DAKS OVER NORMANDY Arrivals At Duxford

[@ArchFundy]

Thank you for not destroying an interesting vid with crappy music.

[@landsnailproject2875]

Your right, no Glen Miller, that would have spoilt it!!!

[@ybirch9735]

Nothing like the sound of DC3 engines "enhancing the audio"! And yes, I'm a PlaneSavers fan!!

[@legin999]

Shame about the idiots with clattering multi-shot cameras who don't know how to turn the shutter sound off.........

[@BJBFOREST]

Yes, I'd rather hear useful commentary about the aircraft rather than the white noise of someones favourite music...

[@welovejkl4592]

legin999 One can’t turn off the sound of a mechanical shutter in a DSLR camera. Maybe some day the person who shot this fine video invests in a shotgun mic which rejects sounds coming from the sides for your listening pleasure, but idiots he/she and the photographers are not.

[@aleetaalice4613]

The Grand Old Warrior Queens, thank you for reminding us of nobler times!

[@Jerry-n7u]

I was a flight mechanic on C47s usaf in the 60s hard to believe that they are still flying

[@dannyvdmoo]

GREAT ... !!! freedom planes

[@christianmeynard4952]

NUL ! Ce n'est pas parce qu'un avion a touché des roues qu'il a atterri ! (Toutes les séquences sont coupées trop tôt.) Very BAD ! It's not because a plane touched the wheels that it landed ! (All sequences are cut too soon.)

[@stitch43]

A fitting tribute to the people who are not with us anymore and I respect the few who are left as my hero's .GOD BLESS THEM ALL AMEN

[@summoningdark216]

We don't deserve the sacrifice these young men made for us. Their ghosts must weep at the mess the world is today. Just remember, and remember, and remember again! God bless. Always in our hearts.

[@ukrainiipyat]

The Hungarian bird in Malev colours is actually a Soviet built Li-2, a license built copy of the DC-3 that was used in the USSR and E European countries until the 1960s. That Li-2 is the last example flying, there was one in Russia but it was destroyed in a crash ca. 2000.

[@dreadnaught3894]

June 6, 1944. Didn't like School Dinners so as usual went home at Midday and Mum's first words were, "There's something going on . . . planes have been going over all morning . . . . ". Six o'clock news confirmed the Landings and while avoiding optimistic forecasting gave us enough to hope that the Allies were there to stay. Ever remembering. . . . . . .ever grateful.

[@russellfield939]

The Vets are getting few and far between, but the goonies are going strong! Thank You for your Service!

[@unclestuka8543]

What are Goonies ?

[@neillh]

Uncle Stuka it’s a nickname that Americans called the C-47 (DC-3)

[@progwolf12]

Wow! What a honour and privilege to see these ships assemble.

[@henryvagincourt]

Well said.

[@Deltic1951]

This is a great video of a unique occasion. I hadn't realised that so many DC3's were still flying.

[@pbrobotspbrobots1710]

look up ice pilots buffalo airways canada

[@PaulO-hf6yt]

This lot flew over our village yesterday 15 strong in waves of three, in an absolutely awesome display. Great video, thank you.

[@michaeloneil2379]

Paul O God save the queen. From sunny California

[@deathmisser85]

You lucky sod

[@michaeloneil2379]

@@deathmisser85 sometimes a little too lucky my friend. 106 Fahrenheit today, always greener on the other side of the pond

[@jamesglenn2006]

That is some pretty great footage, so many amazing DC3/C47's. Thanks for sharing.

[@lionbill]

I live in the U.S. & have been following "Plane Savers" from Mikey McBryan of Buffalo Airways. As of today the DC-3 they've been restoring "DTD" is on schedule to fly over and join the many others in the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of D-day . Thanks a lot for this Great video & Safe Flying to all!

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

lionbill WRONG !!!! It will first fly tomorrow in HONOR of D Day !!!! It will NOT fly to England !!!! Not enough time and the plane will need some flying hours before they take off trans Atlantic !!!! DUUUUUUH!!!!!! Pay attention dummy !!!!

