My dad was an F/E on a DC-8 and a number of times I sat in the seat behind him and I had a wonderful time. It was a grand time. I loved the dc-8 55 all 150 feet 6 inches of her.
I was a jump seat junkie when I was a kid in the 70's. My most memorable flight was from New Orleans to Dallas on Branniff's Convair 990. Man the view out of the front really blew me away.
I use to load these planes at emerys hub in dayton, ohio. Was a great job, stayed until they closed in june 2006 when ups bought them and moved to louisville.
Emery's hub was Dayton and we also had a hub in Brussels, Belgium (HBR). Got the chance to jump seat one of these wonderful birds DAY-JFK-BRU pre 9/11 and before we changed over to a MD-11 with World Airways.
Man ...memories memories memories.... I used to work for emery (12 yrs) I was in ops and sales iin ATL but I had the chance to jumpseat a couple of times . While in sales training in Dayton I wiggiled my way to the DC-8 simulator and the guys were cool enogh to let me fly a bit.. Dam I miss those days
@seeburg220 That sounds really awesome! I jumpseated on Fat Albert (Branniff again) on a ferry flight from Carswell AFB to DFW after an airshow in 1979, but that cockpit was not that much larger than the 'small' other aircraft I had been in. There's a vid of some Russians or Bela-Russians flying an IL-76 out of Antarctica to South Africa. Talk about lack of automation ... And they have a nixe tube GLONASS terminal!
I flew Emery's last flight to ICELAND Aug 13 th just before 9/11 I miss that bird and if I find the time to transfer my old cockpit video to dvd, I will post it. Former Captain Pete S
As nostalgic as this is, we are probably a lot like some people were back when jets were first introduced. I'm sure there were lots of pilots and others, who liked the prop planes - like the DC-3 and DC-7, Constellation - better. I can't stand new jets like the Regionals, E145's, etc. Gimmie some loud, old, smoking JT8D engines hung on the side of a Boeing !
My dad was an F/E on a DC-8 and a number of times I sat in the seat behind him and I had a wonderful time. It was a grand time. I loved the dc-8 55 all 150 feet 6 inches of her.
I was a jump seat junkie when I was a kid in the 70's. My most memorable flight was from New Orleans to Dallas on Branniff's Convair 990. Man the view out of the front really blew me away.
I use to load these planes at emerys hub in dayton, ohio. Was a great job, stayed until they closed in june 2006 when ups bought them and moved to louisville.
Emery's hub was Dayton and we also had a hub in Brussels, Belgium (HBR). Got the chance to jump seat one of these wonderful birds DAY-JFK-BRU pre 9/11 and before we changed over to a MD-11 with World Airways.
Man ...memories memories memories.... I used to work for emery (12 yrs) I was in ops and sales iin ATL but I had the chance to jumpseat a couple of times . While in sales training in Dayton I wiggiled my way to the DC-8 simulator and the guys were cool enogh to let me fly a bit.. Dam I miss those days
Great video. Some fantastic landings there
Day, Dayton,Oh.been there alot in Convairs 600`s,back in the 80`s.
@seeburg220 That sounds really awesome! I jumpseated on Fat Albert (Branniff again) on a ferry flight from Carswell AFB to DFW after an airshow in 1979, but that cockpit was not that much larger than the 'small' other aircraft I had been in. There's a vid of some Russians or Bela-Russians flying an IL-76 out of Antarctica to South Africa. Talk about lack of automation ... And they have a nixe tube GLONASS terminal!
Great memories I loved my freight dog days!
I flew Emery's last flight to ICELAND Aug 13 th just before 9/11
I miss that bird and if I find the time to transfer my old cockpit video to
dvd, I will post it.
Former Captain Pete S
What year was this video filmed, or when did you acquire it? Very interesting night freighter action!
who was the captain?
At 1:06, looks like you're going pretty faaaast! Thanks for the video, it's pretty damn smooooth!
COOL THANKS FOR PUTTING THIS UUP UP AND AWAY LOL
I spent a lot of years on loading-offloading these planes…Dayton hub.
As nostalgic as this is, we are probably a lot like some people were back when jets were first introduced. I'm sure there were lots of pilots and others, who liked the prop planes - like the DC-3 and DC-7, Constellation - better. I can't stand new jets like the Regionals, E145's, etc. Gimmie some loud, old, smoking JT8D engines hung on the side of a Boeing !