Douglas DC-3 Engine Start and Take Off (N18121)

Douglas DC-3 Engine Start and Take Off (N18121) | Engine BACKFIRE on Take Off

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N18121 a Douglas DC-3A is Taking Off on a Training Flight out of Aurora Airport in Oregon on September 28th, 2018. While on the take off roll, the engine backfired and visible flames can be seen on the right engine. FUN FACT, I actually flew on this DC-3A as a passenger from Miami to Key West on April 6th 1988 as she was flying for Eastern Express with the registration N136PB | 🛑Subscribe here ➤bit.ly/VMCAviationVideos
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@hugejohnson5011 8 ай бұрын

Being a gearhead and motorcycle enthusiast, I never fail to marvel at these big radial engines coming to life! They are a huge ballet of pistons, rods, and valvetrain doing their thing!

@davidhile5363 Жыл бұрын

My dad was a C-47 mechanic in WW2.. He would have loved to have seen this. He often told me how safe they were.

@anjanbhattacharyya2290 3 жыл бұрын

I am from India. My first flight was in Dakota DC 3 in the year 1960. Was a great flight I still remember.

@MrSuzuki1187 Жыл бұрын

I was one of the last pilots to fly the dc-3 in scheduled passenger operations 1976-1979. i was also a DC-3 instructor and check airman for our commuter airline. I notice this DC-3 has Wright R-1820 9 cylinder engines, where most had the 14 cylinder Pratt & Whiney R-1830, as did mine. No deicing boots and no weather radar and a 4 piece windshield where mine had 2 panes. I flew 1,000 hours in the DC-3 and it helped get me to United Airlines where I flew for 29 years.

@VMCAviationVideos Жыл бұрын

The DC-3 flew much longer than that in scheduled passenger operations, just not with a major airline.

@barryervin8536 Жыл бұрын

It has Pratt & Whitney emblems on the cowlings, and the cowlings look more like R-1830 to me?

@eonmichaelides1415 3 ай бұрын

Well,the cowlings sport the P&W logo, so I don't know where the Wright engine idea came from,and the windscreen is definitely 2 piece,missing the small DV windows that were standard when the aeroplane was built.

@topturretgunner 3 жыл бұрын

I had the good fortune to fly round trip on a DC-3 in 1978 from Tampa International Airport to Marathon FL in the Florida Keys. A ride and an experience that I'll take to my grave. Oh what a glorious trip. Long live the "Gooney Bird".

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

I flew on a DC-3 from Miami to Marathon in the 80's

@amtrakbasketmaker6404 3 жыл бұрын

Phenomenal video!!! Like you I have flown on this gorgeous lady several times. Both as passenger and a few times as flight attendant while working for Provincetown-Boston Airline/Naples Airlines Division as MIA Station Manager in the early 70'sn when she was N136PB. Even back then she was the highest time aircraft flying. She even made the trip from Aurora, OR to Normandy, France a couple of years ago for the D-Day celebrations. She is still going strong even at 84 years old! She is my favorite individual aircraft of all time.

@VMCAviationVideos 2 жыл бұрын

She is a beauty. I flew on her in April 1988 from Miami to Key West when she was Eastern Express N136PB.

@KaneAbraham-ql5wc 3 жыл бұрын

Wunderbar! The DC 3 Dakota, one of the most outstanding flying machines ever built.

@boeingbetty24jettonlousie85 2 жыл бұрын

The skytrain

@josephonesto5956 3 жыл бұрын

I worked for the USPS ATO at Chicago Midway Airport in the early '70's . One of the mail planes was a C-47 flown by Basler Airlines. The loading of that plane was a nightly event, but it never became just routine. I used to love standing next to it when it started and watch the flames roll out of the exhaust pipes. My shift was at night, and when it would take off and fly over head you could see a steady blue flame from each exhaust pipe.

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Nice, I miss the days when the DC-3 still was in the workforce

@Rocketman88002 3 жыл бұрын

Always liked those beautiful P&W decals on the engine cowls. That sound is legendary and I understand that sound is the oldest continuing one of all reciprocating engined planes of the class. They are still being used in various places world wide.

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, nothing better than a radial engine.

@henryhorner3182 Жыл бұрын

The DC-3 was a beautiful aircraft.

