Test Flying A Fire-Fighting Consolidated PBY Catalina | Ice Pilots NWT | Wonder

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  • Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
  • The Consolidated PBY Catalina, known as the Canso, is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft that was produced in the 1930s and 1940s. A certified submarine hunter this aircraft was vital in protecting the Atlantic and it was one of the most widely used seaplanes of World War II. To get it flying again will need some serious repair work.
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    Buffalo Airways is an airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. They mainly fly WWII-era piston powered propeller planes in minus 40 degrees and land on tiny strips of tarmac in the tundra.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 97

  • @olddog605
    @olddog605 Рік тому +1

    The lovely sound of those Pratt & Whitneys 1830s LOVE IT-MISS IT!

  • @stevetadlock5223
    @stevetadlock5223 2 роки тому +5

    My Grandfather built these at Consolidated in San Diego during the 30's & 40's

  • @bavarianaviationvideonews5870
    @bavarianaviationvideonews5870 2 роки тому +8

    chuck is a legend !!!

  • @stephenrickstrew7237
    @stephenrickstrew7237 2 роки тому +40

    The Catalina is one of the most unsung heroes of WW2

    • @dehaviland7645
      @dehaviland7645 2 роки тому +2

      Don't know about that...
      Just about everyone I know loves it and gives it proper props.

    • @markearl9245
      @markearl9245 2 роки тому

      @@dehaviland7645 ⁰

    • @wildandbarefoot
      @wildandbarefoot 2 роки тому +1

      I love those fuselage windows.
      There's one in the UK... but they wouldn't sell for millions.. there a video on UA-cam about it getting stuck in a loch

    • @headph0nez_k1d94
      @headph0nez_k1d94 2 роки тому

      It’s an ausome aeroplane, I dream to fly it one day. If there is still any left by then

    • @TotallyDapper
      @TotallyDapper 2 роки тому +1

      The Cat is such an amazing aircraft, I would love to fly one. I'm glad some are still flying even today.

  • @documax123
    @documax123 2 роки тому +4

    There's absolutely nothing 'auto pilot' about these guys and their work. They're amazing.

  • @nikolatesla5553
    @nikolatesla5553 2 роки тому +4

    I always loved the PBY.

  • @peanutbutterisfu
    @peanutbutterisfu 2 роки тому +3

    It’s surprising they have been able to fly these 80-90 year old air frames for commercial use this long specially in the conditions they have up north and not for nothing the amount of extra work they have to do just to start them up in the morning making sure the engines are warm. The extreme cold then hot I’m surprised they don’t crack cylinders once a week on these old radial engines. These engines were designed almost 100 years ago. Literally flying around antiques.

  • @normansilver905
    @normansilver905 2 роки тому +3

    In 1966-70 a PBY Super Cat was stationed at the Ramona Air Attack Base under contract to the US Forest Service. It served with distinction.

  • @TotallyDapper
    @TotallyDapper 2 роки тому +2

    PBY Catalina? *I'M HERE*

  • @pwrplnt1975
    @pwrplnt1975 2 роки тому +3

    Gawd, I love those PBYs! It's a serious SHAME that Joe didn't take care of this vintage aircraft a bit better! At the end of the day, the company is Joe's responsibility but, he blames everyone else but himself. Good for Chuck!! It seems everyone at Buffalo smokes, you'd think they'd learn...

  • @luisv7117
    @luisv7117 2 роки тому +4

    I quit my job too the owner came in the other day shutting down the ACs when I ask why he said only to be turned when we need it, and it was90 outside with high humidity.

  • @computersrepaircotesaint-l7407
    @computersrepaircotesaint-l7407 2 роки тому +2

    They sure eat well, very well fed

  • @tilethio
    @tilethio 2 роки тому +3

    First time to hear about Buffalo airlines and found this film very lavish. Those guys deserve a credit as a living museum and keep those aged planes operational. At Buffalo everything is f$%ed and it seems they even use that word in their financial statements for the government. Loved Chuck the master mechanic 😆.

  • @quietguy1948
    @quietguy1948 2 роки тому +2

    I love this series . . .

    • @ne9835
      @ne9835 2 роки тому

      Is it good?

    • @StressfulGengar
      @StressfulGengar 2 роки тому

      @@ne9835 it's great

    • @ne9835
      @ne9835 2 роки тому

      @@StressfulGengar Cool, thanks.

    • @themegaforce810
      @themegaforce810 2 роки тому

      @@ne9835 It’s a really good show, even shows a few aircraft accidents they’ve had.

  • @rockfordfiles5451
    @rockfordfiles5451 2 роки тому +2

    Got overflown by one of the cats this week in La Ciotat France, same color everything

  • @billchapel5483
    @billchapel5483 2 роки тому +3

    My question is why cant they put a tent over the engin their working on with lights, and some heat when heir out on the tarmac working on a engin?

