AFB. I was stationed there back in 1985 to 86. That is not a museum, it was where the actual technicians were trained to work on ICBMs. I was being trained for the SRAM AGM69 missile and the AGM86 air launched cruise missile. Both were nuclear. It was not an active airbase when I was there, It was a tech school. All the aircraft were just vintage aircraft that were on display or non flying real aircraft used to maintenance training.
That aircraft that Max is in is not a C-130, instead, it is a Douglas C-133 Cargomaster, the only turboprop powered Strategic Airlifter that the USAF flew, untill the arrival of the C-5.
Young Mr. Power has an unexpected knowledge of A/C. That black wheel next to throttles is the trim, the black wheel to the left of the rudder pedals is nose steering. Nice job young Jedi. I've flown the 130 never a 133.Never been in one. Great find!
Nice to see my Dad's beloved C-133. He mainly flew out of Travis, Dover and Tan Son Nhut. Also places where our family was stationed. I recall him mentioning many other frequent stops. Well over 10,000 hours flying time due to long hauls. His last words were about some sort of hydraulic issue -- which seems far from other major design issues to my mechanical engineering mind. Great examples of the plane in museum: Dover, National USAF Museum in Dayton, and at Travis.
That appears to have been Chanute AFB. It was a regional training base that included minuteman two missile maintenance (hence the replica silo) and aircraft damage repair (possibly why all the aircraft pieces are present-I never saw those but I personally saw all the other stuff). It had not only a museum near its end of life but numerous static displays ( which is probably the course of the rare c-133. I’ve only ever seen c-133 in one other place, three rotting in the back lot storage in Mojave CA.
I was at Chanute AFB back in the summer of 2017.There was a B*58 Hustler still inside the hanger. And maybe a dozen others around the outside. The folks that were taking the B-58 apart to move it invited me to come look and photograph the airplanes. It's too bad the museum could not survive. With the only Minute man silo in a museum, it had some great cold war artifacts. Another cook thing, I was in 2nd grade when my Dad was stationed there for about 6 months back in the early 60s. He was part of the Boeing team putting in the silo.
I’m pretty surprised the base wasn’t taken over by Illinois and sold to businesses as most other closed bases were. Also surprised the USAF left behind these old relic AC. Most other closed bases moved these old planes to Davis Monthan near Tucson or gave them to the Pima air museum before closing up. Scrapping them is worth a lot.
Many of those aircraft were used for ABD Training. "Aircraft Battle Damage". Aircraft that go to DM in AZ are flown in. These were not worth any effort or cost to move them anywhere!
Good video ! That was unfortunate that you got your feet wet (especially in the cold) ! I reckon being one of the ICBM operators would be one of the worst jobs in the airforce.Sitting around in the underground silo all day long in the middle of nowhere battling boredom. Most people don't volunteer for the job - so the force has lots of problems with morale. Apparently they are tested three times a month to make sure they know all the procedures exactly. To sit in the bunker, you have to get better than 90 percent on every test.
Apparently there was basically a replica of everything that’s suppose to be in a real missile silo down in that basement. It’s a real shame that it’s flooded. I would like to see all those Cold War era silo computers.
I was a missile crew member from 1984 to 1988. There was training and testing every month. Minimum passing score was 90% but you better not be just getting by at 90% constantly. The areas of training were weapon system, codes, and Emergency War Orders. There was also training in the simulator. That is a replicate of the Launch Control Center. You would get weapon system malfunctions presented. Their was also a simulated nuclear war with and the crew had to take actions of launching. Time in the real launch centers could be boring or very active. Many crew member studies for their masters degrees. I re@d a lot since I had my masters degree and did military education. Some people really hated crew duty. It did not bother me very much. The drive to sites could suck with bad winter weather. The stressful activity was no notice evaluations. The wing had operational missile squadrons, a training squadron and an evaluation squadron.
I was at Chanute from 1/76 through 8/76. My tech school was long enough that I was assigned to base housing. My school was specifically for analog flight simulators. There was a room full of T-38 flight simulators that we practiced on. Even though I was married and lived in base housing, I was required to march back and forth between the squadron and the school compound.
There were abandoned Nike missile in south jersey, no less. That I visited. The prop pitch control, feathers the props. What is does is move the blades in line with the airstream. This stops the props from rotating. Of course this is done in an emergency. The reason is, if a prop is free wheeling, being turned by the air, it is creating drag, around the whole disc of the props rotation. If it's not moving, just the thin edge of each blade is creating drag. Does that make sense?
