These kind of videos bring back lots of memories. I was a very young captain on C47 and DC3 in 1971. After flying 70 different ones including the R4D and the C47 on skis I have good memories and a few scary ones. The airplane was a wonderful machine, a tough airplane and that’s why it has lasted so long.
Had a few flights on C-47s to Cubi Point Naval Air Station in the Philippines while I was a young sailor serving in Vietnam in 1971. Loved the experience -- and looking forward to a few days in the P.I., too! Rugged bird.
My first ever airplane ride was in a DC-3. I was 13 (1966) and in a rollover accident with my parents on Prince Edward Island. As we were from Michigan, and now had no car, plus my mother had a broken back from the accident, we had to fly home. The first leg was in a DC-3 from PEI to Moncton, New Brunswick. I can remember the plane like it was yesterday.
Just gorgeous. Brings back so many memories. You see, I was born (1942) in the little West Indian island of Grenada. The DC-3 was the largest aircraft to service these islands & as a teenager, my cousin & I would scuttle up the tallest tree, just to get a glimpse of a BWIA Dakota coming in to land at Pearls Airport. This runway is no longer in flight use, instead an International airport near the capital, St.Gorges can cater for 777'S! It was 1960 & I left Grenada in a DC-3 for Barbados, transfer to a DC-7C Seven Seas (BOAC) to London Heathrow via Idlewild (remember that) You have to experience the noise & vibration of the Wright radials, all 4 of them. That is 72 cylinders all playing a tune! Deafening. I so wish to have one last trip in a Dakota, before I am in the box.
I flew on DC-3s as a young child in the 1960s - with Reeve Aleutian Airways in Alaska. I was even transported home from Anchorage on a DC-3 after I was born. The whirr of those motors is still stuck in my head after all these years! I have many wonderful slides of my family in and around those wonderful planes!
I remember getting on one of these in 1959 at Fairbanks Alaska, 40 below zero, flew to Point Borrow and to Bar Main, landed in blowing snow, bitterly cold. I worked on the Dewline for 2 and half years. The DC3, DC4 and Otters were the workhorses of the Dewline, I loved this time of my life.
I was born in the mid 1950's. My parents were missionaries in the highlands of PNG. There were no roads through to where we lived. The only way to get goods in and out was via plane. DC3's (and smaller planes) were a regular sight. Us missionaries would occasionally scrounge lifts aboard DC3 cargo planes, if there was room (which there usually was on the way out). The seats were not the comfortable ones featured in this video. The plain, non-cushioned vinyl seats folded down from the sides of the cargo compartment. Your back rested against the bare metal of the fuselage. With all the turbulence in those high mountains, it got quite uncomfortable. There was no inner lining of the fuselage, so it was also very cold. Our parents got us to rug right up before we got onboard. There was no cabin crew or safety briefing. The pilots told us to where to sit, buckle up and stay there. Despite all that, I remember the DC3 with fondness.
I flew on one of these which was operated by Air Atlantique out of Coventry several years ago (1990s I think). Flying at around 1500/2000 feet over Warwick and the Malverns was superb. Anyway, the trip was organised by someone at Knowle Royal British Legion. One of the members had been in the paras in WW2 and he was on the flight. He made a statement before we landed saying he had taken off in one of these many, many times, but had never landed in one!
I was incredibly fortunate to have flown this bird from OSH23 and I have to say that this aircraft is a BEAST!! You really have to appreciate all involved in maintaining aircraft like these and the dedication and passion it takes to preserve the rich history behind these birds. I was initially intimidated to fly on such an outdated aircraft but it just goes to show how there are so many different corners of aviation that one is yet to find the beauty in. Thank you for sharing, this was AWESOME!!!
I'm probably gonna fly this beauty this summer. But I don't really like super loud noises. Is this very loud or is it like being in your grandma's house hearing the clock?
I have already flown in a DC-3 and I must say that it is quite impressive before taking off but in the air it is straight like any plane but the engines are super bryant! I loved!
I flew in 1946 from Vancouver,BC. To Lethbridge Alberta, had to use oxygen masks over rockies and couldn’t fly direct to Calgary as had go to high over the Rockies. It was real work horse and great plane. Loved my flight and was 16 yr. And got my private pilots licence, no radios, on land and sea plane in a 1950. Barnie
I flew the dc-3 last time about a month ago and they also gave me a Marianne candy even tho it wasn't the same plane. We flew from EFHK to EFTP to EFVA to EFJM to EFHK. I highly recommend.
The DC-3 is an incredible aircraft. It served equally well in both military service and commercial aviation. There is not anything else like it. 80 years!! I've dreamed of flying on one of these for many years. Maybe someday.