@VMCAviationVideos Жыл бұрын

It still is👍

@tomclark6271 4 жыл бұрын

I lived with this airplane during its time (10 years) in overhaul at Pearson Field, Vancouver, WA. It was parked at our museum there, once the wings went back on. Bob Irvine the owner at the time, flew Air Force F4's in Vietnam and a Hawker Hurricane that was restored by the Neil Rose, also at Pearson. Bob helped the new owner at Aurora airport ready the airplane for its participation in the D-Day re-enactment in England and France last year, and flew it as PIC. Unfortunately, Bob suffered a stroke recently, and is slowly recovering. I played a small role in recovering its passenger interior from a DC 3 donated by Hughes Airwest on display at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry in Portland, and converting that airplane to its former C47 livery, now a gate guard at the Spruce Goose museum in Mcminnville, Oregon.

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for background infos Tom, very much appreciated. What is the registration of the Gate Guard DC-3 at the Spruce Goose museum?

@tomclark6271 4 жыл бұрын

@@VMCAviationVideos I really don't know. That's a good question for the museum staff I suppose. I know some volunteers there who may be able to help. I'll look into it.

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

@@tomclark6271 Thanks

@luisvassalloarbulu8947 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, what a beautiful full silver old bird!!

@boeingbetty24jettonlousie85 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I think so

@GeorgeMCMLIX 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing compares to big radials singing in harmony 🎵🎶🥰

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Wise words

@jkarhiaho 3 жыл бұрын

No livery. Just polished aluminium. I love it!

@richardmitchell3037 Ай бұрын

Back in 1985 I had the pleasure of flying in a Provincetown-Boston Airlines (PBA) DC-3 from Key west to Miami. Earlier that year I saw a Canadian Forces Dakota at a Charleston Air Force Base airshow.

@javiergonzales8487 3 жыл бұрын

A Venerable Timeless Bird. If some DC-3s are still flying today, 80 Years Later, Means only one thing: that Bird was way ahead of its time in the late 1930s !

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and the DC-3 is my all time favourite aircraft.

@alexchubbymclynn6060 3 жыл бұрын

What a lovely and slim looking bird! Gracious take off...

@ruypapaleobianchini395 Жыл бұрын

Linda aeronave . Eu voei no ano de 1975 de São Paulo para Academia da força aérea na cidade de Pirassununga 👏👏👏👏👍🇺🇸.

@genivaldobandeira5328 Жыл бұрын

DC-3 eram os aviões usados pela Força Aérea Brasileira nos anos 70, voavam entre as cidades da amazônia.

@bobbyvance4725 2 жыл бұрын

How I love the sound of the radial engines

@VMCAviationVideos 2 жыл бұрын

The best sound ever👍

@adepriyatna5899 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Aircraft, It was 1973 when I was in senior high school for technical aviation in Jakarta, I was trained for about one month in Indonesian Airforce to fix The C 47 which is DC 3 military version, what a memorable time. I'm 65 now.

@boeingbetty24jettonlousie85 2 жыл бұрын

You fixed the military version of that in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta

@adepriyatna5899 2 жыл бұрын

@@boeingbetty24jettonlousie85 Affirm!

@matthiashaenni 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video of this grande old Lady. N18121is one of the oldest DC-3’s still flying. Huge LIKE!

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Flying strong since 1937

@godzee0362 4 жыл бұрын

Why it's precisely LADY, not Gentleman?

@aviationlba747 3 жыл бұрын

It’s common knowledge that most aircraft, cars, ships etc are referred to as ‘she’ or ‘her’. That’s just how it works.

@victorvelasquez7321 3 жыл бұрын

No hay mejor cosa que escuchar el sonido de sus motores..Los amo.

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@admig9828 Жыл бұрын

Que nostalgia ver volar a estos hermosos aviones fieles y eternos compañeros.

@TheHDAviation 4 жыл бұрын

That's some great footage, what a stunning aircraft. Super cool you got to fly in this plane back in the 80's!

@boeingbetty24jettonlousie85 2 жыл бұрын

Well I'm just an amateur

@saarcful 3 жыл бұрын

Woww spectacular! I love the engine sound when it started with full blast while take off!

@garymorris1856 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, the DC-3 is beautiful, especially this shiny silver type.

@antoniopeixotto5998 8 ай бұрын

Saudades...amo esses DC3

@mikeelektra 3 жыл бұрын

Ir was almost a glider with two 1200 HP engines. Very safe and dependable aircraft.

