Totally cool! Each engine is like 4 or 5 Harley Davidsons. I love it. Yeah, these were the modern airliners back in 1920s. Less than 40 years later the airlines had jet planes. Such rapid progress.
I was six years old when I got my first plane ride. It was an almost new Ford Trimotor flying off a grass strip adjacent to my Aunt Orleana’s small farm in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. The year was 1935.
Back in the early 60's I was 10 years old. Got to ride in the co-pilot seat flying over to Middle Bass Is., Lake Erie, to ice fish with my Dad. What a memory!
Flew from Port Clinton to Put In Bay in the late 60’s . Was a place to go for young people. I shared a bottle of wine with everyone on board. Got passed by a Cessna type plane like we were standing still.
I almost had a ride in a Ford Tri-Motor replica. In late Summer of 2004, I was at the Fullerton Airport (FUL) in Fullerton, California, at their annual air show. There was a tri-motor there offering rides, so I bought a ticket. They were having some trouble getting one of the engines to start, so all flights were being delayed. Finally they got all three engines going and we’re going to take the plane for a short test flight, with just a mechanic and the pilot. The plane taxied out onto the runway, started down the runway, rotated and began to lift off the ground, then started to take a sharp left turn, towards the crowd of spectators on the ground. The pilot must have been pulling hard on the stick to attempt to gain altitude, but the plane just kept coming left. The plane just missed the people on the ground but was then banked almost 90 degrees and heading directly towards the tower with a full restaurant underneath it. Some how the pilot was able to miss the tower/restaurant, but due to the severe banking, had no lift. The plans came down in the street, right in front of the airport. The pilot was ejected from the airplane and recovered from his injuries, but the mechanic was trapped in the wreckage, sustained severe injuries, causing him to be paralyzed from the neck down. The final FAA report stated that a strap had accidentally been left on the rudder pulling to the extreme position causing the plane to make an extreme left, once airborne.
That was one of two Stout Bushmaster 2000s that were basically built on updated Ford Trimotor design, using Pratt and Whitney R-985 engines instead of Wright Whirlwinds, and many other changes. They were intended to be used as rough country bushplanes. The prototype was completed in 1966. The one in the accident was finally completed in 1985. No others were built. The first prototype is in a museum at Mt. Pleasant, TX. I've heard about plans to rebuild the wrecked one, but I don't know if any attempts to do so have been undertaken.
Oh, this brings back memories! Dave Martin amd Island Airlines, serving the U.S. Islands in Western Lake Erie, out of Port Clinton, OH. I would be underway on a Coast Guard 40' Utility Boat, and Dave would come up from astern in one of Islands aircraft ald put a wingtip between our radio antenna and surprise the Shit out of us on the boat. Dave was the first Chief Warrant Officer in charge of Coast Guard Station Marblehead, OH. He went on to run, (I am told by other Coasties), Island Airlines, the smallest scheduled Airline Service in the world. He was flying the Ford Trimotor when it took off from South Bass Island and crashed due to wind shear, when wind shear was just being discovered as a major cause of aircraft incidents back then. The doctors put Dave back together, while the ground personnell put the Trimotor back together. Both flew again, thank you GOD! While was allowed to fly again by the FAA, the Trimotor was only allowed to fly as a charter aircraft and to carry freight, no more scheduled passenger service. Sad, but safe!
I took a short flight on "The city of Wichita" '29 Tri-motor. Just an amazing experience, would do it again if I saw one flying around my part of town again.
A few years ago, several guys from our workplace got together and took a motorcycle ride from Pittsburgh to Port Clinton. Saturday afternoon, all the young guys were off at the beach. The other old guy and I were looking around for something to do and found a flyer for a new air museum nearby. We took a ride over but when we arrived, it was obvious that the museum wasn't going to open real soon. We saw a couple of cars near one of the nearby airport buildings and went over to see if anyone knew about the museum. We had no more than parked and a man came out asking if he could help us. We told him about the flyer and were a little disappointed that the place wasn't open. No problem he says. The museum wasn't scheduled to open for another month or so. The B-25 was in Florida getting painted, but would we like to see the Ford. Would we ever? The Ford was what we came to see. He escorts us to a nearby hangar where we found the Ford scattered all over the building. For a couple of engineering type guys this couldn't be better. The man showed us around the work area. He explained that the plane had been sitting in the woods for a number of years and was pretty corroded. The FAA wouldn't allow them to use any of the original chassis' subassemblies, but it is considered to be a historical restoration if they used any original parts. They were planning to use the original control columns, a couple of seats and most of the original instruments. The corrugated skin was actually corrugated barn roofing. The company that made it was still in business, and he showed us a stack of brand-new metal. The rest of the plane was being taken apart, piece by piece. Measured and documented and then duplicated. According to our host, Ford has the original drawings but couldn't be persuaded to dig them out of the archives. They had one wing pretty well along that we were able to examine. There sure are a lot of little brackets and braces and small frame members all made of aluminum and riveted together. The point of this story is that I am pretty sure that the plane in the video is the one we saw in the hangar. I am really thrilled that they actually got it flying again and so glad I got to see the work in progress.