My first experience with a DC-3 was on a school field trip, at age 7 in 1953, to the new "Idlewild" (later JFK) Airport! Then, in 1969, while in the National Guard, I flew at night in a commercial one, from La Guardia airport to Ft. Drum, NY! My fiance, (later my wife of 54 years), kissed me goodbye, as the engine revved up, like in the movie "Casablanca"! We made stops in Albany & Syracuse, landing on grassy runways! It was a "flashback in time" moment! Great memories!
Volver a recordar mis vuelos en DC-3 en un ejemplar en perfecto estado de aeronavegabilidad... y ver a la aeromoza tan contenta... es un video inmejorable. Mil gracias a SAS ... una empresa que sabe mantener el negocio y las tradiciones en el lugar que corresponden a cada uno!
There is a DC-3 that flies out of McKinney, Texas that frequently flies over our home. Beautiful bird, and I love hearing her fly over. (A benefit of being in the extended flight path of McKinney airport!)
Epic plane! Had the privilege in flying in one of the WWII air bridge veterans, much later, in the late 1990's. It still had the dear old radial piston engines, the real McCoy. I sometimes can see one flying very low over the ocean, from my apartment window, but it is the turboprop version.
Love the video taken out the right hand window, right over the engine. Back in 1979 I flew on a DC3 owned by a "airline" in Bali called Zamrud Airline, which owned a grave yard of half a dozen broken DC3's for stripped parts. The one working plane looked nothing like the one in this video. Old seats and a strapped down 5 gallon bucket with a toilet seat attached in the "bathroom". As I flew around the various islands south east of Bali, you took your life in your hands. Looking out the right window, seeing the engine just like in this video, the vibration of the engine during take off produced the effect of a long bolt slowing being vibrated out of the socket holding the outer sheet metal surrounding the engine. Gulp!.... no turning back. 2 hours later landing on Sumba island I told the pilot Captain Jack about the bolt. He said not to worry, they'd check it out when they returned to base. Flew island to island over the following weeks and they never fixed the bolt. Airport landing strips were a shack next to a grass field and "ONE" hand held fire extinguisher just in case engines caught fire.
My first flight, in my teens, as a cadet in the Royal Australian Air Force, was in the DC3. Being a senior cadet, I had the honour of taking the wheel in the copilot's seat. The sound and feel of the radial engines remains with me today, 60 years later. I guess you could say it is a passion.
I saw once a dc-3 at the museum of Milan-Malpensa, and I remember well that I was impressed because of it’s old look and from the idea that that thing carried so many people in the past
In 1964 I was flying on a DC8 from Portland, Oregon to San Diego, CA. Plane had issues and we had to land in LA. They put those of us going to San Diego on a United DC3, late at night but nice ride. I was 17 then, remember it well. I ended up with a commercial license and always wanted to fly one!
Two weeks ago the DC3 PH-PBA, from the DDA classic airlines, came to our local airport Maastricht - Aachen in the south east of the Netherlands, for the weekend. The flew in from their homebase at Amsterdam Schiphol airport. I did not have a chance to see it at Maastricht - Aachen airport, but it flew by my home, just 5 km east of the airport. What a special plane, and that sound of the engines.... Wonderful. Hope they can keep it up flying very long.
One of the wonderful qualities of the DC3 is the sounds it makes. The music is not necessarily the plane makes music of its own. The same can be said for all old prop liners.
I flew the first DC-3 back in 1993/94 out of Biggs Army Airfield El Paso Texas to Chihuahua Mexico for Southern Air Transport /Burlington. It had just came out of maintenence at Wright Patterson with brand new Pratt and Whitney's. We had a fire on #1 on approach into Chihuahua. One jug beat the rod into a bent bit of metal. Good times!
Brought back memories of the times I was a kid [ 59 now] and would watch this lovely bird take to the skies as I used to frequent the airstrip close to where I used to live in Bombay. The sound of those engines is unmistakable.
Another video from Flightradar 24 that was a great surprise to see! This airplane brings back memories for many age groups. To me it is the airliner that started it all after it was used heavily in World War II (know as the Dakota, Skytrain or Gooney Bird). I have a large framed picture of an American Airlines DC-3 in my home. Now my best memory in one was when I was with approximately 70 skydivers in Florida. The plane, of course had the seats removed. Groups of eight would leave at one time from 10,500 feet. Not long after, that very same plane had landed and something happened! We saw one side had collapsed and the propellers were bent and hydraulic fluid was all over the ramp. Never did find out why, I guess it was better to leave it at 10,500! Great video of the engine Gabriel. Thanks - Jim
Very nice film with good memories for me. Ive flewn many many times with her as a former member, crew member and webmaster in Flygande Veteraner. I recognized the flight atendant and a flight engineer.
