To me, the sounds of a radial engine starting up can’t be beat. The sounds of each cylinder reluctantly huffing, chugging, and wheezing as they came to life is a real attention getter.
I miss my Caribou's. SEA Vietnam 1970. They hauled everything from ammo to goats. Landed and took off from patches of open jungle. I don't miss repairing the big honking exhaust cans. They cracked often but we patched them up.
According to my parents, I was able to discern Pratt & Whitneys, Wrights on Constellations, DC-3s, Convairs, DC-4s, etc. when I was 2. We were living at Schiphol Airport, where my father was employed at KLM in the early fifties. So these sounds make me a bit melancholic, many thanks for sharing!
Nothing sounds like a radial engine. I was 6 the first time I heard one, it was a Corsair at an air show and I was instantly hooked. I’m going on 60 and still hooked.
I like that deep sound from those Wright 1820's...beefy....and of course, who can not get by without elevated pulse rate on hearing a Constellation with turbo compound engines taxiing by? Think there is a video of one and a flyby too. thanks.
Radial engines on aircrafts are like big old V8 truck engines.... might not be as fast but can pretty much take any assault.....I love this engine configuration alott I guess thats why the FU_Cosair isy favourite warbird.
0:51 the B-25 has the same engines. R-2800s. Combined with the rather large props they have, they make that perfect "old airplane" engine sound. And at the perfect decibel level. It fills your ears, but it doesn't hurt them.
R2600, with 14 cylinders (vs 18 on the 2800) But just the same, they have a wonderful sound of their own! The Avenger shares the same engine as the B-25, btw.
Love that the gyro pilot from The Road Warrior made it in the closing credits.I believe he also played the train conductor in The Matrix Bruce Spense was his name I think
In my younger days, 50s, I rode in sa16s, dc3s and dc6s. Also bigger prop planes going across the pacific on pan am. Globemasters ? I would just watch the exhaust flames for hours and hours. Guam, midway, hawaii and to calif. The previous small planes were from guam to yap or saipan or truk.
Yes, they sound good . . personally i am a sucker for the WOT sound of the big TCM and Lycoming flat sixes - the sound of the Cessna 180 (0-470 Continental) ..and of the 310 (with two of these syncronized beauties) - pure music to the ears..!
Best sound is, on landing that moment when you close the throttles, that cackling, or popping sound you get from some. Especially if they got one or two loose exhaust pipes !
Thank you! I needed this! As a kid back in the 'sixties" I would stand fire guard when the DC-6B's of Purdue University (using old Western Airlines' Douglas's) would fire up their big Pratt & Whitney R2800 CB17's at the Pinellas airport in St. Petersburg, FL. I've "oiled" the "Sixes;" as well as the R2000's of the cattle hauling DC-4's, and gassed up the DC-3's, Twin Beeches, and the occasional executive version of the Douglas A26 Invader. The Lockheed Loadstar was a frequent visitor. At the wash rack off the end of runway 9, the Coast Guard would run engine checks on their Albatrosses, the short stacked Wright's bellowing away at power. Way off, on a quiet morning, you could hear the beautiful, and as you so aptly put it, "haunting" sounds of Pratts at climb power, as the Convair C131's (military version of the CV 440) came out of MacDill AFB and climbed out over the VOR on our field. As they crossed overhead, the sound would change from the beautiful propeller/satellite gear note weaving slowly in and out of sync to the throaty sound of combustion as it exited the big exhaust augmenters at the trailing edges of the wings. I was lucky early on in a flying life to fly between these great radials. The 1830's of the venerable Douglas DC-3, and the R2800's of the old Martin 404. Typed in both airplanes, it is something I cherish. Today, at 74, the sound and response of a wonderful old Stearman in military colors and the healthy sound of a beautifully overhauled 7 cylinder Continental W670 radial caps a lifetime in the air. Thank you for a swell trip back back in time. Mike Kelly "Old School Aviator"
Thank you. Yes the planes do the talking and sing some beautiful music here. I occasionally still see a Convair now & then singing its beautiful music up there in the sky. Thank goodness these are not stuck in some museum never to fly again.
