Had a tour of this plane in 2012. Constellation C-121A was on display at Planes of Fame air museum, Arizona in 2012 Serial # 48-0613 (Bataan) was the personal transport used by General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean war. She looks much better now.
@drumbum3532 күн бұрын
So now you can put all of your Cats together for a “flight of the cats”. After some formation passes they could each have a solo routine to display their capabilities to the crowd 😁 Oshkosh 2025 would be a good place to debut 😂
@NN-sj9fg5 күн бұрын
Ther will never be another aircraft as beautiful or graceful.
@8829529 күн бұрын
Lovely to see this absolutely gorgeously beautiful old gal still proudly parting the air, and my hat is off to these old gentlemen for working to keep her up there.
@christophercraig2899 күн бұрын
What a beautiful airplane.
@railace381511 күн бұрын
Isn’t 40467 in Yanks?
@jerzykrzykawski58317 күн бұрын
wow!!! piękny.....
@jimmarotta559618 күн бұрын
I remember seeing this bird at Ft Rucker, AL. It was part of a museum display and they flew it out leaving the gear down. I believe this was 1985 or 1986.
@WalterFike28 күн бұрын
Ty rod Lewis for being back this beautiful aircraft and all who worked on her the one and only Lockheed vc121 constellation what a incredible aircraft
@TexasAviation12Ай бұрын
F6F-5 Navy?
@tangatoto362Ай бұрын
As a kid growing up in Kenya in the 50s, our family entertainment on a Sunday was to watch these majestic aircraft attempting to get airborne in the hot and high (5800ft) environment of Nairobi, Usually after removing freight (weight) they’d limp west until the great Rift Valley dropped away allowing them to head north and burn off fuel heading for Khartoum. Fond memories as a kid and way more fun than looking at lions or giraffe 😎
@ligeiasinistra879Ай бұрын
I look a this display of technological romanticism and can't prevent myself from thinking that those three half-octahedrons in Egypt, that tourist trap derision, are just a dismissive bore. The hell with the pyramids. Long live Lockheed!
@lynnallen8648Ай бұрын
Well done Chad and crew...
@AlanCamp-q1sАй бұрын
Is that a hellcat
@brentdykgraaf184Ай бұрын
Absolutely beutiful. Born 50 years to late.
@reaper2345Ай бұрын
Beautiful aircraft
@markshilobrit9756Ай бұрын
Lockheed created the ULTIMATE work of Art when they did the Constellation! And Rod Lewis along with Steve Hinton's company doing the restoration work preserved a LEGEND!! Well done!
@thunderamu9543Ай бұрын
So awesome watching pros at work!👍
@leonardtrevino8436Ай бұрын
What is the status of N422NA these days? Did the interior installation complete? I have an alert set on Flight Radar 24, but have seen no flight in quite a while. Where will it be hangared??
@RobertNagel-s2zАй бұрын
"A beer barrel on a roller skate, run through with an ironing board" is what crew called the Wildcat in the early days of WW2. It's radial engine could take quite of few hits and continue to perform but it was easily outperformed by the A6M Zero
@iancollins5301Ай бұрын
She's Beautiful!
@AmadorCowboyАй бұрын
IMHO the Connie is the most beautiful aircraft ever conceived. Nothing else even comes close. Magnificent! Keep 'er flying.
@Chilly_BillyАй бұрын
Awesome tribute to a great Naval Aviator.
@LMays-cu2hpАй бұрын
Looking beautiful getting ready here to take off.😊
@WalterFikeАй бұрын
He said he would fly across the USA to air shows there are very big air shows in the north east of the United States one big one will be Rochester NY in 2025 hope the Connie will show up I understand it is not cheap to fly these aircraft and restore them also but it would be nice to see
@Any-o-who2 ай бұрын
Played that several times that things a beast. 4-20mm 4-50cal. Don't know how maneuverable it would be in a dog fight but it would only need to tag you once. That thing would have been a nightmare against enemy bombers.
@flyingdentist2 ай бұрын
Legendary plane
@AJTheMetalSonic94962 ай бұрын
Damn, that tigercat sounds menacing.
@swingandsweat50992 ай бұрын
The most beautiful aircraft ever designed. A work of beauty and gracefulness.
@Ottomypall2 ай бұрын
Outstanding visual of Nostalgia and old school technology. A time when America was America. We are sinking into a dark hole that we may never return in a United way meaning THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
@williamthethespian3 ай бұрын
Great documentary; great photography and built in suspense, along with a happy ending. Whew. 👍
@badcornflakes63743 ай бұрын
We live in the age where people spend so much time on their electronic devices and think everything is fake now... Can't even appreciate real stuff like this, art.
@badowski993 ай бұрын
Amazing. Lucky men.
@edcook97473 ай бұрын
Wonderful video! Goosebumps!! A unique presentation that captures us!!!
@bobcornford36373 ай бұрын
I would hope not to fly with such a dysfunctional pair of pilots. Good demonstration of what happens when there's no authority gradient. Also two Captains ...... rarely works well when things go wrong. Democracy doesn't work.
@mattdaugherty78653 ай бұрын
They did and excellent job restoring her and she looks like new!
@humbleguy47263 ай бұрын
Tense moments in the cockpit there, scared, hell no, focused 100 percent to resolve the problem. airmen of the highest calibre.
@АлексейПономаренко-ф2и3 ай бұрын
Красавчик.
@BruceMusto3 ай бұрын
Beautiful machine. Just gorgeous.
@geoffreyparker9263 ай бұрын
What a beauty! ❤🤠
@lineshaftrestorations79033 ай бұрын
The connie is one of very few aircraft that looks fast and graceful just sitting still.😊
@jeffersonpacker18413 ай бұрын
That was a lesson in cockpit resource management right there. And their decision making process was superb, especially under stress.
@LBRS2nd3 ай бұрын
Look at you. Aint you pretty! ❤
@jonathanparle84293 ай бұрын
So what was the cause of the nose gear problem after all that?
@shootfirst20973 ай бұрын
The startup is just pure MAGIC
@catranger013 ай бұрын
It would have been nice if they showed what the root cause of the problem with the front gear was.
@pirateatfourty3 ай бұрын
beautiful airplane but the pilots are rest home material has to be a point where you are too old to fly safely,
@JohnDavies-u9z3 ай бұрын
I was lucky to see Connie fly over my place here on the West Wales coast, heading for home after attending a Berlin airlift commemoration some years ago, not high up, it was a memorable site.
@Sky348833 ай бұрын
Is this real or fake
@jimstevens29813 ай бұрын
Great Video showing the crews experience in handling the nose gear fault. They did it successfully by memory. Nice job! With USAF markings on the beautiful Connie I'm not surprised AF pilots would react and operate that way. in which the reactions were done by memory and not a checklist. They mentioned a checklist for this situation but never utilized it. Very dangerous evolution. Navy Pilots of the Lockheed Constellation would have immediately broke out the NATOPS Checklist for this condition and reacted accordingly with most likely the same results. Moreover, using the checklist is the better guarantee of success rather than using memory and supposed knowledge of the AC systems. Checklists are proven and certainly more reliable than supposed knowledge and memory, but great video and nice job!