Vintage video: 1983 flight of Travis AFB Museum C-124

[88SC]

Re: Vintage video: 1983 flight of Travis AFB Museum C-124

Thanks for sharing that! I would have loved to have seen one of those in the air. Sad to think of all the stuff no longer flying!

Spacegrrrl

I missed my chance to see the McChord AFB Museum C-124 in the air when it arrived in October, 1987 - using engines borrowed from Travis. I had to work...

[Tibia]

Re: Vintage video: 1983 flight of Travis AFB Museum C-124

http://forum.keypublishing.com/attac...1&d=1228090893
Notice the turbine engine in the nose.

New type of engine oil pre-heater for those colder than freezing mornings ???


Bob

[Leo]

Re: Vintage video: 1983 flight of Travis AFB Museum C-124

I remember the day it arrived (I lived in Vacaville) it made a pass over town. As I was looking for the source of the sound the phone rang. It was a friend telling me to go outside to see it fly over. By the time I got back out there it was gone!

[Nobody]

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Boy do I remember that "BWOOOOW" sound from when they'd drone across the north end of the SF Bay when I was a kid. They'd usually head west in in the morning and that big silver slab-sided fuselage reflected the morning sun like a mirror. The Pratts and props rattled our large picture window. (The 133s did that too.) Love all the Guard guys joking about TOLD data and no-notice checkrides.

[Mystical Power]

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Iwas taken from Okinawa to Da Nang, Viet-Nam in one on my first deployment. Rode on the top deck Slow, noisey, rickety and painfull..

[supercub]

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http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=167371&d=1228090893

Notice the turbine engine in the nose.

[supercub]

Re: Vintage video: 1983 flight of Travis AFB Museum C-124

Here's an interesting video I found, looks like Richard Jaeckel. A caption said something about an episode of "Flight" Anyone know about this? Not sure what the deal is about the guy hanging out the back on the tether.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnL7tcvSxlg&feature=related

[SkyvanDelta]

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There is a unique sound change at 7:15-7:16 where it gets this low growling sound as it is sideways to the camera. Real cool sound.

Here's another video where former flight crew explain the planes systems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NoB0...layer_embedded

[supercub]

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I remember years ago, I think it was sometime in the late 60's or early 70's when you could still flyin to the Air Races at Stead. They use to park airplanes along the north/south runway, which is no longer in use. Anyway, I was out there checking the airplane, and here comes a C-124 taxing by. Had the crewmember standing up in the upper hatch, and one thing I will never forget, and I do love, were the squeaky brakes.........who could ever forget that sound. Ugly, yes, but ooooooooooooooh so beautiful she was.
Brian

[spacegrrrl]

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I know I'm cutting it close to OT, but each one of these had enough R-4360-63As hanging on it to support 1 1/3rd the fleet of the 4360-powered racers at Reno that year:

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K44L3KmoBU[/YT]

Listen carefully at 4:13 thru 4:15.

This was sadly no longer true when the McChord AFB Museum went looking for engines to ferry theirs from Selfridge in 1985.

Thanks for sharing that! I would have loved to have seen one of those in the air. Sad to think of all the stuff no longer flying!

Spacegrrrl

[Big_Jim]

Re: Vintage video: 1983 flight of Travis AFB Museum C-124

Old Shaky sure was one butt-ugly airplane. But butt-ugly has never been so cool!

I just saw the McChord one a couple weeks back.

Thanks for sharing.

[88SC]

I know I'm cutting it close to OT, but each one of these had enough R-4360-63As hanging on it to support 1 1/3rd the fleet of the 4360-powered racers at Reno that year:

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K44L3KmoBU[/YT]

Listen carefully at 4:13 thru 4:15.

This was sadly no longer true when the McChord AFB Museum went looking for engines to ferry theirs from Selfridge in 1985.