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Thanks for the info and for watching. I never crawled through the inside of a P2 but I know things were noisy, tight, and uncomfortable in there, causing tremendous crew fatigue. The giant wing box didn't help. The follow-on P3 Orion and current P8 Poseidon fixed all that. Thanks again! J.A. Reed

Yes, time "flies" for sure. I remember when each of those jets you mentioned was introduced. Now they are antiques. Thanks for watching! J.A. Reed.

Thanks for watching our stuff and for your kind comments! Changing 5-6 jugs after every trip is something else--you cannot run an airline like that these days! That is a very interesting tidbit to say the least. Thanks again! J.A. Reed

Yes, things are not looking good--probably will be scrapped on the spot. J.A. Reed

Thanks for your comments and your 100% accurate info! J.A. Reed.

I'm glad your Dad is still hanging out! I also found that crew to be very courteous and engaging, and I'm glad they took a special interest in your Dad and VPB-111--no surprise to me at all. J.A. Reed

No surprise--upkeep and operations are a ball-and-chain with the P2. Thanks for reaching out! J.A. Reed

Thanks for checking us out! Always glad to hear from Corrosion Corner crews that actually lived it (I just visited). Good that you broke out and worked your way up to the 777-- I understand that some worked up to the heavies there but others didn't. And then there were the retired pilots from majors like you who turned right around and flew propliners again at Corrosion Corner--but I'm sure all that was history by the time you retired. I flew with some older pilots down there that did just that. You might like our DC-6 West Indies Odyssey series on this AeroDinosaur channel. Thanks again. J.A. Reed

Thanks for checking us out and for the nice compliment! That DC-7C hulk you saw at Gran Canaria has been there for years--I had no idea it was still there. I believe the leisure airline called Spantax was its last operator. JA Reed.

Agreed! There is no aircraft in the world that can equal the stubbornness of the beautiful DC-3. Happily, it will outlive me as well! Thanks for watching! J.A. Reed

I have not ridden on N8407 yet but am going to! It's been down for maintenance for a year or two, but I think it's now back up and running (or close to it). I too would like to catch the DC-3. Thanks for checking us out! J.A. Reed

Looks like you came close to making history. United's very last DC6B trip was a "puddle jump" operation from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, with stops at Ely NV, Elko NV, and Reno NV on February 28, 1970. Thanks for checking us out! J.A. Reed

Noted. Thanks for your input! J.A. Reed

You and me both! Great machine. Thanks for watching! J. A. Reed

I'm glad you like the models, I do too! I built them over a 50-year period. You are correct, mostly 1/72 and 1/144, but some 1/48. We regularly feature them as "props" in our videos and will continue to do so. Your idea of a special feature dedicated to the models is a good one, so we'll think about putting something together. Glad you like our videos too, and thanks for the background on your dad's friend. When I was growing up my dad had a close friend who flew PB4Y-1s over the Bay of Biscay during WWII hunting for U-Boats. His plane was shot up by a Ju-88 but he got it back safely--luckily not a scratch on any of the crew. J.A. Reed

Thanks a lot for sharing- your interesting story about your dad and his PB4Y-2 squadron with the last Bat bombs. Also, I have an interesting book on the Black Bat Squadron and their aircraft lineage, by Chris Pocock/Clarence Fu, Schiffer Military Histories (2010) ISBN 978-0-7643-3513-6. If you don't have it already you will find it very interesting--I have re-read it several times over the last decade. Your dad was part of a brave group for sure. J.A. Reed

@@AeroDinosaur Thanks. I will get a copy of the book. I live near the National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. They have a large aviation book shop. I'll call them and see if they have it. When my father was still with us, the museum actually had a Bat glide bomb display and we went there together and he pointed it out to me. They change the displays all of the time though, so it may not be shown right now. The Navy offered my father a promotion if he renewed his enlistment. He declined, but on his 25th birthday in 1954, they gave him another promotion anyway. He went to St. Louis and got a copy of his Navy record and gave it to me. He used his GI Bill to get an engineering degree and became a civilian research scientist for the US Navy. He mostly designed RADAR systems and worked on designing one of the two RADAR systems for Skylab and worked on designing the RADAR system for AWACS. I still have his AWACS flight coveralls and AWACS patches.

