The DC-3 is a beautiful airplane. And these birds are over 70 years old and still flying. In 2013 it was estimated that approximately 2,000 DC-3s and military derivatives were still flying, a testament to the durability of the design.
More like perhaps 200. Of those only about 50 fly regularly. As for the Russian Lisunov Li-2 DC-3 copy, last I heard only two could be considered flyable.
Yes; I was thinking the same thing. A DC-3's landing gear has got to be the must rugged thing ever, for its time and even in comparison to many now. Airplane was designed for rough fields. Wheels only partially retract to be able to 'roll in' if they fail to deploy. Engines close together: airplane can fly whole mission on one engine with reasonable balance in the air. 190 knots cruise was un-heard-of back in 1933. Imagine what pilots thought when they first flew it!
You’ll never see a nose gear plane nose over. The Twin Otter, Quest Kodiak, and CH-701 are all tricycle gear airplanes that can do anything tail draggers can. Tail draggers are kind of like standard transmissions. They take the tiniest bit of skill to operate, their advantages have pretty much disappeared, they stroke the egos of those who operate them... but they will still humble both the inexperienced and experienced.
@@calvinnickel9995 they do if nose gear gets stuck in soil. Usually nose wheel is smaller then main so you'll never see tricycle "cesna"(or any other) landing on riverside or getting good results in STOL contests.
That’s a true BUSH pilot. I lived in Alaska for 33 years. Worked for 4 different airlines. 2-people/freight,mail. 2-all freight,mail. Those guys know what they’re doing, BELIEVE ME.
I’m quite certain that Bart landed the airplane. I have yet to see an NTSB report that stated: “Probable cause of the accident...failure of God to maintain directional control upon landing.”
heh, that was my response after the belly landing in NYC by Captain Sully. All my religious friends were sending emails about the 'miracle' that no one was hurt and how Gawd was sending everyone a message. I pointed out the years of training and cool headedness of the captain and crew must have had nothing to do with it - decades of developing the aircraft, creating a traffic control system, a port authority, a cell phone network, an emergency response system, etc. obviously had nothing to do with it. Then I asked "But I know you'll say 'but God had a hand in all those things'. To which I'm going to ask, if God really wanted to save those people, wouldn't it have been a LOT easier just to move the goose 3 feet to the left or right?"
@@scottwood9181 when people say thank god they mean good energy. every time I hear someone hating god they are usually having a identity crisis and thinking they are the opposite sex
@@tonyms5984 re: every time I hear someone ..... I don't hate god. God doesn't exist. But I fear idiots who are doing things that can effect others that talk to invisible friends in the sky because of some stories told 2000+ years ago by primitive, illiterate sheep herders. (hint: the rest of the world is civilized now. try to catch up) And anytime I hear someone who replaced their self-esteem with 'god-esteem', overrode their self-identity with some foolish fairy tale and is overly concerned with the genitals of others and what they are doing with them, I see a brainwashed, perverted busy body who should mind their own #$&@&$^ business.
@@scottwood9181 Im sure subconsciously you hate yourself, not god. imagine being a idiot who hears a old lady say praise God and get offended, only liberals like you. But you'll disregard the lady in the video who was standing around that landing strip and everyone telling her to move. Which is a hazard. Like i say im not religious but from what i witness people who gets triggered by the word "praise god" usually has some identity crisis and on the tip of the edge ready to commit suicide. I can imagine how the demon inside you would behave if holy water was put on you
Nothing special. Par for the course in outback Australia where I live. We fly to get the morning milk and pick up the mail. We have no formal airstrip, just a dirt road to use. We have a Piper Cub, a vintage Feissler Storch and a Cessna Caravan for longer trips. The Cessna is jointly owned by the three adjoining cattle properties. We also have a Hughes helicopter for fence patrols. The Flying Doctor comes once a month to run a clinic and he lands on the Highway and we have a cleared area next to it for that. He comes in in an $8m King Air that is a mini ICU when needed. WE are fortunate that our government spares no expense for remote area health.