G'day from Australia. What a great video of your recent DC3 Experience. I have had 24 flights in DC3/C47s over the years. The first being in South West Africa [now Namibia] in a SWA (ZS-DJZ c/n 26244) on 24Feb1976. The last two being on 13Mar2016 in New Zealand in an Air Chathams (ZK-AWP c/n 16387/33135) then more recently on 30Apr2023 between MEB and KNS here in Oz with (VH-OVM c/n 16354/33032). You can imagine the delight I had watching this excellent video. Thank you very much. Regards from Subscriber Puf'n-Pete.
Flew on a DC-3 in 1972 from Amsterdam to Antwerp on an airline called Delta. No longer exists. A lot of fun. They used to serve candies up to the 60s before take off and landing. Smoking was permitted after reaching stabilised altitude.
What a fantastic airplane still. When it came out, all other airliners were instantly obsolete and the constructions quality, the huge number of small fasteners in the wing joint was very labor intensive and still super engineering.
Mine too was when I was 7 in 1948 in Venezuela with Linea Aeropostal Venezolana. I fell in love with flying. 21 years later I had my Private Pilot License.
Very nice video! It makes me think about basically the exact same thing I did from Amsterdam Schiphol airport last year. They have the Dutch Dakota Association (DDA) and these days own the DC-3 'Prinses Amalia' (PH-PBA) that served on both D-Day and Market Garden. Sadly enough they announced it will make its last flights in September (obviously Market Garden memorial flights) of this year and then it's over. Huge pity! It was an amazing experience!
Very nice video ! Flew on Flygande Veternaner's DC-3C on 21 Sep90 BMA-MHQ (Mariehamn) - BMA. Still SE-CFP back then and this video brings back some nice memories from that trip. Flight time was about 55min going and 1:05h on the way back.
I was on company plane of DC-3 flew from Singapore to Borneo Island in 1979 or 1980. Was allowed to sit on co-pilot seat for 10 minutes. The sky view was so beautiful as I can remember.
I might have flown it at a very young age! Stockholm to Ronneby! I remember the basket with mint before take off! Nice custom! The second time in Egypt no doors and some goats onboard to Luxor. Port side engine dripping of oil but it took of anyway! Happy flight!
I was type in the DC3 back in 1980 and was the young Capt for about one month so I was tolled back then. I few frieght out the Islands from Opa Locka ,Fla lots of Fun meeting lot's good people
I remember flying from New York to Brussels in a DC3 when I was a kid. In those days, it was a 12 hour travel almost permanently in airholes. We could talk to our neighbor, but only by yelling.
When I was young in the late 50's onto the early 60's, every night about nine o'clock the route from Charlotte to Columbia SC near where I live was the US mail plane. It was a DC-3. Sometimes in the summer just before the sun went totally down, you would get to see the plane and the roar of the engines that sounded like those in this video. Alway see the red light under the plane flashing. I remember it would come right over out house very low as the airport was less then 20 mile the way the crow flies.
Old is Gold, I first saw the DC3 in 1981, with sunbird aviation kenya transporting Mirra to Mandera, kenya. The air hostess was also a "golden girl", In this DC3.
Great video! I flew the DC 3 in the sixties between Bulltofta Malmö Sweden and Kastrup Denmark. My father told me it was an unique aircraft but I was not that old at the time to appreciate it:>)
I join the legion of those here reporting having flown in a commercial flight DC-3 in the 60s. Always great--especially the time we landed sideways in a blizzard in West Virginia. Morgantown, I think it was. Allegheny Airlines.
And there's another lovely lady , privat on estonian call sogn , belonging to a privat guy by the name of Ake , former pilot in Rdc congo . Saw it is Valentuna once.
I flew dc3 in brasilian air force by 20 years in amazon area . fantastic. many historys.. In air force base belém there is a memorial about it and the catalinas .
Very nice video!! I'm jellin' because flying in a DC-3 is on my bucket list. I've been trying to find an outfit that flies air tours like this one in the Pacific Northwest of the US.
Went I went into the service (1965) I flew on an Ozark Dc3 out of Springfield il. On leave in 1967 I flew into Springfield on a Ozark Dc6. Last year in the service (1970) I fly on one of Ozark first DC9 jets out of Springfield. Felt like a rocket ship because the climb was so fast. Dc3 was my favorite because it was my 1st plane ride and first time away from home by myself.
My third DC-3 flight. First two were commercial 1948 and about 1960. I expect this was reengined as the originals smoked a lot when they started. I was 9 for my first from DC to Indiana and got sick so later I flew from DC to Eastern shore Maryland to have a better experience on one. Even the Super Connie coming back in 1948 was very crude compared to today. Thanks Gaberial.