Yes, we sparked a lot of discussion on that Tshikapa City hulk visible from Google Earth, and even heard from one of the crewmen who had flown our DC-7C between the Congo and Angola. At first everyone thought it was our plane, but after careful inspection, everyone agreed that image was an abandoned Vickers Viscount turboprop. There are some people still trying to track down the final resting place (more probably, the "destruction place") of the DC-7C N869TA. Thanks for checking us out, and please let us know if you hear anything! J.A. Reed.

Yes, it was almost the same story here in the US--and where I live in the middle of the US in St. Louis. DC-3s and even TWA L-749 Connies until 1967, long after the 727-100s and DC-9s appeared! Thank you for watching! J.A. Reed

Unlike you I was never in SE Asia, but I undersand there were A-1s in and out of Udorn back then. I hear it was a primary recovery base for damaged A-1s and other combat aircraft such as the A-26A. J.A. Reed

Thanks for checking us out and for your complement! Sorry I missed N6080 s/n 2! I know a few other Spartan grads, most likely from your era, who for a short time did skin their knuckles on round engines, but not for long! Thanks again. J.A. Reed.

Thanks a million, will do everything we can to keep them coming!

Thanks for watching and for your compliment! I saw two Carvairs over my neighborhood in the midwest US, one in 1995 and the other in 2005, but never on the ramp. Came into St. Louis all the time in the early and mid-1990s serving the auto assembly components industry here. Warmest wishes to you! J.A. Reed

Thanks a million for watching and getting our book. I agree with you about covering 1st generation turboprops--they have a special place in my heart for sure and I have a lot of very personal memories, especially the L-188 and CL-44. You will see the L-188 is discussed in several places in my book. I just don't have the immediate "rights" to video footage of them!. I get a lot of inquiries about that--will do my best to see if I can get a series going on early turboprops. J.A. Reed

Thanks for watching it and for your kind complement! The single radial example had R-2800s in it. J.A. Reed.

I vividly remember DC-7B Super Snoopy! But I only wished I could be there. I actually talked to Clay Lacy about Super Snoopy when he was at an airshow near St. Louis in 1971. Thanks for watching! J.A. Reed

Hi Tom, good to hear from you, thanks for watching and your nice words. I've seen some good TH-cams on your Flying Dutchman Foundation DC-4 when it was with the Dutch Dakota Association. Thanks for the update on it--I always wondered what happened to it. We will keep our fingers crossed! Regards, J.A. Reed

I think I remember reading about those Hawaiian Carvairs. I have a few books on that plane. Pretty bold of you guys to fly those old things over those expanses of the Pacific but I would not pass it up either. I've never ridden on a DC-4 or Carvair. Thanks for watching and for your story! J.A. Reed.

Yes, that was the timeframe I became aware of the P2V as well. If you were a young sailor in 1972 you are about my age. I just liked watching the P2Vs over my house in St. Louis back then, and off North Island San Diego during our trips over there, and even over Columbia, MO when I was in college there 1973-1977. Thanks for checking us out! Also, most importantly, thanks for your service! J.A. Reed

I'm not absolutely sure, but the wing design was similar. The XB19 was much larger than the DC-4E using early R-3350s vs the R-2180s in the -4E. I'm sure they shared the latest technology of the day, however. Thanks for watching. J.A. Reed

Thanks for checking us out, Cliff. Glad you are enjoying my channel. In my earlier videos, viewers have complained about the music, but I think pure airplane people look beyond that, and we have since stopped that practice anyway. Please let me know what else we can do to improve! J.A. Reed

Hi Chris, great to hear from you again and thanks for watching again, for your compliments, and for your information! I enjoyed our past communication on the DC-7C and your Rhodesian experiences. You've flown in everything (DC4M, Carvair!) that I have not! I suppose that was before mass-market video camera technology--you could have made a killer TH-cam channel, even today. Wow! How did you get all those hours on that P2? J.A. Reed

@@AeroDinosaur It was a long time ago, even by your standards, John! In case of any confusion, it was 500 hrs "P2" (co-pilot time) on the C-47 with Morton's (a subsidiary of British United Airways) out of Gatwick in 1967/8 - mainly newspapers and mail to Germany in the early hours for the BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) and the Channel Islands. The C-47 "Dakota" was my second public-transport type after flying school. Stay well, and keep making these fascinating presentations!

