They are NOT 'HEROS". In their circumstance, they are not 'hero's, just very dedicated, focussed, gallant people!.

I was a plane captain on a US2B. Or i "used to be."

I worked on the Neptune with VP-65 at NAS Pt. Mugu. One of the squadron aircraft ended up at the great museum at Pensacola, Florida. PG- 06, I believe. A couple others may have gone to Argentina for eventual use in the Falklands war.

E făcătură 😂😂😂😂

Last cab to come out PAR just before retirement of the fleet. Watched the last flight of all of them at Albatross. I worked next door in F hanger, loved the early morning start of a grumbly.

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Why is it when so many of these plans regardless of model, their engines smoke so bad on startup?

A real Wulf ❤❤❤

I was the AQM of this faithful aircraft for 3 years and clocked 600hrs. Really enjoyed it

Rex is no more

"REX Airlines" - what ? bring back Hazelton Airways

Brings back memories of Nam in 68. They landed on our airfield in Can To.

It sounded like an old farm tractor……

My left ear liked it.WTH!!

Are the S-2 airframes pressurized?

Sounds far better than the Buffalo's turboprops. Again a product of the world's best producer of stol rough country aircraft. It's just a vastly overgrown Beaver.

During my apprenticeship at Luton airport in the early 1960’s I saw two of these aircraft seemingly float in & land with a very short run ,not on the runway but on the grass. Quite impressive,I believe they were being ferried on delivery,destination unknown.

whats the deal with the tarp covering the copilots upper canopy?

If nothing else, these things were LOUD!! I MEAN REALLY LOUD 😅😂

In Australia we had caribou in our R.A.A.F. When they got rid of them they should have gone to the Buffalo which is a turboprop powered caribou,we could have even retro fitted the one's we had into buffalo spec airframes,we went with something else a c-127 ( i think)?bye🇦🇺🫡

Flying coffin! I am a pilot and never been airsick - until I rode in one of these!

I have worked on the buffalo years ago. Nice airframe.

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CARIBOU is a very old plane after the Second World War. In 1965, the Americans came to wage war in Asia between Vietnam and America, this Caribou plane came to land in an airfield in northern Laos, then transported me north to central Laos.

Love the Bou! I’m super lucky to have one still flying where I am. STOL master

What a sound !!!

Growing up near an armed forces base, I used to see the other variant of this aircraft, the Buffalo, flying in quite often and landing, I miss seeing it fly through the air. This particular buffalo was used in the search and rescue role and was painted yellow.

I was a meber of 177 airr dispatch in Ausrtralia , we flew and droped a lot of compacts onto the the DZ .

But it was very loud and slow. It looks almost stationery on a clear blue day.

Never understood why trimotors weren't more popular. Seems perfectly balanced, and yet gives you the security of knowing you can lose an engine and still keep flying.

😂 Can't hear it!

These were built back in the year of 1954...

Sounded like a spindryer full of nuts and bolts. Loved it. Then we had the viscount with 4 props making double the noise. Happy days at Birmingham ( UK ) airport.

aircraft for eveeeeeeer !!!!!!!!!!

I like this plane so much that I'm building a model of it to fly in Phoenix simulator. It would have been a bad bad day to find yourself inside its gun sites in WW2.

Love, love, love this beautiful bird. I grew up near Monterey, California and watched many Air West (later Hughes Airwest) Fairchild F-27s operating circa 1968-72.

I was in Brunswick ME 1983-1985 VP 23

What an achievement. The Auster looks magnificent and sounds delightful. A lovely three-point landing by the driver. Congratulations and thank you for keeping our Australian aviation history alive.

I was a 19 year old AW fresh out of A-school in NAS Memphis, TN in 1975. I was slotted for my first US Navy training flight in a P2V Neptune, we all did preflight, but the plane caught fire and my flight was scrubbed. I never got to fly in the Neptune, I went to Sigonella Sicily and patrolled the Med in P3C Orion planes for the rest of my Navy service.

1960's Dad flew out of Los Alimos NAS,Calif. Mad boom era. Dependence Day walk around and inside aircraft still smell the smells, Dad was enroute to Alaska for 2week drills and flew around Anchorage,AK during the Easter Quake, I have 8mm film of that and the fuel farm fires at the airport. Cold war was on full blast, Air raid sirens around LA during the Cuban missile crisis and Dad out flying around. Kinda miss that stuff, always on alert.

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Great job congratulations to all involved in getting this aircraft back in the air it looks stunning 👍🇬🇧🇦🇺

Excellent video I actually visited the museum on the day, as I left Albion Park station I heard the aircraft departing. I’m from the uk and whilst staying in Sydney decided to pay your excellent museum a visit and I have to congratulate you all on a fantastic collection of aircraft at a great museum and can I give a big shout out to both Jerry and Drew for showing me around. I caught a glimpse of me outside the hangar as the aircraft arrived back filming for my KZbin channel the video will be up soon, keep up the great work at the museum and thanks to everyone that I met on the day😀🇦🇺

I had just finished Army Redeye Missile Gunner training at Fort Bliss Texas around March 1969. I don't remember how I found the the 'hop' at El Paso Texas but I landed up on a Neptune that went to New Orleans naval air station. We took off without the support of the 'jets.' I sat in the back after crawling over what I think was the fuel tank. I sat in a 'high chair' below a small skylight above and a small window to my side. From New Orleans I caught another hop to Pensacola on a DC (3, 5?) navy passenger type plane. It had just dropped off naval reservists at New Orleans and my Army buddy and I were the only one's (beside a navy medic) on the return trip to Pensacola. One of the engines (4 engine) was feathered. The pilot I was told was a WW2 fighter pilot. He came back at talked with us as the the controls and door to the cockpit shook back and forth. The medic told us he could fly a plane with out an engine. My buddy and I spent the night in a Navy barracks. At first we were refused but we were told by the pilot of the DC that if there was any problem to contact him. We gave his name to the navy guys and as they called all we could hear was 'yes sir' Blankets and bedding came out and we slept in a navy barracks. Next day we were what you would call 'oddities' for the Navy personel. Also, next morning we were to fly with this pilot to DC as he was flying some VIP's; but on the way to the runway we were in a car with another pilot who was flying to Flatbush New York.. Much closer to my home in NJ and my buddy in Newport RI. We accepted and when we arrived at the airfield low and behold was another Neptune; reservists on their way to Flatbush NY. My BIGGEST REGRET EVER was not accepting the offer to fly in the 'greenhouse.' I was just happy to arrive home on leave alive. Thank you Neptunes! My buddy and I may have been the only Army guy's to have flown on not one but two of these. A few years ago I climbed aboard a Neptune at an air show in Pennyslvania. You paid a buck and got onboard. I finally went into the 'greenhouse' and once again kicked myself for not doing it back when. Great plane and I want to thank Naval Air for their help in returning me home.

I was at the museum that day currently on holiday in Australia from the Uk as I got off the train I watched as the aircraft took off, as luck would have it have it I managed to to enter the museum and move to the front of the hangar as the aircraft returned. I will load up the video when I return to the UK 🇬🇧 next month 👍

I like the video and worked on these at VP-23 1982-1985

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Awesome! I saw the wing once in a hangar at Murray Bridge. Glad it's back doing its thing!

Wie immer wieder toll, Danke. (Den AP aus dem A320 habt ihr aber sehr früh abgeschaltet... 😉) Frohes Neues !