I worked at the museum when it was still open as a restoration volunteer. I was a part of a project working on a B-25 Mitchell that was in the back left corner of the hangar. Once the museum closed someone came in and started scraping the planes, but did not finish the job. I wish it could have shown the museum with everything still in it. It was a great place and it is a shame what it has become.
@@StrangePlacesThe B-25 was saved, and thankfully most of the museums collection was! The planes that were scrapped were larger aircraft that had fallen into major disrepair due to the museums lack of funds for maintenance and them being stored outside. I’d imagine it was hard to convince other air museums to take some of the worse condition large aircraft that had “less” historic value since it’d be expensive to move them on top of restoring them. It is truly a shame to see those aircraft scrapped either way though. The most surprising aircraft that got scrapped to me was the F-105 but there are quite a few on display at place and it was probably in poor repair. The C-97G the museum had was probably the biggest shame to see scrapped as they’re an uncommon aircraft.
This is dope just because this is my home town. Chanute AFB in Rantoul, IL. Dope man, cool as hell you guys actually came here and cool as hell josh came here I follow his IG and on RUclips so this dope. Been in those same exact buildings and seen all that stuff growing up as a kid. My great granpa was stationed here back in the day. Awesome video.
@@StrangePlaces Yeah I did man. Honestly was a truly historic place at one time. The place was kept up well honestly just cool to see what life was like during the wars. Now the guy who owns that property out there is using all 200+ acres for autonomous vehicle testing and pavement testing, plus the few badass car meets that use to take place before COVID.
@@StrangePlaces My picture actually for my profile here on RUclips was taken in one of the air hangers. I have plenty of pics from the hospital, training base, and hangars on my IG. Wish I could of documented the White Hall before it’s deconstruction.
Very cool video its amazing when you look at the magnitude of just this one facility really makes me wonder how many more of these types of places are all over the world at the height of the Cold War so much Money and resources were put into the effort o building and having the best of the best it makes it a reality when someone is standing next to one of those big planes you guys got some really great footage and amera angles
Thanks! And most of the U.S bases from the Cold War I think are still in service, but there are a ton of Soviet ones that closed, and we’re abandoned all over Russia and the Eastern European block after the fall of the USSR. I can’t wait to check out some Russian airbases to make a video on! And thanks for watching!
Ok yeah this is Chanute AFB. They trained Electronic Missile Systems, my Dad was a Instructor there. I grew up on that base till my Dad got out of the Air Force. The museum was very cool, as I visited it when I was a kid. They had B-52 Ejection Systems on display. And those Air Craft where left there because they could not be flown out. Structural Problems or they used to be on Display on the base. No One bought them for scrap, and it most likely cost more than it was worth to ship them to the bone yard. As that base had been there since WWI. And trained Pilots, and in WWII again pilot training. And the Tuskegee Airmen trained there. We where there in 66 to 68. The cargo plane your on in the video was retired by 1971 and only 50 where built.
The front part of the aircraft looks like an old T-39 Saberliner. I was a docent on the one at the Travis AFB museum in 1987 while I was stationed there
I’m pretty sure I know where this is. I used to visit this when I was younger in the Boy Scouts. It was part museum part active base at the time. If this is where I think we actually got to sleep over in one of the barracks.
C1 33 cargo what is the location of this abandon airbase appreciate it are used to work on them when I was in Japan 1968 then they started falling out of the sky metal fatigue
Where is this , my friend and I do the same sort of exploring and are both military, I come from an airforce background so this Elwood be an incredible trip
It's not a graveyard, it's an old museum. The planes were sold and was being cut up for scrap. The guy was selling some ejection seats and got caught!! A big no no
Theres a huge concrete slab door missing that covered the silo and it blew open in a fraction of a second for launch and took a super long time to close ! Its sad to see the facility flooded as i did my C.A.P basic training there in the 80's an we were alowed to tour the silo cameras excluded ! Didnt know that Chanute was abandoned ! Go figure !
9:21 if you look at the props, compared to modern ones, you can see the tech. advancement. These really look silly IMO. The planes may be part of the post cold war treaty we had with Russia. We both had to destroy xx number of planes and leave the remains for Russian satellites verify it. I live not far from the biggest airplane graveyard in the US. Tucson. If you Google it you can see a bunch of B-52 destroyed as well as other planes. It's really not a graveyard. It's a parts store. ruclips.net/video/wcXkz1YfAi4/видео.html
The huge plane you repeatedly call a c130 is actually a c-133, a much larger aircraft built by Douglas. It was the transition from the c-124 to the jet c-141. A very impressive but problematic aircraft.