@victormnoblec1390 3 жыл бұрын

Ya que buen avión fue muy padre volaron

@victormnoblec1390 3 жыл бұрын

Fue un orgullo volarlo

@Ihaveseenthings577 3 жыл бұрын

aahhh the beautiful sound of those 1830's-92 on start can't be compared....😋👍

@subbalakshmisrinivas1569 3 жыл бұрын

A very reliable tough aircraft.

@garygullikson6349 2 жыл бұрын

It lifted off so easily and gracefully.

@markbailey3508 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent, really like the pilot running up to full power while keeping the brakes on

@VMCAviationVideos 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@jimmymulherin4505 Жыл бұрын

Amazing to see one flying.

@bingosunnoon9341 Жыл бұрын

This is afterfire, not backfire. It is normal for this engine. I worked on many of them after tech school. Afterfire prevents backfire. It goes away once the throttles are reduced to climb power.

@eonmichaelides1415 3 ай бұрын

The greatest moveable object created by man and who would disagree?

@AbhijitPaul_ 4 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful aircraft she is! THUMBS UP :)

@RestrictedProceed 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice footage! I guess it's nothing serious to have engine backfiring like this. And it looks so cool!

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching the video!

@ralfgisi6932 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful aircraft, great sound!

@VMCAviationVideos Жыл бұрын

Indeed it is!

@aviatorflighttraining 3 жыл бұрын

I was in the left seat of that plane that day doing. We were doing some great training with Paul of Aerometal International.

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

I meet Paul, what a great guy. What did you guys practice on take-off when the engine "backfired"?

@Brumiani Жыл бұрын

Eighty years and continue to fligth ¡¡¡¡ Amazing¡¡¡¡¡

@nancychace8619 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Beautiful big old bird! Have always admired these aircraft. So utilitarian. I don't understand why they don't still build them.

@juarezmelo2039 3 жыл бұрын

Gosto muito de ver os velhos aviões na ativa.que maravilha.

@alvaro2338 3 жыл бұрын

Realmente........e nestas máquinas a gente voava..... nas novas operamos sistemas..... não é a mesma emoção.

@wilhelmgauthier3184 Ай бұрын

Le DC-3, mon avion préféré ! 💝

@viveksinha9221 Жыл бұрын

Amazing, the aircraft's take off run is almost horizontal, the rar wheel loose ground contact very early during roll.

@claudio743 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for showing.

@VMCAviationVideos 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

@LTMCMedia 3 жыл бұрын

That is one beautiful DC3

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is!

@cidertom5140 4 жыл бұрын

Love the radial sound!!!

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Yes me too!

@billmorris2613 2 жыл бұрын

Good afternoon to all from SE Louisiana 29 Apr 22.

@freshcuttingskills Жыл бұрын

Good video 🛩️Thankyou 🛫

@carloscarrillo6595 2 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful aircraft...!

@VMCAviationVideos Жыл бұрын

Yes it is

@flashesofblack4128 Жыл бұрын

When I look at the engines driving the propellors, I have to think the engines motor mounts not only have to pull the airplanes hull forward, they have to be robust enough to withstand the engines tremendous torque. If the motor mount were to fail I would think that the engine would careen forward until it falls from the sky.

@joangrafton1122 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful old workhorse, way way back this was what the Navy transport squadrons flew.

@JoaoGomes-ep7lb 3 жыл бұрын

Eu achava legal ir ao aeroporto de Canavieiras, nos anos 50 aos 60, para ver os pousos e decolagens dos similares desse DC-3, da Cruzeiro do Sul procedentes do Rio de Janeiro com destino a Salvador, de onde retornava à tarde. Havia a Panair do Brasil, também,,que operava com aeronaves idênticas à do vídeo, cobrindo o mesmo percurso.

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Google translation:

@zacky5315 Жыл бұрын

Here's the translation : I thought it was cool to go to Canavieiras airport, in the 50's to the 60's, to see the landings and takeoffs of similar ones of this DC-3, from Cruzeiro do Sul coming from Rio de Janeiro to Salvador, from where it returned in the afternoon. There was also Panair do Brasil, which operated with aircraft identical to the one in the video, covering the same route.

@EDKBVideo 4 жыл бұрын

Crystal clear images - thanks for sharing.

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for Watching!