Living near OPF where a few still fly, I can say that sadly many fly till either the company can't sustain them or they simply get ditched in the ocean when something goes wrong. They literally fly them till the plane dies.
@@aircraftadventures-vids Proper maintenance can keep them flying indefinitely but sadly many of these small outfits cut corners and a number of those old birds have been lost thru the years. Really sad hearing about it. Like Roberto Clemente's DC-7 that went down in 1972 that had many mechanical issues. Or like the Boeing 377 that went down in Mexico in 1987 due to overloading. And a Super Constellation that went down in the ocean in 1990 between Miami and the Dominican Republic (one of the last freighters of that type that was flying) Just sad, not to mention the loss of human life.
Ah, you put it so eloquent Mr Mornton9220, I agree. I used to ride my bike to the local airport and watch so many radial powered aircraft land and take off. Unfortunately the diversity of powered flight has been distilled down to the "suck" n blow" variant of today's world.
A DC-7 using anything over 50" MAP for T/O has an addicting sound like no other. A TC-18 equipped Super Connie also, but the 3 blade props also went trans-sonic on T/O, partially obscuring the engine sound.
Funny you mention that, I head the pleasure of witnessing both when I worked near Opalocka (OPF) about 20 years ago. The DC-7 sounds amazing, though I'm sure for the most part are using reduced settings. And the Super Connie was a sight to behold but as you mentioned, real big prop chop sound. Even though they are smaller, 3-blades R2800s make the best sound.
Lovely video!!! The Anson was a nice surprise. They flew in airline service with what was them Aeronaves de Mexico (present day Aeroméxico). Watching the video just blew my imagination . I wished I could have watched one taking off in the old gravel runway near the beach in Acapulco. This was the very old Playa de Hornos airport.
Love the DC-3! You'll be happy to know I've got a "Best DC-3 Videos" coming out soon. And there's so many other great sounding radials - I will be putting together a new collection on these soon.
I read the Caribou did not fare as well as it did, as the DC-3's could do the same job for much less. The Caribou was sort of a niche plane which would work if: a) You had to carry a lot more than the DC-3 b) Rough field and STOL c) Short haul. Anything else, the DC-3 could do better, cheaper, plus many more of them around.
I love the sound of any radial-engined airplane, but don't agree that the Convair 240/340/440 Metroliners had the best sound. My vote goes to the 749A variant of the Lockheed Constellation. Almost all other radials (including those on other versions of the Connies) had a collector exhaust manifold wrapped in a ring behind the cylinders. with just one or occasionally two exhaust pipes. But the 749As had individual shorty stacks, no manifold. With four 2500hp Wrights pumping out their ten thousand horsepower on take-off, that sound was glory itself. For several years in the mid-'50s through mid-'60s, my Dad piloted these beautiful machines for Pacific Northern Airlines, flying from Seattle to various points in southern Alaska, and as a boy I got to go on several trips which remain high points of my life. I really feel bad for all you younger-than-me aviation enthusiasts who'll never see anything like the Golden Age of commercial aviation in the 1950s. Modern jet travel, even before TSA and Covid destroyed our airports, is a pathetic bore to old men who got to watch, listen to, or even ride in DC-3s, -4s, and 6Bs, the 749 and 1049 Constellations, the Stratocruisers, the Convairs, as I did. Not bragging; I consider myself very fortunate in this.
Thanks for the insight. Sadly I have never witnessed the 749A variant, only the Super Connie taking off, so can't really comment. I enjoy the Convairs, not necessarily because they are loud but they have this certain growl attributed to the augmenter pipes in the back. Which to my knowledge, not too many radials seemed to use.