Oh yes, the great DC-3. Fill 'er up with oil and check the gas, please. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. It's also true that the DC-3 is one of the best planes ever manufactured, despite its flaws.
years ago l lived between Northway and Chicken AK. and a DC3 would taxi out on the hi way and take off and land on the road with gold from the mines. I loved that area
Badass flying and legendary plane as well!! The DC-3 can quite literally land anywhere. Nothing can truly replace those old birds. Pretty much a class of it's own. That's why some are still in service even after 85 years in existence.
Bart is concerned over the pilot's safety by Cleta standing in the brush beyond and above the Cessna, yet he feels it would be prudent for old-man Al (Uncle Jesse) to go down and "get that woman out of there!"
"I guess he knows what he is doing" No shit. This guy does this for a day to day living wage and you guys come to Alaska for the summer and praise God. LOL.
For sure! I would love a modern rendition and the non enthusiast people would love it too. Seems pretty cheap too right? My guess it that the safety regulations prevent these things from happening (when you know the right people they might ban the competition _wink wink_)
@@gavcom4060 More efficient in what sense? Acquisition price? Maintenance cost? Operating cost? Reliability? Versatility, including the ability to undeveloped facilities?
If these buffoons were on My fishing boat, they would have been BAIT before we got out of the harbor. “I guess he knows what he’s doing” !!!!!!! What an intelligent observation. Duhhhhh!
Dad was in a DC3 that crashed in a jungle. They dug the engines out from 18' underground. The flight crew died. Dad and his mate walked away. 2 comments - the DC3 is awesome and always sit in the back seat
Pilot is a real pro. He deserves better than to be stuck with these annoying people as cargo. Probably flew them out with the headphones off so as not to have to listen to them. The DC-3 is one of the best planes ever built to do the job it was built for. I used to work for a guy who had one and used it for transportation of cargo from South America to Florida and Texas.Ended up losing it, but she's still flying somewhere from what I've heard.
I think this "Dakota" is the military version - the C-47 Skytrain. It has the distinctive double doors. A fantasy of mine is that some manufacturer starts building DC-3's from scratch. There must be jigs and blueprints around somewhere. I could be wrong, but the DC-3 fits in a niche that has not been filled by anything else for a host of reasons - perhaps including cost and profit returns for certain duties
Nice mosquito nets! My dad flew DC3's down the Chain, back in the 1940's. Bob Reeve wanted my dad to stay in AK after WW2 to work on his airline.. Mom said no and we all went to FLORIDA!
A little tougher with a DC-3, but it's AK. Make your own strips. If it looks flat enough, go for it. Even in default scenery of FS9 I found a lot of sand bars to land on.
why the heck was there so many bugs? what in the world? great video Captain Tiernan, do you practice with flight simulators from time to time and if so, what is your favorite, x-plane or P3D? and are you excited for Microsofts re-entry into the Flight Sim world with 2020 coming out down the road? I love flying my DC-3 in my flight sim.
I was more entertained by the lovely classy fan base. The home made net hats are interesting too such a nice touch. ohh saw a plane land too. At least Lida is safe and all her limbs!!
Video should be retitled, "A dc-3 landing with 10 people you don't want to go on vacation with."
just about what I thought. Halleluja praise the Lord, God bless America.
Praise the pilots. they completed the landing not... an imaginary friend for adults
Ha I 'd like a cockpit recording of your last words as you stall and spin into the dirt .......
Celebrating a win over that puke loser lying bitch Hit-LIAR-y. BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHa!!!!!
They seem like nice people to me.
Delivering a 6 month supply of smart- they ran out yesterday.
"Cleta! HiS WiNg is gUnNA be RiGhT ThErE gEt ThE HeLL BaCk!" ded 😂
Never mind, nevermind. Let 'er go
" I'm going there in a minute!! 😄
LMFAO Please bury me near the runway 😂😂😂
pilot touched down, took one look at the welcoming party, turned around and flew the hell outta there...