There’s nothing left the truck everything the seats everything else it brings back a lot of good memories back there working on them until they fell out of the skull meta-fatigue. I got a picture of one upside down.
How cool, In Jamaica the US also have 2 abandoned WW2 bases, Vernam Field was the larger of the 2 but not very much is left their exsepting for the runway, same of the barracks and road network. It was closed in 1949 and many of the old planes were sold off as crap metal plus other inforstrutures. The runway is still intack and as been use for motor racing but drug trafficers also find it an ideal location so many of those drug trafficing planes litter the area. The precent government want to turn it into an airport but is trap for cash. Not many people today knows that it was an airbase as their is nothing their to tell them so and interestingly enough the Cuban government build a high school on the base in the 1970's and I understand that the USSR had wanted to build a base their but a change of government spoiled that in late 1980. I have however manage to find the location of wear a B-26 bomber had crashed at sea not very far from the old base and spoke to afew eye witness and was shock after making mention of it online one of the co-pilots nephews contacted me..
Awesome fun exploration
Thanks bro! ^Y'all should check out this man's channel. Its dope!
Strange Places this is cool
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Until they get caught & mommy has to come git em all outta jail that is..
I was an instructor on Chanute AFB in the 80's. That missile silo was not an exhibit. That was the Minuteman Missile Crew Training School and was real (except for the missile). Do some research on the aircraft before you finish production. All the info is out there.
I did add a little info on the silo and the C 133a. I’m usually pretty good with identifying aircraft, but that cargo plane stumped me. Thanks for watching!
Thanks jackass.
@@StrangePlaces they are not even close, like calling a C5 a C17.....
Would anyone care if that super hercules gets took?
I went on a school field trip to there in 1984 and I asked a question that they couldn't answer! Because it was top-secret! LOL we even got to eat lunch in the cafeteria! It was awesome!
For anyone wondering what the story is with the scrapped planes is, they’re from the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum which opened on the former site of Chanute AFB which opened in 1994 just after the base closed, and itself closed in 2015 due to a lack of funds. The museum was located in the base’s Grissom Hall which was a Minuteman Missle maintenance facility when the base was active. When the museum closed most of its collection was transferred to other museums, but sadly a lot of its larger aircraft including the Douglas C-133A Cargomaster in the video were in bad shape due to being stored outdoors and were sold for scrapping. The other scrapped aircraft were a Douglas VC-47B Skytrain, a Grumman HU-16B Albatross, a Republic F-105B Thunderchief, a Boeing C-97G Freighter, a Douglas JRB-66 Destroyer, and a North American CT-39A Sabreliner. The Sabreliner is in the video, the back of it is the part he says looks like a private aircraft, the front is the smaller intact contact. The cockpit of the F-105 is see lying on its side in the video, next to what looks like the rest of its airframe. The museum also had a real decommissioned Minuteman 1 outside of it but I’m finding conflicting reports of if that was scrapped or not. A Lockheed EC-121K Warning Star was set to be scrapped but thankfully was saved by the Yankee Air Museum for restoration.
I went to Tech School at Chanute twice in my career, once in 1964 then in 1970. At its peak it handled thousands of Airmen and NCOs in its training schools. it had new one-thousand-man dorms. The area in Illinois is beautiful.
Love the video, just wish you could hold the camera steady, hard to watch part of it 😉
It's pathetic what happened to Chanute and all the planes left over. Scott could have saved the 133, but were to lazy to do it.
@@dietrichfielding5972 Not my video unfortunately, just providing some context :)
@@TimKline I agree it’s very unfortunate what happened. It’s a sad fate for many large aircraft stored outdoors at museums that don’t always have good weather. Stuff like the Sabreliner, the F-105, and the C-47 are all common aircraft to get scrapped when museums like these close. The EC-121 Warning Star being saved is at least one silver lining.
In case anyone was wondering, that big cargo plane is called a C-133 cargomaster had a top speed of 359 mph and was retired in 1971
It transported ICBMs around the country I read as well
That thing has a really really close resemblance to my girlfriends favorite sex toy...
Was an instructor at Chanute 85 - 91 and worked in that hanger. Went to class there as a student Jan - May 78.
Very cool. Looks like the C-133 was part of the museum exhibits, since the stairs going up to the cockpit were not at all what you would find on an active aircraft - that was definitely built specifically to provide ease of access for visitors.
It was indeed part of the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum until 2015 when the museum closed. It and few other of the large aircraft (a Douglas VC-47, a Grumman Albatross, and a Boeing C-97) from the museum were in incredibly poor repair which is partially why they ended up going for scrap. The only large aircraft that was saved was the Lockheed Warning Star which is fortunate at least. The museum also had a Minuteman 1 ICBM on display out front too, but that unfortunately I believe has been scrapped as well due to disrepair.
