Classic Propliners at Rand, South Africa

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4 жыл бұрын

Plenty of lovely smoky propliner startup and take-off action at Rand Airport, South Africa on 20th September 2014. The aircraft were being prepared for departure to Waterkloof Air Base for the air show. This clip features DC-3s ZS-NTE and ZS-BXF, DC-4s ZS-AUB and ZS-BMH, and Beech 18 ZS-OIJ.

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@aviationlba747 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, excellent! The DC-4 has always been a long term favourite of mine.

@charlesv3962 Жыл бұрын

Very cool, always nice to hear radial engines still buzzing around

@a.b.2897 4 жыл бұрын

those f27's, the ys11, and the hs748 in the background are very cool too

@Doug6412 3 жыл бұрын

Love the Art Deco terminal building. It is in and of itself a huge part of history as well

@George-fy7tt 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great propliner video.

@pilotincmnd1867 4 жыл бұрын

Wow!!! These are absolutely beautiful!!! What a great time in aviation they represent!!! Think of the history here... as a pilot I would love to hitch a ride just to experience what it must have been like to have been a part of that era... thank you for letting us watch along with you! All the best from the west coast of Florida USA!!!

@747heavyboeing3 Жыл бұрын

A great time when the world was a better place.

@georgebalsa9853 Жыл бұрын

There was nothing beautiful about theses planed. Noisy as hell inside. No confort at all

@outerrealm Жыл бұрын

@@georgebalsa9853 We’re all very sorry that you are not able to appreciate such things. You must have a very sad and depressing life.

@outerrealm Жыл бұрын

Casablanca. DC-3.

@sutapabanerjee2294 Жыл бұрын

@@georgebalsa9853 EARACHES,DIZZINESS, DISORIENTATION,DESPITE ALL,WHEN RIDINGTHESE PLANES U WERE MUCH YOUNGER🤔🤔🤔

@Altenholz Жыл бұрын

Never thought for some reason,that such aircraft were still in service anywhere in the world. Really amazing, as if one has traveled with a time machine into the past!

@neville132bbk Жыл бұрын

Ar least a couple of DC-3s in commercial use in NZ. Ten + years ago when the main volcano in the centre of the North island had a major eruption, the ash layers in the atmosphere shut down regional jet flights... urgent business flights were undertaken between Wellington and Auckland using a DC-3.

@ivanlussich8146 Жыл бұрын

@@neville132bbk I am from Uruguay, 84. I did fly in a Pluna Airlines DC-3 in 1965, a short hop Montevideo-Punta del Este in just 23 mins. Somewhat noisy cabin, but nice flight otherwise.

@Collateralcoffee Жыл бұрын

0:29 can we appreciate this for a second? The guy holding the ladder when the girl with a very short skirt walked up did not even remotely glance in her direction. Oftentimes that is what guys would do. He did not. Not saying "what a gentleman", but that is still remarkable.

@johnjusko4789 Жыл бұрын

What a treat and these old birds really fly and the old BEECH CRAFT 18 is a real surprise to see it taking off the runway and flying out here.

@craigpennington1251 Жыл бұрын

1st time viewing this. Pure old fashion Excellent in every way. Thanks for posting it.

@amigochevere5217 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful music concert , the best video of DC's

@muffs55mercury61 Жыл бұрын

That beautiful music on takeoff at 9:00 of the DC-4 makes my eyes watery and I have to replay it again and again! Those engines just growl so beautifully ! I'll take these over jets any day. I knew there were two DC-4s still flying down there but not as recent as 2020. Buffalo Airways in Canada still has a few DC-4s/ C-54s flying.

@GG-sr4ww 4 жыл бұрын

Rand Airport is what heaven must be like!

@PeterNGloor 3 жыл бұрын

not anymore

@mikejohnson7768 2 жыл бұрын

Did my a and p apprenticeship there

@riaanvh4173 Жыл бұрын

Used to be......

@olafeklund6200 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love those old radial-engine propliners. I have been a passenger in both of those DC4's at various times, as well as in one which now belongs to the South African Air Force and is sitting and crumbling at Waterkloof, back in the day when it was flown by Suidwes Lugdiens, and had a civilian ZS registration. Also flew in Suidwes's DC-3 from Walvis to Windhoek once. A completely different experience from sitting in a jetliner.