Radials always smoke when they are cold. All the oil ends up in the bottom the engine and is burnt. That is why you will see the count of 12 blades before they turn the ignition on.
High quality as always - especially this time, though, for the pronunciacion of Eskilstuna: I've never noticed the second 's' before (one of my fav bands growing up hailed from there)
If my aging memory serves me right I seem to recall being told by my parents that my first ever flight in an aircraft was in a 'Dak' operated by B.E.A. (British European Airways) on a flight from Wick in the north of Scotland to Edinburgh back in the early 1960's. (so not yesterday then🤭)
Hi Gabe, This brings to mind one of my all-time favorite books, *Fate is the Hunter*, by Ernest K Gann, a memoir of his years as a pilot during the 1930s/1940s for American Airlines--which included flying DC2s and DC3s--and during WWII for the Air Transport Command. RogerC 8/18/23
When I purchased my first airplane in 1977 my tie down spot was right next to a DC-3 at Scott Field in Tallulah Louisiana. Scott Field was an old Delta Airlines stop in the 1930s and 1940s. Scott Field also served as host for the first aerial application tests using old DeHaviland Biplanes. The DC-3 parked next to my Piper Cub belonged to a local pilot and was purchased in airworthy condition for $25,000. Many years later I had the chance to buy a DC-3 in passenger configuration for $100,000. Now I seldom see any DC-3s 'for sale.' Incidentally, I had to chuckle when this narrator said "first the pilot takes off the tail" then he said "next he takes off the rest of the plane". He should have said, "After initial acceleration the pilot raises the tail and once he reaches flying speed he pulls on the elevator control and gently departs the runway into flight." If you take off the tail you will surely crash lol
If I remember rightly this was the same type of aircraft that was in the original “Flight of the Phoenix” movie starring amongst others James Stewart. I must admit that although I’m perfectly happy flying on modern jets, you’d have to pay me to fly in an old crate like this, as I just wouldn’t feel safe. 😅😅😅
These kind of videos bring back lots of memories. I was a very young captain on C47 and DC3 in 1971. After flying 70 different ones including the R4D and the C47 on skis I have good memories and a few scary ones. The airplane was a wonderful machine, a tough airplane and that’s why it has lasted so long.
Had a few flights on C-47s to Cubi Point Naval Air Station in the Philippines while I was a young sailor serving in Vietnam in 1971. Loved the experience -- and looking forward to a few days in the P.I., too! Rugged bird.
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My first ever airplane ride was in a DC-3. I was 13 (1966) and in a rollover accident with my parents on Prince Edward Island. As we were from Michigan, and now had no car, plus my mother had a broken back from the accident, we had to fly home. The first leg was in a DC-3 from PEI to Moncton, New Brunswick. I can remember the plane like it was yesterday.
Hope everything turned out okay. My first flight was also in a DC-3 it was a high school geography trip from Peterborough Ontario to Toronto and back.
Just gorgeous. Brings back so many memories. You see, I was born (1942) in the little West Indian island of Grenada. The DC-3 was the largest aircraft to service these islands & as a teenager, my cousin & I would scuttle up the tallest tree, just to get a glimpse of a BWIA Dakota coming in to land at Pearls Airport. This runway is no longer in flight use, instead an International airport near the capital, St.Gorges can cater for 777'S!
It was 1960 & I left Grenada in a DC-3 for Barbados, transfer to a DC-7C Seven Seas (BOAC) to London Heathrow via Idlewild (remember that)
You have to experience the noise & vibration of the Wright radials, all 4 of them. That is 72 cylinders all playing a tune! Deafening. I so wish to have one last trip in a Dakota, before I am in the box.
I flew on DC-3s as a young child in the 1960s - with Reeve Aleutian Airways in Alaska. I was even transported home from Anchorage on a DC-3 after I was born. The whirr of those motors is still stuck in my head after all these years! I have many wonderful slides of my family in and around those wonderful planes!
I remember getting on one of these in 1959 at Fairbanks Alaska, 40 below zero, flew to Point Borrow and to Bar Main, landed in blowing snow, bitterly cold. I worked on the Dewline for 2 and half years. The DC3, DC4 and Otters were the workhorses of the Dewline, I loved this time of my life.
Oh the magical sound of those engines on take off. Harmony to my ears! I’ve been in one of these. It’s a great experience!
Yeah!
I was born in the mid 1950's. My parents were missionaries in the highlands of PNG. There were no roads through to where we lived. The only way to get goods in and out was via plane. DC3's (and smaller planes) were a regular sight. Us missionaries would occasionally scrounge lifts aboard DC3 cargo planes, if there was room (which there usually was on the way out).