@@chrisscott4896 Looks like I got my designations mixed up! In the 1980s we had several Convair 440s flying Wall Street Journals out of St. Louis. These days it seems funny, if not primitive, to transport tonnage that consists of nothing but "information" with R-1830s or R-2800s --Kind of like Wells Fargo Stage Coaches moving huge boxes of cash! Thanks again, and we will keep the videos coming as long as we can. Still have a lot of material to use! J.A. Reed

Back then in the '30s, what was then considered "long-range" is now "medium-range" or less by today's aircraft technology standards. The big seaplanes had to do a lot of island hopping for fuel. Landplanes got to a point where they could make longer and longer runs nonstop.

Well, you could surely teach me at ton of stuff I don't know either! Thanks for watching and glad you enjoy it! J.A. Reed

Yes, it could even taxi backwards! Thank you for watching! J.A. Reed

All that is good but I wanted to keep this one simpler and keep the running time down. I've done all that on several other videos available on our channel. I'd advise you to look on our AeroDinosaur video list for our flight deck videos on the DC-7C, DC-6 and B-29 FiFi and you will get blow-by-blow descriptions during each flight on what's going on with inflight power conditions including prop settings, manifold pressure, BMEP, spark timing, as well as critical V airspeeds, etc. similar to the training films. All those involve either the R-3350s or the R-2800s, obviously depending on the video you are watching. J.A. Reed

HARS does the best job in the world of preserving and flying large vintage props, both military and commercial. I did not know they had two flying Caribous--very good news. Thanks for checking us out! J.A. Reed

Thanks for watching and glad to be of service, and thanks for subscribing! I too like fighters/bombers just as much, and our collection of available videos we produced features both categories because the technologies between combat aircraft and transports cannot be separated. Also, I like your idea on avgas/engine history--I have put it in my "ideas hopper." J.A. Reed

One of my cherished goals is to reach you guys. I admire you greatly and thank you for your service. My cousin was USAF at Bien Hoa during the same timeframe you were there. J. A. Reed

Glad you like the models. I visited Pima in 1987 and took tons of photos (before many of the aircraft were refurbished or painted), but things have changed a lot for the better since then. Sounds like your Dad had a career I would have wanted--too late for me now! I may have been involved with several propliners over the decades, but by far not enough of them! J.A. Reed

Yeah, Air Lingus always had beautiful green paint jobs on their fleet. Carvairs were passed down to a lot of operators over the decades.

Thank you very much sir! We enjoy doing this.

Thank you Guapo, I knew I would hear from you again! No, you never told me that story. I've never been on an L-188 Electra, would love to have filmed one, but now it's basically too late! I think I would have preferred nicer weather than you experienced!

@@AeroDinosaur Thought I shared my stories with you before .. guess I’m wrong. Yeah in the heavy turbulence sometimes those wings would flex up and down so much it looked like a bird flapping it’s wings! They always got me there and back though.

Thaaannnkk YOUUU! J.A. Reed

THAT is a good one! Sounds like bureaucrats designed that system!

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Thank you sir, I had a good Easter, hope you did too! J.A. Reed

Thank you Dave F, as well as for the Easter wishes. I'm having a good one and hope you are too! JA Reed.

Off-topic: did you ever know the owner/operator Al Herreros from Miami's corrosion corner?@@AeroDinosaur

@@davef.2329 He flew an unmarked DC6/C-118 freighter out of Corrosion Corner in the early 1990s. I did not know him but my initial AeroDinosaur puff piece at the beginning of this R-2000 video shows an unmarked ex-C-118 taxiing in at Corrosion Corner that I filmed just south of the Trans-Air-Link facilities in March 1992. I also caught it taxiing out of the same place in 1991. I hypothesize that was him, but have no way of confirming that at this point. Feel free to email me to discuss anything further if you want to. Thanks, JA Reed.

Yes, that was N22VX, bare metal with a red cheat-line. He also had another DC-6A, N11VX painted up briefly like the DC-6 prototype. He also restored that Martin 404 painted in EAL (#450) scheme that went around airshows for a bit and is now parked at a museum on the east coast. A pic popped up on-line recently of an early Super Connie he owned for a time along with his other Super Connie parked almost out of sight behind it by the old animal quarantine ramp in MIA in the early 70s. I'll try to contact you privately somehow to update you on recent events. Al was a personal friend and associate for many years.@@AeroDinosaur

@@davef.2329 Sounds good, Dave. Would love to compare notes. You can find my email in the written video description and my channel description. The other DC-6 he had was a junky-looking ex-Bellamy Lawson plan that was unmarked--this is the one I may have filmed. I understand his son was killed in a DC-6 crash some years ago.