@@aircraftadventures-vids My luck in growing up when and where I did in the Fifties/Sixties (b. 1946) goes even further. As with many families of airline employees (plus many Boeing workers), we lived in a new-after-WW2 middle-class development that was a short ten-minute commute west of Seattle-Tacoma Airport, a big international hub in 24-hour operation. Therefore, every night I'd drift off to sleep to the wonderfully soothing sounds of of big propliners running up each of their engines, doing mag-checks, etc., then rolling on max take-off power, trundling down one of the north/south runways, and fading away in their long climb-out for parts unknown. Lordy, I wish I could take all of us back in a time machine just so we could set up our cots in my back yard on a warm summer night and listen to the grand music of the aeroplanes. But wait, there's more!! Seattle in the same years was the world capital of Unlimited Hydroplane racing. You talk about SOUND, let me tell you about a full field of seven 30ft Unlimiteds with 28-liter Rolls and Allison V-12s with 4-valve heads and big centrifugal blowers, making up to, I kid you not, 130" manifold pressure as they came down for the clock start. The lake reflected that SOUND, and the men and boys who heard it have never forgotten. I could say more on this, if you want.
When the Lancaster fly's over my home it can be heard very far off . The only aircraft that I could hear from farther away was an old huge helicopter that no longer fly's over here . I think the investment company that owned it must have bought a newer chopper to fly people from Toronto to Hamilton and perhaps other places
Indeed it is! I can't imagine how much time I've wasted pouring through Caribou videos and watching them do their stuff. There are some very impressive demos that the Aussies performed with them - plus some footage of Caribous operating in the jungle. Pretty surreal when you realize they operated them as recently as 2009!
I think Air America operated the Caribous in SE Asia. I remember reading an account where a pilot would bring along extra props in case he skimmed jungle growth on short final into remote strips...
It's a majestic plane, but as someone else commented, it's dominated by the huge prop sound....which I suppose is enjoyable too. I enjoyed it nonetheless when I saw one take off about 20 years ago in Miami (OPF)
To me, the sounds of a radial engine starting up can’t be beat. The sounds of each cylinder reluctantly huffing, chugging, and wheezing as they came to life is a real attention getter.
Thank God !
I thought I was the only one.
@@glennjames7107 Nope! There is a legion, brother...
All of them are music to my hears.
I see what you did there
O YEAH! SWEET SOUNDING!
I miss my Caribou's. SEA Vietnam 1970. They hauled everything from ammo to goats. Landed and took off from patches of open jungle. I don't miss repairing the big honking exhaust cans. They cracked often but we patched them up.
Amazing experience I bet!
I love the sound of a Radial engine . It has the sound of real power. 👍👍
According to my parents, I was able to discern Pratt & Whitneys, Wrights on Constellations, DC-3s, Convairs, DC-4s, etc. when I was 2. We were living at Schiphol Airport, where my father was employed at KLM in the early fifties. So these sounds make me a bit melancholic, many thanks for sharing!
I consider the radial engine to be compatible to a violin. There's something pleasing about its sound.
Absolutely unique sounds with each type! Some ofcourse were different engines powering them.
And some of the best!
Nothing sounds like a radial engine. I was 6 the first time I heard one, it was a Corsair at an air show and I was instantly hooked. I’m going on 60 and still hooked.
I must have been around that age and lived near an airport where old cargo planes flew nonstop to the Caribbean. That did it for me.
I like that deep sound from those Wright 1820's...beefy....and of course, who can not get by without elevated pulse rate on hearing a Constellation with turbo compound engines taxiing by? Think there is a video of one and a flyby too. thanks.
me, i really love the Radial engine sound. i really miss to hear it.. sounds like a harmony. really loved it.
Radial engines on aircrafts are like big old V8 truck engines.... might not be as fast but can pretty much take any assault.....I love this engine configuration alott I guess thats why the FU_Cosair isy favourite warbird.
0:51 the B-25 has the same engines. R-2800s. Combined with the rather large props they have, they make that perfect "old airplane" engine sound. And at the perfect decibel level. It fills your ears, but it doesn't hurt them.
The B-25 has Wright R-2600's that gives them that different sound
R2600, with 14 cylinders (vs 18 on the 2800) But just the same, they have a wonderful sound of their own! The Avenger shares the same engine as the B-25, btw.