My husband and my sister worked in that Hangar. I worked across the street. I've been in the above ground silo. They had real missiles in a secure area. They just didn't have any payload. I don't know if that's the right term. The abandoned aircraft are so sad. None of these aircraft ever flew again once they came to Chanute to be used for training. The based ceased all military flying long before the base closed. It was no longer an operational base. My parents both worked there. In fact my dad came there in 1939 to enlist in the Army Air Corps. Chanute will always hold a place in my heart.
Where is this?
The runways were in such bad shape in 1964 that aircraft that landed there were on a one-way trip.
C 133 A. Better known as either the Weinie wagon, or the Widow Maker. These planes were thrown together during the Cold War, but none of them were thoroughly tested before being called to service to haul heavy cargo, including various ICBM's. These planes had a tendency to easily enter a Stall situation in flight, and when the Pilot pushed the control yoke forward, and the Flight Engineer pushed the throttles forward to max power to try and bring the nose back down, the gearboxes for the engine props would suddenly switch into full reverse, and the plane would roll on it's back, and drop like a brick. There are still 3 or 4 C 133's sitting at the bottom of the Delaware Bay after taking off from Dover AFB, and falling out of the sky after going into a stall.
Good thing they grounded it flying death trap wow
@@madmanmechanic8847 The USAF did not do any kind of flight tests on the C133's when they were built, because they needed a plane that had the ability to carry the ICBM's ASAP. The C5's of today were not yet built, or even in the planning stages. Some of the C133's were sold to a Pipe Hauling Company up in Alaska after being retired by the USAF, and they were used to haul piping, and other needed equipment into Alaska during the Construction of the Trans Alaskan Pipeline, but they were never quite certified as fully airworthy, so the flight crews were not allowed to fly over any land that was populated by people, so they had to fly over the Ocean in the event of a potential crash. Even when the Last Flying C133 was finally retired from it's Alaskan Pipeline Job, and flown back down to California to be retired at the Jimmy Doolittle Museum at Travis AFB, jt's Fljght Crew decided to o flh it out over the Pacific Ocean until it was close enough fo fly into Travis AFB to avoid flying in over populated areas.
I attended aircraft maintenance tech school there Oct 1976 to Mar 1977.
Makes me feel sad to see it abandoned and trashed.
Ditto to Vic Gregg, the plane was a C-133A, an ICBM transport. It did fill other roles but was specially built for the ICBM role. So, let us honor this old bird for what it did...carry hardware and personnel.
I worked on that C-133A (2009) in 1966-67 at Dover AFB as a two striper. I have set in that engineers seat and worked that panel during engine runs. It's sad to me to see her there and in that shape, really sad.
6:15 You say the Minuteman missiles "were" our first line of defense. Minuteman missiles ARE our line of defense. The United States still has 400 Minuteman missile silos spread across three missile fields in the Western United States.
Most of the serviceable C-133 aircraft went to civilian cargo airlines in Alaska and were used to haul pipes as it was one of the few aircraft long enough.
Yes, and the last one was retired about 10 years ago, and flown down to California, and is now on permanent Static Display at the Jimmy Doolittle Museum.
That’s the Douglas C-133 Cargo master! It looks like a C-130 Hercules but it’s much bigger. It was taken out of service in 1971 due to major cracks being found in the main spars.
Wow, a lot more of an educational video than I would have expected, awesome! This graveyard looks great, it's so cool seeing abandoned planes!
Thanks!
I found out a coworker from my job who was in the USAF trained here in 83 and 84. He did hazmat and some weapons training here. He was based in White hall building. They had a pretty nice leisure on the base. Sucks they just left it all there...
The C 133 belongs in a museum!!
New favorite channel, thank you for making so many different funny skits like crashing in the plane hahaha
Haha no problem bro! Thanks for watching!
It’s especially sad to see the condition of the former Chanute AFB and the museum, which had some real gems of historical artifacts and aircraft. I remember walking up to a Corsair B-58 Hustler and a B-47 Stratojet on static display on the base by the hospital shortly after it was turned over to the city and private industry in the mid 90’s. Awesome aircraft from the Cold War you could walk up and touch. Also, a little historical context about Chanute’s importance to U.S. military aviation history: Eddie Rickenbacker received his military training here in WWI as did the Tuskegee Airmen (the “Red Tails”).
That B-58 looked awesome in 1964.
How cool is that to grow up around an abandoned airbase and have all of those planes and buildings to explore. Wish I had that when I was a kid or teenager.
