Probable Cause Dan Gryder's DC-3 Takeoff, Low Pass & Landing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- Retired airline pilot and TH-cam sensation, ProbableCause's-DanGryder, takes this prewar airliner to the skies on race weekend for some fun! Watch as it takes off, performs a low pass, and then returns for landing. As of 2008, the aircraft had over 57,000 hours.
#N143D #DanGryder #probablecause #dc3
00:00 DC-3 Taxi with Pitot Covers
00:24 DC-3 Taxi
01:30 DC-3 Takeoff
02:27 DC-3 Appears to Be Floating
06:00 DC-3 Performs a Low Pass
08:57 DC-3 Landing
10:28 DC-3 Gets Towed By GMC Truck
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I’ve had the plane 22 years. I offer both PIC and SIC type ratings. Anyone with a single engine pilots license or sport pilot cert can fly it left seat. $1800/hr. Anyone can get one takeoff and a short flight and one landing left seat for $500
In this case it was a low time private pilot left seat for the takeoff and landing. Winds were very high, gusting and 60 degree crosswind. I allow the student to do 99% of it do yes it’s wobbly and yes he bounced it on but it doesn’t hurt anything and it’s all part of the experience. He totally enjoyed it.
You have had an ego problem for 22 years.
@@AlbertHess-xy7kyand this revelation about human behavior that everyone has tells us what captain obvious?
Everyone has some ego. Some have an overbearing ego problem, obviously. . @@billveek9518
Beautiful plane, I'd love to fly along
Dan is the man 👍🏼👍🏼😎😎😻😻
This is one of my favourite DC3 videos. Thanks for not ruining it with crap music love the sound of the PW1830s
Thanks so much! I lucked out too because it was my first day using my new shotgun microphone!
I agree! I wish everyone undertood that the very best "music" for a video such as this is the sound of the aircraft itself!
Right?! Thats a beautiful plane and those singing Pratt & Whitney's are the only music I want to hear
I agree. The sound of those old Aircraft is music to my ears too.:)
Agree. When I come across an aircraft vid or any motor driven vehicle vid with music. I immediately stop and move on. I’ll listen to Pandora if I want music. When it comes to motors planes or otherwise, they are what I want to hear. This is a great vid of a grand old lady!!
Perfect video!!
No crappy music or over dubbed voices,we love to hear the engines and enjoy the sights!
Absolute perfection,thank you!
Thanks!!
Many of us regard the DC-3 as one of the most beautiful planes ever.
Greatest plane ever built
Practical, not beautiful.
Yes, it's a cool plane, great history, I think it's in the time frame of the "Connie" not real sure. I know delta flew some DC3's back in the day, my brother worked as AP mechanic for Delta back in the early 90s in Atlanta, I remember seeing some cool historical big model planes like the DC3 in one of the maintenance facilities there.
I'm saving my nickles,and coming to see you!!
@@larryrobinson7492 The "Connie" was something VERY special. Gorgeous!
DC3s are such elegant, beautiful airplanes. Hard to believe this venerable bird was introduced nearly 90 years ago.
I am 70 and one of favorite things as a youngster was the sound of twin and four engine piston aircraft at night when I was in bed. My dad was a aerospace engineer and he got me so I could identify different aircraft and what engines they were using by sound.
Yep, in 1950s UK I would hear those tramp steamer kites all the time overhead. At night at 22:00 I would hear the BOAC stratocruiser outward bound from London Airport. I knew most of the piston engine sounds.
I am 71. When I was in bed 5-6 ys old I called them autumn planes, probably because in the fall the runway used from Stockholm BMA often led the starting planes over our house because of the strong eastern winds.
We lived in Welkom South africa. In the early 70,s still a very young teenager every afternoon at 4pm a DC 3 flew over our house towards the airport. Me and my brother always made sure that we climbed our big tree in our yard to the top to wave at the DC. Will never forgot those moments and she was always on time. Sometimes we were listening and we could here she is coming😊😊 thanks for your upload....greetings from South Africa Martin
I flew joburg nelspruit on a dc3 in the 1990s .. that was real flying
@martinmuller, thanks for the memory jog !
There was an airfield not far from my elementary school, and on more
than a few recesses, a couple of us scratched a big " HI ! " into the dirt.