The DC-3 is the most well designed aircraft ever. They still carry heavy cargo daily in Alaska. Blows my mind.
80 years
And in Canada also . Buffalo airways has a few as well. Some are getting close to 75 or 80 years old
These are the type of people that during slight turbulence they go crazy and think they are going to die.
Exactly
"What the Hell" and "Praise the Lord". Jeeze what a mixed up crowd.
The type of people that blame the pilot if something goes wrong, but praise God when it goes right...
ahahaha, brilliant!
I mean every great landing is a blessing....
Well, you know, if one of them had their heads taken off by a prop blade, it was just god's will.
Would they still be praising the god entity if the propeller came off and killed their kid?
Did you know the new epithet is 'Karen'?
I live in Alaska, worked for Holland and GrayLine of Alaska. These pilots got epic skill. Those people observing have less brains than a flea.
very true , sounds like a bunch of bible thumping morons
@@jjt1093 Never heard such a gang of Big Mouthed empty heads in my life.
JJT you mean atheist morons who think everything came from nothing
@tiestu Extreme sarcasm and a potty mouth. Mr. know it all...
Hey! Watch that! You're insulting the fleas!
I imagine vacationing with these people must be a real treat!
They would make a great reality TV show
2:08 “that guys a pilot”. Who fucking knew?
ikr, i thought he was a fucking bus driver.
Erich Hartmann I thought he was a lawnmower
+PilotStudios, i don't blame you.
Oh damn, that explains why he was flying an airplane
No shit
The DC-3 is a beautiful airplane. And these birds are over 70 years old and still flying. In 2013 it was estimated that approximately 2,000 DC-3s and military derivatives were still flying, a testament to the durability of the design.
The Russians built several thousand under license in WWII, bet you a bunch of them are also still flying.
More like perhaps 200. Of those only about 50 fly regularly. As for the Russian Lisunov Li-2 DC-3 copy, last I heard only two could be considered flyable.
“Get the hell back!” “Praise the Lord”. “What the hell is that woman doing there?” Hypocrisy at its finest
Thats why tail wheel aircraft will always be king when it comes to real bush work. Nothing beats conventional gear for on the ground maneuverability
daveyl123 I agree unless its a twin otter, thats the exception cause that plane can pull off wut no other can
Yes; I was thinking the same thing. A DC-3's landing gear has got to be the must rugged thing ever, for its time and even in comparison to many now. Airplane was designed for rough fields. Wheels only partially retract to be able to 'roll in' if they fail to deploy. Engines close together: airplane can fly whole mission on one engine with reasonable balance in the air. 190 knots cruise was un-heard-of back in 1933. Imagine what pilots thought when they first flew it!
You’ll never see a nose gear plane nose over.
The Twin Otter, Quest Kodiak, and CH-701 are all tricycle gear airplanes that can do anything tail draggers can.
Tail draggers are kind of like standard transmissions. They take the tiniest bit of skill to operate, their advantages have pretty much disappeared, they stroke the egos of those who operate them... but they will still humble both the inexperienced and experienced.
@@calvinnickel9995 they do if nose gear gets stuck in soil. Usually nose wheel is smaller then main so you'll never see tricycle "cesna"(or any other) landing on riverside or getting good results in STOL contests.
That’s a true BUSH pilot. I lived in Alaska for 33 years. Worked for 4 different airlines. 2-people/freight,mail. 2-all freight,mail. Those guys know what they’re doing, BELIEVE ME.
I believe. No room or ANY problems
God had nothing to do with that no bounce bush landing.
Well, not so sure. The pilot was definitely a god.
HEY, according to my spiritual belief system, I am God...and I will not have you disparaging my sublime designs! Ok?
I’m quite certain that Bart landed the airplane. I have yet to see an NTSB report that stated: “Probable cause of the accident...failure of God to maintain directional control upon landing.”
It's well known that God only flies tri-gear aircraft.
Reminds me of RV people who would pull into a trailer park at 2 am and set up camp then not understand why everyone is pissed at them the next day.