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

@dustisdeadbodies85 Yep !!!! Sad that so many people cannot seem to understand what is actually said or written !!!! Are people really that disconnected from reality they cannot listen or understand what is written ?????? People really do need to PAY ATTENTION to what is written or what is said !!!!!

[@petebraven1522]

If all the tales of where they've been were also gathered together in a book,.. or several. What a truly emotional gathering. That so many are still flying says a lot for the design and what it means to so many.

[@sportyster1]

My late uncle Eric who was a British army air corp now paratrooper regiment died just after d-day and still have his parachute cap badge

[@762comanche]

I woke up this morning to an unmistakable drone overheard Jumped outta bed to see 5 of these beauties at 1700 ft fly over my house in Brighton heading for Utah Thank you best way to wake up

[@dragonmeddler2152]

You got that right, friend. About the only thing that gets me out of bed early is the sound of a round engine coming in overhead.

[@ThirdDegreeWitchExplores]

my heart swells with pride seeing these old birds coming back .. as already said , thanks for not ruining the moment with music , i live just up the road from where the band of brothers left our soil that fateful morning 75 years ago.

[@2011mendo]

Now,,, could you imagine, 900+C47s bearing paratroopers: 5,409 fighters: 1,645 medium bombers: 3,467 HEAVY bombers 1,500 gliders bearing infantry Plus, sub-spoters, reconaissance, smoke screener layers! NOW THAT WAS D-DAY, 75yrs ago.

[@2011mendo]

And just for information 2,727 battleships, destroyers, cruisers And other large landing craft 2,606 smaller landing craft OPERATION OVERLORD

[@cf6282]

Beautiful display of all the airfields across England at Duxford. It is in the US building. Massive planning required to get it all coordinated. Great job on the met department to get the correct weather prediction and delay the start by one day. Saw a display at Dover too directing all the ships impressive. Done by the same chap that coordinated evacuation of Dunkirk.

[@ditzydoo4378]

at the 4:02 mark is "Betsy's Biscuit Bomber", a C-47B built in 1943. It was flown from Paso Robles California making whistle stops along the way over a months time. It flew to Duxford England, coming by way of the Greenland route. The aircraft is part of the Estrella Warbirds Museum collection here in Paso Robles California. This aircraft's last U.S. missions were flying the Berlin airlift, it was sold to Israel and was later purchased back from the Israeli Air Force and refurbished, there is an Israeli language sign painter in the interior that roughly says, "The only replacement for a Dakota, is another Dakota". The plane was a military transport it's whole life and never converted for civilian us and has all of it's original equipment to include the equipment it had in 1943 for towing gliders.

[@BillSedgwick101]

It's pity the Plane Savers DTD can't be there but I'm looking forward to seeing her in the sky tomorrow

[@mrme2483]

I cant wait, gonna be great to see.

[@garethwilliams851]

Nice to see the pilots respecting these old ladies, and putting them down gently!!

[@Cholseyroyal]

Gareth Williams Every landing was nigh on perfect and I guess there wa a bit of a cross wind as many seemed to drop the port wing prior to landing.

[@w.w.2restorations.vehicles698]

God Bless the boys who went out the rear door of these aircraft on 6 June 1944 and saved the world from tyranny!!

[@Patmofar]

And the guys in the Horsa Gliders that so many Dakotas towed behind them that day, releasing the glider tow just before the paratroopers jumped from the Dakota.

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

up till a couple years ago, a DC3 would fly over the house. it was a east/west route. freight service, low and slow. hear it before I saw it.

[@cuttersgoose]

Our very own W7 whisky7 made the trans Atlantic flight from geneseo ny ...hail from NY EUROs.!!!

[@Rene1964]

Now we can name the field Daksford.

[@peterfullard]

"Outstanding," Thankyou ..

[@davidchristensen6908]

What a wonderful sounding plane. I grew up near the Portland Oregon airbase. I could name a DC3 just by hearing it before seeing it. Same with many of the proper planes of wwii. The DC3 was and is such a work horse and they just keep going. They are part of the trifecta created by the USA that were big at winning the war. The trifecta is DC3, 2 1/2 ton truck and the Liberty ship. These 3 were the war winning trifecta developed by the USA. Allowing the allies to resupply faster and better then anyone.

