When people think of old airliners they often think of the Lockheed Constellation, or the early Lockheed L-188 Electra, or the DC3. All excellent reliable aircraft and state of the art for its day.
This video however is about another great airliner. Namely the Douglass DC7. Climb aboard as this DC-7 takes you from New York's Idlewild Airport to Los Angeles and travel in style.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Thats a classic, for sure! I absolutely LOVE those old radial engines on start up. Its rare, but every so often, you can see one flying high above on their way to an airshow, you just cant mistake that sound, and how slow they really are. In Alaska, i saw them working, not just being used as demonstration or airshows, etc...but being used for cargo and passengers. It takes on a different vibe when its not being all gussied up for tourists to take pictures of. Instead, just sitting on the side of an overgrown runway with warming blankets over the cowling and oil stains down the wings. It will always be a special thing for me. :)
The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
The fun is watching it's smaller predecessor the DC-6, converted from passenger aircraft to fire retardant aerial tanker fighting forest fires! ........ I saw them perform with those beautiful radial engines just a screaming flying for Conair Aviation on a few forest fires around here a few years ago......they were awesome performers! It was too bad they started phasing them out when the reduced availibility of AV gas became an issue to run those radials from some of the bigger airports around the province........shame.... :roll:Originally Posted by N7YA
Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!
Walk and Talk like a Canajun!!
You have planes in Canada? Who Gnu?
Just remember, the radial engines are round, just like your bacon.
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Talking dung heap or the perhaps the other way.......taxing my "politeness" I see......... radial engines are not like bacon ...... but Eddie you can think of them any you want .........
Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!
Walk and Talk like a Canajun!!
Talking dung heap or the perhaps the other way.......taxing my "politeness" I see......... radial engines are not like bacon ...... but Eddie you can think of them any you want .........
Just trying to see how far we can push you until you lose it. Are we getting close yet? :stickpoke:
A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
RIP ALBI-W3MIV RIP RUSS-W5RB RIP BOB-VK3ZL
Nice post, thank you . Does an old Air Force guy good.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. I love old propliners. When I was a kid living in Brooklyn I remember the Constellations rumbling low overhead as they approached Idlewild or LaGuardia airport. That sound was awesome. Of course aroubnd that time they were gradually being replaced by jets. Back when Mohawk airlines (a small local NY based airline) was still in operation they had a fleet of DC3's that you would often see passing overhead. And later on they replaced the DC3's with a fleet of FH-227 turboprops.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Slow hawk better than Mohawk.
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Radial engines are way cool, but they have this unfortunate tendency to disassemble themselves catastrophically at inopportune moments. Ask Harrison Ford about that; it happened to him quite recently.
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