This brings back memories. Good ones. Got to fly ol' 9645 a few years ago. She handles like a brick, climbs like a brick, cruises like a brick and lands like a brick but that's because she is a brick. And a beautiful one to boot. Great memories. Thank you.
I got a ride in 9645 last year. It was definitely a different experience from a modern airliner, but was very much enjoyable. It is amazing something that size that flies as slow as it does can manage to get airborne. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching!
The pilot told me, "She'll do anything you ask of her, when she's good and ready." It's a heavy-handed plane (all mechanical) and will wear you out physically.
The wings have crazy lift on that thing. She goes up fast, and that is the only thing she will do fast. The tower told the pilot to keep up his airspeed and he radioed back, "That's all she's got."
In the mid-1960s, Island Airlinew operated scheduled daily service from Sandusky OH to Put-In-Bay Island in Lake Erie, using two Ford Tri-Motors. I well recall riding right seat on one of those flights, and being allowed to take the wheel for a brief moment.
@@northwestohioplanesandtrains13 Basically they are building a tri-motor around a vintage bolt there. They needed some original parts to register it as a vintage plane, but they are fabricating almost all of that thing whole-clothe. Think of these planes like a 1932 Ford hot rod, better engines and numerous other improved parts are in them now. That said, the spirit and feel of these old planes is still there.
When I was a kid around 1964-65, this was a frequent sight in Las Vegas. A Las Vegas tour company operated two of these planes. I remember one crashed on landing, I believe that there were no injuries. I don’t know what became of the company or planes.
This is "City of Wichita/City of Port Clinton" shes based in port clinton ohio with Liberty Aviation Museum. If you are ever up this way along the lake stop in and see her. Check the their website as well they have dates listed when and where you can fly on her. The museum is also home to the B-25 "Georgie's Gal", a PBY Catalina, a PT boat "Thomcat" an avenger torpedo bomber and a pt17 stearman. All the aircraft are kept in airworthy condition and appear at events regularly when they arent down for maintenance.
@@richardmiranda640 William Shatner saw them dancing on the wings. He's correct, the kids on South Bass Island in Ohio flew to the school on the mainland in tri-motors.
My father used to fly a Trimotor seaplane. He said that the seaplanes didn't work out and all five got converted back into land planes because the floats had too much drag... it was underpowered... you couldn't get a profitable payload off the water especially upstream. And seaplanes frequently are in a situation of a river where the only "runway" is either upstream or downstream (as opposed to the ocean or a lake where you can always maneuver to take off upwind). If it was simultaneously downwind and upstream you were doubly screwed.
@@northwestohioplanesandtrains13 He said that the only made 5 and all were reconfigured to wheels. Several years ago I googled for "Ford trimotor seaplane" and found a photo. I can't look while I'm typing this, I hope it's still there.
In 1929, for $350 (about $6100 in 2024), you could travel from NY to LA in two days. An overnight Pennsylvania Railroad train to Ohio; a daylight FTM flight to Oklahoma; an overnight Santa Fe Railroad trip to New Mexico; final daylight FTM flight to LA.
Hey what's up long time no see lol 😅 me and my mom moved out of our house and moved in to my brother's house on Saturday August 10th and then two days later I had a sore on the bottom of my left foot things are getting better the sore is almost gone just wanted to let u know where I have been awesome video BTW
My first airplane ride was in the tri at Put-in-bay when I was kid, been flying for 52 years ever since!
What a beautiful machine.
Totally cool! Each engine is like 4 or 5 Harley Davidsons. I love it. Yeah, these were the modern airliners back in 1920s. Less than 40 years later the airlines had jet planes. Such rapid progress.