[@johnmacleod9310]

Too few commentators on the US contribution actually identify the value of these contributions, particularly the first two. American trucks were simple, powerful and reliable in comparison to many other trucks of the time. The DC2/C47/Dakota was at least a generation ahead of anything else available as a troop carrier or cargo aircraft and not only fit for purpose over a broad range of activities but rugged and reliable. While in other classes of aircraft other countries had planes at least as good and often much better than US designs, no other country had anything which was remotely as fit for purpose as the DC3-based planes. Its rôles may not be considered glamorous, but it's certainly one of the very greatest planes of all time, and in my view the greatest US aerial contribution to victory in WW2.

[@garethgoodchild2643]

Nice story on CNN about D Day Doll. She flew all the way from California to Duxford. 5 refuelling stops!

[@Nialll138]

one flew over my house 2 weeks ago, beautiful sound. it the "civil air transport" one seen at 3:42

[@dirtylatte]

I wonder how many aircraft built in 2019 will still be flying 85 years later. Nice video, and many thanks.

[@friendofcoal]

Amazingly they're still as beautiful today as they were on that eventful day. Thanks for posting...

[@alasdairblack393]

I wonder how many 737 max will be flying in 75 years time! What an awesome sight today but what would it have been like by comparison 75 years ago. Thank you to all those who are making this commemoration possible..

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

Alasdair Black Hey dumb ass remember the Boeing B52 is still flying 67 years later. KC135's are still flying 60 years later and the 737 first flew 55 years ago and are still flying !!!! 737Max will be flying years from now and the 747 first flew in 1969,50 years later and they are not going away soon either !!! How many other companies can say that ??????? Boeing has been building planes for 102 years and I think they know what the hell they are doing !!!!! DUUUH!!!!!

[@burlatsdemontaigne6147]

Wilbur Finnigan _____ Please take your childish nonsense elsewhere Wilbur. You're an embarrassment to your Countrymen.

[@69Phuket]

@@burlatsdemontaigne6147 He's a chevy Guy. ;p

[@flyingsquirrelsim]

I could watch this forever. Oh wait I am!!!!

[@leedsman54]

It's marvellous to see so many of the pretty ancient craft still in the air. Well done to those who maintain them.

[@dafyddiago]

The Douglas C-47 'Dakota', also known as the DC3 (civilian version), was last produced in March 1947.... Not bad for a still flying aircraft ;-)

[@lenscap8925]

Can't even imagine drone of planes on the island of Brittan during the war years...to hear radial engine today you go and watch, it's so unusual. Couple of months back I videoed a dc3 at Miami International, went back and did a number check on the plane, it was delivered to USAF during war, and still flying today

[@mothmagic1]

That is so true. Where I live we seem to get quite a few T-6 and Yak 52/CJ6 overflights in the summer months and I always have to stop my gardening to just enjoy the sound.

[@vdel9036]

Nice old birds. I'm close to the airport they land for D-Day meeting. Some of them make the show. Lucky...

[@andyjurkiewicz1990]

Watched all these traveling to the French coast on Flight Radar 24

[@dragonmeddler2152]

I could watch these beautiful C-47s take off and land all day. They were and remain about as perfect a flying machine ever built. As for the lack of 'crappy music' added, I agree with the previous comment, but wouldn't mind hearing Sousa's Stars And Stripes Forever in the bg.

[@jeffwalther3935]

These magnificent aircraft first managed to address and peoduce the right combination of relatively low-cost, low-altitude, slow but steady, safe and comfortable long distance travel for the first time in history. The DC-3's arriving here as they are is uniquely, outstandingly fit to remember the corresponding miracle of the Normandy invasion of 06061944.

[@randy1701]

I REALLY need to win a lottery to get myself one of these as my personal plane! Thanks for the beautiful video.

[@georgegagnon4566]

What an awesome video. Sat in the jump seat of a DC3 1968 used for ATRating many times. When I found out my father in law flew the C 47 pulling gliders we had a lot to talk about. I miss him.

