Classic Propliners at Rand, South Africa
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- 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.
Very nice of that gentleman, holding the ladder ,not to look up.
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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!!!
A great time when the world was a better place.
There was nothing beautiful about theses planed. Noisy as hell inside. No confort at all
@@georgebalsa9853 We’re all very sorry that you are not able to appreciate such things. You must have a very sad and depressing life.
Casablanca. DC-3.
@@georgebalsa9853 EARACHES,DIZZINESS, DISORIENTATION,DESPITE ALL,WHEN RIDINGTHESE PLANES U WERE MUCH YOUNGER🤔🤔🤔
Wow, excellent! The DC-4 has always been a long term favourite of mine.
Rand Airport is what heaven must be like!
not anymore
Did my a and p apprenticeship there
Used to be......
LIKE HEAVEN MUST BE LIKE!!! I absolutely like your comparison! Evidently you've got a magic thoughtful mind! I am Peruvian, from Lima, now aging 74. and I remember the now for long dissapeared "LIMATAMBO AIRPORT" (1948-1961) where these marvelous flying machines portrayed their grandeur to the skies! LIMATAMBO had to be shut down, because it became a "prisoner" within the City limits, and there was no way to extend its runways as the jet age required.
Very cool, always nice to hear radial engines still buzzing around
Love the Art Deco terminal building. It is in and of itself a huge part of history as well
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.
those f27's, the ys11, and the hs748 in the background are very cool too
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.
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.
Thanks for the great propliner video.
Wonderful music concert , the best video of DC's
1st time viewing this. Pure old fashion Excellent in every way. Thanks for posting it.
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.
I love the added leg room, 2 across seating, and the wider seats. Today's planes are like airborn buses.
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.
Correct! AVIANCA was very much of a DC-3 and DC-4 airliner, but when the next upgrade came by, (DC-6) they didn't buy any, and went for the Lockheed Constellations in almost all of its variants.
Nice collection of airplanes. Love seeing these old birds still flying. Thanks for sharing and hope to see more.
❤ when I was a kid living in Hawaii, I remember President Eisenhower Landing in Honolulu. The first president to fly in a Jet Plane.
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. "-)
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 👍
How do you know they’re girls? They might have been born male and transitioned.
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.
The guy holding the ladder was a true gent.
Indeed!
There's something not very red-blooded about that dude,
@@jeffspicolli593 maybe he had mirrors on his shoes.
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
Yeah, I noticed. I wonder why she is boarding the aircraft in this manner.
Half way round the world to my place here in the far west...a real treat TY 4sharing !
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!
Piloter un DC3... Le plaisir à l'état pur ! Une machine qui fait corps avec le pilote...
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
*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.*
Wish they still had the ju 52 that was flying in the nineties. Loved it. Took my son on a few trips with it.
Apparently it's still at OR Thambo,but I doubt she will ever fly again, apparently there is no one to certify the plane
@@deanvanderwesthuizen810 As far as I know, it is now in the museum of South African Airways in Cape Town.
@@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 .
I had three unforgettable flights onboard the ZS-AUB
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!
Wonderful memories, I'm sure!
Wonderful old machines !!! 😀😄👏
In the 1980’s I flew the B-18, DC-3 and DC-4 out of Toronto. Man and machine in sync.
Millardair?
@@paulhargreaves1497 indeed
0:49 good man, didnt look up
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.
Yes
All large consumers of oil. When doing the A Check you have to check the fuel level and fill the oil tank.
All have electric starters, there are no pneumatic systems on DC-4’s at all, they’re not even pressurised.
It's cool to see these vintage aircrafts taking off !
Wow, going back in time. Marvelous
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.
ZS-BMH, the very last DC-4 built.
Start counting the pistons...it's a huge number
Piston engines and a pointy nose on that 18!
Volpar Tri-Beech, military variants, cargo haulers, midnight mail hacks - I have NEVER seen a Pinocchio D18 like that !!
this is jaw-dropping!
Excellent footage!
Brings back great memories
Wow..Beautiful aircraft.. amazing..
Beautiful planes! Good video thanks 😀
Lucky guy holding the ladder! 😉
You can see the banter with one of his colleagues at that moment!
Amazing Video !!! LIKE
Just historical beautiful.
I've been in all of these thanks to SAA ca. 1963 (Kimberley to Windhoek). Thankfully, I don't get airsick...
Nice, I was there at the same time in the same building taking photos.
wonderful :)
Met Cpt. Flippy Vermeulen on his DC-4 ZS-AUB Ferry flight at MGL/West-Germany. Had a nice talk.
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
Good old South Africa days? You liked apartheid?
@@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 .
I flew on a Convair 580. Back in highschool.
I ever flew with that F27 Fokker, as a passenger of course.
Rode in an SAA DC4 from Johannesburg to Durban when those were still in service. Perhaps that very one.
We had the 3’s and 18’s at Majestic, miss ‘em
Classic birds doing what they were made for...flying!
They may be inefficient and leave a big carbon footprint, but the sound can't be beat.
0:42 "Don't look up, don't look up, don't look up, don't look up"
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。
The DC-4. Passenger service? How far?
It was operating to the nearby Waterkloof airbase with enthusiasts on board.
Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948, i think so
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.
The Pratt & Whitney sound ! 😃
Very cool footage
salute to the person holding the ladder
He's becoming a legend among gentlemen!
Love ❤️ it
1956,,60,,aeroplane good service,,,but,, how to maintanence?
Incredible
Ah, the ye goode olde days!
Thanks God! Evolution exists!
sorry for the bad windblast sounds, maybe use a "dead cat" microfone cover next time
I've always wondered if you took a DC6 and put t56 turboprops on it, what would it be capable of?
Can someone tell me how old is that airplane? I find the engines not sounding like good working engines,
It appears that both of those Queen Airs are missing the right engine.
exelent video !
I am confused. What is a “propliner”?
Not a chance would I get on that 🔥
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!
whats up with the nose on the twin beech?
It told a lie, and has a nose like Pinochio.
Excellent!
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?
German retired engineers recently rebuild a Focke Wulf Condor would love to see it as a Nazi Expedition plane with swastika tail starting and taking off from there :-))))
Awesome!
Id love to know the history on the Nose on that beech 18!
These days we cannot tell which is real which is simulator 😮
Hermoso video, que avión es el más pequeño? Nunca vi ese modelo
They just had to make the hot girl in the skirt climb the ladder. Love the footage. The planes are nice too.
Hello, there is a DC plane crashed in the Amazon jungle. I want someone with experience. Send him a code and some letters so that we can identify it.
I read in the 1970s and 80s a lot of those old airliners crashed in the Amazon and the Andes as well. So sad to hear about that.
Heaven
so he's holding the ladder !!
Quite a collection. What was that weird little Beech at the end with twin tail?
dam 2014? I thought the dc-4 had gone extinct!
That Beech 18 was really butchered!
At 6:50 ZS-OIJ, I have never seen a aircraft like this one. Can anyone tell me what type of plane it is, very cool.
Wonderful aircraft, but why does this Beech 18 have such a long nose?
What’s the use of the long nose of the Beech 18?
I wonder if any of these are DC 3's ?
belos clássicos!! mas o q me chamou a atenção foram os motores do king-air, não sabia q eram a pistão (os primeiros deve ser)
Os mais modernos possuem motores turbo hélices.
@@carloskruger6524 eu pensei q eram todos turbo