That was awesome! Thanks!!
No problem!
I really enjoyed this episode Max. I liked the max power on the throttles, ha ha.
The military government should be forced to remediate bases once they are closed. If they are turned over to the city/county/state then fine. But to have the government walk away from such stuff is just criminal. And they flooded that silo for a reason! Keeps people like you out.
All silos will flood without constant upkeep.
They do, the airport facilities at Chanute (at at most former military airfield) are used for commercial purposes now for the city of Rantoul in Illinois. The planes are actually from an abandoned Aerospace museum that was part of the site’s redevelopment. The silos are actually the bases training silos, as Chanute was mainly used for missile maintenance training, which later became exhibits at the museum. The main feature of the base itself was a large building called White Hall, which was the largest military building in the world until the Pentagon but it was demolished a while ago because it was decrepit.
Chanute @ Rantoul, Ill. My late dad went there for training in 1940-41 in the USAAC. I visited in 1998 and shot a couple rolls of pics and showed them to him soon before he passed away. Made him very sad to see the delapiaated condition of everything, but he still remembered what all the older buildings were and all. There was an RC-121 on the ramp there near the 133, as I recall.
It was cool to see explorers with a lot of knowledge and respect for the area. Great work guys!
A lot of knowledge? This does not bode well for our future.
This saddens me, I mean people built these things
Awesome channel! Subbed!
Only thing is your volume levels keep changing drastically. A slight problem when my roommate is sleeping and I'm casting to the TV lol
Feathering a prop means if an engine has to be shut down due to a problem or failure, the blades are turned sideways into the wind to eliminate the drag on them. The bail out alarm just signals the crew to bail out. There was no ejection system. This was an incredible find! Great job on the post edit too!
Thanks for the info! The only thing I knew about the prop feather was that you use it when your engines go out. I didn’t know what it did to compensate for the loss of an engine. And thanks for watching!
That's Chanute AFB-a training base. Rantoul, Ill I was there for sheetmetal training in 1985. I didn't know the static a/c were left behind. The "museaum" as you called it, was the training classroom. If I could find my old picture, I'd show you how it looked.
Yup I missed going to chanute for sheet metal tech school by a few years. By the time I enlisted and went in to ASM 2A753 tech school it was located on a Navy base and still is at Pensacola NAS. That was interesting mingling with navy and marines. The tech school was longer by then since they rolled corrosion and eventually low observable into the ASM career field by then.
Sheet metal was in Dyess Hall - not Grissom. I was there in 1986. Dyess Hall is the hangar right next to the fire station on Chanute.
@tylermills79 ...I recall when the base closed that sheet metal was then at Millington NAS is TN, before moving to Pensacola.
That staircase and platform just outside the cockpit reminded me of the scene on the plane in Conair . Cool Vid Max .
I had a big😊 watching your intro. Definite potential Star Quality! I subscribed.
Found this video on my recommended. I cant stop laughing at the way this guy says museum.😂😂
Where is this abandoned base located? There are some huge hangers for sure, too bad they are flooded below the flooring. Thanks for sharing .
I assume you were at Chanute AFB. I was stationed there back in 1985 to 86. That is not a museum, it was where the actual technicians were trained to work on ICBMs. I was being trained for the SRAM AGM69 missile and the AGM86 air launched cruise missile. Both were nuclear. It was not an active airbase when I was there, It was a tech school. All the aircraft were just vintage aircraft that were on display or non flying real aircraft used to maintenance training.
It was a museum after the base closed. I was a restoration volunteer when the museum was still open.
My Instrument Systems school was there in '71. Sad to see that base gone to the wayside.
@@devinhinners1397 SO you are both right!
Most of Chanute is now public housing and such. They are supposed to take down that missle at the entrance of it,if they haven't already.
I went to the museum and and it was a cool museum and now it’s gone and it’s was in rantole Illinois
The desk was for the flight engineer, not the "navigator".
That aircraft that Max is in is not a C-130, instead, it is a Douglas C-133 Cargomaster, the only turboprop powered Strategic Airlifter that the USAF flew, untill the arrival of the C-5.
Young Mr. Power has an unexpected knowledge of A/C. That black wheel next to throttles is the trim, the black wheel to the left of the rudder pedals is nose steering. Nice job young Jedi. I've flown the 130 never a 133.Never been in one. Great find!