[@nancyhobson9710]

Thanks so much for sharing! Things seen once in a lifetime. Thank God the Allies won that war! The alternative doesn't bear contemplation!

[@landsnailproject2875]

WOW! So much polished aluminium and olive drab!! What a sight. Thanks SO much for this video.

[@hellybelly2727]

saw them fly over and land at Duxford when i was on bus coming home from work and some a few minutes ago,what an awesome sight!

[@danielledykgraaf6483]

Thank you. Great video......thanks for letting the radials be the music. The DC 3 in my opinion is the most significant aircraft in history next to the Wright flyer.

[@pieterkotze7728]

What a piece of flying art. Beautiful

[@TumzDK]

Thank you so much for sharing this! Greetings from Denmark :-)

[@MrTimodon]

Greetings from Finland! We all take part in the WW2 except Sweden! But swedish people was helping Finland!

[@TheBadRaven]

Suoerb, thanks SO much for posting, I was out of the country so my only chance was an upload!

[@alanvonau278]

It is heartwarming to see so many of the old work horse in aviation still in good shape and flying.

[@serg2963]

Very well done, I love this video! Saved my favorite for last, Miss Montana :-)

[@FantaZ4U]

And an Amazing Air show with the most respected aircraft in the history of aviation! Again, job well done! 75 years later, they can do in all over again if needed! This is True history! And most of the Allies can show up to represent it again. Some never could! BUT MOST ALLIES CAN !

[@enna490]

I was at the show - it was awsome- seeing all those Daks together You got a lovely video - mine weren’t as good -well done

[@nethanelmasters5170]

So many beautiful C-47/ DC-3 would have loved to have been their to watch them all coming in to land and the one's that also took off again and then land again. I watched a D-DAY C-47 /DC-3 From plane savers do it's first high speed taxi's in 27 years it was great to watch it coming to life. Joe said it was hard to keep her on the ground she wanted to fly.

[@jaaping]

Very nice old planes.

[@mothmagic1]

Considering the type first flew in 1935 it's good to see so many still airworthy. Has to be one of the most beautiful multi engine piston aircraft ever built.

[@brecht2006]

On 6:45, do hear a mustang on the back?ground?

[@deepakgogoi5975]

Greetings from India. Thank you for sharing this video. It was a privilege to watch these old warhorses, so lovingly maintained, still fly so regally seven decades later. A fitting tribute to this great aircraft and the men who flew them in war and later, in peace.

[@johnnytenjobs]

Lovely landings.

[@britishpatriot812]

I was going to say that they brought all those graceful old ladies down very gently.

[@unclestuka8543]

Happy Landings, some perfect, some not quite.

[@TheBadRaven]

Love the loooonnnngggg one main wheel landing, I assume the pilot DID get the other one to grace England with its presence? :-)

[@mrcorsairf4u417]

All These beautyful "Rosinenbombers", love the sound of their radials 😍😍. Thx for sharing this nice video😎👍

[@knightflightvideo]

Great to see all those Daks landing at Duxford. Great video too! :)

[@knightflightvideo]

@Mike Cruickshanks Yes, I totally agree with you!

[@francoisde-martrin-donos6167]

Cela va nous rappelle le pilotage aux palonnier tout en finesse avec un arrondie en finale. .

[@altonriggs2352]

Love it..may there ever be a DC3 in the air.

[@ryanmoeller3308]

EXCELLENT video!! Thanks for sharing this footage with us. God bless all those who have served and are serving. Keep up the GREAT work. 👍👍

[@tflahant]

Ohhhh I'm in heaven !!!!

[@willatkins9686]

All 15 flew across the Atlantic, 4 or 5 stages. Great turnout, well done.

[@alexandre210613]

Will Atkins they flew by Island ?

[@willatkins9686]

@@alexandre210613 Canada, Greenland ,Iceland ,scotland . old WW2 route.

[@alexandre210613]

Will Atkins merci 🙏

[@mudplugging]

Fantastic stuff. Beachy Head for me tomorrow!

[@RyanGribble]

Watching these birds return 75 years later is amazing.

