An absolutely wonderful video experience!! Still getting over it. The sights, sounds of those Wright R1820s took me right back to the mid/late 50's at NY's LaGuardia where our dad flew out of. He had a pilot friend that flew a Lodestar for PepsiCola, based out of same Hangar #7 there on the West End of the airport..Unfortunately, had another pilot friend who died in a crash of a Lodestar up in King Salmon, Alaska, in 1957. All six perished in impact/fire! Was found the elevator trim tab settings were set for landing, resulting in severe nose-up pitch on climb-out, almost vertical!..Corrective measures were done too late, and at c.700ft, the airplane stalled/spun in, impacting nose first into ground..post-impact explosion/fire sealed all their fates. Took a while for Dad to get over/recover from that incident!! They were great buddies!! The Lockheed L-18 Lodestar is one Helluva iconic transport plane. The British got a bunch of them, used them as light bombers, called them "Hudsons"..Thanks for a great video! My bro turned me to this!! Excellent..!!
..Correct. .they most all had either Wright or Pratt&Whitney radial engines on them..that was the norm prior to jet engines. Miss the sound of those radials flying by at altitude.
@@aviator-js3bh Very, very true..Our dad corporately flew Twin Beeches out of LaGuardia, that had the Pratt&Whitney R-985 Wasp Jr's on them..Awesome sound, specially the E-18, with its "short stacks"..!!
You can tell..they had a bit of a quartering/off-right-side nose crosswind..noticed the slight 'crab' on takeoff & landing..Perfect executions all around..Great pilot!
Just love the sound of the nine (9) cylinder piston pounders. Thank you for posting this clip. Made the back of my hair stand up with the fly by sound!
Nice restoration and well flown. In the early 50's National operated Lodestar passenger service between Jacksonville and New Orleans with several stops in between. Our town was one of the stops using the local air base runways and tower facilities. Must have been two stops a day, one east bound and one west bound. Never heard of any problems with that airplane.
Sam Phillips, Sam Burkes here..Thanks for that! Awesome piece of info! Brother & I, sons of a career pilot, pilots ourselves, were real.big fans of Lodestars, Twin Beeches, DC-3s, any plane with radial engines..a law unto themselves! Would loved to have been around then to've been a pilot on that National Run!! I was just a shit-ass little kid then!!
My Pops passed away in a Lodestar crash in September 1962. It occurred in Ravenna, OH and was caused by a faulty elevator trim tab that went askew during cruise at 9,000 ft MSL. 13 men died on that plane and Dad was the co-pilot with 1,000 hrs on his log. Very sad.
I was an airport rat from 2 years on up...... at a little airport outside Charlotte, NC ; a textile company had a Lodestar based in there, on 3000'- big drop off north, woods and houses south- no overrun at either end. That ex-Air Force company pilot depended on all the love our greasy leathery A&P(as they were called in the 1960s)could put in both of those Wrights to get him in and out safely- We always knew it was him inbound because it sounded like five Greyhound buses coming on a two mile final.
Little Liz. Was owned by Liz Taylor's 3rd husband, Mike Todd. The only one of 8 husbands she did not divorce. His Lodestar crashed outside of Grants NM. 1958. Ice formed on the wings.
Brian, heard about that long ago..vaguely recall. Dad talked about that.Nahh, they won't develop lift with ice on wings, specially loaded!! What a drag! And I think, to boot, he developed engine trouble with one of those R1820s..Tough break!!
There was an old Lockheed Lodestar that sat at Little Rock Arkansas for a long time , then a couple years ago a guy and his 13 yr old daughter worked a whole summer , on it replacing engines , props , etc. then it flew out under its own power supposedly to be refurbed back to executive configuration , the tail number was N244D but I don't know where it went or what has been done to it since , if anybody has any info , I'd like to know how the restoration has gone and how she looks today.
