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skykingjon
Приєднався 21 лип 2011
Updated Sky King songbird clip
I had some requests for takeoff and landing clips, these were all I had available so I edited them into this clip.. hopefully I'll have some better footage later.
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Cessna T-50 start,runup,taxi,runup and shutdown. July 2011 Jon D Larson
That's 8 minutes I'll never get back from my life.
Until recently, I always just assumed that Songbird I was a twin Beech. It wasn't until someone corrected me that I realized, and confirmed, it was actually a C T-50 as shown here.
Im 66 now. It was popular every Saturday morning. This wetted my appetite for Aviation History . Still love to watch Sky King on UA-cam now .
Well, that was disappointing
I had no idea such an airplane even existed, much less that it was Sky King's airplane. I started watching the show only after he started flying the classic Ce-310.
I became enthralled with flying by the time I was 11 thanks to Sky King and learned to fly at 18. I built flying models and colledcted pictures and books, of which I have reams. At 49 I took up flying gliders, I couldn't stay away. His first seasons' Cessna T-50 (or the UC 78) is one of my all time favorites with its big radial engines and WWII cowlings. Look him up on Wikipedia and you'll find that the actor who played Sky's nephew, Clipper, Ron Hagerty, is still alive at 92. I❤airplane noise.
Yes Sky King had thee Cessna T-50 Bobcat
Not plane from the TV show
Wow I watched that whole video just to see that bird take off and it didn't. Is bad form
Out of the western sky comes Skyking, brought to you by Nabisco
"Nabisco 𝐍𝐚tional 𝗕𝗶𝘀cuit 𝐂𝐨mpany"
Sky's plane will always be the Cessna 310 B for me. I got my multi in one . ua-cam.com/video/VPJ8wzNevZA/v-deo.html
Evertime i hear a plane that sounds like this one passing over my house. I always say. Out of the Western sky comes Skyline. I can't help myself from saying it. lol
Pretty sure Songbird was a Cessna 310
Herman Brown and Kirby Hoon Jr were in the Navy together. Herman named his airport, on the north side of Terre Haute, Indiana, Sky King Airport. Named after the character his friend played on TV. His friend was Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., TV name shortened to Kirby Grant, the lead actor in the TV series Sky King. Herman Brown gave me my Commercial Pilot check ride in 1972.
Why is the "N" number on the T-50 in this video N53378? While the number on the bottom of the left wing of the T-50 Songbird in the shows intro, and also scenes of the early Sky King TV episodes, is N5348A. Historians online say that the very first Songbird used in the TV show was also a Cessna T-50 N67832 with T-50N5348A being the second Songbird. How, or where, does N53378 in this video fit into the TV series?
Wonder which is the better plane for the kind of rough country "runways" that Sky used? IE: the T-50 tail dragger or the 310 tricycle
Anyone know the name of the song and artist?
It was my favorite program as a child and inspired me to become a pilot..And eventually oun a Cessna 310 D aircraft
I so preferred this "Songbird" plane than the later, more modern one he replaced it with!
Bobcat Trainer. I watched. Sponsored by Nabisco
Where's that loop antenna!
Are you kidding? All you did was drive it around. It looks and sounds great but what a disappointment you never left the ground. Sad!
In the last few years of the show it was a Cessna 310
Does it fly or just taxi around?
EVERY Saturday. And then there was Penny! And Sheriff Hargrove. Great stuff.
Well that was about anticlimactic af
sky king flew a Bonanza
No, he did not.
Is this airplane in Canada now!
So that’s the one from the television show? Is it still around?
Hamilton Standard propellers.
We bought one of those in 87 and the logbook was then stolen from it .It proved to have a cracked main wood spar.How much we lost on that I do not now but it was a disaster.
I watched the show as a kid because we were an aviation family, but I thought the "Song-Bird" was an early model Cessna 310. I dont remember this plane at all.
As I understand it. The T50 was the first Songbirfd and the 310 was the second.
Then you're too young then. The T-50 was first, before the 310
Why is it that all the information I find says the T-50 used as the SongBird was N67832? Which also is no longer flying after being damaged in a windstorm in Missouri.
The T-50 seen in all the flying sequences WAS N67832, owned at the time by Paul Mantz and flown for the filming by his pilot employees.
@@michaelmcmurtrey8543 Thanks. I didn’t think the plane in this video was the same plane
@@blimpcommander1337 You’re welcome. N67832 was eventually acquired by a Missouri crop duster who wanted the airplane for its engines (300 hp Lycomings). It was barely flyable when he acquired it; its last flight was made with landing gear locked down on a one-time ferry permit. The gentleman and his wife are both now deceased, and the airplane is little more than scrap, but their estate keeps the registration current.
@@michaelmcmurtrey8543 Yes I knew where the plane ended up. I am only about 70 miles from there and use to drive by their place going to KC
Penny was a cutie. I liked the Cessna 310 better.
Good morning from SE Louisiana 31 Mar 21.
Good God- it looks like ME pulling those chocks!
My guess is more guys fell in love with the 310 (or Penny :-) ) than the t-50.
Out of the Western sky ... Sky King!
A ranch, a hero rancher, the west, a plane, a pretty girl - what's not to like.
This video could have been so more informative about this magnificent aircraft and said it was boring and a waste of time please add narration some information instead of just watching an airplane on the tarmac shame on you
Sky King and Whirlybirds was my Saturday morning fare. My dad was in the Air Force and my uncle was with the FAA.
RESCUE 8 MINE AND DOBIE GILLIS AND LOVE THAT BOB
Sky King and Whirlybird Bird
Great show back in the day!
Sky, you could have done that in a golf cart.
In 1975-1976, I was stationed at an Air Base in Michigan. I was having some body work done on a car and happened to notice some aircraft parts in the rafters above the shop floor. On inquiry I was told they were the wings and tail surfaces of a Cessna Bobcat.
Yes good to see Songbird flying. Do missed that t.v. series.
Thought it was a Cessna 310.
N53378, a 1943 Cessna T-50 Bobcat, is still registered in Auburn, Washington, USA.
Out of the great Western sky comes Sky King...
All I remember of Sky King planes was the tuna tank 310. Dont remember any twin tail draggers
You're too young then !
@@jim874 I,was born in 1949,Tell Me Im, To Young ,ASSHOLE,??????