@michaelbenardo5695 Жыл бұрын

I love the added leg room, 2 across seating, and the wider seats. Today's planes are like airborn buses.

@edwardr7520 Жыл бұрын

Flew (as passenger) in several DC3 in the mid 50s with a local airline in Canada. Even managed to slide off the runway into a swamp when a tire blew on landing. Slow motion and no one hurt. Wonderful experience and fond memories of these airplanes.

@danielgonzalezrubio2035 Жыл бұрын

Great remembers when I was a child, My mother used to go to San Andres,Island, Republic of Colombia, she flown with Avianca Airlines, and AEROCONDOR AIRLINES from Barranquilla, both had this aircraft in its fleet, DC4.

@seansabhaois Жыл бұрын

Hello from Edinburgh 🙂👍 A treat to watch these old girls in action. I grew up in Edenvale and lived in Alberton for years, so know the Rand Airport well. In the nineties the SAAF / Donotar Flying School, with its Harvards, was a fairly regular sight over the East Rand. As a kid I can remember a newly restored Spitfire 'Evlyn(?)' which used to be flown in the area. Then it was sold or exported, to much controversy. Some fight over the actual ownership. I can remember that JU 52, (Iron Annie) sometimes overhead. Good times 👍

@outerrealm Жыл бұрын

How do you know they’re girls? They might have been born male and transitioned.

@olafeklund6200 Жыл бұрын

I watched a Harvard at Dunottar ground loop into a fallow field next to the runway one winter morning. Clouds of red dust, the plane covered in it, but towed out with a tractor, cleaned up and flying again in a couple of days. That was back in 1976 or 77.

@eligebrown8998 Жыл бұрын

Nice collection of airplanes. Love seeing these old birds still flying. Thanks for sharing and hope to see more.

@PeterNGloor 3 жыл бұрын

I had three unforgettable flights onboard the ZS-AUB

@gregobroin7738 Жыл бұрын

Love these planes. I never got to fly in a DC3 (& my next door neighbour was a Dak pilot flying cargo) but flew in a number DC 4, 6 7 with racehorses as cargo. Missed out on DC 5 also which were mostly military. Love the piston engine prop era. Real flying!

@philippebourgogne Жыл бұрын

Piloter un DC3... Le plaisir à l'état pur ! Une machine qui fait corps avec le pilote...

@BCHonea Жыл бұрын

The best thing about this video is the modesty of the ladder manager as the woman in a skirt climbed aboard. Well done mate, well done

@slobama Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I noticed. I wonder why she is boarding the aircraft in this manner.

@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 Жыл бұрын

The guy holding the ladder was a true gent.

@flymajj Жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@jeffspicolli593 Жыл бұрын

There's something not very red-blooded about that dude,

@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 Жыл бұрын

@@jeffspicolli593 maybe he had mirrors on his shoes.

@danozism Жыл бұрын

Lovely old birds... They conjure up mental images of a time (long before I was born) when flying was more exciting and romantic. Thanks for uploading this. "-)

@flaviomarcio8789 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful old machines !!! 😀😄👏

@Local6News Жыл бұрын

*It's truly hard to believe people are stilly flying these old birds nearly 100 years after they were designed and produced. It speaks to American engineering in THOSE days and would have believed this video was taken 50+ years ago outside the fact there's modern aircraft in the video.*

@ImperialDiecast 2 жыл бұрын

0:49 good man, didnt look up

@Doug6412 3 жыл бұрын

Wish they still had the ju 52 that was flying in the nineties. Loved it. Took my son on a few trips with it.

@deanvanderwesthuizen810 Жыл бұрын

Apparently it's still at OR Thambo,but I doubt she will ever fly again, apparently there is no one to certify the plane

@arnoldpalthe3915 Жыл бұрын

@@deanvanderwesthuizen810 As far as I know, it is now in the museum of South African Airways in Cape Town.

@deanvanderwesthuizen810 Жыл бұрын

@@arnoldpalthe3915 the South African airways museum is in JHB , Cape does not have anything like that unfortunately,only one of the South African Air force museums is in Cape Town .

@billhinton9787 Жыл бұрын

❤ when I was a kid living in Hawaii, I remember President Eisenhower Landing in Honolulu. The first president to fly in a Jet Plane.

@adambernstein125 Жыл бұрын

Brings back so many memories. As a little boy we used to fly down to Durban for our holidays from N'dola on CAA (Central African Airways) to Lusaka or Salisbury, and then continue on SAA. I remember their liveries. Thanks for this!

