Planes That Changed the World 2of3 Douglas DC3 720p HDTV x264 AAC MVGroup org

[@adonismarrero7159]

the DC 3 will go in history as the only plane that will still flying along jet liners of the future 100 years after getting design and build,so far got the world record for flying hours around the world and by continuing flying in more than 14 countries

[@michaelhill9555]

Not much brings me to tears.....this brought me to tears. Thanks soooo much for such a wonderful story, so beautifully told. You all restored a beautiful old bird, and in doing so, you restored my faith in humanity. True Story

[@badguy1481]

The BEAUTY of the DC-3: It could land and takeoff from very short, unimproved airfields. In fact the rear tail wheel provided a rudder like effect that made takeoffs, from even grass fields...very controllable and very stable. THAT is probably the MAIN reason DC-3's have lasted so long in service. There are very few aircraft, with the cargo carrying capacity of the DC-3, that can do that!

[@helsinkiaviation9915]

The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3. Btw my channel has a Full DC-3 Finnish airlines flight for anyone that's interested

[@craigsharp3284]

best quote but i don't know who. "the best replacement for a dc-3 is another dc-3.

[@connormclernon26]

Airplanes come and airplanes go, but the DC-3 flies forever

[@ad356]

fantastic, fantastic design, probably the best airplane ever built and flown..... the longest career which spans OVER 70 years and still going today. there are many types of older aircraft that continue to be rebuilt and flown but none in the numbers of the dc3 and still being flown for revenue today. what a great airplane, a legend really.

[@Binotto]

We have 2 flying in Brazil.TAM museum São PAulo, and VARIG MUseum Rio Grande do Sul. I fly one this in PROJETO JARI, DC-3 pp-cdt

[@3865ron]

Did one of those have green trim and the name "Rose" on the nose?

[@OumuamuaOumuamua]

Connor McLernon one of those planes the come and ago was the md11

[@wrightflyer7855]

Absolutely--the DC-3 (almost all of those called DC-3s are actually C-47s) is not limited by airframe fatigue fatigue life as so many other aircraft are. It will live forever.

[@tycobandit]

“One day Donald Douglas went to a meeting and looked around the table and all of them were accountants and lawyers. There were no engineers, no scientists, no visionaries”

[@billolsen4360]

He was attending a funeral

[@desertblade1874]

And now Boeing is just like that RIP

[@31pilot]

The first time I ever flew in an airplane, when I was 7 years old in 1952 and that airplane was a DC-3 , it sure was an experience that to this day have not forgotten.

[@f-84driver65]

I have about 9.5 hours logged as co-pilot in my USAF official DD form-whatever in the Goon. Hell of an airplane.

[@joeg5414]

how many you up to now?????

[@bluemarshall6180]

It is Sir.

[@FPVREVIEWS]

my grand dad flew them and said they were the best aircraft ever. he had flown everything from jenny's to jets.

[@mikemaurpal]

I am in my 70s and the DC3 has always been my favourite aircraft. In 1958 I and my family flew to Malta, My father was to take up a new naval posting, and decided to take his family with him. We flew out by Eagle Airways and the flight took seven and a half hours with a fuel stop at Nice. Our flight took us though very bad weather until Nice and everyone on board was air sick, we did not fly over the Alps, we flew through them, then from Nice to Malta we had a wonderful flight, blue skies and sunshine. In the 1990s my new wife and I went back to Malta in an airbus, a 3 hour flight and while there we went to the malta air museum in the main hall was a DC3 being rebuilt, The wife and I were permitted to go inside and look around. she was not Eagle Airways, but she could have been, she was beautiful. Whe we left I was given a photo of the aircraft which is still on my shelf in the bedroom, when I look at it I am reminded of my first flying experience some 60 years ago, and today with all these modern aircraft in the air, I still feel that the DC3 is a safer aircraft than anything flying today. Mike Palmer.

[@Crashed131963]

Lots of credit should go to Pratt and Whitney for making a great engine for the DC-3.

[@rogeliolopez2190]

You need good pratrs to make whitney happy

[@trangenusa]

There is another documentary of a company in the midwest that restores these, and they have replaced the Radial Engines with Turbo-Props now.

[@Impreza_S206]

the “Super” DC-3s

[@blbaker6967]

68/69 spent a year in Pleiku on the gunship version of this old bird. Almost 1,000 hrs and she brought us home every night!

[@CFITOMAHAWK2]

Fuck yeahh!!!

[@joshu6394]

Whenever I hear the word "airplane", what comes to mind isn't the 777 or A380 or F-22.. It's the DC-3!