The seats were not the comfortable ones featured in this video. The plain, non-cushioned vinyl seats folded down from the sides of the cargo compartment. Your back rested against the bare metal of the fuselage. With all the turbulence in those high mountains, it got quite uncomfortable. There was no inner lining of the fuselage, so it was also very cold. Our parents got us to rug right up before we got onboard. There was no cabin crew or safety briefing. The pilots told us to where to sit, buckle up and stay there.
Despite all that, I remember the DC3 with fondness.
I flew on one of these which was operated by Air Atlantique out of Coventry several years ago (1990s I think). Flying at around 1500/2000 feet over Warwick and the Malverns was superb. Anyway, the trip was organised by someone at Knowle Royal British Legion. One of the members had been in the paras in WW2 and he was on the flight. He made a statement before we landed saying he had taken off in one of these many, many times, but had never landed in one!
Love the old aircraft. Such a nice break from seeing first-class cabins on big planes. Refreshing and fun. Thanks.
I was incredibly fortunate to have flown this bird from OSH23 and I have to say that this aircraft is a BEAST!! You really have to appreciate all involved in maintaining aircraft like these and the dedication and passion it takes to preserve the rich history behind these birds. I was initially intimidated to fly on such an outdated aircraft but it just goes to show how there are so many different corners of aviation that one is yet to find the beauty in. Thank you for sharing, this was AWESOME!!!
My 2 uncles flew in WWII. Wish I could have learned their history. ❤
I'm probably gonna fly this beauty this summer. But I don't really like super loud noises. Is this very loud or is it like being in your grandma's house hearing the clock?
The U S Forest service flew a DC3 out of Boise, used to deliver fire fighting gear to remote fire camps. Dirt strips were no problem.
I have already flown in a DC-3 and I must say that it is quite impressive before taking off but in the air it is straight like any plane but the engines are super bryant! I loved!
Nice to see so many smiles on board, truly a privilege to be able to take such a flight.
I flew in 1946 from Vancouver,BC. To Lethbridge Alberta, had to use oxygen masks over rockies and couldn’t fly direct to Calgary as had go to high over the Rockies. It was real work horse and great plane. Loved my flight and was 16 yr. And got my private pilots licence, no radios, on land and sea plane in a 1950. Barnie
There is DC3 80 years old called Old Lady OH-LCH in Finland. It flyes every summer
I flew the dc-3 last time about a month ago and they also gave me a Marianne candy even tho it wasn't the same plane. We flew from EFHK to EFTP to EFVA to EFJM to EFHK. I highly recommend.
The DC-3 is an incredible aircraft. It served equally well in both military service and commercial aviation. There is not anything else like it. 80 years!! I've dreamed of flying on one of these for many years. Maybe someday.
My first experience with a DC-3 was on a school field trip, at age 7 in 1953, to the new "Idlewild" (later JFK) Airport!
Then, in 1969, while in the National Guard, I flew at night in a commercial one, from La Guardia airport to Ft. Drum, NY!
My fiance, (later my wife of 54 years), kissed me goodbye, as the engine revved up, like in the movie "Casablanca"! We
made stops in Albany & Syracuse, landing on grassy runways! It was a "flashback in time" moment! Great memories!
Amazing story, sir
What a lovely memory.
Must have flown Mohawk or Allegheny.
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Volver a recordar mis vuelos en DC-3 en un ejemplar en perfecto estado de aeronavegabilidad... y ver a la aeromoza tan contenta... es un video inmejorable. Mil gracias a SAS ... una empresa que sabe mantener el negocio y las tradiciones en el lugar que corresponden a cada uno!
There is a DC-3 that flies out of McKinney, Texas that frequently flies over our home. Beautiful bird, and I love hearing her fly over. (A benefit of being in the extended flight path of McKinney airport!)
Lucky you
Big deal.
No one really cares.
Epic plane! Had the privilege in flying in one of the WWII air bridge veterans, much later, in the late 1990's. It still had the dear old radial piston engines, the real McCoy. I sometimes can see one flying very low over the ocean, from my apartment window, but it is the turboprop version.
It’s amazing to see this 80 years old plane flying efficiently
Thanks for appreciating
Love the video taken out the right hand window, right over the engine.
Back in 1979 I flew on a DC3 owned by a "airline" in Bali called Zamrud Airline, which owned a grave yard of half a dozen broken
DC3's for stripped parts.
The one working plane looked nothing like the one in this video. Old seats and a strapped down 5 gallon bucket with a toilet seat attached in the "bathroom".
As I flew around the various islands south east of Bali, you took your life in your hands.
Looking out the right window, seeing the engine just like in this video, the vibration of the engine during take off produced the effect of a long bolt slowing being vibrated out of the socket holding the outer sheet metal surrounding the engine. Gulp!.... no turning back. 2 hours later landing on Sumba island I told the pilot Captain Jack about the bolt. He said not to worry, they'd check it out when they returned to base. Flew island to island over the following weeks and they never fixed the bolt.