[@stefenski]

one of them landed on the grass

[@tinkermouse-scottrussell3738]

Thank you, all for your service. So this man may live free. Play Safe From Elliot Lake Ontario Canada.

[@woooster17]

Such an impressive feat of organisation and determination by all concerned.. it honours all those that fought and gave their lives 75 years ago..

[@peterstuart1617]

I wish I still lived in the UK would have been a wonderful sight to see

[@kevinnapier7845]

Loving the MALEV aircraft

[@jazzclarinet2006]

I could watch and listen to this all day.

[@michelledauvergne6830]

Wonderful and immortal DC-3 ! Thanks for sharing !

[@barrythemod]

Wonderful,many thanks for this :-)

[@robertlinkston3703]

What a great episode today, thank you Mikey. I’m sure gonna miss them after tomorrow.

[@ThePorridgeGobbler]

How fantastic to see these Old Lady's gracing the air.

[@johnmann4202]

My unit of the R.A.F. 240 OCU. Used them on the Berlin Air Lift. 1948. Great Aircraft. To work on.

[@sanseijedi]

Many thanks for a throat-catching video. Well done to the pilots & crew.

[@dianamarquez4774]

Paul D! You are a fortunate person and stctch43, a most profound statement.

[@petersearls3635]

Good to remember!!!

[@UKPete]

Great video thank you for sharing it!!

[@wideyxyz2271]

beautiful and the sounds!!! perfect footage!

[@badguy5554]

These C-47's were a "mainstay" during the Vietnam War. They were used as in an "Attack" version, AC-47 and also in an "Electronic Warfare" version, EC-47.

[@alyciamarrison2916]

Gobsmacked. So wish I could be there tomorrow to see this once in a lifetime event! & must be the most DC3s ever in Dufords history at one time. Must be a mamouth logistical headache at Duxford getting these off together Im sure Kents skies tomorrow will be filled with the wonderful warm drone of these through the skies hopefully all on a safe journey to Normandy as a memorial to all

[@stevebroughton4787]

The DC-3/C-47 is just timeless, still looks and sounds good.

[@leedsman54]

It's just such a classic shape,what an aircraft should look like. The Mosquito is another one.

[@tangatoto362]

.........pity about the infernal clatter of a camera shutter......for planes moving this slow surely one or two shots would suffice .....AND make the video enjoyable .......there is other footage elsewhere on KZbin that is not as annoying....

[@badguy1481]

Hey...Love the grass landings. The C-47 's be like: "Hey...That's my natural turf. I was BUILT for grass landings. Take your paved runways and stick'em up where the sun don't shine!"

[@brianpoole4369]

You tube. "A bridge too far take off"...it's from the eighties film of the same name...it's the British and American airborne parachute drop over Arnhem...3 times the size of the d day drop...it's absolutely jaw dropping!!

[@fordprefect7583]

One of these C-47s flew VERY low over West Berkshire on 2nd June. Vaguely heading in the direction of Duxford, but 100 miles short of the landing strip. Does anyone out there know where it may have come from to be on that flight path?

[@lamonstra1464]

Duxford is great. Went to school there when I was a young exchange student and the airfield 'museum' was really primitive. Went back about 10 years ago. These planes don't really look like they want to come down. They seem to land reluctantly.

[@rudehr]

Some of them flew over our town this morning en route to Portsmouth. 13:19 N24320 Crashed in 1954, 10 fatalities aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19541222-0

[@treefiddy5092]

My father flew in a Dc.3 from Gerbrolter to Egypt during the war in 1942 and later in India in 1944 He was in the RAF in the metrologist office as weather man who went up to look at cloud formations and then rote out a report and forecastd the weather.

[@captainkttyhwk]

The biggest thank you to all the heros of june 6th 1944. Thank you from presque isle michigan USA.

[@saemushailstorm3135]

its like the Call went out , & from all over these old birds heard, leaving their usual comfortable places to assemble - to re-assemble as in the Old Days & Past Times , to fly out in Duty for Final Flight - - - 'We were waiting , We hear the Call ~ We Come

[@olspanner]

Fabulous video , great to see so many Dakotas together.