Nice to see my Dad's beloved C-133. He mainly flew out of Travis, Dover and Tan Son Nhut. Also places where our family was stationed. I recall him mentioning many other frequent stops. Well over 10,000 hours flying time due to long hauls. His last words were about some sort of hydraulic issue -- which seems far from other major design issues to my mechanical engineering mind. Great examples of the plane in museum: Dover, National USAF Museum in Dayton, and at Travis.
8:26 That’s a Bombardier Dash 8, it was a turbo-prop, not a jet
That appears to have been Chanute AFB. It was a regional training base that included minuteman two missile maintenance (hence the replica silo) and aircraft damage repair (possibly why all the aircraft pieces are present-I never saw those but I personally saw all the other stuff). It had not only a museum near its end of life but numerous static displays ( which is probably the course of the rare c-133. I’ve only ever seen c-133 in one other place, three rotting in the back lot storage in Mojave CA.
I was at Chanute AFB back in the summer of 2017.There was a B*58 Hustler still inside the hanger. And maybe a dozen others around the outside. The folks that were taking the B-58 apart to move it invited me to come look and photograph the airplanes. It's too bad the museum could not survive. With the only Minute man silo in a museum, it had some great cold war artifacts. Another cook thing, I was in 2nd grade when my Dad was stationed there for about 6 months back in the early 60s. He was part of the Boeing team putting in the silo.
A C-133 is a rare beast: shame to see it rotting, but at the same time, it would cost a fortune to restore.
Wheenie wagon!
I went to Technical School at the former Chanute AFB in 1991. Crazy seeing it in this state now. Thanks for sharing.
I was there in 1964 and 1970 going through Flight Simulator School.
I’m pretty surprised the base wasn’t taken over by Illinois and sold to businesses as most other closed bases were. Also surprised the USAF left behind these old relic AC. Most other closed bases moved these old planes to Davis Monthan near Tucson or gave them to the Pima air museum before closing up. Scrapping them is worth a lot.
I'm amazed meth heads haven't stripped out the copper yet.
Many of those aircraft were used for ABD Training. "Aircraft Battle Damage". Aircraft that go to DM in AZ are flown in. These were not worth any effort or cost to move them anywhere!
Good video ! That was unfortunate that you got your feet wet (especially in the cold) ! I reckon being one of the ICBM operators would be one of the worst jobs in the airforce.Sitting around in the underground silo all day long in the middle of nowhere battling boredom. Most people don't volunteer for the job - so the force has lots of problems with morale. Apparently they are tested three times a month to make sure they know all the procedures exactly. To sit in the bunker, you have to get better than 90 percent on every test.
Apparently there was basically a replica of everything that’s suppose to be in a real missile silo down in that basement. It’s a real shame that it’s flooded. I would like to see all those Cold War era silo computers.
@@StrangePlaces I wonder if it was intentionally flooded to keep ppl out ?? It is the military after all I wouldn't put it past them 🤔🤔
@@jayceadidda2621 no those facilities flood easily, if they wanted to keep people out they would have welded the entryways shut
I was a missile crew member from 1984 to 1988. There was training and testing every month. Minimum passing score was 90% but you better not be just getting by at 90% constantly. The areas of training were weapon system, codes, and Emergency War Orders. There was also training in the simulator. That is a replicate of the Launch Control Center. You would get weapon system malfunctions presented. Their was also a simulated nuclear war with and the crew had to take actions of launching.
Time in the real launch centers could be boring or very active. Many crew member studies for their masters degrees. I re@d a lot since I had my masters degree and did military education.
Some people really hated crew duty. It did not bother me very much.
The drive to sites could suck with bad winter weather.
The stressful activity was no notice evaluations.
The wing had operational missile squadrons, a training squadron and an evaluation squadron.
I did my tech school at Chanute. Best chow hall (yeah, I said chow hall) ever! Also fond memories of The Hitching Post just outside the gate.
Looks like you are at what used to be Chanute AFB outside of Rantoul, IL
I was at Chanute from 1/76 through 8/76. My tech school was long enough that I was assigned to base housing. My school was specifically for analog flight simulators. There was a room full of T-38 flight simulators that we practiced on. Even though I was married and lived in base housing, I was required to march back and forth between the squadron and the school compound.
Oh my ...look at those AC-130 Prototypes...
Douglas C-133 Cargomaster, not a C-130.
Just a c130 i live 5 min from the base
There were abandoned Nike missile in south jersey, no less. That I visited. The prop pitch control, feathers the props. What is does is move the blades in line with the airstream. This stops the props from rotating. Of course this is done in an emergency. The reason is, if a prop is free wheeling, being turned by the air, it is creating drag, around the whole disc of the props rotation. If it's not moving, just the thin edge of each blade is creating drag. Does that make sense?