I have no idea if anyone ever did, or even could have seen it. Haaa.
Thanks for also sharing your interesting memory there I am sure someone saw that greetings 😅
Greetings from Rolla Missouri USA
The sight…and sound, of this magnificent living tribute to American Aviation is breathtaking.
In 1964 my sister graduated from high school and she flew on a DC 3 from Memphis to Columbus Mississippi to start college. Several years later the DC 3 was finally taken out of service. It's a beautiful plane
I bet she flew on Southern Airways in 1964. I remember them in that time period and my first flight was on a Southern DC3 from New Orleans to Monroe in 1966.
Big Beautiful Bird!! The plane that won the war AND one of the most influential airplanes to have ever taken flight!!
I love DC-3s. Probably the best, safest airliner in history.
Piston engine powered airliner.
Perhaps.
My father was a DC-3 mechanic for Allegheny in the 50s. He loved that airplane. We did a lot of trips,on them.
I had the absolute honor to sit right seat when I was just 19 years old. My flight instructor, flew cargo to the Bahamas and would let me go. Many great hours in arguably one of the greatest aircraft ever.
My first flight in an airliner was in 1952 in a Chicago & Southern Airways DC-3 from St. Louis to Memphis. The crew let me sit R/H seat for about 10 minutes. My return flight was in a Connie. When I was in ROTC in 1957, I got an "orientation flight" in a C-47 at Scott AFB in Illinois. I made flying my career and started out doing crop dusting in a Stearman fighting the war against Mr. Boll Weevil.
My mother flew multiple missions in the C47 as a flight nurse in WW2 across the channel into the front..had SO MANY incredible stories..to this day I dream of flying in one..
What a lovely piece of film of this great and venerable aircraft. Beautiful condition and great sound of those P&W radials. No disco music, and all the better for no commentary, thank you!
Many thanks!
the dc-3 and the 747 are aesthetically the most beautiful airplanes ever build. And then both have an enormous track record and still fly today.
Try looking at the Super Connie.....🤣🤣
You forgot the magnificent Lockheed Constellation, a sculpture in aluminum.❤️
These aircrafts were design and built using drawings, airplanes plans ,pure science, maths, laws of physics and gravity , etc; not like today that they use computers for all those calculations! Those DC-3 are a real man made Masterpiece.
Love the looong and wide wings and the precision location of the two huge and heavy engines for balance and weight and perfect performance💪👍🏻
Great video showing a great and beautiful plane!!
Beautiful plane! You don't need music in the background, listening to those awesome engines was music enough!
To me, nothing can ever compare the the beauty and classic lines of the DC-3. My very first flight was onboard a DC-3 back in the early 60's owned by Southern Airlines. And nothing sounds like those P&W engines. Truly a one of a kind aircraft.
I was about 12, my brother 10. Flew a Southern Airways DC3 to Nashville on the way to visit Memphis relatives. We were the only passengers on the first leg. It was an adventure i had only dreamed about until that calm, sunny mid 1950s day. My favorite airplane? Of course!
Spent my summers as a teen in the early seventies on a small island off of Cape Cod. Air New England had a couple of these in their fleet and they would pass over the house at low altitudes regularly. Will never tire of the sound of those big radials 👍
Grew up in Hyannis in the 1960’s. Use to go to the airport and watch planes take off and land. I remember seeing DC3’d as well as Lockheed Electras.
What a majestic bird!
A clever high quality advert for a beautiful old aircraft!
Badass video flick. Badass pilot. Badass airplane.
Nice to listen to an aircraft without music 😊
Way too much incongruous music on You Tube that adds nothing if not detracting from the video.
I enjoyed watching the old bird. Great camera work also. Thank you.
my first flight was i a DC-3 like this operated by MATS (military Air Transport Service). It was 1953 as a 20 year-old soldier. I'd had completed basic training at Fort Dix, NJ and was assigned to the Armor School at Ft Knox, KY.
The DC3 is the first airplane I remember seeing . And I made a few flights in it as a passenger in Africa in the fifties . Still a huge plane in my memory .