'The Simpsons' vacationing in Alaska.
It the simpsons were that annoying I wouldn't be watching them
DC3 is one of my favorite plain and I admire those pilots who fly. Magnificent machine.
"praise god!!!" the bush pilot that spent his whole life flying planes and learning to maneuver through tight bush mountains ._.
heh, that was my response after the belly landing in NYC by Captain Sully. All my religious friends were sending emails about the 'miracle' that no one was hurt and how Gawd was sending everyone a message.
I pointed out the years of training and cool headedness of the captain and crew must have had nothing to do with it - decades of developing the aircraft, creating a traffic control system, a port authority, a cell phone network, an emergency response system, etc. obviously had nothing to do with it.
Then I asked "But I know you'll say 'but God had a hand in all those things'. To which I'm going to ask, if God really wanted to save those people, wouldn't it have been a LOT easier just to move the goose 3 feet to the left or right?"
@@scottwood9181 when people say thank god they mean good energy. every time I hear someone hating god they are usually having a identity crisis and thinking they are the opposite sex
@@tonyms5984 suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure they do
@@tonyms5984 re: every time I hear someone .....
I don't hate god. God doesn't exist. But I fear idiots who are doing things that can effect others that talk to invisible friends in the sky because of some stories told 2000+ years ago by primitive, illiterate sheep herders. (hint: the rest of the world is civilized now. try to catch up)
And anytime I hear someone who replaced their self-esteem with 'god-esteem', overrode their self-identity with some foolish fairy tale and is overly concerned with the genitals of others and what they are doing with them, I see a brainwashed, perverted busy body who should mind their own #$&@&$^ business.
@@scottwood9181 Im sure subconsciously you hate yourself, not god. imagine being a idiot who hears a old lady say praise God and get offended, only liberals like you. But you'll disregard the lady in the video who was standing around that landing strip and everyone telling her to move. Which is a hazard. Like i say im not religious but from what i witness people who gets triggered by the word "praise god" usually has some identity crisis and on the tip of the edge ready to commit suicide. I can imagine how the demon inside you would behave if holy water was put on you
Nice landing Bart! Miss flying with you!
Good god, had none of these goof ever seen a plane land before? How did they get there, walking?
JimsEquipmentShed , did you hear them speak? They clearly drove their racist pickup trucks paid for by welfare
Welfare is your tax dollars dumb dumb
For some, maybe the greatest airplane ever made. So many heroic and amazing missions around the world. Hail the DC-3/C-47.
Thanks for the video of that difficult and beautifully executed landing. Not many pilots with the hubris and skill to pull that one off.
Nothing special. Par for the course in outback Australia where I live. We fly to get the morning milk and pick up the mail. We have no formal airstrip, just a dirt road to use. We have a Piper Cub, a vintage Feissler Storch and a Cessna Caravan for longer trips. The Cessna is jointly owned by the three adjoining cattle properties. We also have a Hughes helicopter for fence patrols. The Flying Doctor comes once a month to run a clinic and he lands on the Highway and we have a cleared area next to it for that. He comes in in an $8m King Air that is a mini ICU when needed. WE are fortunate that our government spares no expense for remote area health.
awesome!
es heißt fieseler storch, nicht feissler storch !!
Family tree lookin like a telephone pole.
Congratulations sir, you have won the best comment on CZcams award
Lmfao
Great landing Bart. Let's give credit where credit is due. Awesome plane, love the dc3!
PLEASE NOTE: before you start this video, if you value your sanity, MUTE THE SOUND!
Wonderful beautiful DC-3 Beautiful Sound! Beautiful
Old man sounding like Jack hoffman from Gold Rush "no guts no glory" 0:17
Oh yes, the great DC-3. Fill 'er up with oil and check the gas, please. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. It's also true that the DC-3 is one of the best planes ever manufactured, despite its flaws.
Like they say, if it isn't leaking oil, then it doesn't have enough!
years ago l lived between Northway and Chicken AK. and a DC3 would taxi out on the hi way and take off and land on the road with gold from the mines. I loved that area
Such a wonderful aircraft and piece of flying but for painfully obvious reasons, I just can’t bring myself to watch it again.