[@etkim4108]

WW2 planes: bullets through the wing no problem 2019 planes: crack in the window "may day we are going down"

[@exscape]

Wings aren't pressurized. You can fly a 2019 plane with a small hole in it, but people on board will need oxygen masks.

[@etkim4108]

Dude I'm a engineer I know how planes work I'm joking

[@sonerbihan]

I don't see the connection between a pierced wing and a pierced window in a pressurised airliner The DC3/C47 is not pressurised so a hole in the fuselage wouldn't affect the flight it is nevertheless better to compare identical elements Is nae ?

[@psychic_beth]

23:49 "would you like a cigarette, sir?" LOL imagine hearing that on a plane today

[@branon6565]

Bethany Bloomfield...I remember hearing it in the early 80's when I was a kid on a flight to Chicago on an MD-11...the whole back part of the plane was considered the "smoking section"...

[@johneastman1617]

24:29 “Coffee, Tea, or Me...”.

[@hddun]

I got out of college 1970 and took a Road Warrior job. which required a lot of Airline Travel. Back then, guys wore suits and ladies worn very nice silk dresses and heels. Seems the mid-80's it started to go tacky--guys in sweat suits and ladies in just about anything off the Clearance Rack at Macy's. By 2005 when I retired, I was pretty done with air travel. Now I drive almost everywhere.

[@vincesbardella3838]

Or a free beer and cigar, as on Mohawk Airlines' DC-3 , "Gaslight service", in 1962.

[@vincesbardella3838]

Naturally, the beer would be Utica Club.

[@flightfernando]

Basler Bt 67(DC 3 w/PT6 engine) good for start up cargo feeder lines and cary 30 pax, more cheaper than EMB 120 . WoW

[@Sailor376also]

Cargo door, beef up the floor for heavy loads,, AND redesign the landing gear for rough fields. The landing gear today is the easy way, the quick way to identify a DC-3 vs a C-47

[@andrzejborowski4301]

And still nothing about the Soviet version of DC3...called Li2....thousend of them were built as Douglas gave a licence very early to the Soviets...if not they would build it anyway. The quality and performance was "a little" different but in the East Block countries these Li2 were used also ..until ealrly 70ties by the airlines.

[@Crashed131963]

The Russian copied everything . They even copied the B-29.

[@Eugenijus81]

@@Crashed131963 it wasn't just a copy - Soviets have really purchased license to build DC-3 in late 1930th. Actually, they have purchased lots of different technologies from the US at that time, starting from good processing and up to aeronautics.

[@noorhasan6663]

That shine on propeller,, looks like DC -3 smiling on modern airliners

[@nightwatchrenband]

Catalina Flying just recently gave up their DC-3's. Someone was willing to invest several millions to refit and update them and the offer was just too good to resist. They are now delivering cargo in Africa. "So Long. So long, you ancient pelican." -The High and the Mighty (novel), a novel by Ernest K. Gann

[@century2298]

Sad to see them go, but glad they live on.

[@marryellen7713]

When I was a little girl. Midway Airport in Chicago IL. had an observation deck on top of the terminal. It stretched the whole length of the terminal. A plain would taxi up front and load passengers. As we watched a plane loaded and traveled North to the runway. It must have gotten instructions to go the the South end. It turned around a distance away. As it procceded pass us again. The brakes must have locked up. Directly in front of me. The DC3 went up on its nose. It stood there for a few seconds and dropped back onto its landing gear. A minute later the door opened. The stewardess calmly stepped out and helped all the passengers down the steps. Everyone acted like it was just and ordinary happening.

[@NewDawnReaper]

Wow thats some badass altitute towards a grave situation. Today everyone would be scared and sueing everyone. Greetings dear madam!

[@alanross712]

Entering the United States Navy in May 1965, sent off to Air Traffic Control school learning all about airplanes and we learned anything Douglas was solid and with little or no failures. Flew a couple of times while stationed in Japan from Atsugi Naval Air Station where we had two DC-3s'and two DC-5. After two years in Japan, reassigned to Naval Air Station Key West where there were two C-47. The one constant for the ATC community was you knew it would leave and come back in one piece. A beautiful airplane and a superb video.

[@MrTriplenicklesix]

It flew nearly the distance to the Sun from earth just during the Berlin Airlift. That’s amazing!!!

[@josephstalin7995]

Greta Whatshersernane would not be impressed.

[@RUHappyATM]

Well, wt. restriction makes sense for stewardess. Save on fuel and fitter in times of emergency!