I flew DH4 with widows open...engine's talk to you if anything amiss...having a little trouble with my hearing now...
Love that the gyro pilot from The Road Warrior made it in the closing credits.I believe he also played the train conductor in The Matrix Bruce Spense was his name I think
In my younger days, 50s, I rode in sa16s, dc3s and dc6s. Also bigger prop planes going across the pacific on pan am. Globemasters ? I would just watch the exhaust flames for hours and hours. Guam, midway, hawaii and to calif. The previous small planes were from guam to yap or saipan or truk.
Yes, they sound good . . personally i am a sucker for the WOT sound of the big TCM and Lycoming flat sixes - the sound of the Cessna 180 (0-470 Continental) ..and of the 310 (with two of these syncronized beauties) - pure music to the ears..!
most friendly, pleasant sound is the PW 2800 in the Convair 440 and the DC-6B.
Best sound is, on landing that moment when you close the throttles, that cackling, or popping sound you get from some.
Especially if they got one or two loose exhaust pipes !
Thank you! I needed this! As a kid back in the 'sixties" I would stand fire guard when the DC-6B's of Purdue University (using old Western Airlines' Douglas's) would fire up their big Pratt & Whitney R2800 CB17's at the Pinellas airport in St. Petersburg, FL. I've "oiled" the "Sixes;" as well as the R2000's of the cattle hauling DC-4's, and gassed up the DC-3's, Twin Beeches, and the occasional executive version of the Douglas A26 Invader. The Lockheed Loadstar was a frequent visitor. At the wash rack off the end of runway 9, the Coast Guard would run engine checks on their Albatrosses, the short stacked Wright's bellowing away at power. Way off, on a quiet morning, you could hear the beautiful, and as you so aptly put it, "haunting" sounds of Pratts at climb power, as the Convair C131's (military version of the CV 440) came out of MacDill AFB and climbed out over the VOR on our field. As they crossed overhead, the sound would change from the beautiful propeller/satellite gear note weaving slowly in and out of sync to the throaty sound of combustion as it exited the big exhaust augmenters at the trailing edges of the wings. I was lucky early on in a flying life to fly between these great radials. The 1830's of the venerable Douglas DC-3, and the R2800's of the old Martin 404. Typed in both airplanes, it is something I cherish. Today, at 74, the sound and response of a wonderful old Stearman in military colors and the healthy sound of a beautifully overhauled 7 cylinder Continental W670 radial caps a lifetime in the air. Thank you for a swell trip back back in time. Mike Kelly "Old School Aviator"
Thank you for the feedback, that was a put in a quite poetic way. These planes bring out the best in us!
I loved flying behind one in in an Ag Cat crop duster until I was run over by a Navy A6-e Intruder.
No orchestra can beat this music, great compilation!
Remember y days miss work on those raidail engines!
I went for a joy flight in a caribou when I was a kid at Amberly airbase Australia,ever since then I've been in love with radial engines 👍👍
I can't imagine what the felt like!
Thank you. Yes the planes do the talking and sing some beautiful music here. I occasionally still see a Convair now & then singing its beautiful music up there in the sky. Thank goodness these are not stuck in some museum never to fly again.
Living near OPF where a few still fly, I can say that sadly many fly till either the company can't sustain them or they simply get ditched in the ocean when something goes wrong. They literally fly them till the plane dies.
@@aircraftadventures-vids Proper maintenance can keep them flying indefinitely but sadly many of these small outfits cut corners and a number of those old birds have been lost thru the years. Really sad hearing about it. Like Roberto Clemente's DC-7 that went down in 1972 that had many mechanical issues. Or like the Boeing 377 that went down in Mexico in 1987 due to overloading. And a Super Constellation that went down in the ocean in 1990 between Miami and the Dominican Republic (one of the last freighters of that type that was flying) Just sad, not to mention the loss of human life.
Forgot my plane. The dehavilland beaver.
