My father loaded these during Vietnam in Germany, he said it was kinda worthless because they'd over load them and they'd crash...... surprised there were some still flying back when this movie was shot. I seen one at the Airforce Museum in Dayton Ohio course as a museum piece not flying.
notice the starting order,ya gotchyur 2,4,3,1,that's ol mil spec 459er-6 point seven,they followed it by the book every time,my uncle used to stand in front of these when they did that after the war!
I didn't know there were still C-124s around in 1983. I helped with the restoration of the C-124 at the Strategic Air Command Museum on Offutt AFB back in the mid-1990's.
Dobbins AFB did some restoration of that plane I took a pic of it leaving Dobbins heading out to Travis wish I could post it here but can't leave a link here
Some of my fondest childhood memories were of the 124s taking off and landing at Brookley AFB, Mobile, Alabama. Brookley was the only AFB in the world that had air, rail, highway, and sea access. LBJ had it closed in retaliation for the state of Alabama not voting for him in '64. You could tell when a 124 took off loaded; it would shake the whole house.
Big old bird! Flew pretty low and slow usually under 10k and not so fast, Those big old engines were very faithful. Feb, 1968 during the Tet Offensive, 12 hours in the air from Dover AFB to the Azores very mild. On to Frankfurt Germany 12 hrs, it got very cold. C141 was a non stop ride 8 hours same flight. I really admired the friendly professionalism of the Air Force Crew of that C124 including the Load master & not to forget the Pilot, Co Pilot and Navigator. Thanks Guys!.
@mrkongsimr Who said the A380 was the first? There have been many built by the British (Blackburn Beverly), French (Breguet Deux-Ponts) - oh and the Americans (Boeing Stratocruiser, Lockheed Galaxy) - and the B747.
@mrkongsimr How is that a surprise? Perhaps the earliest multi-deck airplane was Germany's Dornier Do X in 1929. It was a flying boat powered by 12 engines and had three decks.
Digitized 8mm film. Sorry it was without audio. I may be able to post another that has sound from an earlier video camera but not the same scenes. Thanks for the comment.
I made one trip in that ol gal from VTANG to Tyndal and back,,,,,, took forever
1937win 1 day ago
My father loaded these during Vietnam in Germany, he said it was kinda worthless because they'd over load them and they'd crash...... surprised there were some still flying back when this movie was shot. I seen one at the Airforce Museum in Dayton Ohio course as a museum piece not flying.
gunny426plymouth 1 week ago
notice the starting order,ya gotchyur 2,4,3,1,that's ol mil spec 459er-6 point seven,they followed it by the book every time,my uncle used to stand in front of these when they did that after the war!
Bellerspitts 1 month ago
I didn't know there were still C-124s around in 1983. I helped with the restoration of the C-124 at the Strategic Air Command Museum on Offutt AFB back in the mid-1990's.
FLJuJitsu 2 months ago
Dobbins AFB did some restoration of that plane I took a pic of it leaving Dobbins heading out to Travis wish I could post it here but can't leave a link here
stargazer444 3 months ago
Some of my fondest childhood memories were of the 124s taking off and landing at Brookley AFB, Mobile, Alabama. Brookley was the only AFB in the world that had air, rail, highway, and sea access. LBJ had it closed in retaliation for the state of Alabama not voting for him in '64. You could tell when a 124 took off loaded; it would shake the whole house.
TheSFCRetired 3 months ago
love the videos of these old birds
curbshoppin 3 months ago
Aww, heck. I wanted to see the guy sitting in the top hatch stay there for takeoff. Thanks for the video, sound or not.
ricksclick 4 months ago
Big old bird! Flew pretty low and slow usually under 10k and not so fast, Those big old engines were very faithful. Feb, 1968 during the Tet Offensive, 12 hours in the air from Dover AFB to the Azores very mild. On to Frankfurt Germany 12 hrs, it got very cold. C141 was a non stop ride 8 hours same flight. I really admired the friendly professionalism of the Air Force Crew of that C124 including the Load master & not to forget the Pilot, Co Pilot and Navigator. Thanks Guys!.
lclaughton 4 months ago
Was it a double decker ???
If so , then the Airbus a380 , was not the first one !!!
mrkongsimr 5 months ago
@mrkongsimr Boeing B314 (Pan Am flying boat) and the statrocrusier both had upper and lower decks as well.....
robertplattbell1 4 months ago
@robertplattbell1 I believe the cargo deck actually folded up, too, to create one big cargo compartment, or two decks.
robertplattbell1 4 months ago
@robertplattbell1 correct it did
1937win 1 day ago
@mrkongsimr Who said the A380 was the first? There have been many built by the British (Blackburn Beverly), French (Breguet Deux-Ponts) - oh and the Americans (Boeing Stratocruiser, Lockheed Galaxy) - and the B747.
rooftopjump 4 months ago
@mrkongsimr How is that a surprise? Perhaps the earliest multi-deck airplane was Germany's Dornier Do X in 1929. It was a flying boat powered by 12 engines and had three decks.
5point9straightsix 2 weeks ago
nothing like old shakey, they used to come into offutt a lot when i was there in 69&70
10231949 5 months ago
Digitized 8mm film. Sorry it was without audio. I may be able to post another that has sound from an earlier video camera but not the same scenes. Thanks for the comment.
xenia5101 6 months ago
What happend 2 the sound ?
michael70224 6 months ago
@michael70224 It's in "Whisper Mode" :-D
Raguleader 5 months ago