[@Bnkrobber]

Ten thousand years from now when an amnesiac society "invents" flight for "the first time", they will come up with something amazingly similar. Form follows function. It's a classic.

[@badguy1481]

The DC-3 (C-47) may have played an even BIGGER role in the Vietnam War than it did during WWII and Korea. It was a multi-purpose aircraft that provided fire support...Electronic Warfare...and...Psychological warfare capabilities. It is said that 90% of the B-52 bombing mission were due to information provided by EC-47's. Also, NO ground bases were ever overrun by the enemy while an AC-47 gunship was supplying fire support over the base. The C-47 may just be the MOST important aircraft (other than the B-52) in pursuing that war.

[@badguy1481]

@@soulsphere9242 True..there were many more C-47's involved in WWII than Vietnam. BUT...Those aircraft were used to haul cargo and people. And not to down play the importance of those functions in winning the war. But...I don't believe any of those aircraft fulfilled direct combat missions like the C-47 did in Vietnam...both the AC and EC versions. To that extent, the C-47's in Vietnam played an even bigger role in war by playing a bigger role in the fighting.

[@badguy1481]

@@soulsphere9242 True...Logistics and supply is part of war....but in WWII... it was ONE "role". The C-47 in Vietnam had THAT "role"...But it also had an expanded role as a gunship, an electronic warfare aircraft...and (although I didn't mention it above) a Psyop aircraft. That's why I said it had a bigger role (actually multiple roles, plural) than the C-47 as used in WWII. And you're right that other aircraft could, and some did, the same functions in Vietnam. But we are talking about the C-47 and what it did in Vietnam in contrast to what it did in WWII.

[@pungkasisnandar]

The first Indonesian Airlines was using DC-3 Dakota in 1948 during Dutch military aggression.

[@jazldazl9193]

Ahhh, the good ol days when you were fired for being overweight

[@telsport]

Gooneybird, the A 10 Warthog and the Whispering Death B 52. amazing.

[@steveandrushko75]

That was an outstanding documentary

[@martentrudeau6948]

It's beautiful plane to this day, and 73 years after WW2 some are still flying today. That's what you call good quality.

[@styldsteel1]

Yup. thats because it's made in America. It if were made in China, the plastic yolk would break off and the pilot would be holding it in his hand after one year.

[@SuperBaick]

@@styldsteel1 Your comment shows you know nothing about aerospace engineering, nor about engineering at all.

[@styldsteel1]

@@SuperBaick I don't have to know a dam thing about aerospace engineering or engineering. I have no idea what you are talking about, nor do I have any interesting in what you are clicking and clacking about. We made superior products decades ago. My comment still stands. Chinese made ANYTHING is shit. We should have learned and frankly, We the People never learned from History. Period. End of story, and by the way? End of conversation.

[@elyserva7903]

@@styldsteel1 Same can be said about your trains! Built 100 years ago and still in use today while the Chinese are already using HSTs. LOL

[@garymorris1856]

In addition to the DC-3 being one of the most influential and versatile airplanes in history, in my opinion, it is also an absolutely beautiful aircraft.

[@PatKittle]

Agreed -- beautiful curves.

[@styldsteel1]

Yep, next the the DC-10 and the L10-11

[@minitrundle]

Watch Ice Pilots NWT. They use them as passenger and cargo planes.

[@MalteseWrigley]

Adam Shellard ok

[@boggy7665]

17:42 - Triangle & three-leaf clover symbol: Cities Service Oil Co., predecessor of Citgo.

[@malcolmwolfe671]

81-85 flew 800hrs in the DC 3 with the IAF. 5 engine failures but all forgiving.

[@devonjarvis6661]

5 engine failures in 800 hrs. There's a reason that commercial aviation uses turbines for almost everything.......

[@robertcampbell9946]

This plane has to be the best plane of all time. The legendary DC3 .

[@cathompson58]

We are seeing the same thing in Medicine they experienced at Douglas Aircraft.. I can feel the frustration of Donald Wills Douglas .. our meetings in the past were Clinical people and a rare business person .. we had some engineers and microbiology people.. lab specialists .. we discussed quality and the best way to do procedures.. now it is virtually all business and they suck the money and fun out of medicine .. everything is profit and everything is the poorest quality that will barely do the job ... no visionaries except who will buy out who.. expansion of the business and eventual sale for profit .. ugh 😑

[@jdh91741]

DC history: (Yes this is his real name) Walter Buchterkirchen of San Marino CA was the parts manager for Maddox Lincoln car dealership in Los Angeles. Walter's boss had him purchase some Ford Tri-Motors. (I think Walter told me 3 Tri-Motors) Mr. Maddox called this fledgling company Trans World Airlines. Later Walter Buchterkirchen was the first purchasing agent for the Douglas DC aircraft. (I think he told me 33 DC's) for TWA. Later Walter was based in TWA's New York office. Occupying the office next to him was Charles Lindbergh. For years TWA advertised on their planes: "The Lindbergh Line." In his nineties, Walter would always wear fine suits and the best silk ties. Casual dress for him was unthinkable. This was my ex-father in laws dad. Both are gone now.