There's just too many to list, sorry!
Ah, you put it so eloquent Mr Mornton9220, I agree. I used to ride my bike to the local airport and watch so many radial powered aircraft land and take off. Unfortunately the diversity of powered flight has been distilled down to the "suck" n blow" variant of today's world.
A DC-7 using anything over 50" MAP for T/O has an addicting sound like no other. A TC-18 equipped Super Connie also, but the 3 blade props also went trans-sonic on T/O, partially obscuring the engine sound.
Funny you mention that, I head the pleasure of witnessing both when I worked near Opalocka (OPF) about 20 years ago. The DC-7 sounds amazing, though I'm sure for the most part are using reduced settings. And the Super Connie was a sight to behold but as you mentioned, real big prop chop sound. Even though they are smaller, 3-blades R2800s make the best sound.
@@aircraftadventures-vids8:38
That was very nice. Thank you. Love the sound of Radials.
Love the Caribou footage from Addison KADS!
Lovely video!!! The Anson was a nice surprise. They flew in airline service with what was them Aeronaves de Mexico (present day Aeroméxico). Watching the video just blew my imagination . I wished I could have watched one taking off in the old gravel runway near the beach in Acapulco. This was the very old Playa de Hornos airport.
Yeah probably no one was expecting that but I found it quite unique when I first heard it.
Great video. Beautiful sounds.
Thanks! Too many to choose actually.
Saved the best for last! Thnx!
8:01
Nice video, but, where is the DC-3?
Love the DC-3! You'll be happy to know I've got a "Best DC-3 Videos" coming out soon. And there's so many other great sounding radials - I will be putting together a new collection on these soon.
Crap a year goes by and where's the video I promised. Please hold me to it, folks!
The Caribou is DeHavilland's DC-3. Absolute *truck* of an airplane.
I read the Caribou did not fare as well as it did, as the DC-3's could do the same job for much less. The Caribou was sort of a niche plane which would work if: a) You had to carry a lot more than the DC-3 b) Rough field and STOL c) Short haul. Anything else, the DC-3 could do better, cheaper, plus many more of them around.
I love the sound of C-46 end Convair`s series Thanks for the video!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@aircraftadventures-vids Thanks
Gorgeous music
They sound awesome
My favorite was the albatross
Love the Albatross. I saw one at Osh this year but sadly didn't witness it flying.
Good job . Nothing but engines!
Symphonic Sounds
Rip Jimmy Buffet
😞
I thought the Buffalo was the replacement model for the Caribou.
Very nice. Thank you for posting.
You should make it one hour, I need radial engine melody to sleep !
I need a lot more time for editing, lol!
Fucking Hell!!! If you don't like that,you are crazy!!!
Adventurer You give here a Wounderfull "Music Collection "...i fell w.you But i miss the Douglas A-26👋🤗👍greetings f.Germany
What? No Beech 18?
Too many to list, sorry! I personally love the 3-blader / radial combo on the -18
*Let the Sunshine In...*
Speaking of 7-cylinders, there are (were?) a couple Wacos on Kauai making a lot of noise, but not going far or fast.
A Waco going fast isn't good news! 😂
Brilliant
Pure music 😍
Cám ơn video của bạn rất hay, chúc bạn sức khỏe và hạnh phúc.
E grazie per la traduzione in italiano.....
Thank you so much ! Those sounds make a great Sound Museum !
I love the sound of any radial-engined airplane, but don't agree that the Convair 240/340/440 Metroliners had the best sound. My vote goes to the 749A variant of the Lockheed Constellation. Almost all other radials (including those on other versions of the Connies) had a collector exhaust manifold wrapped in a ring behind the cylinders. with just one or occasionally two exhaust pipes. But the 749As had individual shorty stacks, no manifold. With four 2500hp Wrights pumping out their ten thousand horsepower on take-off, that sound was glory itself. For several years in the mid-'50s through mid-'60s, my Dad piloted these beautiful machines for Pacific Northern Airlines, flying from Seattle to various points in southern Alaska, and as a boy I got to go on several trips which remain high points of my life. I really feel bad for all you younger-than-me aviation enthusiasts who'll never see anything like the Golden Age of commercial aviation in the 1950s. Modern jet travel, even before TSA and Covid destroyed our airports, is a pathetic bore to old men who got to watch, listen to, or even ride in DC-3s, -4s, and 6Bs, the 749 and 1049 Constellations, the Stratocruisers, the Convairs, as I did. Not bragging; I consider myself very fortunate in this.