Great to still see some of these in the air. The most successful airliner before the DC-3. Wow do those engines growl when climbing. So cool.
I was six years old when I got my first plane ride. It was an almost new Ford Trimotor flying off a grass strip adjacent to my Aunt Orleana’s small farm in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. The year was 1935.
so you are almost 100 years old. respect to you :}
That is amazing. Thanks for sharing this story. How far/long was the ride?
I had a trip in one a few years ago...fun to see gauges mounted on the engines, and I swear we got passed by a few birds !😊❤
The body of the aircraft is not monoclonal. Your chance of surviving even the slightest crash is zero. It is also extremely noisy and under powered.
@KR72534 Luckily, it goes so slowly that you could jump out before it hit the ground...
Back in the early 60's I was 10 years old. Got to ride in the co-pilot seat flying over to Middle Bass Is., Lake Erie, to ice fish with my Dad. What a memory!
I did the same trip. Will never forget it!
Flew from Port Clinton to Put In Bay in the late 60’s . Was a place to go for young people. I shared a bottle of wine with everyone on board. Got passed by a Cessna type plane like we were standing still.
Fantastic to see such old Aircraft still doing its job, The sound of those engines reminds of Old Movie Soundtracks as a background sound ...
I almost had a ride in a Ford Tri-Motor replica. In late Summer of 2004, I was at the Fullerton Airport (FUL) in Fullerton, California, at their annual air show. There was a tri-motor there offering rides, so I bought a ticket. They were having some trouble getting one of the engines to start, so all flights were being delayed. Finally they got all three engines going and we’re going to take the plane for a short test flight, with just a mechanic and the pilot. The plane taxied out onto the runway, started down the runway, rotated and began to lift off the ground, then started to take a sharp left turn, towards the crowd of spectators on the ground. The pilot must have been pulling hard on the stick to attempt to gain altitude, but the plane just kept coming left. The plane just missed the people on the ground but was then banked almost 90 degrees and heading directly towards the tower with a full restaurant underneath it. Some how the pilot was able to miss the tower/restaurant, but due to the severe banking, had no lift. The plans came down in the street, right in front of the airport. The pilot was ejected from the airplane and recovered from his injuries, but the mechanic was trapped in the wreckage, sustained severe injuries, causing him to be paralyzed from the neck down. The final FAA report stated that a strap had accidentally been left on the rudder pulling to the extreme position causing the plane to make an extreme left, once airborne.
That was one of two Stout Bushmaster 2000s that were basically built on updated Ford Trimotor design, using Pratt and Whitney R-985 engines instead of Wright Whirlwinds, and many other changes. They were intended to be used as rough country bushplanes. The prototype was completed in 1966. The one in the accident was finally completed in 1985. No others were built. The first prototype is in a museum at Mt. Pleasant, TX. I've heard about plans to rebuild the wrecked one, but I don't know if any attempts to do so have been undertaken.
We have taken a ride in the EAA Tri-Motor twice. What a beautiful plane...such an exciting ride!
Oh, this brings back memories! Dave Martin amd Island Airlines, serving the U.S. Islands in Western Lake Erie, out of Port Clinton, OH.
I would be underway on a Coast Guard 40' Utility Boat, and Dave would come up from astern in one of Islands aircraft ald put a wingtip between our radio antenna and surprise the Shit out of us on the boat. Dave was the first Chief Warrant Officer in charge of Coast Guard Station Marblehead, OH. He went on to run, (I am told by other Coasties), Island Airlines, the smallest scheduled Airline Service in the world. He was flying the Ford Trimotor when it took off from South Bass Island and crashed due to wind shear, when wind shear was just being discovered as a major cause of aircraft incidents back then.
The doctors put Dave back together, while the ground personnell put the Trimotor back together. Both flew again, thank you GOD! While was allowed to fly again by the FAA, the Trimotor was only allowed to fly as a charter aircraft and to carry freight, no more scheduled passenger service. Sad, but safe!
Just fantastic that they fly this airplane
Beautiful restoration and sounds as good as it looks!
@@Eee0r agreed!
I took a short flight on "The city of Wichita" '29 Tri-motor. Just an amazing experience, would do it again if I saw one flying around my part of town again.
Got to fly on one 40 years ago. A blast
My dad is older than that airplane. I hope he makes it to 100.
