On our Caribou ferry trip to Vietnam we departed Ft Benning Ga in our Army Caribou and flew to Hamilton AFB outside of San Francisco. Then the longest leg was to Hawaii. Next came Midway, Wake, Guam, Philippines, and the last leg was to Vung Tau Vietnam. We throttled back to about 100 mph for best fuel millage and the trip took 79 flying hours. We had to wait a week in California for the head winds aloft to die down so we could make it to Hawaii We had an Air force C-124 along to act as a sort of navigator helper. They would delay their takeoff to arrive at each halfway point at the same time as our 12 Caribous. They would call me on the FM (combat ) radio. When I answered I would hold down the mike button and the C-124 would take a DF steer on the radio signal and home in on us. When they flew along side their navigator would shoot a sun fix finding the exact position on the map. After they flew on at twice the speed I would lay my map on the floor and plot a course correction. When not flying I was the navigator on the lead ship and all we had for over water was dead reckoning. Hey, it worked for Amelia Earhart ....mostly. The Navy had donated us a WW2 vintage LORAN set for me to use but this very crude 1944 technologyonly worked long range at night by picking up radio sky bounces after the ionosphere ionizes. We never flew at night! If we went in and had to ditch they wanted daylight to find us. We flew at 10,000 feet and my ADF needle would start to track on an airfield radio beacon at about 100 miles out so that meant that the islands were a 200 mile wide target. The 11 hour leg to Hawaii had me sweating but after that we were okay as long as the Micky Mouse fuel transfer system would keep pumping fuel up into the wing tanks. the Army Dash -10 manual posted the gross T.O. weight 26,500 pounds. For a onetime only ferry mission we could go to 28,500 pounds. At Benning I brought a bathroom scale and had the crew chief weigh every single thing in the plane. When I told the old man we were at 31,500 pounds his remark was "don't loose an engine on takeoff."
12 Caribous + 1 C124! as a navigator! How spoilt ! Try doing it with 1 aircraft at a time RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) from Downsview Canada to both Vung Tau (Vietnam) and Richmond (NSW Australia).
The US Army had around 150 of these in the 1960's. I flew one from Ft Benning GA to Vietnam in 1965, and then flew it until it was transferred to the USAF. We had installed large rubber fuel bladders in the cargo area and island hopped the Pacific route. This one in the video has had a turbo conversion. Extreme short field performance, rugged air frame and safe to fly. T.H.
Si , reanudarán si producción , esto SI es un transporte táctico . O el Búfalo C -115 . Lo que tenemos ahora en ese cometido ......ni siquiera se acerca !!!!!!
@@juancarlossalas9916 On our Caribou trip to Vietnam in 1965 we departed Ft Benning Ga and flew to Hamilton AFB outside of San Francisco.then the longest leg was to Hawaii. Next came Midway, Wake, Guam, Philippines, and the last leg was to Vung Tau Vietnam. We throttled back to about 100 mph for best fuel millage and the trip took 79 flying hours. We had to wait a week in California for the head winds aloft to die down so we could make it to Hawaii We had an Air force C-124 along to act as a sort of navigator helper. They would delay their takeoff to arrive at each halfway point at the same time as our 12 Caribous. They would call me on the FM (combat ) radio. When I answered I would hold down the mike button and the C-124 would take a DF steer on the radio signal and home in on us. When they flew along side their navigator would shoot a sun fix finding the exact position on the map. I would lay my map on the floor and plot a course correction. When not flying I was the navigator on the lead ship and all we had for over water was dead reckoning. Hey, it worked for Amelia Earhart ....mostly. The Navy had donated us a WW2 vintage LORAN set for me to use but it only worked long range at night by picking up radio sky bounces after the ionosphere ionizes. We never flew at night! If we went in and had to ditch they wanted daylight to find us. We flew at 10,000 feet and my ADF needle would start to track on a station at about 100 miles out so that meant that the islands were a 200 mile wide target. The 11 hour leg to Hawaii had me sweating but after that we were okay as long as the Micky Mouse fuel transfer system would keep pumping fuel up into the wing tanks. the Army posted the gross T.O. weight 26,500 pounds. For a onetime only ferry mission we could go to 28,500 pounds. Back at Benning I brought a bathroom scale and had the crew chief weigh every single thing in my plane. When I told the old man we were actually at 31,500 pounds his remark was "don't loose an engine on takeoff."
