Mr. Martens: This is a gorgeous film - thank you for posting it to make it available for those interested in this time & technology! It's beautiful and evocative; your grandfather did a super job.
This is an incredibly interesting and respectful presentation of rare archival footage of an amazing sea float adaptation of a WW II plane. This clean and sharp video and its symphonic accompaniment was an unexpected gift to round out Memorial Day 2010. Many thanks.
That's cool to see especially since I currently reside here in College Point over on 15th ave next to the Pepsi plant over by 110 st. Interesting!!!!!!! Thanks for the "history of College Point"
Very high Quality video! & nicely presented w/ the music track. I really got a "feel" for those historic times, when the whole country came together for the war effort.
This film is superb! Wonderfully shot and edited. That Kodachrome is some awesome film stock. The colors really pop. Speaking of pop, my dad was a pilot in the USAF from '44 onward and he flew the C47 quite a bit. I'm sure never with big ol' honkin' floats attached though! Man, those things were huge! Thanks for posting this remarkable footage.
Great film, I learned something today. I never before saw a DC 3 (C 47) with floats. I bet the pilots enjoyed having it on the ground sitting level and not be a tail dragger.
Awesome takeoff, landing and taxiing footage! I didn't even know they made amphibious floats for an aircraft of this size, and I consider myself a pretty fair aviation buff!!!
@quam12972 No problem, please go ahead and post. Considering that this film had been unseen for 60+ years, it deserves all the exposure it can get. Thanks!
The Greatest Generation! No doubt! Fought a war on two worldwide fronts with filing cabinets, typewriters & one line telephones! When our nation was TOGETHER AS ONE!
DAM!!!! One of the most amazing "rare films" of world war 2 that i ever found!!!!! Just amazing!!!!!and simply the most amazing film of the C-47 that i found!! Ever!!! (until now!) but seriously this ia amazing!! Any idea if the original drawings of the EDO floats still survives ????(i realy hope that yes!!!) It will be amazing if some of the C-47 that are flying today someone put it floats!!! You can imagine!!??? Wow! And what happens with the EDO company after the war?? Is still in operation??? Or it don't exist anymore?? Just amazing video Robert Martens!!! You made my day!!!!!
One used to fly out of Folsom's Air Sevice in Greenville Maine, the last time I saw it flying was in the early 2000's. To my knowledge the aircraft has been taken off floats but everything is still up there. If you look on google earth you can see it.
Hi April. I've looked and looked but I have yet to find any sight of my grandfather in this one, unless he is somewhere in one of the several crowd scenes. To the best of my knowledge he did not participate in the production of this particular work. By the way, your use of the term "videoing" is amusingly anachronistic considering that video tape was not invented until the 1950s! Before then all motion photography was accomplished with chemically processed film such as Kodachrome.
I really enjoyed this film on America's most important airplane. The DC-3 could do it all. Whatever happened to the original drawings of the EDO floats for this airplane? You've done a great thing by posting this. Thank you
Truly historical, and meaningful to us from College Point. I worked at Edo for four years during the 1960's. thank you so much for sharing.
Fantastic film documentation, your grandfather was a great man Robert.
Wow, I had worked at EDO around 1970-72. What a great film and great memories.
Thanks for sharing this remarkable bit of WWII history with us.
Mr. Martens: This is a gorgeous film - thank you for posting it to make it available for those interested in this time & technology! It's beautiful and evocative; your grandfather did a super job.
Wonderful Video! I used to go to EDO to service their IBM and Kodak Copiers in the 80 and early 90. I also serviced Copiers for Grumann.
This is an incredibly interesting and respectful presentation of rare archival footage of an amazing sea float adaptation of a WW II plane. This clean and sharp video and its symphonic accompaniment was an unexpected gift to round out Memorial Day 2010. Many thanks.
A wonderful & historic piece of film of a beautiful aircraft, and what a fantastic innovation the floats were.
Thank you Mr Martens this is an important Video . Consolidated was in Buffalo before they Moved out West . An early big Contract was building Floats .
Wow, seeing those old hangars reminds me of going to LGA as a kid in the early 70's!! Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing, i have a friend in my small group at church that flew the c-47 and C-46 in WWII. Bob Warren thanks for your service..