[@gerryortiz7276]

Long live the queen of the skies

[@drjury]

In 1957 I was flown in a DC3 from McCord AFB, Washington state, to Fairbanks, Alaska with my US Army duffle bag and a wonderment for the future. This was the beginning of an 18 month duty at Allan Army Airfield, Ft. Greely, Alaska. Interesting flight at night. No attendants, no food, no cocktails ... A Blanket. But I remember the trip.

[@billolsen4360]

The Marines are the same way! No cocktails on our flights...not even a humble can of Miller Lite

[@danielledykgraaf6483]

No other single aircraft....save the Wright flyer......has had such a massive impact in aviation history....still being written....D.D.

[@joeg5414]

but but but what about Dumonts 14bis?! Sorry I couldn't help but mock the Brazilians.

[@hddun]

Strangest story of a DC-3 to me is the death of Ricky Nelson in 1985 crash of his personal DC-3. The first finding of the FAA was pilot error. Then that was changed to a problem with the DC-3. Eventually using eyewitness accounts of people who the plane actually flew over in east Dallas, the findings were changed to none to do with the airplane. Turned out that Nelsons DC-3 had a modification of the heating system. The heater for the cabin was located in the back. It caught fire and burned away all the control cables / equipment in the tail section. Tragic but nothing to do with the pilots flying or the construction of the DC-3. The mystery was solved because a farmer in east Dallas County which was on the flight path into Dallas, testified that he could see large fire and much smoke coming from the back of the airplane as it passed over him.

[@docchocobo]

One wonders, with the planes we have today, could we save Berlin if we had to do it all over again? Do we have ANYTHING as reliable as this? I hesitate to give an answer...

[@ldnwholesale8552]

Probably enough DC3s left to do so!!

[@jimthvac100]

They would probably just do large parachute drops. faster.

[@nikolaospeterson2495]

My adopted father was head of the patent department of Douglas (later to become McDonnell Douglas). This latte rmerger had screwed him out of his pension from $2000 monthly to a mere $120! That was still worth more money than today (2019)!

[@cvtt3194]

Whenever I think of a plane, the image of a DC3 comes to mind.

[@robertcombs55]

USAF C-47D 415772; our chase plane for Balloon launches; Detachment 31, 6th Weather Wing; Goodfellow AFB Texas; you could eat off the floor of that Gooney Bird; I pray she is still flying.....and that she went to a good home.

[@cgirl111]

Arthur Raymond had a BA in aeronautical engineering from Harvard and a masters from MIT. He came from a rich family yet started at Douglas as a metal fitter.

[@paulzaborny6741]

The DC-3 was grandfathered in when new regulations for aircraft construction regulations were made. Says something about the plane. BTW if you have a piece of a DC-3 be it a rib(s) or fuselage with a data plate you can rebuild it with new/salvaged replacement parts and legally use the rebuilt commercially. As far as I know the only one you can do this with.

[@harpoon_bakery162]

wow, she was Purdue Airlines employee and that was only around for two years between 1969 and 1971....that airline handled Hugh Heffner's (Playboy Magazine) DC-3.

[@AaronSchwarz42]

An epic example of airplane magic, the DC3 was exceptional in so many ways that it continues to help mankind. Amazing documentary film! Thank you Friðrik Friðriksson for sharing it! Cheers to those who love aerospace like I do. Science & Technology makes life way more interesting for more people more of the time. Now we need to make aircraft eco-friendly with lower emissions & full electrification. Renewable nuclear electric energy storage technology fusion + advanced fission & wind & solar & geothermal & new hydro & wave & more. We will forge a brighter future united as people!

[@fido0825]

Great plane, great designers and engineers but why no mention of the planes engines?! Did I miss it? The plane is, frankly, nothing without its engines! Obviously a radial design, I know it used versions of Wright Cyclone and Pratt and Whitney engines.