@flymajj Жыл бұрын

Wonderful memories, I'm sure!

@skipgetelman3418 Жыл бұрын

Was a flight engineer on the DC 6 Loved it and eventually go to use my pilot’s license 😊a few years later No glass cockpits ADF approaches VOR for Navigation Pilots today have it made

@kalutaralegalassociates9314 Жыл бұрын

It's cool to see these vintage aircrafts taking off !

@michealfigueroa6325 Жыл бұрын

Half way round the world to my place here in the far west...a real treat TY 4sharing !

@frank-vq4mx 2 ай бұрын

Very nice of that gentleman, holding the ladder ,not to look up.

@mohabatkhanmalak1161 Жыл бұрын

Beatifull airplanes. So, number 3 engine is started with the internal batteries, then #4, 1 and 2 are started with pneumatic starters powered from number 3 engine.

@hitriks.l.2745 Жыл бұрын

Yes

@hitriks.l.2745 Жыл бұрын

All large consumers of oil. When doing the A Check you have to check the fuel level and fill the oil tank.

@garrya100 Жыл бұрын

All have electric starters, there are no pneumatic systems on DC-4’s at all, they’re not even pressurised.

@umziyaziya Жыл бұрын

Wow, going back in time. Marvelous

@princearthur4946 Жыл бұрын

Excellent footage!

@AndreA-ke2id Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this with us. A real treat. You can't beat the sound of big radials. And the Beech 18 didn't sound too bad either. From the days of real planes and real flying.

@israelmacotela6817 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful planes! Good video thanks 😀

@IBU-tec Жыл бұрын

this is jaw-dropping!

@jamesstephenpeyton3305 Жыл бұрын

In the 1980’s I flew the B-18, DC-3 and DC-4 out of Toronto. Man and machine in sync.

@paulhargreaves1497 Жыл бұрын

Millardair?

@jamesstephenpeyton3305 Жыл бұрын

@@paulhargreaves1497 indeed

@syedahmad7781 Жыл бұрын

Wow..Beautiful aircraft.. amazing..

@track1219 3 жыл бұрын

Piston engines and a pointy nose on that 18!

@ervinthompson6598 3 жыл бұрын

Volpar Tri-Beech, military variants, cargo haulers, midnight mail hacks - I have NEVER seen a Pinocchio D18 like that !!

@leokimvideo Жыл бұрын

Start counting the pistons...it's a huge number

@sirstiffpilchard Жыл бұрын

Brings back great memories

@APVW-aviation-videos Жыл бұрын

ZS-BMH, the very last DC-4 built.

@vipbizjets Жыл бұрын

Amazing Video !!! LIKE

@yolsclassics6347 4 жыл бұрын

wonderful :)

@Avgeek1564 Жыл бұрын

Lucky guy holding the ladder! 😉

@flymajj Жыл бұрын

You can see the banter with one of his colleagues at that moment!

@track1219 3 жыл бұрын

The DC-4. Passenger service? How far?

@flymajj Жыл бұрын

It was operating to the nearby Waterkloof airbase with enthusiasts on board.

@CONNELL19511216 Жыл бұрын

I've been in all of these thanks to SAA ca. 1963 (Kimberley to Windhoek). Thankfully, I don't get airsick...

@jorgepassos5808 Жыл бұрын

Just historical beautiful.

@RobinsVoyage Жыл бұрын

Very cool footage

@pauljohansson288 Жыл бұрын

I flew on a Convair 580. Back in highschool.

@Br4m76 11 ай бұрын

I ever flew with that F27 Fokker, as a passenger of course.

@curtiss1000 Жыл бұрын

Nice, I was there at the same time in the same building taking photos.

@donmcatee45 Жыл бұрын

We had the 3’s and 18’s at Majestic, miss ‘em

@tomservo5007 Жыл бұрын

0:42 "Don't look up, don't look up, don't look up, don't look up"

@BertFlanders Жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@keneng2172 Жыл бұрын

レシプロエンジン、メカ式、良いですね。整備も操縦も技術者がいつまでも続いて欲しい。

@alyn7d7 2 жыл бұрын

Love ❤️ it

@PlaneSpottingChile Жыл бұрын

exelent video !

