First restoration flight of the Eastern DC-7B, July 4th, 2010

[bboucharde]

Awesome! Great sight and sound, and a real tribute to the entire restoration team.

[ovationpdh]

Beautiful!

[erad5]

1:37 nice sound of the turbos. congratulations on the restoration! hope to see it on the west coast some time in the future!

[travsuz]

I love it!!!!!! Beautiful plane! The vintage livery is just beautiful.

[travsuz]

I love it!!!!!! Beautiful plane!

[fholbert]

Just WOW!!! Where was this?

[geherrick]

There was a MONUMENTAL amount of work necessary to restore this great ship. Hats off to everyone involved!

Greg Herrick

[PaulKile]

This is a dream I've had for nearly 50 years. I flew on a DC-7 from IDL to LAX and back in 1958 when I was 5 years old. My Dad flew for United and was copilot on the first DC-7 press flight from NY to SFO in 1954. Now my wife and I have signed up for 2 seats on this DC-7 from Opa Locka to the EAA convention in Oshkosh in a couple weeks. She's never flown on a propliner. She will either really dig it or hate me for 5 hours 40 minutes of noise and vibration! Thanks Carlos+Roger!

Paul Kile

[scbikerdude]

love the soumd of those recips, man, thanks fdr posting

[sdilullo]

An absolutely beautiful sight - thanks for capturing the great video!

[eileenstarr]

Thanks for the absolutely wonderful memories!!! My father worked for EAL for 35 years. I grew up on beautiful airplanes like the DC7. Great video!!!!

[hudson501]

Hey! Where's the idiot who always manages to come around with his corporate jet and drown out the sound of the aircraft you're trying to capture on your video tape! Nice short show of the results of a wonderful DC-7 restoration! And again, glad you avoided the usual ever present jet sounds that would have spoiled this presentation.

[TampaDrLove]

Beautiful !!

[macaroon1]

What a beautiful bird! Thanks for the memories!

[aukseklis]

Wow! really cool. Made my eyes well-up. Thanks, Paul Alencikas MIAFH

[Marine82164]

It was great seeing the Falcon fly once again. I got chills just hearing those big engines crank once again!

[gateagent75]

Thanks to everyone involved ! What a great sight. I was only there for the 727's, l 1011's, airbus a300 and 757's, but my aunt was there for them all starting in 1945. I love this ! I thought I'd never see Eal in the sky again. Thank you for making it happen.

[raywode]

She's magnificent.

[CB48197]

Just perfect,all it needs is red spinners like they had !

[Proplinerman]

Superb professional video, which I have Favourited! My G-d she is beautiful!

[doug9driver]

Proudly showing us that she can still do the job as well as the day she first rolled off the assembly line.

[doug9driver]

Beautiful, just beautiful.

[mprophet100]

WOW....Excellent footage...congratulations for the camera man.

Nice zoom action, sounds and prop blurr.

keep em comming....:-)

[ponderosa727]

Sensational! Congratulations!! It's great to see this EAL 7B in the air again. Those 3350's sound terrific.

[atlantajumper]

Not THAT's an airplane! Jets are for kids.

[BasilHoneycup]

Are these the 3350's ?

[KD4CVT]

@BasilHoneycup - Yes.

[douglasprops]

@BasilHoneycup , They certainly are. Nice, heh?

[BasilHoneycup]

@douglasprops Got to love em; I usually fly 1830's on a 3 but I love the raw power of the 3350's