Dakota gathering at Duxford 2019 for the 75th anniversary of D Day
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- A gathering of Dakota / sky trains from all over the world for the anniversary of D day sadly the wind speed was to high for the parachute drop using round shots. But it was still a rare sight to so many Dakotas in the same place at the same time
These planes are not only beautiful and historic , they are useful and reliable . Probably the most useful and consistently profitable airplane of all time, they have proven their utility value and ruggedness for many decades. And will continue to do so, they are a most fitting tribute to the generation that gave us these airplanes. Those people saved the World!
Imagine the skies over England as over 14,000 sorties flew on June 6th, 1944 as they headed to Normandy.
Astonishing
Brilliant job from the “Daks” team and IWM Duxford. The commentary, kept us well informed throughout the day. Very moving day for my sister and I as we began to understand how it must have been for our late father Lew Dodgson as he left for France from Broadwell very late on the 5th June ‘44. He reached his drop zone at 01.10 hrs, paras jumped and then he returned to Gloucestershire. An early liberator of France. After a bit of R and R he returned in the evening with more troops in a Horsa glider.
Amazing and beautiful, D day and there fighting for freedom man must never be forgotten!
I wish I could be there for this! My compliments to these gentlemen that are making history.👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
A buddy of mine is there today jumping out of one of these. Soooooo envious. What a sight to behold.
Thanks for the quick post and a special thanks to those who keep these airborne jeeps flying.
at the 2:00 mark, cockpit number identification letters CD, tail number 348608 is "Betsy's Biscuit Bomber", a C-47B built in 1943. It was flown from Paso Robles California making whistle stops along the way over a months time. It flew to Duxford England, coming by way of the Greenland route. The aircraft is part of the Estrella Warbirds Museum collection here in Paso Robles California. This aircraft's last U.S. missions were flying the Berlin airlift, it was sold to Israel and was later purchased back from the Israeli Air Force and refurbished, there is an Israeli language sign painted on the interior that roughly says, "The only replacement for a Dakota, is another Dakota". The plane was a military transport it's whole life and was never converted for civilian use and has all of it's original equipment to include the equipment it had in 1943 for towing gliders.
Me dad fought in the Eastern theater but we had uncles who landed on the beaches. This makes me proud. Britain, from your shores came the troops who took the awful regime of the Nazi nation down. I noticed it is the Americans who seem to get most of the credit. I don't believe the Tommy soldier has gotten his full credit. By the way, I am an American.
Diana Marquez Well said Diana,and us Brits were fighting from 1939! I was at Duxford on Tuesday,and these wonderful old aircraft were a sight to see. My regards to you,and your family 🇬🇧🇺🇸
No doubt it was a concerted effort by all...but do/did you notice were a lot of the equipment the British were using came from. If it wasn’t for the USA’s capability to gen up a massive military industrial war production...the British and commonwealths would still have had only what they came back from Dunkirk with....only the soldiers. Nearly everything they had was left on the beaches of France. Yes, the Battle of Britain (RAF) kept Germany from invading, but in all aspects of equipment in the British army...there was none. So yes, the USA should get a huge amount of credit.
CJP6024 No.
Like how many of them came properly dressed in their Invasion Stripes!
Now, if only there were gliders available for them to tow....
Thanks for sharing the video, despite the wind noise. :)
Just for interest, the lead C47 'That's All Brother' was the lead aircraft in the airborne D-Day invasion fleet. There was a great doco on the search for and refurbishment of the aircraft on Foxtel. Aircraft now maintained by the Confederate Air Force.
Incredible sight, glad so many are still flying👍😎
Up until about 10 years ago, there was a DC-3 or C-47 that made daily runs to and from a local airport Gere in So Cal. I would sometimes see it flying westward in the morning and then flying east at or after sunset. I don't know if it was being used as a commuter service or if some rich person was personally flying it to work, but it was a regular thing for a few years. Then no more one day. It was nice to hear it overhead.
Thanks for sharing.
This is truly special footage.
The USA's greatest aircraft imho.
Still in commercial use today.
what a fantastic plane .
Magnificent tribute to the service men and women who helped rid the world of the Nazi scourge.
