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Reminds me of the movie Chetty Chetty Bang Bang.

What a gorgeous bird, my absolute favorite aircraft of all time. My life’s dream to fly in one.

That is at Benson, AZ. I have seen this plane many times. I spotted a landmark that is 3 Italian cypress trees. I saw them and I knew it was Benson, AZ

It’s a C-117 or as he said a super DC-3

Talk about a angry wake up

Starting a radial: 1. Get one cylinder firing. 2. Have that cylinder coax other ones into action...

Wind soak! I would love to hear what your saying!

Fouled plugs for sure

Sounds like next doors mondeo evrey morning

Hi everyone, thanks for watching. I am just an observer I do not know anything about DC-3’s or the People hired to do this work. I will not be relaying all the keyboard advice to them but thanks!

What does an engine overhaul on one of those cost?

As a person who has been lucky enough to witness a c47/dc3 startup that has been actually professionally maintained from the people at the Canadian warplane heritage museum and that is not how a dc3 should sound like that thing has a bunch of magneto problems fuelling issues electrical issues and a starter that is about to melt no smart person would even dare to get that thing running in that condition a bunch of restarted human being working on a beautiful machine

Is it me or was that engine not firing on all cylinders? Something just did not sound right

Jimmy says the sandscreens are clear, Mr Dorfman, then they are clear. Jimmy says "Alright Mr Dorfman, Start Pullin!!".

Field elevation 4250 ft , assume 29.92, it was 11:42 t-shirt weather call it 75 F. Density Altitude 12,069 Ft. it is real in the high desert a month ago it would have been 95 F and DA 14,445 ft! It is no joke that is why we advise flying in the mornings for flat-landers that are not used to 2500 ft takeoff rolls and anemic climb rates.

There's a low-time Super on the south ramp at HNL waiting for someone to care for it..... Belongs to Kamaka Air Cargo, I've got a couple takeoffs and landings in it.

Good heavens, what was the density altitude?

I love reading the expert armchair experts comments 😅

Sam, Thanks for your thoughts he was a great co-pilot! I miss him so much!

Great to see Bob in the pilot seat. I have always been envious of the relationship you had with your brother. RIP Bob!

Smells like bad Gas!

Throttle up!!!

R-2800 engines! I flew the DC-3 for 1,000 hours back in the 1970s but never the Super 3.

the most beautiful airplane ever build

Gas hog. Weight is very high. No longer water tight, I'd bet.

Flew from MAS Yuma to Nas Miramar in one. Might as well been a flying threshing machine with the rattles and vibrations.

I remember there was one at Moorabbin Airport in the late 70's. Local radio station, 3DB, used it for shark spotting in Port Phillip bay. I think it had a Franklin engine in it which was always giving problems.

My dad's best friend flew C47s in the Berlin Airlift after WW2.

It will be missed. I've seen that at Benson airport for years.

That’s a lot of work. Probably just harvesting the engines.

Was this a dope hauler back in the day?

In 1966 I went from Rio de Janeiro to where I was born sao,paulo on a DC3 like this

Those sounds are awesome! Should be recorded on sound machines for sleeping!

Awesome starter motor. No mixture control? Ran like shit, but it ran kinda. 👍

Ahhhh there it is....my radial fix for today !

Well she wanted to run for sure but she got real mean at the end, running extremely rich for sure but heck it ran

Heat cycles ……

Is that Willie Nelson ?

That black smoke says exessively rich. Perhaps if he pushed in the [metaphoric] choke & leaned it out some it might run better & clean the soot off the plugs. Once it's hitting on all 14, then feed it some prop pitch to load it up & get a little heat into those cylinders.

Wow hats off, Not everyone has such a cool raisin bomber.

I'm not an A&P but that engine sounds sick...

12 years. And Shay about starter limitations and wiring that were probably close from melting…. Pros u said? Bunch of idiots, poor engine.

Tought of draining tanks and new 100LLgas, plugs, lead wires, Mags condition? That PW R-2000 runs about on 9 out of 14 cylinders. I operate A/C on PW R-2800 CA3 for the past

Great seeing them take on getting it back to the sky. I have looked it over a few times when flying through. I’m lucky enough to fly DC-3’s regularly and love seeing another one saved. Especially a Super DC-3. Not many of those still flying.

Clean the plugs that might help now .😊

Pump the gas three times, wait 15 seconds, then floor it. After it floods, wait 15 minutes and start with half throttle.

Thanks for re-posting this with the actual sounds! I will never get tired of hearing it.

Man, those engines sound just like AI generated music? Dump that crap and provide the proper sound!

Old girl needs some major work, and a carb overhaul haha. Glad someone is able to save her, as someone who has, its worth every bit of the effort.

The tail section looks like that of an R4D, the Navy/Marine version of the DC-3 (or C-47). It this aircraft actually an R4D?