I worked at the museum when it was still open as a restoration volunteer. I was a part of a project working on a B-25 Mitchell that was in the back left corner of the hangar. Once the museum closed someone came in and started scraping the planes, but did not finish the job. I wish it could have shown the museum with everything still in it. It was a great place and it is a shame what it has become.
I hope they preserved that B-25. It’d be a sin to scrap that.
Devin Hinners So what’s the story on that Cargo master ?
It is a damn shame, those people are fucking idiots! I am still pissed off about that
@@StrangePlacesThe B-25 was saved, and thankfully most of the museums collection was! The planes that were scrapped were larger aircraft that had fallen into major disrepair due to the museums lack of funds for maintenance and them being stored outside. I’d imagine it was hard to convince other air museums to take some of the worse condition large aircraft that had “less” historic value since it’d be expensive to move them on top of restoring them. It is truly a shame to see those aircraft scrapped either way though. The most surprising aircraft that got scrapped to me was the F-105 but there are quite a few on display at place and it was probably in poor repair. The C-97G the museum had was probably the biggest shame to see scrapped as they’re an uncommon aircraft.
@@nickclayton2517I just posted another comment detailing the story of the scrapped aircraft at Chanute AFB 👍🏻
Hahahaha how did you do this effects bro
It’s all in After Effects dude. When you come back to chi I can teach you some basics if you want
This is a legendary explore. Love this video
Thanks bro!
This is dope just because this is my home town. Chanute AFB in Rantoul, IL. Dope man, cool as hell you guys actually came here and cool as hell josh came here I follow his IG and on RUclips so this dope. Been in those same exact buildings and seen all that stuff growing up as a kid. My great granpa was stationed here back in the day. Awesome video.
Thanks dude! Did you see the place when it was an active museum?
@@StrangePlaces Yeah I did man. Honestly was a truly historic place at one time. The place was kept up well honestly just cool to see what life was like during the wars. Now the guy who owns that property out there is using all 200+ acres for autonomous vehicle testing and pavement testing, plus the few badass car meets that use to take place before COVID.
@@StrangePlaces My picture actually for my profile here on RUclips was taken in one of the air hangers. I have plenty of pics from the hospital, training base, and hangars on my IG. Wish I could of documented the White Hall before it’s deconstruction.
Dope!
I went to tech school at Chanute AFB early 1984. Crazy memories
Was there early 84 as well. Sad to see it now.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful video
Thanks!
Very cool video its amazing when you look at the magnitude of just this one facility really makes me wonder how many more of these types of places are all over the world at the height of the Cold War so much Money and resources were put into the effort o building and having the best of the best it makes it a reality when someone is standing next to one of those big planes you guys got some really great footage and amera angles
Thanks! And most of the U.S bases from the Cold War I think are still in service, but there are a ton of Soviet ones that closed, and we’re abandoned all over Russia and the Eastern European block after the fall of the USSR. I can’t wait to check out some Russian airbases to make a video on! And thanks for watching!
Ok yeah this is Chanute AFB. They trained Electronic Missile Systems, my Dad was a Instructor there. I grew up on that base till my Dad got out of the Air Force. The museum was very cool, as I visited it when I was a kid. They had B-52 Ejection Systems on display. And those Air Craft where left there because they could not be flown out. Structural Problems or they used to be on Display on the base. No One bought them for scrap, and it most likely cost more than it was worth to ship them to the bone yard. As that base had been there since WWI. And trained Pilots, and in WWII again pilot training. And the Tuskegee Airmen trained there. We where there in 66 to 68. The cargo plane your on in the video was retired by 1971 and only 50 where built.
And the taxpayers are paying and paying. How many millions are abandoned there?
Very interesting video. I went to AGE school here in 1966. Lots of memories.
I visited the museum once,
Neat place.
I don't understand how you can just walk in.
You must have had permission right?
The front part of the aircraft looks like an old T-39 Saberliner. I was a docent on the one at the Travis AFB museum in 1987 while I was stationed there
Hey Dude, Ben 10 wants his tacky omnitrix watch back!
😂😂😂
Cool place, an airforce base.
Thanks for the tour.
I’m pretty sure I know where this is. I used to visit this when I was younger in the Boy Scouts. It was part museum part active base at the time. If this is where I think we actually got to sleep over in one of the barracks.
I think it’s the place your thinking about Matt
Interesting story btw
Strange Places well at the end of the video you say something about driving 200 miles so it puts in in the right range. I’m in Oak Park, IL.
It’s in Illinois correct boys?
Correcto
Prop feather can change the angle of attack on the blade. Great video! Huge fan!
