Landing at a logging camp in a Wilderness Seaplanes Grumman Goose

[@conradinhawaii7856]

Wonderful to see these videos of Pacific Coastal's operations up in B.C. I used to fly the sister ship to this Goose, C-GDDJ, back in the '80s in California, between Long Beach Airport and Avalon Harbor for Catalina Flying Boats. Back then she was registered N1257A, and we flew UPS, freight and fresh food to the island, "Twenty-six miles across the sea... ", five days a week. We even flew movie film reels over for the theater at the Wrigley Pavilion, and studio equipment and props when they were doing movie shoots on the island. And our boss's wife was also the mayor of Avalon back then. Hard work, long hours, and the most fun job I ever had. I sure miss flying ol' 57 Alpha. 🙄💖 We used to sometimes anchor off Pebbly Beach after the last flight of the afternoon, half-retract one of the floats like Pacific Coastal's pilots do, and dive off the high wing. Wasn't all work! 😎

[@gordjenkins9574]

Got another couple seasons of flying DDJ left in me and then I'll be missing her as well. If you find yourself on the west coast of Canada in the near future, I'll take you for a ride.

[@billiondollardan]

Dang I'd be afraid of timber in the water. These boys have guts edit: also that dude is a stud when docking. I'm not even that good on my boat lol

[@bradytorin5699]

@Colten Braxton Yea, have been watching on Kaldrostream for years myself =)

[@maddenseth5860]

@Colten Braxton Yup, I have been watching on KaldroStream for since november myself :D

[@K1W1fly]

Thats some pretty slick skills there!

[@bobmiller970]

I love how he gets out

[@RandolphDuk]

Hahah fuck man that tie down was slick af

[@plane15man]

Man, now I want a sea rating.

[@Samuele.Deganello]

hi I hope I have not arrived too late. I need help. I'm looking for photos of the main wheels, "possibly front" I need to see how the lightening holes are made so that I can drawing at CAD and later in 3D printing for a 1/5 rc goose you can help thank you very much

[@KuostA]

what switch is he actuating at the top panel at the end there? i presume it's to electrically spin the blades to get some forward motion to inch in to dock while having the engines off?

[@thebluegreengoose]

Wow. I scaled and built a 1/9 R/C. Flew it once.

[@negve24]

the best airplane in the world

[@xxtwr1]

float collapsed?

[@peterrasmussen2805]

No, by partially retracting the float it makes the plane much more stable for docking, less bobbing in the water. Both wing floats retract right up to the wing tips when flying.

[@K1W1fly]

@@peterrasmussen2805 It also allows them to get the LH wing over the top of the mooring pontoon.

[@KuostA]

how does retracting them make the plane bob less? @@peterrasmussen2805

[@johnboots414]

cut the engines jump out with the rope and tie er down cool I did not not know you could do that. would take some skill in some wind, but i bet he has it

[@docjeffry]

Stand by, I have done this before...

[@diegopiedmont1305]

man jumps out the window while the prob is still moving and while the plane is still moving' im surprised he fit out the widow with balls that big

[@johnboots414]

that was cool

[@jm3464]

johnboots41 flew in the goose in Alaska in the late fifties early sixties with Blm to forest fires best plane ever