[@Kimdino1]

The engine will always be the unsung hero of the aviation world. What turned the inadequate Apache fighter into the superlative Mustang? But we only hear of how great the Mustang was, and little of the engine that created it. I realised long ago that the big limitation to all WW1 aircraft was the available engines.Even in 1917 all the concepts had been implemented to build an aluminium, streamlined, manoeuvrable, almost WW2 type fighter. Except that the engines could not provide the required power to weight ratio & efficiency to make practical an aircraft that brought them all together. The Clerget/Gnome types were lightweight but the design limited the maximum power that could be had from them, while the more powerful engines were just too heavy. But come the late 1930s there were several very good engines to choose from. And I understand that a US based aircraft company would not choose a foreign supplier so Rolls-Royce & Daimler-Benz (thankfully) were not considered so the streamlining benefits of liquid cooling were not benefited from. I know there was Allison but they never caught up with RR & DB.

[@bobbypaluga4346]

85% projected casualty numbers??? BS, no General would approve a plan that would cost him 85% of his troops. D-Day was an extreme necessity to get a beachhead on the Atlantic side of France. The projected casualty rate was 50% on Omaha Beach the highest I have ever seen studying every major battle from WW I and WW II. Of course Omaha was the toughest beachhead, but casualties were more in line with 20%.

[@badguy1481]

Another AMAZING thing about the DC-3, if the aircraft had to be ditched...it would FLOAT. There was at least one instance, I believe off the coast of California, where a ditched DC-3 was TOWED back to port!

[@CFITOMAHAWK2]

And if landed gear up, due hydraulic gear lines hit by bullets, for example, the brakes still work. And props, if put the right way by pilot, wont be hit. Funny...

[@ung427]

That's awesome indeed. I'd like to see some old silent archival WWII footage of a DC-3 ditching in the Pacific, from the point of view of a navy ship and someone with a movie camera. The plane ditches, and it just sits there on the water. The men on the naval ship run down and get into smaller rescue boats and get ready to rescue the crew! Then the door opens on the DC-3, someone comes out with an outboard engine, and hooks it to the tail of the plane, and they drive off.. in the water..

[@alexphillips4663]

24:42 3000 meters = 9800 feet 25:13 1.52 meters= 5 feet 25:15 1.62 meters = 5' 4" 25:17 45 kilograms = 99 lb 25:18 53 kilograms = 117 lb 31:23 8 kilometers = 5 miles 42:08 150 million kilometers = 93 million miles

[@erikc1775]

We need to give the DC-2 a lot more credit I feel. It came before the DC-3 and the DC-3 just borrowed most of the stuff from it. Its not that we should not give the DC-3 credit, because it did all the things, but the DC-2 showed the way and its really sad that its not recognized for what it truly is.

[@japanpro1]

in the1970s. north central airlines still flew a milk route, pond jumping route from omaha to sioux city to yankton to sioux falls to watertown to aberdeen to jamestown, grand forks and bismarck. it may have stopped in lake wobegon as well.

[@robertgift]

Whyvould the pilots bail and not land the aircraft dead stick?

[@lordemed1]

Great documentary about the world's greatest airplane.

[@allandavis8201]

Not just American paratroopers dropped in on D-day, the British 6th Airborne and Canadian 1st Airborne did as well in total from 1200 aircraft, mostly “Dakotas” or “Goony Birds” as the paratroopers called them. It’s bad enough when Americans forget to mention (or don’t know) that other nations took part in the world wars, but a United Kingdom documentary, or at the least a British narrator???? Come on, it’s not a secret.

[@joesikorski4711]

In '64, I loaded coffee onto Mohawk Airline DC3s

[@flyingfox8072]

My first flight from Bombay to Mangalore was on DC3 in 1963. Unforgettable. Great people who designed it.

[@cbm2156]

I flew on a DC-3 in June 1962 from Dallas, Texas to Fort Leonard Wood, MO when I entered the US Army. The Army had a contract with the operators of the DC-3 to take new recruits to various training installations. We left Love Field in Dallas at about 8 PM with the plane about 3/4 full and landed in Fort Smith, AR where we picked up other recruits before flying and landing at the Air Field at Ft Leonard Wood about 3 AM in the morning. After landing we were picked up in an Army bus driven by a National Guardsman who drove around the post for a while before finally admitting that he did not know where the Reception Center was. He was there doing his two weeks of active duty, and had to stop and ask someone where it was. Once we got to the Reception Center, we completed the night by starting our processing in. Only sleep we got that night was while en route.

[@h.cedric8157]

Dealer slaps roof of DC-3. DC-3 Flies for a hundred years more.