As a child, around 7-9 years old, I’d fly from either Logan or Portland to Burlington on a DC 3. My best friends family moved there and my parents would put me on the plane and my friends parents picked me up in Burlington. On one trip, I remember watching a bolt rattle on the wing. It rattled the entire trip. I wasn’t worried at all, just kept me interested as I wondered it it would rattle all the way out. I mentioned it to the pilot when I left. I just remembered he smiled.
DC3 first and most remembered flight when I was 8-year-old. Now 84 year old and experience still vivid in my mind.
cx3
I was an active skydiver back in the 80s when DC3s were still quite popular for jump aircraft. At some of the large events there might 6 or 7 of them flying jumpers. It was not uncommon for at least one of them to do a buzz job over the packing area at the end of the day. Being right underneath one of these planes as it flies 20 feet over your head is an incredible experience. Always got a big cheer from the jumpers.
I had always dreamed of flying somewhere on a DC-3 but by the time I made it onto a commercial flight Northwest Airlines was flying the Lockhead L188 electra. What a beautiful sight to see the DC-3 in action. As a youngster, I loved listening to those engines come to life, that power surge as it gained momentum down the runway on its way into that space between the clouds and Mother earth. Absolutely magnificent! Thank you for sharing.
You can still get a ride in one Kenny. My wife and I flew in one 4 years ago out of Mecham Field in Fort Worth, Texas. She treated us the ride for my birthday. To say it was a dream come true would be an understatement. You can walk around inside while in flight and take pictures over the pilots shoulders. I have about 60 shots we took of the experience.
IIRRC they only offer daytime rides in the summer months, and during the Christmas holidays, there is a night flight around the city.
I grew up in the Air Force as my Dad was in SAC. Lots of memories of military planes disrupting our sleep at night with B 52's doing readiness scrambles!
Just something majestic about an old war bird making a pass…. still puts a lump in my throat 🤷♂️🇺🇸💪🙏
Those gas engines are the sound of Hotrod Heaven.
What amazes me is how efficient these propellers are! They’re barely turning and this puppy is rocketing down the runway!
😉
My remembrance of the DC-3 goes back to my induction into the Air Force on the night of 1 October 1964. Heading to San Antonio from Houston. I had on my Florida clothes which did not help to keep me warm at whatever altitude we were flying. It was so cold I think I shivered the whole flight. The plane has an air nozzle right above my seat that I could not close off and I think it was piping outside air right into the cabin.
Thanks for serving our country Brother/Sister !
I was an Aerial Combat Documentary Photographer in the US Air Force 1965/68. I used to fly mainly on B-52s and KC135 Refuelers out of Utapao RTAFB in Thailand in 67/68... but one of the Squadron Commanders liked to fly his favorite C47 (DC3) every so often, and I got to stand in the Open Door area right behind the Left wing and take photographs while flying around Southern Thailand ! *FJB !*
Hadn’t noticed that on my DC3 trips in the 50s and 60s. But had the same problem at a much higher altitude on a flight from Yokota to Travis on a C5A. Could not believe it was that cold!
Yes, to see a plane have to cooperate with the air is a wonderful thing…
I loved every hour I spent in the left seat.
The DC-3 is one of the very best vintage aircraft still in use today.
When we lived in the far north (the Arctic in the Northwest Territories back in 1985 and 1986), the Beaver, the DC-3, and the Twin Otter were the workhorses. The DC-3 was an excellent plane with a reliability record to match.
I gotta love this DC-3 what a beautiful plane! What a pilot! 🫡🫡🏁🏆🏁🇺🇸
These old planes have an amazing look that no newer plane has
The DC-3 changed the world for the better in many ways. Great video! Thanks!
No doubt! Thanks for the support!
Daks will never die, they just get better with age !.
Love a DC3!
Many moons ago a flight of these lumbered over my home on final for infantry parachute drop practice once a year. Left an impression. Later in the 70's it was Caribou, but the Dakotas stole my heart.
That big Sheeba is just trying to come back to earth even on take-off. A lumbering, massive air vessel. Dan fights gravity with her, on every flight. So beautiful to see this wonderful work of art.
Thanks for keeping her flying
My first flying experience, in 1966, was in a DC-3, which was still standard for regional airlines in Australia. This created a lifelong fascination with aircraft and air travel. Even now as an old dude in a 787 Dreamliner, I have to sit in a window seat and look at the window, still smiling like that young child. I am sure the teenagers on the aircraft think I am demented. In New Guinea they were affectionately known as 'Biscuit Bombers' by the Australian Troops because they dropped supplies by air into clearings where they could not land.
