Sikorsky S-38 at Lake Lucerne

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  • @Milosz_Ostrow
    @Milosz_Ostrow 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    One of the best aviation videos on TH-cam - no cheesy music, just actual ambient sounds.

    • @thewatcher5271
      @thewatcher5271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've Said The Same Thing Before But You Said It For Me This Time So I Gave You A Thumbs Up . . .

  • @coffindancer38
    @coffindancer38 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Damn thats a beautiful aircraft!!! Old when i was a kid building models 45 years ago. Many thanks to the folks keeping these planes alive, im assuming this means Kermit Weeks. Remember that sound! Big round engines are unforgettable!!!

  • @michaelsteffen4887
    @michaelsteffen4887 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is an extremely great piece of Seaplane flying aviation history! My father used to go down on the Duwamish waterway in Seattle and watch Boeing build 314 Clippers. They were called China Clippers! Sooo cool. Thank you for sharing your fantastic restoration and awesome video.
    Mike in Tacoma

  • @coco-ry8jg
    @coco-ry8jg ปีที่แล้ว

    What an elegant aircraft! A 100 year old aviation masterpiece that would not look out of place in the Bauhaus museum. The first one rolled of the production line in three month's in 1928, but it took three year's to build the replica !

  • @danwilliams9606
    @danwilliams9606 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Rare and wonderful. Incredible to see this ancient craft both airworthy and "lakeworthy." Hope it continues flying past the century mark and beyond ...

    • @fw1421
      @fw1421 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dan Williams you should see some of Kermits other planes.

  • @Patmofar
    @Patmofar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brilliant video and the side-wheel paddle ferry at the end is simply icing on the cake.

  • @timmayer8723
    @timmayer8723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    IGor Sikorsky was a genius.

  • @martinkesler5999
    @martinkesler5999 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What an amazing beautiful creation! Sikorsky must have been a genius and put a large number of his creations in the air in his time

    • @MrSunrise-gm5ne
      @MrSunrise-gm5ne ปีที่แล้ว

      Inventor of the penny-farthing helicopter configuration too!

  • @tayninh69
    @tayninh69 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent video and beautiful sound.

  • @robertbowman3406
    @robertbowman3406 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That is one fine looking aircraft. Those radial engines really compliment it too.

  • @beegee22
    @beegee22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful airplane! It doesn't take long for it to get on the step and off of the water!

  • @creekwalker62
    @creekwalker62 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That's the coolest looking aeroplane I've ever seen!

  • @roadking99jokerst60
    @roadking99jokerst60 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love seaplanes and this is too fun to see. I did see an S-34 ( I believe ) in Minnesota many yrs ago. It was near a hangar off the hiway up to Minneapolis. I should have turned off to check it out. Thank you for this video.

  • @MegaPeedee
    @MegaPeedee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How beautiful is that? It's a work of art. Great clip, mate.

  • @PeterNGloor
    @PeterNGloor 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for making this excellent movie. To me it is a nice souvenir. I only took still pictures.

  • @antr7493
    @antr7493 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    struts, struts, struts, we all love struts. great video

  • @overbank56
    @overbank56 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the old classic planes

  • @uio890138
    @uio890138 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now that defines the phrase "flying machine"!!

  • @bertcushman7427
    @bertcushman7427 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    at one time, air travel at it's finest! I'll take that thank you.

  • @michaelhowell2541
    @michaelhowell2541 ปีที่แล้ว

    Greased that landing!👍🇺🇸

  • @scottharris6423
    @scottharris6423 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool airplane!!!

  • @josenighthawk
    @josenighthawk 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My absolutely favorite airplane - of all time! - is the late 1020s two-engine bi-plane AMPHIBIAN Sikorsky S-38 (or even it's one-engine sibling, the S-39). ... It was referred to as the 'Flying Yacht', and it could leisurely stay aloft at the incredibly slow stall speed in the low 60s MPH! ... I would so much have loved to leisurely fly it, island hopping, throughout the Caribbean, fish from its long flat-top nose - even barbeque on it! - while getting a tan on its lower wing! .. And, while a slow Jazzy torch song wails away from the phonograph, or the radio! .. Aaaaaaaaah! .. (There are still two or three in flying condition!)

  • @derekobidowski3301
    @derekobidowski3301 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This s-38 is a full scale replica its now under restoration in the Usa its now owned by Kermit Weeks in Florida. when completed the s-38 will be residing in his Fantisy of Flight museum alongside his Sikorsky S-39 Spirit of Igor.

  • @roadking99jokerst60
    @roadking99jokerst60 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Long lens makes the Beavef look very close. Thanks for posting.

  • @crispincurtis8585
    @crispincurtis8585 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool bird😎

  • @scottfw7169
    @scottfw7169 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lake is a busy place, off to go look up some about it.

  • @billwendell6886
    @billwendell6886 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pan Am pilots referred to it as a collection of airplane parts flying in formation. The Igor was taking the prototype up for a press demo when an engine quit during takeoff. He took off anyway and flew his demo. All duly impressed. A Pan Am pilot was ribbing other pilots because someone had forgot to lower the wheel for a land landing. Not long after guess who slides one in onto the runway, flipped onto it's back. Onlookers were astonished to see the gear lowering up. Pilot claimed it was down all the time.

  • @MrOlgrumpy
    @MrOlgrumpy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful old classic,

  • @dwightalfred
    @dwightalfred 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a beauty! When was she built? I love the sound of those antique radials.