Thank you for sharing this special day with us.🤗🇦🇺
When you work on older aircraft as a daily job, you think it it will never end, but it does. I worked on some of the last pistoned engined aircraft in the US Navy, or in any service for that matter, in the forms of the EC-121, T-28, S-2, and C-1 aircraft. All gone now, either in museum collections, or scrapped, but the memories remain. The C-47/DC-3 has outlived most of the people that built, flew, or worked on them. I also watched the last of the C-117/Super DC-3 aircraft leave the service.
Awesome, thanks for sharing so quickly!!
Absolutely amazing
Got to see That's all Brother fly over an American football game back in November where soldiers parachuted out of it. Looked very graceful up there.
The only fly worthy Li-2 in the worlds from Hungary,is also taking part in the event.😎
can someone explain to me why the rear passenger door is on the starboard side of the plane? i've only seen one other like this before and it belongs to buffalo airways in canada but it is not a Li-2
@@fabulousprofound Buffalo owns one DC-3 that was built as a DC-3 and not a C-47. Apparently the DC-3 passenger version had the door on the starboard side. It could be that the Russians copied a DC-3 instead of a C-47 version.
The Lisunov-2 is the Russian copy of the Dc-3, obviously with some differencies.
@@stephenhunter70 Seem to remember something about that particular DC3 was one of the original Sleeper models. Once they went to all passenger models the door swapped sides
Stephen Hunter 👍
To think! If there had not been an Allied victory, I may never have been born! Dips me lid, chaps!!
The DC3 (Dakota) was last produced in March 1947.... Not bad for still flying aircraft ;-)
Did you see that ? the last plane had NO.1 engine Prop. feathered on landing.
They shut it down due to a technical issue. It's actually an engine witch is just fitted. The previous engine had a cylinder crack and separate from the engine, grounding it in august. That engine only had about 65 hours on it. So the last year have been full of bad luck for this Dak,, LN-WND Little Egypt from Norway
@@MortenM80 I noticed the engine with the feathered prop as well. I hope they can fix whatever is wrong with it.
@@MortenM80 thank you for the update. I hope it was just precautionary and they get it fixed
An 18 year old soldier storming the Normandy beaches would be 93 years old today. There aren't many left anymore. Soon there won't be any WW2 veterans left. Very soon there will be more C-47's then paratroopers who jumped from them.
Amazing ...thanks for posting today ...much appreciated
it's great , impressionnant autant de Dakota merci beaucoup.
This is an epic event and will have taken a lot of money and effort to create. Thank you to all contributors. Lest we forget.
Fantastic ! Thank you for sharing.
great to watch this..my compliments
I know it won't be popular....But.....May I hazard a suggestion that the C-47 played an even BIGGER role in the Vietnam War than in WWII...as an AC-47 , EC-47 and RC-47. I know that's shocking....... but after flying them there...that's what I believe.
One had an engine out landing. I wonder if that was intentional or they actually had a problem.
Wonderful video. Thank you for sharing and bringing it to us so quickly.
I believe it had a problem they shut it down as a precaution it’s was running again later in the day
I was there!! "I Love the sight of C47's in the morning. It smells of victory!"
Filscout Haha,me too!
Filscout Great smell , the best, eh?!
The sound of freedom.
If there's a corner in your man-cave that needs 'something', I would suggest an authentic propeller blade from your favorite war-bird.
C-47, DC-3, Sky Train, Dakota, keep up people
Great video.
Fabulous..
Awe inspiring. Just a pity the commentators dont shut up and let us listen to the music of the P n Ws. This seems to be common at airshows.
How many C47's showed up?
At duxford I believe it was 27
A wonderful sight. Pity it took until the last few seconds to sort the stereo sound out. Can this be redone and reloaded?
Sadly not it was a problem with my mic but for the sounds of the Dakotas I have a 2nd film at shuttleworth from a couple of days before when 7 gathered there ua-cam.com/video/9BCzFZ05nAg/v-deo.html
Awesome
Looks like the Engines are shut down and the props are just windmilling when the plane fly past 6:45, these new generation of cameras really sucks and destroys great moment like this.
HA-LIX is a Lisunov Li2T 😁
Wonder if any Russians were invited with their C47s. Hundreds were delivered to Siberia via US and Canada. Village in Russia celebrates the allied delivery every year
flighttradar 24 remind me this event
great vid, whats the carbon footprint lol.
Well at least one Soviet Li-2 took part. The real hero nation of WW2.
Imperial War Museum Duxford has had massive success comercialising D-Day
Wonderful. Money replays history.
Stupid comment.