Badass flying and legendary plane as well!! The DC-3 can quite literally land anywhere. Nothing can truly replace those old birds. Pretty much a class of it's own. That's why some are still in service even after 85 years in existence.
Cleeta and Cleetus the slack-jawed yokels never done did see one of those new-fangled flyin' machines before!
Thanks for posting that was wonderful
That girl that was close to the runway absolutely annoyed me
Yea. She could have caused a serious accident...
all the swearing, then praising God..... ummmm whats wrong with that picture?
It is not the pilot, it is the Jesus who brought the plane safe there to take them
@@santapm4042 Hell no. It was all the pilots.
What’s wrong is that it was filmed in the most undesirable place on earth by slowest, most irritating people on earth
Annoying folks
Bart is concerned over the pilot's safety by Cleta standing in the brush beyond and above the Cessna, yet he feels it would be prudent for old-man Al (Uncle Jesse) to go down and "get that woman out of there!"
Everybody happy , eufforic.. man. i love this kind of videos.. you made my day...
"I guess he knows what he is doing"
No shit. This guy does this for a day to day living wage and you guys come to Alaska for the summer and praise God.
LOL.
That Dog Is Chasing Like A Pro 😍
finally the plane load of beer and cigaretts has arrived.
Thats what all the noise was about.
....................and mosquito repellent.
Had the privilege of flying with him many times, he’s the best pilot I know.
Maury has determined that's a lie and your IP shows your a teenager who lives at home but Maury has also determined you are not the father
@@143speedball5 what
Always admired the Alaska bush pilots. Great plane. Great combination.
Incredible video!
been waiting for their amazon prime delivery for 3 months
LOL😂😂
The DC-3 is definitely an icon of the modern world. It will be remembered as a magnificent work of art in the very distant future...
The child’s name was gonna be Cletus but then the delivery came no twig and giggle berries so we changed the name to Cletta. God damnit Cletta
You should have taken the girl and dog and just left the rest of them in Alaska.
Tucker Gardner No! Get them out of here, send em’ back to California.
nah, send them to antartica
Gav TV “Don’t stand there! You’ll have to run if that ice starts breaking up!”
Such a durable & also versatile aircraft.
Still continue serving till this day.
Read respect it ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I didn't know you had a CZcams channel! I got to take your aviation law class at UAA. Awesome professor!
I wonder how old that machine is. I'm amazed that these things keep running after 70 or 80 years of service.
N777YA was build and delivered to US Navy, 28 August 1944
Someone should be making more of this airplane. The design is in place and proven.
Time to dust off the drawings and tool up.
For sure!
I would love a modern rendition and the non enthusiast people would love it too.
Seems pretty cheap too right?
My guess it that the safety regulations prevent these things from happening
(when you know the right people they might ban the competition _wink wink_)
@@skippityblippity8656 really it's kind of a odd size for a plane today to small for an airline and to big for most other things.
We have aircraft that does it job more efficiently
@@gavcom4060 More efficient in what sense? Acquisition price? Maintenance cost? Operating cost? Reliability? Versatility, including the ability to undeveloped facilities?
If these buffoons were on My fishing boat, they would have been BAIT before we got out of the harbor. “I guess he knows what he’s doing” !!!!!!! What an intelligent observation. Duhhhhh!
After all that it was the wrong address.
Holy shit! Never has there been a bigger nagging family.
Dad was in a DC3 that crashed in a jungle. They dug the engines out from 18' underground. The flight crew died. Dad and his mate walked away. 2 comments - the DC3 is awesome and always sit in the back seat
Title should have been FIRST TIME PEOPLE HAVE EVER SEEN A PLANE LAND.
Or savages meet civilization!
Gawd DC-3’s are amazing
What's the story with the plane on the side of the runway?
I love how all the comments are about this disaster of a group of people
What is the airport/airstrip?