I think you mean N442D. The reg. N244D has not been in use since 1994, and the last plane to use it was a Beech E18 which burned up in a hangar fire in Conroe, TX that summer. Try contacting this guy, he helped with the story of the Howard 250. homepage.ntlworld.com/m.zoeller/LTSRootntl2/N442D_Howard_250_Story.html
TJ Johansen Thank you so much for sending this to me , I worked third sift line service for Central Flying Service at Little Rock ,Arkansas and when the plane finally was able to fly , it left during the day shift and I never got to see her fly after sitting behind one of our hangars for over 20 some odd years, but did get to see a newspaper article with pictures of the takeoff . I'm glad to see her all shined up and back to flying status again . It sure was a mess , sitting there so long with weeds growing around her , and bird poop all over it . I had heard a story that she was going to be put into her former executive interior and new paint , but she sure looks so shiny and gleaming . I always wondered what happened to the airplane after it left Little Rock . Again thank you for sending this to me .
I have done a lot of research on the Lockheed Lodestar NC33604, different engines. I was noticing the exhaust seemed a little louder than typical as the plane rolled by, or is this normal for these power plants? Absolutely great video, thanks for posting.
..That could be that slightly shorter exhaust stacks were retrofitted, and/or diff. configuration collector rings. Just a theory via Dad, long ago, who also was an A&E mechanic, radial engine maven!!
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This is an object of great beauty. She looks flawless on touchdown, like a thoroughbred racing past the crowd.
I clicked for the radial music and I wasn't disappointed.👍
That was a splendid idea. I wish more would do the same and abstain from adding "music."
An absolutely wonderful video experience!! Still getting over it. The sights, sounds of those Wright R1820s took me right back to the mid/late 50's at NY's LaGuardia where our dad flew out of. He had a pilot friend that flew a Lodestar for PepsiCola, based out of same Hangar #7 there on the West End of the airport..Unfortunately, had another pilot friend who died in a crash of a Lodestar up in King Salmon, Alaska, in 1957. All six perished in impact/fire! Was found the elevator trim tab settings were set for landing, resulting in severe nose-up pitch on climb-out, almost vertical!..Corrective measures were done too late, and at c.700ft, the airplane stalled/spun in, impacting nose first into ground..post-impact explosion/fire sealed all their fates. Took a while for Dad to get over/recover from that incident!! They were great buddies!! The Lockheed L-18 Lodestar is one Helluva iconic transport plane. The British got a bunch of them, used them as light bombers, called them "Hudsons"..Thanks for a great video! My bro turned me to this!! Excellent..!!
When I was a little kid, that is the sound that airliners made.
..Correct. .they most all had either Wright or Pratt&Whitney radial engines on them..that was the norm prior to jet engines. Miss the sound of those radials flying by at altitude.
those radial engines are music to my ears... thanks for sharing!
I know. You don't hear 9 cylinder radials anymore.
@@aviator-js3bh Very, very true..Our dad corporately flew Twin Beeches out of LaGuardia, that had the Pratt&Whitney R-985 Wasp Jr's on them..Awesome sound, specially the E-18, with its "short stacks"..!!
Exquisite plane, exquisite video. Thank you for letting us hear the engines!
That is some pilot.... awesome low passes and that landing was a perfect 10..... what a plane would love to see the cockpit! thanks for the video.
Made me think of Matt Younkin,but Matt flies a Twin Beech.
Yeah I think I was watching a Matt Younkin video that lead me to this video that Twin Beech he flys is also a beauty.
You can tell..they had a bit of a quartering/off-right-side nose crosswind..noticed the slight 'crab' on takeoff & landing..Perfect executions all around..Great pilot!
Lockheed always built beautiful airplanes and this is a great example.
Just love the sound of the nine (9) cylinder piston pounders. Thank you for posting this clip. Made the back of my hair stand up with the fly by sound!
Nice restoration and well flown. In the early 50's National operated Lodestar passenger service between Jacksonville and New Orleans with several stops in between. Our town was one of the stops using the local air base runways and tower facilities. Must have been two stops a day, one east bound and one west bound. Never heard of any problems with that airplane.
Sam Phillips, Sam Burkes here..Thanks for that! Awesome piece of info! Brother & I, sons of a career pilot, pilots ourselves, were real.big fans of Lodestars, Twin Beeches, DC-3s, any plane with radial engines..a law unto themselves! Would loved to have been around then to've been a pilot on that National Run!! I was just a shit-ass little kid then!!
THANKS for the real sound of those radials...