  • @ericlakota1847
    @ericlakota1847 Рік тому +1

    Working on older air planes can actually be alot less frustrating without all the fly by wire of corse alot of time the new stuff tells you what is wrong

  • @ericlakota1847
    @ericlakota1847 Рік тому +1

    Always takes a few days for me to get somthing running after 7 years siting

  • @umute1653
    @umute1653 2 роки тому +3

    Tbh ik even today they still use the same planes but imagnie their fleet consistent of long range widebody jets

  • @myredute
    @myredute 2 роки тому +2

    Goodonya Chuck, there's more to life than the BS at Buffalo. It's the old Gambler story....."know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em & get the hell outta Dodge". He won't be back!

  • @emilyvalsote7641
    @emilyvalsote7641 2 роки тому +2

    Wow, so very good.

  • @northernlandsgaming3268
    @northernlandsgaming3268 2 роки тому +2

    I wonder why he doesn't send one or two of the DC-3s to that outfit, that converts them to turbo-prop?

    • @MrTheblackopsdude
      @MrTheblackopsdude 2 роки тому

      This episode of Ice Pilots NWT was recorded in 2010. Buffalo Joe's son Mikey has a video discussing turbine DC-3s on his channel. The video is called "Turbine DC-3 vs. Regular DC-3"

  • @jerryforeman4543
    @jerryforeman4543 2 роки тому +1

    Luv this show!

  • @mohammadfaizal8461
    @mohammadfaizal8461 2 роки тому +1

    Good one...

  • @richardplatt288
    @richardplatt288 11 місяців тому

    Dwane needs ro understand old equipment will do what it wants.

  • @kingtut5923
    @kingtut5923 2 роки тому

    Go Chuck Go

  • @modestoluisestelasanchez1892
    @modestoluisestelasanchez1892 2 роки тому +1

    Losfelisitoporviajarenesosavionessonmuiseguros

  • @johndeerfan5599
    @johndeerfan5599 2 роки тому +6

    When I hear PBY Catalina I think of the mission black cats

    • @acheron5900
      @acheron5900 2 роки тому +1

      And those f*cking PT boats XD

    • @johndeerfan5599
      @johndeerfan5599 2 роки тому +2

      @@acheron5900 can't forget those😂

  • @fraudieYT
    @fraudieYT 7 місяців тому

    chuck always sooking.. get it together mate, you get paid.

  • @timkaine5098
    @timkaine5098 2 роки тому +7

    These guys are definitely all suffering from exposure to leaded gas

  • @guillermomontoyo
    @guillermomontoyo 2 роки тому +2

    The intro song is so flukking emotional. Is it by a Canadian emo band, eh?

  • @dishanpoojary2235
    @dishanpoojary2235 2 роки тому +1

    Why your videos are not making available in India

  • @pwrplnt1975
    @pwrplnt1975 2 роки тому

    As "Bubbles would say" Jesum Murphy!

  • @TranscendianIntendor
    @TranscendianIntendor 3 місяці тому

    Watching the Electra you see it trailing smoke. Watching the DC-4 there is much less. JP4 or AvJet that has Prist premixed is not burned cleanly from the Electra. Aviation is at the top of all the technologies. I heard the fuel mentioned. I've spoken to an airport manager and he knows there are new fuels available. Still for this reason or that the use of these new fuels is prohibited. This is one of the reasons I work at building Transcendia the nation of airports. Transcendian is my channel where I publish works of art I've made. Well my idea was to make profitable movies to finance those things necessary to do. Oh and at 50 I got married and have been married since.

  • @akalksander9184
    @akalksander9184 2 роки тому +2

    If chuck doesn't like it there, he should give himself a favor & quit.

  • @vascoribeiro69
    @vascoribeiro69 2 роки тому +1

    Very old birds...

  • @eugeniustheodidactus8890
    @eugeniustheodidactus8890 2 роки тому +2

    The PBY hadn't been flown for like a dozen years, and Joe tells the buyer that it's in perfect condition! DUMB.

  • @davidgrenis638
    @davidgrenis638 5 місяців тому

    ALL I NEED TO DO IS CONVERT THE PISTON ENGINES TO USING TURBOPROP ENGINES
    DAVID ADAM GRENIS MAPLETON AVENUE BOULDER COLORADO USA

  • @fhuber7507
    @fhuber7507 2 роки тому +1

    letting that Catalina sit and just deteriorate for years is just bad business.
    If you aren't using it, sell it.

  • @bobbates7343
    @bobbates7343 Рік тому

    Why would an aircraft mechanic stay at that level of job for so many years. If he is a good mechanic he should be at this point in his life be making big bucks and working for a huge airline

  • @henrybertolette2496
    @henrybertolette2496 2 роки тому +1

    Yourselves

  • @RhythmRiders824
    @RhythmRiders824 2 роки тому +2

    so im confused what were they saying they are going to scrap the dc4

    • @RhythmRiders824
      @RhythmRiders824 Рік тому

      @@DontCryAboutIt I know what scrapped means I'm not dumd

  • @ericlakota1847
    @ericlakota1847 Рік тому

    The dude has Ben hounding about buying the plane then joe is worried they won't pull the trigger hate guys like that they tell u ever want to sell ever want to sell then you sell and they get cold feet

  • @robertbruner7429
    @robertbruner7429 2 роки тому

    When landing and they call out "90-94" are they calling speed?