That's cool to see especially since I currently reside here in College Point over on 15th ave next to the Pepsi plant over by 110 st. Interesting!!!!!!! Thanks for the "history of College Point"
Gee,what a great piece of footage really in enjoyed it,many thanks,
Very high Quality video! & nicely presented w/ the music track. I really got a
"feel" for those historic times, when the whole country came together for the war effort.
This film is superb! Wonderfully shot and edited. That Kodachrome is some awesome film stock. The colors really pop.
Speaking of pop, my dad was a pilot in the USAF from '44 onward and he flew the C47 quite a bit. I'm sure never with big ol' honkin' floats attached though! Man, those things were huge!
Thanks for posting this remarkable footage.
That was some piece of engineering! Thank you for sharing this rare and unique piece of history!
Great film! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the visual history, never knew this C47 variant existed.
Great film, I learned something today. I never before saw a DC 3 (C 47) with floats. I bet the pilots enjoyed having it on the ground sitting level and not be a tail dragger.
Awesome takeoff, landing and taxiing footage! I didn't even know they made amphibious floats for an aircraft of this size, and I consider myself a pretty fair aviation buff!!!
@quam12972 No problem, please go ahead and post. Considering that this film had been unseen for 60+ years, it deserves all the exposure it can get. Thanks!
Great film-thanks.
Thanks for the effort to do this.
Jeezus those things are huge, just add an outboard motor, and practically a boat.
Very interesting footage! Thks.
wow, this has to go viral
The Greatest Generation! No doubt! Fought a war on two worldwide fronts with filing cabinets, typewriters & one line telephones! When our nation was TOGETHER AS ONE!
My father worked EDO Frank, V lived on 121street, College Point.,
They forget to tell you the C-47's payload was only 6000 pounds, now reduce that by the floats weight and you'll see why it was just a novelty
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Thank you for sharing this with us.......
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DAM!!!! One of the most amazing "rare films" of world war 2 that i ever found!!!!! Just amazing!!!!!and simply the most amazing film of the C-47 that i found!! Ever!!! (until now!) but seriously this ia amazing!! Any idea if the original drawings of the EDO floats still survives ????(i realy hope that yes!!!) It will be amazing if some of the C-47 that are flying today someone put it floats!!! You can imagine!!??? Wow! And what happens with the EDO company after the war?? Is still in operation??? Or it don't exist anymore?? Just amazing video Robert Martens!!! You made my day!!!!!
One used to fly out of Folsom's Air Sevice in Greenville Maine, the last time I saw it flying was in the early 2000's. To my knowledge the aircraft has been taken off floats but everything is still up there. If you look on google earth you can see it.
Really cool! Thx for that
Hi April. I've looked and looked but I have yet to find any sight of my grandfather in this one, unless he is somewhere in one of the several crowd scenes. To the best of my knowledge he did not participate in the production of this particular work. By the way, your use of the term "videoing" is amusingly anachronistic considering that video tape was not invented until the 1950s! Before then all motion photography was accomplished with chemically processed film such as Kodachrome.
I really enjoyed this film on America's most important airplane. The DC-3 could do it all. Whatever happened to the original drawings of the EDO floats for this airplane? You've done a great thing by posting this. Thank you
great music also
I got my first job there in 1980...I was 18 years old
could plane savers can use this footage for there show ? please
In the day that @April.. is referring to would be 'filming.'
The float bottom skins forward of the step must have been .063 thick!! R-2800s would have been helpful!!!
great flim
whitch one is ur grandfather is he the on e videoing all this
Doesn't videoing refer to moving optical images???
..Go ahead and do it days. BIG smile.
NOW! put those floats on a Basler BT-67 Conversion ;)
Lucas Reed
I think they already did, I saw a video of it on UA-cam but couldn’t find it again, I knew I should have save that video on my playlist.
Mr. Martens, I hope I haven't crossed a line but for those interested further in the amphibious C-47/DC-3: ua-cam.com/video/pJ6zTZuq5zw/v-deo.html.
Classic see Hells Gate Bridge in background
WANT!
Nice music. Not.
When people don't know whats going on in a vid, they can't make a narrative, so they add shitty music.