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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The lovely sound of those Pratt & Whitneys 1830s LOVE IT-MISS IT!
My Grandfather built these at Consolidated in San Diego during the 30's & 40's
chuck is a legend !!!
The Catalina is one of the most unsung heroes of WW2
Don't know about that...
Just about everyone I know loves it and gives it proper props.
@@dehaviland7645 ⁰
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
It’s an ausome aeroplane, I dream to fly it one day. If there is still any left by then
The Cat is such an amazing aircraft, I would love to fly one. I'm glad some are still flying even today.
There's absolutely nothing 'auto pilot' about these guys and their work. They're amazing.
I always loved the PBY.
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.
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.
PBY Catalina? *I'M HERE*
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...
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.
They sure eat well, very well fed
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 😆.
I love this series . . .
Is it good?
@@ne9835 it's great
@@StressfulGengar Cool, thanks.
@@ne9835 It’s a really good show, even shows a few aircraft accidents they’ve had.
Got overflown by one of the cats this week in La Ciotat France, same color everything
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?
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
Always takes a few days for me to get somthing running after 7 years siting
Tbh ik even today they still use the same planes but imagnie their fleet consistent of long range widebody jets
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!
Wow, so very good.
I wonder why he doesn't send one or two of the DC-3s to that outfit, that converts them to turbo-prop?
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"
Luv this show!
Good one...
Dwane needs ro understand old equipment will do what it wants.
Go Chuck Go
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When I hear PBY Catalina I think of the mission black cats
And those f*cking PT boats XD
@@acheron5900 can't forget those😂
chuck always sooking.. get it together mate, you get paid.
These guys are definitely all suffering from exposure to leaded gas
The intro song is so flukking emotional. Is it by a Canadian emo band, eh?
Why your videos are not making available in India
As "Bubbles would say" Jesum Murphy!
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.
If chuck doesn't like it there, he should give himself a favor & quit.
Very old birds...
The PBY hadn't been flown for like a dozen years, and Joe tells the buyer that it's in perfect condition! DUMB.
ALL I NEED TO DO IS CONVERT THE PISTON ENGINES TO USING TURBOPROP ENGINES
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letting that Catalina sit and just deteriorate for years is just bad business.
If you aren't using it, sell it.
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
Yourselves
so im confused what were they saying they are going to scrap the dc4
@@DontCryAboutIt I know what scrapped means I'm not dumd
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
When landing and they call out "90-94" are they calling speed?
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.
@@tilethio Thanks!
Con of the day
Always full of drama this place !
these people know nothing about proper fire safety. im surprised they didn't start a forest fire. other then that great episode
the narrator said Canadian Built Catalinas. I thought they were built at Consolidated in San Diego. Anyone?
Built under license in Canada.
@@rileyk99 gotcha
Built in Montreal by canadair
The post war DC 3 was also refit for civilian use by Canadiar and the DC 4 built under license by Canadiar
@@rainerpenner8202 gotcha
Buffalo salesman : "Would you like a free 80 year old airplane?" ... Me, "Uh no thanks."
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
omg, selling a PBY. Its a sin.
What a bunch of crybaby drama Queens
DRAMA.... Click Bait...
Nope nope nope, thought i was gonna see a blast from the past, not another reality tv show, just nope fk this
PBY YES.......the drama No
Actually, everybody has to be from 8 to 4(8hours) on the job not 9 hours on this planet..
That means you get NO lunch, Stinky.
@@quietguy1948 says a guy who has no life, GET A JOB YOU ****
Lol you obviously don’t work in aviation
This isn't a PBY though- looks like a DC-4.
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.... 🇩🇰😎
Despite the Canadian government thwarting the DC-4s, I'd sooner go in one of them than a Boeing 737!
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.
Crybabies
Why is Joe like a petulant child?
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