@@CW2TRH that is an outstanding story, sir! I would listen 10 hours of your army stories in a row. Please consider broadcasting a podcast of your own. I'm sure you'll quickly grow an audience. Thank you for the time you took for writting those lines. Feel free to keep doing it. And thank you for your service!
A little difficult to make out but seems to me the Caribou has a lot more flap travel available than he used for both landing & take off. I guess with the length of runway he really didn't need much in the way of flaps. ;)
Oh yeah. I believe the flap angle maxes out at 50 degrees. It’s insane. Much too aggressive for a steady low angle approach like this. But in the jungles of Nam I’m sure it came in handy
It's designated as a DHC4T-Turbo Caribou, it used the P&W Canada PT6 turbos, and as you said ti's credited to PEN of NJ. Awfully big nacelles for a PT6 upgrade.
Wonderful footage, well done. I know it's three years old, however it will be dramatically improved if you were to mount a Rykote system on your microphone. Heavy duty wind noise reduction. We all use wind reduction rigs, a few zepplins with dead cats, mostly Rykote or super-cool home made rigs, some serious engineer cameramen, spooky good with tools. Great footage. Looking forward to more. Nice.
Thanks for your comment, I encourage you to watch more of my recent videos as Ive been using a deadcat equipped mic as well as upped my stabilization over the past 2 years.
@@cameronmd80 I just finished watching one of your latest, I should have checked the latest before commenting, forgive me. Great camera work, so refreshing to see someone else who takes this seriously. Good footage.
A few people made a comment about a "turbo conversion" which is inaccurate. DHC made the DHC-4 which was the piston powered version & they made the DHC-5 which is the turboprop version. The US military used what they called the C-7 which was piston engine version & they did use a few of the turboprop version called the C-9.
The “Turbo Caribou” pictured here is a mod done to a DHC-4 Caribou. It is a very very different aircraft from the DHC-5 Buffalo. Starting with the engines .... hydraulics and electrics too are very different. The only similarity is the de Havilland name.
Not quite, but close. The Buffalo is a DHC-5 which was fitted with turboprops from day 1. The wings are different, no anhedral at the roots & it features a T-tail. A fleet of DHC-5 served as fixed wing Search & Rescue aircraft in the Canadian Forces for decades. They were retired last year.
Страшнее и уродлевее этого летательного аппарата- сложно представить!!! Не ужели это их понятие красоты и технической гармонии??? Наш Антоха, подобного класса- шедевр!!! Смотрю на МД-80 и на другие " шедевры"... становится как-то... не по душе. Ну есть ведь Б-747, Б-787,Б-777, А-380 и т.д. и т.п. натурально красивые лайнеры! Но вот эти... Очень печальное зрелище.