@RossAviationWorld 4 жыл бұрын

That was very, very nice to watch! Great looking aircraft! :)

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching the video

@hikakin_mania440 Жыл бұрын

6:36離陸の音が好き

@quagmiredavis4117 11 ай бұрын

The old girl was juet clearing her throat... that little backfire.. 😅😊

@kathieharine5982 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Thanks.

@VMCAviationVideos 2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

@kzstv5667 3 жыл бұрын

What a great take off with experience pilots and beautiful old maintain aircraft . My favourite. aeroplane.

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@paulmoffat9306 3 жыл бұрын

I heard of a training flight of a DC-3, where on takeoff, the instructor demonstrated the increase in power when water injection was enabled. Both engines promptly EXPLODED, causing an 'unplanned landing' in a nearby river. Analysis of the crash, showed that ground crew had filled the water tanks with glycol instead.

@tedsmith6137 3 жыл бұрын

Must have been a Wright Cyclone powered DC-3. The P&W R1830 did not have water injection.

@ericjanson2328 Жыл бұрын

That was an Avro 748 not a DC-3

@cristianooliveira-le2sw Жыл бұрын

Just wonderfull...

@robinmclaren4596 3 жыл бұрын

My days in the Rhodesian army. That sound. ..

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Did you fly the DC-3 in the Rhodesian army?

@robinmclaren4596 3 жыл бұрын

@@VMCAviationVideos no I was in the military para division. .

@aircraftandships 4 жыл бұрын

what a nice shiney aircraft - thanks for sharing

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Well maintain by Aerometal International in Aurora OR

@Aviation-21 4 жыл бұрын

Wow amazing video of a legendary plane!

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree, the DC-3 is a legendary airplane

@user-sj1tg3ex5e Жыл бұрын

В 60 годы на прийск Эбелях возили топливо садились на площадку 500 метров слякоть по колено взлетали с колеи сделанной после руления

@ELAviation 4 жыл бұрын

Outstanding catch mate!

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Thank You!

@cootumrebel 3 жыл бұрын

The right engine didn't "backfire"; those old radial engines were always belching fire because of short exhaust pipe. More noticeable at night. :-)

@tomasbengtsson5157 3 жыл бұрын

You are right about the short exhaust and the flames at night, but that's not what's happening here. You can hear during engine startup that at least one cylinder on the right engine isn't firing. When you apply power during the takeoff run it blows un-burnt fuel through the exhaust and the fumes ignite outside the engine. You can also hear a momentary power loss when this happens. Probably the pilot countering the assymetric thrust. The pilot was probably well aware of the problem since this would normally have been a rejected takeoff.

@alexandrereis1393 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomasbengtsson5157 yeah, when I saw it, I tought that would be a RTO situation, but they proceeded to takeoff anyway!

@juanito55613 3 жыл бұрын

For me it’s the reason that the pilot forgot to feather the right prop just before the roll it’s true

@MemeReviewer 3 жыл бұрын

I have seen this exact same DC-3 Used in many movies and shows, one example, that weird TV series called Grimm, The registration number in the show is the exact same, besides there being a G Instead Of an N

@MovieSpottingBerlin 4 жыл бұрын

This is flying! Amazing!

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

I love the old piston airplanes

@granjard4018 2 жыл бұрын

Super .Jacques

@marcostovar7968 3 жыл бұрын

Nice take off!

@gilbertovenancio8599 Жыл бұрын

DC3 C47 CURTIS COMANDER EXCELENTES AVIÕES DA ÉPOCA AINDA HOJE TEM VÁRIOS EM OPERAÇÃO.

@alainboyet5663 Жыл бұрын

Un bel avion tout simplement.

@EduardoGonzalez-gl4pd 3 жыл бұрын

yo vole en varias oportunidades en Douglas DC3..Y es un vuelo fantastico ... saludos desde Agentina

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

👍

@eyetrapper 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic catch

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@eyetrapper 4 жыл бұрын

@@VMCAviationVideos always

@juliensvideography 4 жыл бұрын

superb catch

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@jorgesanchez3687 Жыл бұрын

¡ QUÉ BELLEZA !

@gersoncosta7104 3 жыл бұрын

Lindo..lindo..lindo. ao meu ver é a aeronave mais completa em aerodinamica.

@henriquepinos 3 жыл бұрын

Andei nele umas 4 vezes , em Angola, e na Guiné Bissau , ...xauuu :)

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@KKolchak 4 жыл бұрын

It looked like the power was reduced and the backfire occurred when he went back to takeoff power.