[@lvl10cooking]

If I had the money, I'd get a flight worthy DC-3 airframe and put a modern avionics system in it pilot side, while keeping the FO side classic. First ever MD-3

[@imperiumcommentingnetwork4677]

There's a modern retrofit of the dc-3, its a cargo plane, but its basically the same frame: Basler BT-67

[@lvl10cooking]

@@imperiumcommentingnetwork4677 dood, that's cool as hell

[@Bellasie1]

Fantastic video, thank you so much for posting!

[@WillN2Go1]

I flew in a DC-3 Boston to Provincetown (same as the airline's name) in about 1966. My grandmother took me to visit her sister and brother. We flew from Detroit to Boston on a DC-9, the pilot was a bit of a hot rodder, the G-forces upset my grandmother. But when we flew to Provincetown in the DC-3 we flew low altitude, and the old Douglas just kind of bounced along--- just like my grandmother's 1948 Plymouth. (So people younger than me, meaning just about everybody, I hope you appreciate that I'm using one experience you never had to explain another experience you never had. But try to experience some of these things if you can. It empowers your imagination. The southern California train museum in Perris, CA, has one or two big events every year. You can ride almost a hundred years of trolley cars in one day. It's like a time machine. They all ride differently. Go to a car show and ask for a ride in a 1940s car, 1930s, an old Model-T.

[@BlueBaron3339]

It's interesting that the Wright Brothers created a wind tunnel to test their designs before their first flight and wind tunnel tests conducted in 1918 demonstrated control problems aircraft would encounter as airflow approached the speed of sound. But the book I have that contained these studies was last checked out of the Fairchild Aviation library in 1930. Although it's difficult to imagine with our information technology today, important knowledge was acquired and lost several times in several fields over the years.

[@richardmadden7222]

@9:15.." The boss of TWA said build me something that would rival the Boeing 227".....Would that be Howard Hughs????

[@diamondtran8331]

This documentary failed to credit the DC3 with the success of OPERATION MAGIC CARPET, which went on flawlessly between June 1949 and September 1950. Remarkably, close to 50,000 Yemenite Jews were brought back home to Israel and there wasn't a single loss of plane or life for the entire operation, courtesy of DC3's reliable service!

[@CFITOMAHAWK2]

God Bless the mighty state of Israel. Forever..

[@ugoudeozo]

@@CFITOMAHAWK2 yes The Lord will remember His covenant, and will continue to make His glorious face shine upon that God wonderful nation Israel

[@whelanmaurice]

@@ugoudeozo It's a documentary about the role of Douglas and his fleet of DC's. Not about Israel.

[@PatKittle]

@@whelanmaurice : EVERYthing ALways has to be about Israel -- and the Jewish version of WWII.

[@whelanmaurice]

@@PatKittle unfortunately true.

[@juniperberry4295]

wonderful aeroplane. Not so sure about dramatic reconstructions...

[@erichstocker4173]

I loved the comment about Douglas' meeting with the airlines that had bean counters and lawyers instead of engineers and dreamers. Get engineering based computer companies like DEC and HP have been totally ruined when the seizure of control by bean counters and lawyers happened. I admire Douglas for saying "basta". Even his own company was ruined by bean counters and lawyers. These people have no vision, no way forward and little development sense. High tech companies must always be looking at the next step and not just the bottom line if they are to succeed. We are losing that! A bean counter or lawyer should NEVER be allowed to head any tech company. They are lucky to be able to tie their shoes and they certainly can't determine the risks for the future. We did have some great visionary/engineers that founded our aerospace industry.

[@wrightflyer7855]

+Erich Stocker. Very well spoken. The bean counters are fleeting annoyances, but the visionaries will never be forgotten. Just a comment from one seriously hardcore aviation buff to another.

[@CA-zz7vf]

You sound like a very professional person and I think you are absolutely right about lawyers and bean counters but they are very good at creating unemployment

[@theenglishlearningchannel259]

Agree with you, start by banning the word 'nerd'. Scientists and engineers are cool!

[@randykelso4079]

Lawyers should also be banned from entering politics. That used to be the law, but no more!

[@jamesstaley5611]

I agree. All MBAs should just be jailed. That's where a lot of them end up anyway.

[@jbrian80]

What is the DC-3 and 707 have in common? American Airline wont buy them unless their fuselage is wider.