  • @davidlegg9690
    @davidlegg9690 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing

  • @lqr824
    @lqr824 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also known as the Vierwaldstaettersee. It takes a huge amount of paperwork to even put a boat in the water; how do you get permission for a flying boat? And how can you be sure not to hit small craft or swimmers when landing or taking off?

  • @georgestreicher252
    @georgestreicher252 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sure glad Igor Sikorsky immigrated from Russia.

  • @mortschubert3909
    @mortschubert3909 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is the busiest lake I have ever seen.

  • @RichardRaueiser
    @RichardRaueiser 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I makes me remember my flight with the green and yellow beaver, in Pully.

  • @MegaSkybox
    @MegaSkybox 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WOW!!! Is it repllay?

  • @sureshbhaiparekh6739
    @sureshbhaiparekh6739 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    VERRY GOOD SMOOTH TAKE OFF AND LANDIND WITH NOISY ENGINE..

  • @ЕвгенийКитаев-р7с
    @ЕвгенийКитаев-р7с ปีที่แล้ว

    Лихо! 👍👍👏

  • @321bytor
    @321bytor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a splendid aeroplane

  • @doncarlo5
    @doncarlo5 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    isn 't it the one that Kermit Weeks is restoring ?

    • @AustNRail
      @AustNRail 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      doncarlo5 sure does look like it

  • @chronodiver300
    @chronodiver300 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    HH would approve.

  • @lawrencekalapus228
    @lawrencekalapus228 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great sound . NO STUPID MUSIC

  • @stewartritchey7602
    @stewartritchey7602 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Martin and Osa Johnson would be proud!

  • @DelightLovesMovies
    @DelightLovesMovies 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    that plane looks so cool

  • @michaelfranklin4276
    @michaelfranklin4276 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Does a heart good to see such ancient beauty. Only thing better than this Sikorsky would be flying on a real dragon.

  • @goosf5746
    @goosf5746 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful plane!!!!!!!!

  • @defencebangladesh4068
    @defencebangladesh4068 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful ❤️

  • @oat138
    @oat138 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Switzerland?

  • @Paiadakine
    @Paiadakine 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful

  • @ColeAviation
    @ColeAviation 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW! Beautiful S-38!! Very busy lake. Where is this.?

    • @flat5sharp11
      @flat5sharp11 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Switzerland

    • @steveskouson9620
      @steveskouson9620 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's either in Switzerland or a Safeway.
      steve

  • @kmlvr89
    @kmlvr89 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:45 FASCINANTE!!!!

  • @granskare
    @granskare 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice plane! in usa panam put it into their colors from the former which name escapes me.

  • @Adventures_For_Miles
    @Adventures_For_Miles 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    1. For those of you who don’t know this is a reproduction.
    2. Technically a flying boat not a seaplane.
    3. Sorry for being that guy but I had to 😂

  • @majormajor1244
    @majormajor1244 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome feat of engineering.

  • @PeterNGloor
    @PeterNGloor 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    It should make an appearance at this year's Bönigen seaplane meeting of the weekend 30 June 2012

  • @fredtedstedman
    @fredtedstedman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you don't see the props picking up great clouds of water on this old bird , like some flying boats (Modern included .) Wales UK.

  • @redjetsen1002
    @redjetsen1002 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is such a weird looking plane

  • @seaplaneguy1
    @seaplaneguy1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ah, perfect example of docking problems of most seaplanes 2:00-2:30. The landing gear does not allow one to get to shore without going swimming.

    • @massimolettuce
      @massimolettuce 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      technically you can go by foot, just open the landing gear, throttle up, tadaa, you're in the beach ^_^

  • @LCMNUNES1962
    @LCMNUNES1962 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    MUITO LEGAL, BRASIL OK.

  • @moonpie129
    @moonpie129 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    nice lookin seaplane

  • @Testacabeza
    @Testacabeza 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    The winged limousine.

  • @2706mauricio
    @2706mauricio 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beatiful aircraft no longer build like this

  • @BCHistory
    @BCHistory 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought you might like this video of an s-38 in 1938 in British Columbia
    th-cam.com/video/hfoCdLZueog/w-d-xo.html

  • @PeterNGloor
    @PeterNGloor 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Half original, with some parts new.

  • @PeterNGloor
    @PeterNGloor 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Too bad it did not. The appearance was cancelled on short notice.

  • @PeterNGloor
    @PeterNGloor 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    what'

  • @MegaSkybox
    @MegaSkybox 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    a copy

  • @dancostello6465
    @dancostello6465 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Look like a wooden shoe.

  • @massimolettuce
    @massimolettuce 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sad that such a beatiful piece of machinery gets destroyed by that ridicoulous zebra painting

    • @12tuber1234
      @12tuber1234 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't be sad, be happy.

    • @PistonAvatarGuy
      @PistonAvatarGuy 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's paint, dude, it does nothing but protect the 'machine.'

    • @JPofCT
      @JPofCT 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It's painted to resemble one used by Martin and Osa Johnson while filming wildlife in Africa in the 1930s. They also used an S-39 painted like a Giraffe.

    • @garywinters2282
      @garywinters2282 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      7urdy1 there is a museum with many of there artifacts from their travels in Chanute Kansas, have been to it a few times as I live a short distance away from it.

    • @stewartritchey7602
      @stewartritchey7602 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Look up your history on Martin and Osa Johnson.

  • @antoniettasantoro2177
    @antoniettasantoro2177 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brutto da vedere e brutto in volo. Vorrei tanto vedere in volo un siai marchetti s55x...

  • @rodkeays8171
    @rodkeays8171 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a weird looking airplane. Looks like a cross between a school bus and an old biplane. Guess it's safe.