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

You are correct

@PeterNGloor 4 жыл бұрын

which happens when power is reduced. Often you can hear some backfiring on propliners when power is reduced or on approach.

@paulbickley658 4 жыл бұрын

You think so, I tend to think he ran it rich on take off and the motor blew off the rest of the fuel...

@billolgaau 3 жыл бұрын

I can tell you as one who has 1,600 hours flying DC3's the sound on Takeoff was ear splitting. Max Takeoff power & as soon as airbourne METO (Maximum Except Takeoff) then Climb Power.

@aviatorflighttraining 3 жыл бұрын

We were doing recurrent training in the DC-3 that day. I was the pilot receiving training. Instructor gave me a call to abort as part of the training. When I did things correctly, he then (as prebreifed) had me power up and continue the take off.

@joesierolon5171 4 жыл бұрын

I love it💓

@janneptun 4 жыл бұрын

Very cool video, greetings from Germany :-)

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, und Gruss aus Kanada!

@marsmal7442 Жыл бұрын

Danke !!!!!!

@VMCAviationVideos Жыл бұрын

👍

@GS-st9ns 3 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the "thank you for watching , like. subscribe, graphic at the top of the screen. So classy instead of ----‐‐‐----‐------------ "smash that like button and subscribe and thumbs up"!! ‐----------------------

@cougarkwan7523 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible

@jackriley5974 3 жыл бұрын

The best in-flight coffee I ever had was on a NASA C-47 out of Wallops Island! How I got there I don't remember but I was bumming space available hops. Probably to MacDill?

@miguelangelromero3642 3 жыл бұрын

Excelente recuerdo de esta aeronove.

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

👍

@billcoleman4232 Жыл бұрын

I road in thins a lot in 1958. Cold as hell going to. Ice land. Loll.

@user-sj1tg3ex5e Жыл бұрын

Красавчик 500 метров и он вспух

@ernieszelepcsenyi5710 4 жыл бұрын

N18121 c/n 1997 is the highest time DC-3 in the world. Over 90,0000 hours.

@VMCAviationVideos 4 жыл бұрын

Yup, and I flew in it April 6th 1988 when she was flying for Eastern Express as N136PB

@khamissaleh4262 3 жыл бұрын

I think those Dc 3's are those went in Normandy during D-Days or maybe similar .

@tananata9657 2 жыл бұрын

my father worked on dc3 in 71

@VMCAviationVideos 2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@jimumble6355 3 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous!!!😆😁👍

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

@tedsmith6137 3 жыл бұрын

No backfire there. Flames from the exhaust when he backed off power and reapplied it, but a backfire would be flames out the carby inlet, which there were not.

@Bandolero318 3 жыл бұрын

Yes that's exactly right. If anything you would have to call it an after-fire, but it wasn't dramatic enough to call it that even. Just normal slightly rich flame.

@gaberradu6549 2 жыл бұрын

En Santa Cruz Bolivia tenemos uno como monumento. .llamado el AVION PIRATA .. PORQUE HACIA CONTRABANDO USA -BOLIVIA

@reneharoldocorzopinelo3833 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite plane sky train yeah I'm loving it

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@danielmiguelpascuzzi6670 Жыл бұрын

mi primer vuelo fue en uno similar por los años 60

@primatathenest5387 Жыл бұрын

Dulu pesawat DC 3 ini populer disebut Dakhota

@smalltowntraveller 4 жыл бұрын

awsome coverage.. three engine aircraft.. great duty done

@riazhassan6570 Жыл бұрын

Where is the third one?

@luchatrokaalvaradoguajardo5185 3 жыл бұрын

How unsightly it looks that all Antique planes can NEVER put their train always weakly synchronized one by one

@florencioramirez4067 3 жыл бұрын

My first air ride was on a DC 3 in the late 1970s.lt was used as PH military transport.

@VMCAviationVideos 3 жыл бұрын

👍

@therickman1990 3 жыл бұрын

Flames coming out of the exhaust is not backfiring. Backfiring is when the flame shoots back into the intake

@mumfordthepitbull4581 3 жыл бұрын

You are correct of course, but it is common usage to call what we saw backfiring.

@renatogusman7469 Жыл бұрын

Lindo!

@danyvosconozco1435 2 жыл бұрын

Precioso

@VMCAviationVideos 2 жыл бұрын

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