I just love the sound of the piston pounders flying off the deck! Thank you for shooting the clip and sharing👍
Beautiful, upon landing clearly the frames per minute was approximately the RPM of both propellers. And
An amazing piece of aviation, history live and available today.
My first time I saw a plane was a DC 3 like this one and love it
Beautiful video ! One of the absolute best videos of any plane flying in the air and this one I’d Dan Gryder’s DC3 is fabulous ! Thank you for this 👍🏻
Wow!! Thank you so much for that! I really appreciate your support!
One of my favorite aircraft of all time. Dan does a great job sharing it.
Fabulous
The best and greatest aeroplane ever built. Thats what you call a true legend,
the iconic lady still looks great.
Hey that sound gives me goose pumps.
Like the video shutter speed that is so close to the propeller cycle speed that looks like they are hardly turning. 😊
My uncle Sander Verburg flew a DC 3 in The Netherlands for tours above Amsterdam. That's when my family and I flew with him one time. He also flew in Africa later on a regular route. The Dutch movie Dakota was filmed in Suriname and he flew that plane as well. This was in the 70s I believe.
Wow wow wow, that was bloody brilliant thanks everyone involved
I rode in an Ozark Airlines DC3 on the way to Basic Training in 1967, in a thunderstorm, never forgot it
Excellent take off. Getting the tail up into the wind right away. Also cool how the props look like they are stationary. The RPM is apparently some multiple of 60.
Treat her nice! She is Aviation Royalty. 👑
Don't often say this about you Tube videos, but who ever did this one nailed it. That take off sequence is about the best I've seen. Excellent, excellent work. You had that plane perfectly centered so well it looked like it was just floating in midair. You could see every movement in detail. Elevator, rudder, aileron movements, gear going up. Until it faded, that unique DC-3 Engine sound and then the flyby. Thank you for a superbly made video. How about doing a video on the F-82 Twin Mustang? Please.
William combs- Agreed. I am only at 21 seconds, and the color, framing, and sounds are beautiful. I saw Dan G's name so I clicked and was glad I did. I am researching something, so I have to quit, but I'll be back.
Got to work on them at Republic Airlines at MSP, MN loved them..
Love your work.
Nice footage of this aircraft. It appears to be Dan's DC-3.
Thank you so much for the support! And yep you got it it is his!
Beautiful bird! I would love to log a parachute jump out of that DC-3! I have many out of a twin beech and even the old caribou but never a DC-3…. Thanks for sharing and blue skies! 🫡 🪂
Lived in the FL Keys in the 80s and so enjoyed the Mosquito Control DC 3s flying low and slow in their spraying routes. Often in formation of 2. When they banked for turns the wing tips were mere feet above the water. And the rumble❤❤❤. Thanks for the memories.
I love this bird I've got about 500 hrs in it. I flew 1 or 2 legs in the right seat then checked out as a Captain.
If you were flyn say Beech 17's as captain, is not that difficult. But i flew only Aztecs then right seat dc3's. Was a very different bird.
I had a lot of time in Beech 18 taildraggers so fly the DC3 was way easier
@@bobbys2160makes Sense. I flew 18's only an hour 45 + years ago. Most of them crashed in Florida, Bahamas and south of the border..wink, wink.. LOL.
Some of my first skydives were from a DC3 "Mr Douglas" , supposedly hull #3?.. Great memories, fun plane, good tunes otw to "altitude " (😂) listening to the radials & Hendrix, for 40 minutes!😊
Just imagine the number of different vehicles that have towed that plane over it's lifetime.
That would be an interesting display of cars,trucks and tractors from the 80 years of the DC3.
The DC3.. one of the most graceful aircraft to ever fly.
Step on the BALL Dan!
You noticed that too.
It's howling. Did you see all the top rudder in the climbing turn out? He's got it, ok?
What are you talking about?
@@CS_247Why would top rudder be necessary in a climbout?