Airport landing strips were a shack next to a grass field and "ONE" hand held fire extinguisher just in case engines caught fire.
Wow!
My first flight, in my teens, as a cadet in the Royal Australian Air Force, was in the DC3. Being a senior cadet, I had the honour of taking the wheel in the copilot's seat.
The sound and feel of the radial engines remains with me today, 60 years later. I guess you could say it is a passion.
Used to fly in a DC-3 on Lake Central Airlines on my way home from leave when in the military.
I saw once a dc-3 at the museum of Milan-Malpensa, and I remember well that I was impressed because of it’s old look and from the idea that that thing carried so many people in the past
In 1964 I was flying on a DC8 from Portland, Oregon to San Diego, CA. Plane had issues and we had to land in LA. They put those of us going to San Diego on a United DC3, late at night but nice ride. I was 17 then, remember it well. I ended up with a commercial license and always wanted to fly one!
Back in 1963 - my first overseas flight was on a DC3 between West Irian (now known as Papua, Indonesia) and Australia
Look at that legroom!!! But no USB charging port. 🤣🤣🤣
What a beauty. Love the shiny bare aluminum of the old birds.
Two weeks ago the DC3 PH-PBA, from the DDA classic airlines, came to our local airport Maastricht - Aachen in the south east of the Netherlands, for the weekend. The flew in from their homebase at Amsterdam Schiphol airport. I did not have a chance to see it at Maastricht - Aachen airport, but it flew by my home, just 5 km east of the airport. What a special plane, and that sound of the engines.... Wonderful. Hope they can keep it up flying very long.
One of the wonderful qualities of the DC3 is the sounds it makes. The music is not necessarily the plane makes music of its own. The same can be said for all old prop liners.
Wonderful saying about the background sound system. ❤😂
Where is Lake Mälaren? Near as I can figure, it must be WAY UP NORTH near Shreveport!
I flew the first DC-3 back in 1993/94 out of Biggs Army Airfield El Paso Texas to Chihuahua Mexico for Southern Air Transport /Burlington. It had just came out of maintenence at Wright Patterson with brand new Pratt and Whitney's. We had a fire on #1 on approach into Chihuahua. One jug beat the rod into a bent bit of metal. Good times!
Incredible DC - 3 aircraft brings lot of memories back of people around the world.
Brought back memories of the times I was a kid [ 59 now] and would watch this lovely bird take to the skies as I used to frequent the airstrip close to where I used to live in Bombay. The sound of those engines is unmistakable.
Another video from Flightradar 24 that was a great surprise to see! This airplane brings back memories for many age groups. To me it is the airliner that started it all after it was used heavily in World War II (know as the Dakota, Skytrain or Gooney Bird). I have a large framed picture of an American Airlines DC-3 in my home. Now my best memory in one was when I was with approximately 70 skydivers in Florida. The plane, of course had the seats removed. Groups of eight would leave at one time from 10,500 feet. Not long after, that very same plane had landed and something happened! We saw one side had collapsed and the propellers were bent and hydraulic fluid was all over the ramp. Never did find out why, I guess it was better to leave it at 10,500!
Great video of the engine Gabriel.
Thanks - Jim
Very nice film with good memories for me. Ive flewn many many times with her as a former member, crew member and webmaster in Flygande Veteraner. I recognized the flight atendant and a flight engineer.
Thanks for the video. Brought back many memories from decades ago. The DC-3 was a joy to hand fly.
G'day from Australia. What a great video of your recent DC3 Experience. I have had 24 flights in DC3/C47s over the years. The first being in South West Africa [now Namibia] in a SWA (ZS-DJZ c/n 26244) on 24Feb1976. The last two being on 13Mar2016 in New Zealand in an Air Chathams (ZK-AWP c/n 16387/33135) then more recently on 30Apr2023 between MEB and KNS here in Oz with (VH-OVM c/n 16354/33032). You can imagine the delight I had watching this excellent video. Thank you very much. Regards from Subscriber Puf'n-Pete.
Flew on a DC-3 in 1972 from Amsterdam to Antwerp on an airline called Delta. No longer exists. A lot of fun. They used to serve candies up to the 60s before take off and landing. Smoking was permitted after reaching stabilised altitude.
I saw how Daisy flew over me when I've been walking at the centrum of Västerås that summer day. Thank for this great video!
Thanks for doing this video flew on the DC3 many times in the 90s in England bring back so memories
What a fantastic airplane still. When it came out, all other airliners were instantly obsolete and the constructions quality, the huge number of small fasteners in the wing joint was very labor intensive and still super engineering.