Thanks for the insight. Sadly I have never witnessed the 749A variant, only the Super Connie taking off, so can't really comment. I enjoy the Convairs, not necessarily because they are loud but they have this certain growl attributed to the augmenter pipes in the back. Which to my knowledge, not too many radials seemed to use.
@@aircraftadventures-vids My luck in growing up when and where I did in the Fifties/Sixties (b. 1946) goes even further. As with many families of airline employees (plus many Boeing workers), we lived in a new-after-WW2 middle-class development that was a short ten-minute commute west of Seattle-Tacoma Airport, a big international hub in 24-hour operation. Therefore, every night I'd drift off to sleep to the wonderfully soothing sounds of of big propliners running up each of their engines, doing mag-checks, etc., then rolling on max take-off power, trundling down one of the north/south runways, and fading away in their long climb-out for parts unknown. Lordy, I wish I could take all of us back in a time machine just so we could set up our cots in my back yard on a warm summer night and listen to the grand music of the aeroplanes. But wait, there's more!! Seattle in the same years was the world capital of Unlimited Hydroplane racing. You talk about SOUND, let me tell you about a full field of seven 30ft Unlimiteds with 28-liter Rolls and Allison V-12s with 4-valve heads and big centrifugal blowers, making up to, I kid you not, 130" manifold pressure as they came down for the clock start. The lake reflected that SOUND, and the men and boys who heard it have never forgotten. I could say more on this, if you want.
Caribou also delivered in Malaysia.
When the Lancaster fly's over my home it can be heard very far off . The only aircraft that I could hear from farther away was an old huge helicopter that no longer fly's over here . I think the investment company that owned it must have bought a newer chopper to fly people from Toronto to Hamilton and perhaps other places
Something is missing... It is the CL 215
Good call! not quite as good sounding as the Convair, but excellent nonetheless. i think we need a volume II of this video!
("...turn quite SLOWLY)
Great stuff 😎👍
Land a DH 4 on a postage stamp...
Augmented tubes almost like glass packs on C7
Wow, the STOL capability of the Caribou is impressive...
Indeed it is! I can't imagine how much time I've wasted pouring through Caribou videos and watching them do their stuff. There are some very impressive demos that the Aussies performed with them - plus some footage of Caribous operating in the jungle. Pretty surreal when you realize they operated them as recently as 2009!
I also saw the 'Bou at Sun n Fun a couple of times, it was hard to not just walk around it and stare. It's huge!
I think Air America operated the Caribous in SE Asia. I remember reading an account where a pilot would bring along extra props in case he skimmed jungle growth on short final into remote strips...
You left out the Super Constellation, the best sounding prop in the world.
It's a majestic plane, but as someone else commented, it's dominated by the huge prop sound....which I suppose is enjoyable too. I enjoyed it nonetheless when I saw one take off about 20 years ago in Miami (OPF)
❤️❤️❤️
What about the Spitfires, Mustangs and Bombers of WW2
Spitfires and Mustangs do not have radial engines....
Are you the "guess the aircraft" guy from Instagram?
Affirmative!
I came close to having a UH=16 Albatross , but the money guy was full of shit .
Are these people just playing, burning fossil fuels to have some fun?
Some are, but most of these planes are at work
Poor video format. No video, audio or pause controls. No likes or subscript. Loosing money.
i think you have a software problem. i have video controls, audio controls, can pause, and can like it. the description is also there.
Total waste of time!!!!
Here's your money back $$$