Those are variable pitch propellers which help slow down the aircraft
C1 33 cargo what is the location of this abandon airbase appreciate it are used to work on them when I was in Japan 1968 then they started falling out of the sky metal fatigue
xD I think we got away! It makes sense though, That big C-133's primary job was a Minuteman Missile hauler!
Enjoying your channel & catching up on some vids. 😷👍
Thanks dude!
Keep up the Great work
Thank you man!
Apparently Chanute AFB was one of the closures by the government. Thanks for sharing too
Where is this , my friend and I do the same sort of exploring and are both military, I come from an airforce background so this Elwood be an incredible trip
Was the Warning Star there when you went?
Abandoned? Who the hell has been mowing the lawn?
This is such a unique location!! Awesome explore!!!!
Thanks Claire!
It's not a graveyard, it's an old museum. The planes were sold and was being cut up for scrap. The guy was selling some ejection seats and got caught!! A big no no
Theres a huge concrete slab door missing that covered the silo and it blew open in a fraction of a second for launch and took a super long time to close ! Its sad to see the facility flooded as i did my C.A.P basic training there in the 80's an we were alowed to tour the silo cameras excluded ! Didnt know that Chanute was abandoned ! Go figure !
the snowy vibe gives it like a type of movie snowy weather
I really wish you would've done some actual research before posting up this video. So much misinformation here.
Ok boomer.
@@ahegaojosuke3250 that's the weakest comeback ever in history...
The little wheel on the pilot’s left is nose wheel steering for ground operations
Very good video. You did good.
Thanks a lot!
6:25 it was the last line of defense
Watch Us criminally trust pass. I don't understand why RUclips Allows channels like this that break the law.
Airframe dossier says that C-133 was scrapped in 2019, nobody wanted it after the museum closed now it's gone. there is/was a C-124 also.
I'm not an airplane surgeon or anything, but I'm pretty sure you don't "fire up" a plane from the flight engineer's station.
How the hell did you get in there wow it's rare to see a 133...
That might be the Lockheed L100 civilian variant of the C130, and the difference is the L100 is at least 25 longer than the C130,
Be cool to make that C133 fly again. They were neat airplanes.
I was there back in 2007. Sad to see it like this. Too far away from population, so was rarely visited.
9:21 if you look at the props, compared to modern ones, you can see the tech. advancement. These really look silly IMO. The planes may be part of the post cold war treaty we had with Russia. We both had to destroy xx number of planes and leave the remains for Russian satellites verify it. I live not far from the biggest airplane graveyard in the US. Tucson. If you Google it you can see a bunch of B-52 destroyed as well as other planes. It's really not a graveyard. It's a parts store. ruclips.net/video/wcXkz1YfAi4/видео.html
Hated that F-105 was destroyed, wish the C-133 could be saved.
The prop feather sets the angle of the propeller regarding how much thrust isneeded
The huge plane you repeatedly call a c130 is actually a c-133, a much larger aircraft built by Douglas. It was the transition from the c-124 to the jet c-141. A very impressive but problematic aircraft.
There’s nothing left the truck everything the seats everything else it brings back a lot of good memories back there working on them until they fell out of the skull meta-fatigue. I got a picture of one upside down.
I have that same Invicta Zeus watch your are wearing in the vid! 👍
How cool, In Jamaica the US also have 2 abandoned WW2 bases, Vernam Field was the larger of the 2 but not very much is left their exsepting for the runway, same of the barracks and road network. It was closed in 1949 and many of the old planes were sold off as crap metal plus other inforstrutures. The runway is still intack and as been use for motor racing but drug trafficers also find it an ideal location so many of those drug trafficing planes litter the area. The precent government want to turn it into an airport but is trap for cash. Not many people today knows that it was an airbase as their is nothing their to tell them so and interestingly enough the Cuban government build a high school on the base in the 1970's and I understand that the USSR had wanted to build a base their but a change of government spoiled that in late 1980. I have however manage to find the location of wear a B-26 bomber had crashed at sea not very far from the old base and spoke to afew eye witness and was shock after making mention of it online one of the co-pilots nephews contacted me..
It has been almost 30 years since that base was closed down they should tear them down
I wish you guys couldve taken those posters i wouldve bought them off of you!
We can’t things unfortunately. I’ve seen so much cool stuff that I wanted to take over the years! The posters were super cool too!
"Whoa...Max Power Airlines"....SO oraginal. Duuuuuude, brooooo. Good lord I weep for America's youth. SMH
Can you tell me a location what town appreciate it I worked on in Japan coming from Vietnam