I first flew on a DC-3, back around 1948. They were modern them. Newark to Chicago, Chicago to St. Louis to visit my grandparents. It was great!
Mine too was when I was 7 in 1948 in Venezuela with Linea Aeropostal Venezolana. I fell in love with flying. 21 years later I had my Private Pilot License.
Saw this aircraft side by side with the finnish dc3 OH-LCH at an airshow a couple months ago
I flew on DC 3s from Atlanta, GA to Alabama to visit family a lot of times in the 1960's, my dad was on flight control for Southern Airways
Very nice video! It makes me think about basically the exact same thing I did from Amsterdam Schiphol airport last year. They have the Dutch Dakota Association (DDA) and these days own the DC-3 'Prinses Amalia' (PH-PBA) that served on both D-Day and Market Garden. Sadly enough they announced it will make its last flights in September (obviously Market Garden memorial flights) of this year and then it's over. Huge pity! It was an amazing experience!
Very nice video ! Flew on Flygande Veternaner's DC-3C on 21 Sep90 BMA-MHQ (Mariehamn) - BMA. Still SE-CFP back then and this video brings back some nice memories from that trip. Flight time was about 55min going and 1:05h on the way back.
Last take off 🛫sequence is stunning !! 🤩
First airplane I ever flew in…I was 8 years old, it was amazing to me as a kid. I was mesmerized.
Flew on one from Merida, Mexico to Cozumel in 1980. Morning flight with free Mexican beer. Flew low of the jungles of Yucatan. Quite an experience.
I was on company plane of DC-3 flew from Singapore to Borneo Island in 1979 or 1980. Was allowed to sit on co-pilot seat for 10 minutes. The sky view was so beautiful as I can remember.
I might have flown it at a very young age! Stockholm to Ronneby! I remember the basket with mint before take off! Nice custom! The second time in Egypt no doors and some goats onboard to Luxor. Port side engine dripping of oil but it took of anyway! Happy flight!
I was type in the DC3 back in 1980 and was the young Capt for about one month so I was tolled back then. I few frieght out the Islands from Opa Locka ,Fla lots of Fun meeting lot's good people
The Lady of the Air. Beautiful.
I loved flying the DC 3 from Miami to eluthera treasure cay marsh harbor such a safe plane
Love this plane...................I flew on one 3 times.........great ride.
I remember flying from New York to Brussels in a DC3 when I was a kid. In those days, it was a 12 hour travel almost permanently in airholes. We could talk to our neighbor, but only by yelling.
marvelous... it´s nice seeing this colosus still flying in such an amazing way.
gloria!!!!!
Only when you know nothing about aviation the sound of the radial may come as a shock. Those engines are pure music
This is incredibly an amazing flying machine. Great presentation of the vintage. Jacolyn
When I was young in the late 50's onto the early 60's, every night about nine o'clock the route from Charlotte to Columbia SC near where I live was the US mail plane. It was a DC-3. Sometimes in the summer just before the sun went totally down, you would get to see the plane and the roar of the engines that sounded like those in this video. Alway see the red light under the plane flashing. I remember it would come right over out house very low as the airport was less then 20 mile the way the crow flies.
Old is Gold, I first saw the DC3 in 1981, with sunbird aviation kenya transporting Mirra to Mandera, kenya. The air hostess was also a "golden girl", In this DC3.
Apart from the great aviation theme, which I love, you also have such great music on your channel.
Brings back many fond memories!!
Great video! I flew the DC 3 in the sixties between Bulltofta Malmö Sweden and Kastrup Denmark. My father told me it was an unique aircraft but I was not that old at the time to appreciate it:>)
okay, so your a 60 year old guy watching youtube?
Excellent video, excellent comments ❤❤✤ Angels of Sky , one elderly volunteer crew and grand plane ✈️ ! Love this 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤.
Great report. The airplane appears to be well maintained. My last DC-3 flight was in 62.
I was fortunate enough to fly on one of the Ottis Spunkmire DC3s.
It was an awesome experience.
I join the legion of those here reporting having flown in a commercial flight DC-3 in the 60s. Always great--especially the time we landed sideways in a blizzard in West Virginia. Morgantown, I think it was. Allegheny Airlines.
My dad's best friend, Bob Mahr, piloted DC3s in the Berlin Air Lift at the conclusion of WW2 in Europe.
My dad was a C-47 pilot in WWII. He flew the "hump" over the Himalayan Mountains. He also flew the Berlin Airlift after the war.
Cool, use to fly with them back in the early 60,s
There is also DC-3 in Finland which was old US military plane used in WW2. It still flies frequently over my house.