I thought I knew a fair bit about Ford history.... this I didn't know...😮
Certainly is a beautiful airplane!! Very nicely kept. I bet there's a long line of people out there who would love to take a ride on her.
Got to ride on a tri motor a few back. Such a cool plane.
I rode on it last year. It was a very cool experience! Thanks for watching.
If only my Ford 10-speed transmission ran this well 😮
A few years ago, several guys from our workplace got together and took a motorcycle ride from Pittsburgh to Port Clinton. Saturday afternoon, all the young guys were off at the beach. The other old guy and I were looking around for something to do and found a flyer for a new air museum nearby. We took a ride over but when we arrived, it was obvious that the museum wasn't going to open real soon. We saw a couple of cars near one of the nearby airport buildings and went over to see if anyone knew about the museum. We had no more than parked and a man came out asking if he could help us. We told him about the flyer and were a little disappointed that the place wasn't open. No problem he says. The museum wasn't scheduled to open for another month or so. The B-25 was in Florida getting painted, but would we like to see the Ford. Would we ever? The Ford was what we came to see. He escorts us to a nearby hangar where we found the Ford scattered all over the building. For a couple of engineering type guys this couldn't be better.
The man showed us around the work area. He explained that the plane had been sitting in the woods for a number of years and was pretty corroded. The FAA wouldn't allow them to use any of the original chassis' subassemblies, but it is considered to be a historical restoration if they used any original parts. They were planning to use the original control columns, a couple of seats and most of the original instruments. The corrugated skin was actually corrugated barn roofing. The company that made it was still in business, and he showed us a stack of brand-new metal. The rest of the plane was being taken apart, piece by piece. Measured and documented and then duplicated. According to our host, Ford has the original drawings but couldn't be persuaded to dig them out of the archives. They had one wing pretty well along that we were able to examine. There sure are a lot of little brackets and braces and small frame members all made of aluminum and riveted together.
The point of this story is that I am pretty sure that the plane in the video is the one we saw in the hangar. I am really thrilled that they actually got it flying again and so glad I got to see the work in progress.
Pretty cool story, thanks for sharing!
This brings back memories. Good ones. Got to fly ol' 9645 a few years ago. She handles like a brick, climbs like a brick, cruises like a brick and lands like a brick but that's because she is a brick. And a beautiful one to boot. Great memories. Thank you.
I got a ride in 9645 last year. It was definitely a different experience from a modern airliner, but was very much enjoyable. It is amazing something that size that flies as slow as it does can manage to get airborne. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching!
The pilot told me, "She'll do anything you ask of her, when she's good and ready." It's a heavy-handed plane (all mechanical) and will wear you out physically.
such a cool plane - imagine flying in one back in its heydays off to some exotic locale
Love it❤ Engineering Marvel of its time
What made it such a marvel?
Really fast takeoff!
The wings have crazy lift on that thing. She goes up fast, and that is the only thing she will do fast. The tower told the pilot to keep up his airspeed and he radioed back, "That's all she's got."
In the mid-1960s, Island Airlinew operated scheduled daily service from Sandusky OH to Put-In-Bay Island in Lake Erie, using two Ford Tri-Motors. I well recall riding right seat on one of those flights, and being allowed to take the wheel for a brief moment.
@rogerb5615 The musuem that owns this specific Tri-Motor is working on restoring a second that will wear the Island Air paint scheme
@@northwestohioplanesandtrains13 Basically they are building a tri-motor around a vintage bolt there. They needed some original parts to register it as a vintage plane, but they are fabricating almost all of that thing whole-clothe. Think of these planes like a 1932 Ford hot rod, better engines and numerous other improved parts are in them now. That said, the spirit and feel of these old planes is still there.
We have come such a long way. Beautiful plane!!!!!
"Nice try! Lao Che!"
When I was a kid around 1964-65, this was a frequent sight in Las Vegas. A Las Vegas tour company operated two of these planes. I remember one crashed on landing, I believe that there were no injuries. I don’t know what became of the company or planes.
This is "City of Wichita/City of Port Clinton" shes based in port clinton ohio with Liberty Aviation Museum. If you are ever up this way along the lake stop in and see her. Check the their website as well they have dates listed when and where you can fly on her. The museum is also home to the B-25 "Georgie's Gal", a PBY Catalina, a PT boat "Thomcat" an avenger torpedo bomber and a pt17 stearman. All the aircraft are kept in airworthy condition and appear at events regularly when they arent down for maintenance.