@@oscarb9139 Whole lotta yaw going on. May be asymmetrical power....those big radials produce a lot of torque/P Factor
A FedEx DC-3 that used to fly right over my house, every night, at about 1,000 feet would send me running outside when I heard it coming just to watch and hear it fly over. It was about dusk and I could see the blue flames coming out of the stacks. And years earlier (abound late 80s) I was in my 172 in Augusta, Georgia when I saw a DC-3 land. I was thinking it would have been some kind of cargo load only to be surprised when it unloaded a hand full of passengers.
Funny seeing the aircraft image while hearing the helicopter sound. For a second I though my neighbor was coming in for a landing. He commutes in one of his helicopters.
Beautiful DC3!
Fantastic aircraft. So versatile. Definitely one of my favorite.
Splendid footage, and certainly looking forward to seeing more contents in the coming of times, keep up the fantastic work and keep the momentum’s up as evermore. Hoping you had a great time in the makings of this and always for the previous contents.
😉👍✨✈️💯
More to come!
Awesome bird! One of the best planes ever made. My grandfather used to sometimes Co-pilot the NASA C-47 (military DC-3 version) out at Edwards AFB in the 60s.
I love the color, it's like a friendly ghost. Looks brand new also.
The propeller/ shutter speed of the camera synching makes the plane’s flight seem surreal!
Doing an SiC course with Dan has been on my bucket list for 25 years! To have that rating on my licence would be wonderful. Sadly I stopped flying about 15 years ago so it'll never happen but well done to that PPL for handling it in that wind. Great job.
Beautiful video one of the best that I have ever seen. Reminds me of my younger days flying around Europe in the early 70's my father flew Dakotas with the Canadian Armed Forces. I got to sit in the left seat for free back then. We would fly from Nato base to Nato base on the "sched" run delivery military members and families from base to base. Flying low over Germany 3000' was the greatest. The farmers didn't always appreciate it.
In Dec '74 I took a hop from Dallas Naval Air Station to Andrews AFB on a AIR Reserve DC-3, which continued on to Italy. Great bird, larger than the commercial DC-3, I'm thinking. I recall the head was in the tail, I placed my head on the curvature to take a whiz.
Beautiful craft and great vid. About 20 years ago a bunch of us flew from Sydney to Mudgee here in Australia in a DC3 for lunch at a winery. There was hardly a dry eye in the thing as we took off. Fabulous plane with such an incredible history.
Very cool!
Jimmy Doolittle (Who’s son, John , came to my retirement ceremony) once said that if an airplane looked right, chances are it would fly right.
Few aircraft look as right as the DC3.
That's one beautiful aircraft!
That is a thing of beauty right there!
Fun to see, Thanks, Dan.
When I was about 4, my parents and I flew from LA to Tokyo on a American Airlines DC-3.
It had small windows over the regular windows, because there were bunk beds over the seats.
One engine had flames coming from it, so we stopped at Wake Island for repairs.
Amazing camera work!
Thank you! My tripod deserves all the credit it makes me look a lot better than I actually am lol
Indeed. Fantastic tracking and tack sharp focus on a lovely bird.
fantastic!!
When I was on hot shot forest firefighting crews in Montana and Idaho, we were flown in various Johnson Flying Service aircraft including DC3s, a DC4, and a C46. Some of these aircraft were later acquired by Evergreen, including one they called a DC2 1/2. One wing was from a DC2, and the other was from a DC3.
Great video of this event. I really enjoyed the takeoff@!
Thank you Dan and the photographer.
Such EXCELLENT footage!!
Thanks for posting!! TX 🇺🇸
I had the pleasure of a ride in a DC3 (C47) in 1962 or 63 as a Cadet in The Civil Air Patrol. This is one of the most beautiful looking and sounding creations Man has ever made. God Bless and stay safe.
Thanks for sharing!
You always bring out the best in people, Dan! Whether it's by the pilots or amateur psychologists in the comments, we're always entertained, even if we not by the video. The thing is, I'm always amazed by how may pilots have that hobby and try to "straighten out" everyone else...
Good one Dan
A magnificent aero plane, outlasting all other aircraft of its time by decades!
My first DC-3 flight was with my mom to visit her parents when I was a few months old. I had many unaccompanied flights on the same route as I got bigger. I would be taken up to the cockpit and given a tin set of wings. My last DC-3 flight was in to Puerto Escondido in Mexico around 1970.