[@daijones101]

Fabulous program. My dad's oldest sister was an air hostess aboard an Australian DC2 Kyeema, which crashed into a mountain near Melbourne in1938. All were killed. It wasn't an aircraft fault but lack of navigational aids which caused the fatality. Only the wealthy could fly then and we lost politicians, CEO,s and the crew.

[@telsport]

during the war pop flew litter cases, german prisoners and the USO shows around with Bob Hope, Frances Langford, Jerry Collona (with the moustache) and Imogene Coca Busy guy in the Air Transport Command w American Airlines.

[@tom7601]

My dad was aa MATS pilot (too old for combat) in the early '40s. MATS = Military Air Transport Service.

[@kamlasamlal3922]

She is a beauty.amazing great excellent wonderful.lovely

[@u.s.patriot3415]

Not sure when pressurized cabins became safe/reliable, but I would think all passengers would like smooth air. That said, would have been cool if Douglas could've or would've slapped turbos on the power-plants and pressurized the cabin. A tri-gear would look awesome imho.

[@GWRick-ld7rj]

When I was 8 yrs old (in 1954) I flew in a DC-3 (Frontier Airlines) from Grand Junction, CO to Pueblo, CO and (believe it or not) the flight attendant (stewardess) took me into the cockpit to see the flightdeck and to meet the pilot and copilot . . ., Something that's unheard of today.

[@ldnwholesale8552]

Been there and done that as well in about 1960. Though the pilot was a family friend.

[@HobbitHomes263]

Always said if I won the lottery, I'd buy myself a R4D :)

[@sarjim4381]

This was a really good documentary. No weird recreations, and the history of the plane is also the history of the people that flew and used the plane. The Berlin Airlift was probably that largest humanitarian operation ever mounted by the Allies, and it couldn't have been done without the C-47 and C-54. It is a great story, and the layout of the events in the life of the DC-3/C-47 was just the right mix between the war and subsequent events.

[@cathompson58]

Sar Jim agreed

[@jeri7320]

a true beauty of marvelous design.. i miss the sound of its radial engines. i really do.

[@petergorm]

In 2019 it still looks mavellous. Beautiful plane.

[@kamlasamlal3922]

DC 3 excellent performance perfect super amazing god bless you

[@halnwheels]

I have to stop at 13:45 and take exception to the statement that the DC1 was the first scientifically designed airplane. Also in that statement was that this was the first airplane designed using a wind tunnel. Never forget that the Wright Brothers scientifically designed the first airplane - the Wright Flyer. It was designed using a wind tunnel of their own invention and numerous formulas and tables. Remember also that they designed their own propellers. The engine was the least of their considerations. By the time they bolted the endine to the plane, they KNEW that it would fly and it did. This is not to take away from the Douglas DC1 and DC3. This is a great airplane and I can't wait to go back and watch this video, but this guy got a little ahead of himself with these statements.

[@AlejandroIrausquin]

+halnwheels You are right, but for the Flyer only the wing sections were tested in the tunnel, not the whole arrangement and the interaction of its parts and surfaces. As you say, for the Flyer the engine was the last of their considerations. In fact, the engine alone wasn't enough to sent it to the air. Lot of wind was required. My response to the Wright critics nevertheless is that the value of the brother's work was their scientific approach to the problem.

[@NowAndyPlays]

+halnwheels Just shut up i don't give a fuck.

[@AlejandroIrausquin]

Joe Desrali Sorry to disappoint you, but the brothers didn't invented it, but seems to be the first ones that used it to actually develop a plane. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_tunnel#History

[@AlejandroIrausquin]

Joe Desrali For the time, it was the closest thing to being a engineer without going to college!!!

[@davidtuttle7556]

Alejandro Irausquin Agreed. the Wrights are considered the Fathers of Aviation precisely because they identified the problem of flight as one of control more than power, and designed experiments and equipment that would enable them to mathematically predict airframe and propeller behavior and. Efficiency. They also left detailed records of their daily efforts and results. Modern flaps and ailerons function to change wing shape as their warping system did to control roll, a problem which they were the first to effectively solve.

[@MarttiSuomivuori]

A 'ground breaking' airplane is not exactly one you want to land in.

[@jeromemyles7320]

Though Hitler caused chaos against America in WWII, only 3 yrs later, Americans help the Germans in Berlin. It really touched me where the lady said, "These planes came to feed us and to be good to us. We never forget what was done to us by the Americans. It was so beautiful and it's still is..."

[@Raz82000]

We got DC-3 here in russia too. still flying. Im grateful for americans for helping us defeat the nazis.

[@BoopShooBee]

Jerome ---- Merkel and Macron have forgotten and now want an EU army and look at the USA as an enemy.