What a show!
The engines must be warm, they didn't smoke near enough!
Yeah, they flew in that morning. Video was taken probably 2 hours after their first flight of the day
@thenorthwestohiorailfan3007 ....Pratt and Whitney R-985's - careful management of mixtures and priming and you're good to go.
One of the coolest machines in the world. Just look at the corrugated skin.
Excellent stuff..
Crazy how the phase of the fps of the film distorts the propellers.
The american JU52
Or is it the German Trimotor?
@@northwestohioplanesandtrains13 good question, Italy had the Savoia Marchetti looked very silimar
Sweet, sweet sweet!
Looks almost exactly like the Fokker Tri motor of the same era
Because it was an unlicensed copy.
They aren't the same aircraft although Ford did take a lot of inspiration from the Fokker. They are very different aircraft@@xandervk2371
@giantgaming600 Ford stopped making them after being threatened with a lawsuit.
World's first all metal airliner.
This is first: Indiana Jones plane!!!!❤❤❤😊
FORD#1🇺🇸
Children use to fly to school on a Tri-Motor
I hope you mean in a tri motor
@@richardmiranda640 William Shatner saw them dancing on the wings. He's correct, the kids on South Bass Island in Ohio flew to the school on the mainland in tri-motors.
My father used to fly a Trimotor seaplane. He said that the seaplanes didn't work out and all five got converted back into land planes because the floats had too much drag... it was underpowered... you couldn't get a profitable payload off the water especially upstream.
And seaplanes frequently are in a situation of a river where the only "runway" is either upstream or downstream (as opposed to the ocean or a lake where you can always maneuver to take off upwind). If it was simultaneously downwind and upstream you were doubly screwed.
@mikem2736 Wow, I didn't know they made seaplane version of the Trimotor. Very slow as is, can't imagine how slow it would be with those pontoons.
@@northwestohioplanesandtrains13 He said that the only made 5 and all were reconfigured to wheels. Several years ago I googled for "Ford trimotor seaplane" and found a photo. I can't look while I'm typing this, I hope it's still there.
@@northwestohioplanesandtrains13 Slow? Perhaps I missed it, but what is the cruising speed?
@@stevenpollard5171: Cruise speed of 107mph (93 kn) at 1700 rpm. Stall speed was 57 mph (50 kn).
@@stevenpollard5171 Sorry I took so long to respond, but the Trimotors cruise speed is around 90 mph.
Huh. I flew up to Port Clinton from Oberlin in '62 in a rented $7.50 an hour solo Aeronca 7AC and visited that plane.
In 1929, for $350 (about $6100 in 2024), you could travel from NY to LA in two days. An overnight Pennsylvania Railroad train to Ohio; a daylight FTM flight to Oklahoma; an overnight Santa Fe Railroad trip to New Mexico; final daylight FTM flight to LA.
If it sounds like this, it can fly
they should make good product the way they made planes also in WW2.
Cool
Hey what's up long time no see lol 😅 me and my mom moved out of our house and moved in to my brother's house on Saturday August 10th and then two days later I had a sore on the bottom of my left foot things are getting better the sore is almost gone just wanted to let u know where I have been awesome video BTW
Thanks for the compliment Jason, glad you're back. Hope your foot continues to feel better! Thanks for watching.
@thenorthwestohiorailfan3007 u are very welcome my friend
Indiana Jones Plane.
Remember?????
Also see The Family Jewels 1965 , Eddy's Airways , with Jerry Lewis... !
Is that the airplane nicked named “the tin goose”?
@@MikiLund Yes!
Does anyone know how many tri-motors are still flying?
@@steviedepaoli2717 There are six that have registration numbers through the FAA, I know at least 2 regularly fly with a handful under restoration.
三発とエンジンカウリングが無いのが素敵。
What? No sonic boom?
Eat your heart out Kermit!
Those always run out of fuel in the Himalayas.
I flew the trimotor in Kalamazoo decades ago. 😊
Boeing Boeing Gone.
Which one is this?
The name of the plane, or?
Efficient. Reliability and cargo
Copied from the Germans ??
Why not. 😂
Fokker wasn't a German company.
I rode in a Tri-motor at Manassas Virginia and being a avid skydiver I found myself wishing I had on one of my rigs and that the door was open 😂😅