I am currently reearching KG354 / N59314 and believe you own/ have reletaivly recently owned it. Do you know its current condition?
Great aircraft! What´s that Cessna in the ditch?
The destination of choice for those escaping the zombie apocalypse
Awesome landing on such a runway.
Why do they give the praise to "GOD?" and not the pilot? It was the pilot who pulled this landing off successfully.
That’s a nice plane I love DC-3 and C-47
Pilot to Co-Pilot, "Hold my Beer"!
WOW amazing landing!
Lookie, lookie, da plane, da plane! Those poor folks probably don't know it's never too late to get a GED.
WOW ! Reminds me of my Family reunion in which where I found my beautiful wife second cousin . Beer in one hand and a corndog in the other .
Super Video 👍👍👍
Pilot is a real pro. He deserves better than to be stuck with these annoying people as cargo. Probably flew them out with the headphones off so as not to have to listen to them.
The DC-3 is one of the best planes ever built to do the job it was built for. I used to work for a guy who had one and used it for transportation of cargo from South America to Florida and Texas.Ended up losing it, but she's still flying somewhere from what I've heard.
Balls of steel! These pilots got epic skill.
I think this "Dakota" is the military version - the C-47 Skytrain. It has the distinctive double doors. A fantasy of mine is that some manufacturer starts building DC-3's from scratch. There must be jigs and blueprints around somewhere. I could be wrong, but the DC-3 fits in a niche that has not been filled by anything else for a host of reasons - perhaps including cost and profit returns for certain duties
The Basler BT-67 is about the closest you're going to get to that I think.
Nice mosquito nets! My dad flew DC3's down the Chain, back in the 1940's. Bob Reeve wanted my dad to stay in AK after WW2 to work on his airline.. Mom said no and we all went to FLORIDA!
What a mistake.
Reeve Aleutian airlines
"Praise god" Your invisible, omnipresent, improbable, deity had NOTHING to do with this. This was pure piloting skills.
one word of gods name and the low I.Q liberal comes out. im sure by now you've turn yourself into the opposite sex.......... praise bruce jenner
That guys a pilot .Nah you don't say I thought he was a vacuum salesman... picking up the deliverance gang ....😁
When the plane is completely on the ground, and almost stopped, someone says, put it down, put it down... -_-
I only saw one pilot. Who was the rest ground control....?
Praise the pilot, leave god out of it.
Flat Ground *exists
Bush Pilots:
What is the location? Is this strip on the charts? Would like to try this in FSX.
A little tougher with a DC-3, but it's AK. Make your own strips. If it looks flat enough, go for it. Even in default scenery of FS9 I found a lot of sand bars to land on.
The people in the background is given me a head toumor
he's one heck of a pilot
God Damn It Cleeta!!
why the heck was there so many bugs? what in the world? great video Captain Tiernan, do you practice with flight simulators from time to time and if so, what is your favorite, x-plane or P3D? and are you excited for Microsofts re-entry into the Flight Sim world with 2020 coming out down the road? I love flying my DC-3 in my flight sim.
I was more entertained by the lovely classy fan base. The home made net hats are interesting too such a nice touch. ohh saw a plane land too. At least Lida is safe and all her limbs!!
“That guys a pilot” no really definitely didn’t no that 🤨🤨
"that guy is a pilot" no! he's a mothafucking swimmer 😂
We all know he is a pilot.What she meant was that he is a great pilot.
@@angeldedios7377 Nah, God is totally the pilot here
Damnit Tina!
Amazing zing zing !!
One of...if not...the greatest aircraft ever designed.
I didn't make past 15 seconds....maybe the pilot should have kept on going and left this stranded in the wilderness.
Amen
Performing a safe landing
Pilot: meh
These people: Claps like the plane was doing an emergency landing.
Stunningly beautiful airplane.
What’s the airport?
No airport. Just a mining strip extended that summer
Love the alcoholic commentary from the vastly cultured spectators
I would walk into the prop if I had to listen to those women any longer.
They are a😉 few of us good aces of aviation