On our Caribou ferry trip to Vietnam we departed Ft Benning Ga in our Army Caribou and flew to Hamilton AFB outside of San Francisco. Then the longest leg was to Hawaii. Next came Midway, Wake, Guam, Philippines, and the last leg was to Vung Tau Vietnam. We throttled back to about 100 mph for best fuel millage and the trip took 79 flying hours. We had to wait a week in California for the head winds aloft to die down so we could make it to Hawaii We had an Air force C-124 along to act as a sort of navigator helper. They would delay their takeoff to arrive at each halfway point at the same time as our 12 Caribous. They would call me on the FM (combat ) radio. When I answered I would hold down the mike button and the C-124 would take a DF steer on the radio signal and home in on us. When they flew along side their navigator would shoot a sun fix finding the exact position on the map. After they flew on at twice the speed I would lay my map on the floor and plot a course correction. When not flying I was the navigator on the lead ship and all we had for over water was dead reckoning. Hey, it worked for Amelia Earhart ....mostly. The Navy had donated us a WW2 vintage LORAN set for me to use but this very crude 1944 technologyonly worked long range at night by picking up radio sky bounces after the ionosphere ionizes. We never flew at night! If we went in and had to ditch they wanted daylight to find us. We flew at 10,000 feet and my ADF needle would start to track on an airfield radio beacon at about 100 miles out so that meant that the islands were a 200 mile wide target. The 11 hour leg to Hawaii had me sweating but after that we were okay as long as the Micky Mouse fuel transfer system would keep pumping fuel up into the wing tanks. the Army Dash -10 manual posted the gross T.O. weight 26,500 pounds. For a onetime only ferry mission we could go to 28,500 pounds. At Benning I brought a bathroom scale and had the crew chief weigh every single thing in the plane. When I told the old man we were at 31,500 pounds his remark was "don't loose an engine on takeoff."
12 Caribous + 1 C124! as a navigator! How spoilt !
Try doing it with 1 aircraft at a time RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) from Downsview Canada to both Vung Tau (Vietnam) and Richmond (NSW Australia).
The US Army had around 150 of these in the 1960's. I flew one from Ft Benning GA to Vietnam in 1965, and then flew it until it was transferred to the USAF. We had installed large rubber fuel bladders in the cargo area and island hopped the Pacific route. This one in the video has had a turbo conversion. Extreme short field performance, rugged air frame and safe to fly. T.H.
woah! That's amazing. Could you tell us more about that trip, please? How many stops? How many flight hours in total to reach Vietnam?
The Caribou’s kept SF Camps going... and we loved them👍!
Si , reanudarán si producción , esto SI es un transporte táctico . O el Búfalo C -115 . Lo que tenemos ahora en ese cometido ......ni siquiera se acerca !!!!!!
@@juancarlossalas9916 On our Caribou trip to Vietnam in 1965 we departed Ft Benning Ga and flew to Hamilton AFB outside of San Francisco.then the longest leg was to Hawaii. Next came Midway, Wake, Guam, Philippines, and the last leg was to Vung Tau Vietnam. We throttled back to about 100 mph for best fuel millage and the trip took 79 flying hours. We had to wait a week in California for the head winds aloft to die down so we could make it to Hawaii We had an Air force C-124 along to act as a sort of navigator helper. They would delay their takeoff to arrive at each halfway point at the same time as our 12 Caribous. They would call me on the FM (combat ) radio. When I answered I would hold down the mike button and the C-124 would take a DF steer on the radio signal and home in on us. When they flew along side their navigator would shoot a sun fix finding the exact position on the map. I would lay my map on the floor and plot a course correction. When not flying I was the navigator on the lead ship and all we had for over water was dead reckoning. Hey, it worked for Amelia Earhart ....mostly. The Navy had donated us a WW2 vintage LORAN set for me to use but it only worked long range at night by picking up radio sky bounces after the ionosphere ionizes. We never flew at night! If we went in and had to ditch they wanted daylight to find us. We flew at 10,000 feet and my ADF needle would start to track on a station at about 100 miles out so that meant that the islands were a 200 mile wide target. The 11 hour leg to Hawaii had me sweating but after that we were okay as long as the Micky Mouse fuel transfer system would keep pumping fuel up into the wing tanks. the Army posted the gross T.O. weight 26,500 pounds. For a onetime only ferry mission we could go to 28,500 pounds. Back at Benning I brought a bathroom scale and had the crew chief weigh every single thing in my plane. When I told the old man we were actually at 31,500 pounds his remark was "don't loose an engine on takeoff."