    • @tilethio
      @tilethio 2 роки тому

      They are reading the altitued. I belive it has two purposes. 1, it signifies the pilot or copilot is monitoring the decent. Second it is an instrument check.

    • @robertbruner7429
      @robertbruner7429 2 роки тому +1

      @@tilethio Thanks!

  • @lawrencefrice184
    @lawrencefrice184 Рік тому

    Con of the day

  • @pm1104
    @pm1104 2 роки тому

    Always full of drama this place !

  • @magicarmyman
    @magicarmyman Рік тому

    these people know nothing about proper fire safety. im surprised they didn't start a forest fire. other then that great episode

  • @bill2066
    @bill2066 2 роки тому

    the narrator said Canadian Built Catalinas. I thought they were built at Consolidated in San Diego. Anyone?

    • @rileyk99
      @rileyk99 2 роки тому +3

      Built under license in Canada.

    • @bill2066
      @bill2066 2 роки тому

      @@rileyk99 gotcha

    • @rainerpenner8202
      @rainerpenner8202 2 роки тому

      Built in Montreal by canadair

    • @rainerpenner8202
      @rainerpenner8202 2 роки тому

      The post war DC 3 was also refit for civilian use by Canadiar and the DC 4 built under license by Canadiar

    • @bill2066
      @bill2066 2 роки тому

      @@rainerpenner8202 gotcha

  • @CombatDoc54
    @CombatDoc54 2 роки тому +2

    Buffalo salesman : "Would you like a free 80 year old airplane?" ... Me, "Uh no thanks."

  • @brandonsilvay4822
    @brandonsilvay4822 2 роки тому

    Almost done every single all these episodes the narrator claims that have gas is going away but it's not almost every single airplane in the sky smaller airplanes runs avgas every single airport has it for the Piston airplanes usually for like the Cessnas and smaller planes and some small helicopters

  • @josephdonais4778
    @josephdonais4778 Рік тому

    omg, selling a PBY. Its a sin.

  • @sirclarkmarz
    @sirclarkmarz 2 роки тому +2

    What a bunch of crybaby drama Queens

  • @ldvan100
    @ldvan100 2 роки тому

    DRAMA.... Click Bait...

  • @RyuTakeru
    @RyuTakeru 2 роки тому

    Nope nope nope, thought i was gonna see a blast from the past, not another reality tv show, just nope fk this

  • @macsteer45mac96
    @macsteer45mac96 2 роки тому

    PBY YES.......the drama No

  • @Jan-ct7ih
    @Jan-ct7ih 2 роки тому

    Actually, everybody has to be from 8 to 4(8hours) on the job not 9 hours on this planet..

    • @quietguy1948
      @quietguy1948 2 роки тому +1

      That means you get NO lunch, Stinky.

    • @Jan-ct7ih
      @Jan-ct7ih 2 роки тому

      @@quietguy1948 says a guy who has no life, GET A JOB YOU ****

    • @Toyota-ci3nj
      @Toyota-ci3nj 2 роки тому +1

      Lol you obviously don’t work in aviation

  • @zfear6959
    @zfear6959 2 роки тому

    This isn't a PBY though- looks like a DC-4.

  • @MrMoelbach
    @MrMoelbach 2 роки тому

    I just CANT STAND Dvayne, the New gestapo Guy... He just doesn't understand and don't fit in.... I'm happy He is gone by now.... 🇩🇰😎

  • @calmcanuck
    @calmcanuck Рік тому

    Despite the Canadian government thwarting the DC-4s, I'd sooner go in one of them than a Boeing 737!

  • @ErnieJJr1476er
    @ErnieJJr1476er Рік тому

    22:10 Check your 🔥 Fire!!! Abort, Accounted For By Almighty. Adjust Your Attention! Don't Kill Any Other Kind, This is A "Don't Tread on Me & @ Most those alive on Earth with Us Reminder. Protect And Reassure Shepherds Army. Thou Shall Not Kill, The US 5th Has Sent Order To Uphold and Be Upheld and All Yours as The Other Kinds. HOLY WAY Yo Chuck, Dig Your Priority, You Go Pops. The Dog and Yours Works.

  • @guillermomontoyo
    @guillermomontoyo 2 роки тому +1

    Crybabies

  • @PhillRobinson
    @PhillRobinson 10 місяців тому

    Why is Joe like a petulant child?

  • @karinehuard212
    @karinehuard212 2 роки тому +1

    first