With Finair colors.yes beautifull lady
And there's another lovely lady , privat on estonian call sogn , belonging to a privat guy by the name of Ake , former pilot in Rdc congo . Saw it is Valentuna once.
I flew dc3 in brasilian air force by 20 years in amazon area . fantastic. many historys..
In air force base belém there is a memorial about it and the catalinas .
I flew in one of this incredible flying machines in 1976 from
Port Moresby to Lae then to Goroka in 🇵🇬 PapuaNewGuinea and enjoyed the flight.
That sounds amazing!
I enjoyed watching that very much. I would like to ride in a DC 3 ONE DAY.
Once upon a time DC 3 was the king of the sky
And people dressed up to fly back in the day instead of wearing just any ol thing.
Very nice video!! I'm jellin' because flying in a DC-3 is on my bucket list. I've been trying to find an outfit that flies air tours like this one in the Pacific Northwest of the US.
I think the fligt stewardess got a lot of experiences with the iconic plane😊as well as the pilots too😊❤️
13:05 *WOW! MAZING!*
Went I went into the service (1965) I flew on an Ozark Dc3 out of Springfield il. On leave in 1967 I flew into Springfield on a Ozark Dc6. Last year in the service (1970) I fly on one of Ozark first DC9 jets out of Springfield. Felt like a rocket ship because the climb was so fast. Dc3 was my favorite because it was my 1st plane ride and first time away from home by myself.
What a gorgeous bird
My third DC-3 flight. First two were commercial 1948 and about 1960. I expect this was reengined as the originals smoked a lot when they started. I was 9 for my first from DC to Indiana and got sick so later I flew from DC to Eastern shore Maryland to have a better experience on one. Even the Super Connie coming back in 1948 was very crude compared to today. Thanks Gaberial.
Radials always smoke when they are cold. All the oil ends up in the bottom the engine and is burnt. That is why you will see the count of 12 blades before they turn the ignition on.
Incredible DC-3 !!
Is it a design OR a plane itself??? Looks so brand new 😊
What can I say !!! AMAZING.
You should have flown with OH-LCH, it's one year older! 😉 My experience is limited to a Basler BT-67/DC-3T C-GHGF
High quality as always - especially this time, though, for the pronunciacion of Eskilstuna: I've never noticed the second 's' before (one of my fav bands growing up hailed from there)
If my aging memory serves me right I seem to recall being told by my parents that my first ever flight in an aircraft was in a 'Dak' operated by B.E.A. (British European Airways) on a flight from Wick in the north of Scotland to Edinburgh back in the early 1960's. (so not yesterday then🤭)
Built without computers . Mind power
This plane is on the Wikipedia page for the DC-3! Neat
The sound is amazing.
oh man your so wrong 😢😢😢 edit:abdullllllal
I was lucky enough to see this plane at Swedish Airforce show in Uppsala 2022
Hi Gabe, This brings to mind one of my all-time favorite books, *Fate is the Hunter*, by Ernest K Gann, a memoir of his years as a pilot during the 1930s/1940s for American Airlines--which included flying DC2s and DC3s--and during WWII for the Air Transport Command. RogerC 8/18/23
I remember Gann's first takeoff as a co-pilot was almost the last one.
Wonderful book.
“Tail dragger” - I’d not heard this appellation earlier for the DC 3 Dakotas.
Here in Maine a dude has a dc-3 on floats that takes off of Moosehead Lake
Whoa!
It's not the props making noise, it's the reciprocating piston radial engines. If I am not mistaken there are 2 or 3 radial banks of 9 cylinders each.
When I purchased my first airplane in 1977 my tie down spot was right next to a DC-3 at Scott Field in Tallulah Louisiana. Scott Field was an old Delta Airlines stop in the 1930s and 1940s. Scott Field also served as host for the first aerial application tests using old DeHaviland Biplanes. The DC-3 parked next to my Piper Cub belonged to a local pilot and was purchased in airworthy condition for $25,000. Many years later I had the chance to buy a DC-3 in passenger configuration for $100,000. Now I seldom see any DC-3s 'for sale.' Incidentally, I had to chuckle when this narrator said "first the pilot takes off the tail" then he said "next he takes off the rest of the plane". He should have said, "After initial acceleration the pilot raises the tail and once he reaches flying speed he pulls on the elevator control and gently departs the runway into flight." If you take off the tail you will surely crash lol
I flew in a DC3 in the 1950s I notice that now the propeller blades have been ungraded.
0:18 guy in green shirt is my dad. So awesome! :D
If I remember rightly this was the same type of aircraft that was in the original “Flight of the Phoenix” movie starring amongst others James Stewart. I must admit that although I’m perfectly happy flying on modern jets, you’d have to pay me to fly in an old crate like this, as I just wouldn’t feel safe. 😅😅😅