@christobosman5710 Жыл бұрын

Unbelievable how these planes were maintained when in use and kept in a perfect condition during the good old South Africa s days unlike the new ones that don't fly and is in pieces today under the new regime

@michaelbenardo5695 Жыл бұрын

Good old South Africa days? You liked apartheid?

@christobosman5710 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelbenardo5695 the country was in a far better condition for everybody than it is now , 80 murders per day , 2 to 3 times black outs per day , even the power line towers has been slowly cut up piece by piece for scrap metal wile they are still in use and now are being blown over by wind causing massive power cuts , a rand that keep on loosing value , a useless military and police force , and a railway that is totally vandelise , with railway tracks cut up by savages for scrap metal ,need say more . I can carry on but it's going to take too long and I don't have the time , from as first world country to a dump, proof me wrong if you can .

@rudolfh.m.fehlhaber1544 Жыл бұрын

Met Cpt. Flippy Vermeulen on his DC-4 ZS-AUB Ferry flight at MGL/West-Germany. Had a nice talk.

@andrewganley9016 Жыл бұрын

Classic birds doing what they were made for...flying!

@Thousand_yard_King Жыл бұрын

I've always wondered if you took a DC6 and put t56 turboprops on it, what would it be capable of?

@ardeliocruz7971 Жыл бұрын

Incredible

@B1970T Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@peterhenman2662 Жыл бұрын

Rode in an SAA DC4 from Johannesburg to Durban when those were still in service. Perhaps that very one.

@brianvdwesthuizen Жыл бұрын

as a child i flew in them often between cape town (ysterplaat) and pretoria (waterkloof) with the then state presidents, before the c130's took over as the prefered plane.

@barryguerrero6480 Жыл бұрын

They may be inefficient and leave a big carbon footprint, but the sound can't be beat.

@asantos4069 Жыл бұрын

Thanks God! Evolution exists!

@lehibou5838 Жыл бұрын

The Pratt & Whitney sound ! 😃

@artisan2287 Жыл бұрын

Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948, i think so

@garethhunt2655 Жыл бұрын

Not a chance would I get on that 🔥

@dannyvalenzuela86 Жыл бұрын

Hermoso video, que avión es el más pequeño? Nunca vi ese modelo

@EVZYL Жыл бұрын

Ah, the ye goode olde days!

@nancychace8619 Жыл бұрын

Quite a collection. What was that weird little Beech at the end with twin tail?

@manilkumar73 Жыл бұрын

salute to the person holding the ladder

@flymajj Жыл бұрын

He's becoming a legend among gentlemen!

@nealmoreau9994 Жыл бұрын

Can someone tell me how old is that airplane? I find the engines not sounding like good working engines,

@darwinstubbie860 Жыл бұрын

If my memory serves me right I wasa passenger on a DC6 from Jan Smuts to Bulawayo via Victoria Falls in 1978. Is that possible?

@yamarider6199 Жыл бұрын

whats up with the nose on the twin beech?

@andrewagner2035 Жыл бұрын

It told a lie, and has a nose like Pinochio.

@gmanchurch Жыл бұрын

It appears that both of those Queen Airs are missing the right engine.

@Flogknaw101 Жыл бұрын

Id love to know the history on the Nose on that beech 18!

@arbiepanado9203 Жыл бұрын

Classic❤

@shabuddinshaheen5814 Жыл бұрын

1956,,60,,aeroplane good service,,,but,, how to maintanence?

@vishveshtadsare3160 Жыл бұрын

These days we cannot tell which is real which is simulator 😮

@user-si4nt2gv7y 6 ай бұрын

Que de bonheur de réentendre ces moteurs et surtout que de souvenirs , car lorsque j'etais enfant et que je n'avais pas ecole , j'allais voire les avions decoller et atterir à dakar , les DC3 , DC4 , DC6 , constellation et 1649 Starliner , une autre epoque ! Merci à ces passionnés de conserver ces appareils , j'ais volé sur un DC3 Hollandais à Colmar en Alsace lors d'un meeting avec mon père l'avion etait le PH-DDA . Mes deux parents etaient dans l'aviation et hélas tous les deux sont décédés des suites de cancers.

@nikolaospeterson2495 Жыл бұрын

I only hope thatthese propele who own these classic aircraft still allow for flights for the public and aviation enthusiasts! Nice seeing them from exterior perspective but i would like to actually FLY in some of these nice old planes!