[@BlueBaron3339]

@@BoopShooBee That's not entirely fair. The Berlin Airlift, the Marshall Plan, both remain firmly rooted in the collective memory of Germans of all ages to this day. I confess I was a bit surprised by this during my years of living there as history is not exactly our strong suit here in the U.S. Both Germany and France have altered their regard to our country as a reaction to our current leadership, not out of ingratitude regarding the past. And it would be difficult to even imagine current leadership responding to a crisis as we did in the '40s.

[@raymond3803]

@@Raz82000 Your grateful? Then fly us in plane loads of 2nd rate skank (or better) for a year. The feminists have created the biggest pussy drought in history,.............we're starving and need relief

[@u2mister17]

@@BlueBaron3339 - You are a piece of work and one stupid sh*t. Germany and France along with the rest of Europe are learning very, very quickly their countries will be one big socialist nightmare in 10, nay 5 years if they don't take President Trump's vision of nationalism and independent governing systems to hart. The 'nazi' fascist are going to win if the EU isn't smashed NOW. The fact the worlds Auto Makers can come to America and employ workers without UAW and its smothering costs proves President Trump is needed in the world. You sound like a migrated European. We have had enough of you clowns. The Party is Over, let the hangover begin. The BIG question is; Are you Christian or not?

[@lightbox617]

consider an air frame so rugged that they can be frefit with turboprop engines

[@jacksutherland846]

My favorite plane. Such a tough and trustworthy beauty. I would love to own one and make it into a flying lounge. How cool would that be?😎

[@dstblj5222]

You still see them in the third world hauling goods and people in places where the roads are not stable or in some cases nonexistent.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

I think DC-3s greatest legacy is in technological innovation. They made pipe with wings with engines in them. That is the form every airplane has taken then. I also think Berlin Airlift is truly Finest Hour of air transport. They had carried bombs, but instead of death they were filled with hope.

[@chalmerswood3444]

Good History and Memories! I flew in WWII vintage Air Vietnam's DC-3 in the summer of 1958. We even buzzed the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia at about 200 feet, Frog pilots who had flown in and out of Dien Bien Phu in Goonies previously. OOOOOOEEEE, they were a wild! ;-0

[@sideroadsi2765]

we have a C-47 on Floats here in Maine

[@brianmorris8045]

My Dad loved flying the C47 in WW2, but he also flew the Lockheed Lodestar, which he said was also a great workhorse, and historians, he said, seem to have ignored that fact. Both were great workhorses over New Guinea, where he did many a load of biscuit bombing. It was just that the C47/DC3 was a lot stronger built plane that has kept it the longest serving.

[@johnbrandt4487]

I flew in one of those with air Manitoba in 1982 or 1983 in Winnipeg a real beauty! Was flying back from Island Lake St teresa point I.r. Drove a 1981 Ford 1/2 ton on the winter road and flew back to Winnipeg.

[@noemiyesfir4177]

It's an airplane that was a war hero in two different generations: carrying supplies in WW2 and raining fire down from above as Puff the Magic Dragon in the Vietnam War.

[@kimifur]

I'm not sure that raining fire onto people should be considered "heroic", but it sure did its job.

[@badguy1481]

And..the EC-47 version is said to have provided the target information for 90% of the B-52 bombing missions over South Vietnam.

[@tom7601]

AKA R4D in the US Navy.

[@lasentinal]

Engineers create and build. Accountants and lawyers destroy.

[@warfan2877]

Among aeronautical engineers, there are 3 aircraft that are considered "perfect". 1. Douglas DC-3 2. Boeing B-17 3 Boeing 747

[@guyjonson6364]

There is nothing perfect thats designed by man. Thats an american point of view. Might as well say that the russian space shuttle is. It seemed less flawed

[@lordemed1]

#2 and #3 owe their successes to #1

[@hsienchu]

Planes That Changed the World 1of3 SR-71 Blackbird. ??????

[@doncarlin9081]

Here you go... kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2eTk516bMhqabs

[@KayoMichiels]

If Chuck Norris was a plane.. he would be a DC-3.

[@OumuamuaOumuamua]

MK3424 I though he would be a f15

[@pacbeltrr38]

It would have the longevity of the DC-3, and the PUNCH of the F-15.... Therefore, Chuck Norris would be a B-52!!!

[@johnnydaller]

Chuck Norris eats DC-3s and shits F-15s.

[@frankeinstein7990]

Chuck Norris = a flung turd

[@bluemarshall6180]

Who?