Thanks for uploading, and one more thanks for not killing the sound with music!!
Awesome round sound!
Yep!! Nothing like the sound of radials, the stacks, and those constant-speed props!! Music to our ears!
absolutely beautiful!
Beautiful, those engines are music
My Pops passed away in a Lodestar crash in September 1962. It occurred in Ravenna, OH and was caused by a faulty elevator trim tab that went askew during cruise at 9,000 ft MSL. 13 men died on that plane and Dad was the co-pilot with 1,000 hrs on his log. Very sad.
Music ! so sweet.
What an airplane !!! Many jumps from those. Great ones.
OUTSTANDING!!!
Beautiful aeroplane- imagine how the pilot would have felt if he'd stacked it!
Watching Tokyo Joe with Humphrey Bogart, I believe this is the same type plane he flies in the movie thanks awesome plane!
excellent. just friggin excellent. I'll take it
It take some skill to master that plane!
I was an airport rat from 2 years on up...... at a little airport outside Charlotte, NC ; a textile company had a Lodestar based in there, on 3000'- big drop off north, woods and houses south- no overrun at either end. That ex-Air Force company pilot depended on all the love our greasy leathery A&P(as they were called in the 1960s)could put in both of those Wrights to get him in and out safely- We always knew it was him inbound because it sounded like five Greyhound buses coming on a two mile final.
Magnificent!
Sweet Looking Plane! :)
You betcha!! A number of them flew in/out/around our NY area in 50's, early 60's..
l fly one this in 1967. Great airplane.
Why add music when you already have the greatest symphony :) Excellent video!
Tem um desse apodrecendo no museu de Bebedouro.
still can't believe I flew one
Little Liz. Was owned by Liz Taylor's 3rd husband, Mike Todd. The only one of 8 husbands she did not divorce. His Lodestar crashed outside of Grants NM. 1958. Ice formed on the wings.
Brian, heard about that long ago..vaguely recall. Dad talked about that.Nahh, they won't develop lift with ice on wings, specially loaded!! What a drag! And I think, to boot, he developed engine trouble with one of those R1820s..Tough break!!
There was an old Lockheed Lodestar that sat at Little Rock Arkansas for a long time , then a couple years ago a guy and his 13 yr old daughter worked a whole summer , on it replacing engines , props , etc. then it flew out under its own power supposedly to be refurbed back to executive configuration , the tail number was N244D but I don't know where it went or what has been done to it since , if anybody has any info , I'd like to know how the restoration has gone and how she looks today.
I think you mean N442D. The reg. N244D has not been in use since 1994, and the last plane to use it was a Beech E18 which burned up in a hangar fire in Conroe, TX that summer. Try contacting this guy, he helped with the story of the Howard 250.
homepage.ntlworld.com/m.zoeller/LTSRootntl2/N442D_Howard_250_Story.html
TJ Johansen Thank you so much for sending this to me , I worked third sift line service for Central Flying Service at Little Rock ,Arkansas and when the plane finally was able to fly , it left during the day shift and I never got to see her fly after sitting behind one of our hangars for over 20 some odd years, but did get to see a newspaper article with pictures of the takeoff . I'm glad to see her all shined up and back to flying status again . It sure was a mess , sitting there so long with weeds growing around her , and bird poop all over it . I had heard a story that she was going to be put into her former executive interior and new paint , but she sure looks so shiny and gleaming . I always wondered what happened to the airplane after it left Little Rock . Again thank you for sending this to me .
+learflyer2 This video brought back memories. I used to fly right seat on N442D on a FEDEX contract route in 1987 out of El Paso
+learflyer2 Your description is why any airplane has to be hangared if you want it to last.
Yes sir i remember it as a kid at Omni Air ive been right up to it and i want to see it again :/
I have done a lot of research on the Lockheed Lodestar NC33604, different engines. I was noticing the exhaust seemed a little louder than typical as the plane rolled by, or is this normal for these power plants? Absolutely great video, thanks for posting.
..That could be that slightly shorter exhaust stacks were retrofitted, and/or diff. configuration collector rings. Just a theory via Dad, long ago, who also was an A&E mechanic, radial engine maven!!
Engine Sound: Wright R-1820-87
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