@@CW2TRH that is an outstanding story, sir! I would listen 10 hours of your army stories in a row. Please consider broadcasting a podcast of your own. I'm sure you'll quickly grow an audience. Thank you for the time you took for writting those lines. Feel free to keep doing it. And thank you for your service!
That DHC-4A Turbo is still flying! Awesome video!🔥
Excellent film footage and sound. I enjoyed the addition of newer aircraft.
A little difficult to make out but seems to me the Caribou has a lot more flap travel available than he used for both landing & take off. I guess with the length of runway he really didn't need much in the way of flaps. ;)
Oh yeah. I believe the flap angle maxes out at 50 degrees. It’s insane. Much too aggressive for a steady low angle approach like this. But in the jungles of Nam I’m sure it came in handy
Wow Didn't know there was a turboprop conversion just new about the piston powered variant.
she looks clean and modern !
Fun Fact: The DHC-4 was the first non T- Tail plane i've ever heard of
Great video of my bro flying. 👍🏻👍🏻
Turbo conversion by PEN of NJ. Seems like an odd thing to do though given the Buffalo's better STOL capabiity and twice the payload.
It's designated as a DHC4T-Turbo Caribou, it used the P&W Canada PT6 turbos, and as you said ti's credited to PEN of NJ. Awfully big nacelles for a PT6 upgrade.
Beautiful
Wonderful footage, well done. I know it's three years old, however it will be dramatically improved if you were to mount a Rykote system on your microphone. Heavy duty wind noise reduction. We all use wind reduction rigs, a few zepplins with dead cats, mostly Rykote or super-cool home made rigs, some serious engineer cameramen, spooky good with tools. Great footage. Looking forward to more. Nice.
Thanks for your comment, I encourage you to watch more of my recent videos as Ive been using a deadcat equipped mic as well as upped my stabilization over the past 2 years.
@@cameronmd80 I just finished watching one of your latest, I should have checked the latest before commenting, forgive me. Great camera work, so refreshing to see someone else who takes this seriously. Good footage.
A few people made a comment about a "turbo conversion" which is inaccurate. DHC made the DHC-4 which was the piston powered version & they made the DHC-5 which is the turboprop version. The US military used what they called the C-7 which was piston engine version & they did use a few of the turboprop version called the C-9.
GOP2020 GOP2020 This is a DHC 4 turboprop modification the DHC 5 is born turboprop
The “Turbo Caribou” pictured here is a mod done to a DHC-4 Caribou. It is a very very different aircraft from the DHC-5 Buffalo. Starting with the engines .... hydraulics and electrics too are very different. The only similarity is the de Havilland name.
This dude couldn't be more wrong
I believe the turboprop was called a Buffalo.
Not quite, but close. The Buffalo is a DHC-5 which was fitted with turboprops from day 1. The wings are different, no anhedral at the roots & it features a T-tail. A fleet of DHC-5 served as fixed wing Search & Rescue aircraft in the Canadian Forces for decades. They were retired last year.
this thing is so cool
👏Show 👏
What your intro song is?
Jupiter One-Riot
Thanks
What are those planes for? Like war or something?
Transport or cargo
cargo or troop trasnport, they are designed in such a way that they can take off in under 200 meters at a very low speed.
Do you know why they were down in Nassau?
Im not sure. I didnt know where the Chinooks were heading to but the Caribou went to Santo Domingo.
Hurricane relief.
N600NC is former Kenya Air force 201
Flew this one in SAC @union flights...
CARIBOU MUITO PARECIDO COM O BUFALO.
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Страшнее и уродлевее этого летательного аппарата- сложно представить!!! Не ужели это их понятие красоты и технической гармонии??? Наш Антоха, подобного класса- шедевр!!! Смотрю на МД-80 и на другие " шедевры"... становится как-то... не по душе. Ну есть ведь Б-747, Б-787,Б-777, А-380 и т.д. и т.п. натурально красивые лайнеры! Но вот эти... Очень печальное зрелище.
That is a weird looking plane