DC-4 flybye with starboard propellors feathered

[System Message]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrziTee4 ... r_embedded
and gear extended.

[Jean-Pierre]

tabernac

[tractor driver]

Haha!
I was there. Nice of the boys in green to get rid of some of the brush off the north end.
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[cdnpilot77]

I saw a lower buzz with DC-4 at McFaulds lake. Did not turn out so well though.

I thought that was a C46 at Koper?

[Redneck_pilot86]

I saw a lower buzz with DC-4 at McFaulds lake. Did not turn out so well though.

I thought that was a C46 at Koper?

It was. Thats why eyewitness testimony is so worthless.

[linecrew]

Jebuz cripes! Woaw!!!

[Air Monkey]

Nice!

[Panama Jack]

Pretty hot flying-- a good stick. Closest I've come is doing this in the relative safety of an A320 (in the simulator, of course )

But for some reason the video of this hotdogger reminds me of the video of this hotdogger:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/E21byPXR1ek[/youtube]

[privateer]

[tractor driver]

They were operating both the the DC-4 and the C-46 out of YGQ to Koper a couple of winters ago.They did so many fly-by's we got a letter from the customer telling everyone to cut it out.
It was the C-46 that clipped the left wing.
Loved the sound of the DC-4's engines all synched up as it went over.

[FighterPilot]

Ballsy

[Big Pistons Forever]

Stupid.......with a capital S

[Blakey]

Wow! Two feathered eh?

Let us know when you're up to the level of the Lanc on this page!

http://forums.diecast-aviation.eu/showt ... hp?t=12168

[TG]

DC-4's PNF with balls of steel...

[ktcanuck]

Just a guy who knows his airplane. As a friend said: Reminds me of Bob Hoover.

[iflyforpie]

Just a guy who knows his airplane. As a friend said: Reminds me of Bob Hoover.

Where do you draw the line between skill and plain stupidity? When is it talent or just luck? The B-52 crash at Fairchild comes to mind.

[JMACK]

Wow my testis sucked up into the combat position.............That was uncomfortable to watch!

Great skill yes but come on he is pretty far over the edge for an air show in a really old machine.

[System Message]

Airshows have a line adjacent to the crowd which the performers will not cross according to the rules of the show. The DC-4 while doing the tight turns toward the crowd was really flying into a corner because his only way to pull out of the maneuver was to overfly the restricted area over the crowd. This is what happened during the Fairchild B-52 crash where the aircraft stalled in an decreasing radius turn to avoid flying over restricted airspace.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... erview.jpg

[Adiabatic]

As a DC-4 driver, I would not suggest flying like this to anyone!! Sweet Merciful CRAP!!!
I thought flying the old DC-4 tankers was exciting!
That video is some pure crazyness!!

[Cat Driver]

From my personal feelings watching that video the high risk factor in that display far exceeds the entertainment value.

We could never have gotten away with flying that low in an airshow in Europe as we had a two hundred foot floor and they used a radar device to enforce the rules.

[cncpc]

About 25 years ago, I met a guy named Junior Birchinall who had a grass strip with some warbirds a couple miles outside of Paris Texas. He had a B17 and he was asked to do a three engine flyby at the airshow at the main Paris airport. The FAA refused to issue whatever permit he needed, saying he hadn't shown it could be done safely.

He invited them out to the grass strip, took off in the B17, climbed up a couple of thousand feet, and shut down three, and flew around in circles above the FAA guys. They gave him his permit.

I knew a few people that knew Junior well, and that story is true.

There's a bit of a thread about Junior and his collection here. http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... p?p=101113

[North Shore]

^Geez, talk about piling on the risk to prove a point!

System Message makes a really good point about having to overfly the crowd to escape from any trouble that he might get into..

[robertsailor1]

With all the discussions about todays pilots losing their basic stick/rudder skills you got to admit this boy wasn't inflicted with that disease, LOL. Very skillful flyer BUT no room for error or any little mishap

[Doc]

With all the discussions about todays pilots losing their basic stick/rudder skills you got to admit this boy wasn't inflicted with that disease, LOL. Very skillful flyer BUT no room for error or any little mishap

Ah yes, the thin line that separates the truly skilled from the truly STUPID! That was one of the dumbest things I've seen in a while. What's next? Climbing from an airplane to a helicopter?

[robertsailor1]

Well I guess if you watched Bob Hover fly the Shrike you'd have similar things to say because he did allot of his maneuvers with all props feathered but because we had got used to him and his display we simply judged his flying abilities whether he was pouring tea in the middle of slow rolls or dead sticking it in on one wheel. I'm sure the first time pilots viewed his act they may have responded in a similar way. My point is that yes, he is sure flying close to the line and on first look it seems reckless but so did many of the aerobatic acts we have seen in past years. The fellow just might be good enough to not only fly like he did but also be able to have "some" room for error. None of us will know unless we've seen him do it time after time as so many of the great show pilots have done, before we simply accept that some pilots posses skills that far exceed the average pilot flying these planes.