Grace Air Boeing C-97G

Sunset start up of Grace Air Ltd Boeing C-97G Stratocruiser N117GA (s/n 52-2718), 'Spirit of Corpus Christi', With all her four massive Pratt & Whitney R-4360B Wasp Major radial engines running smoothly, she departs for yet another salmon freight run to Bethel Alaska. ( Kenai Airport - June 1994).

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Autos & Vehicles

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• C-97G
• N117GA
• Kenai

[mprophet100]

Hi 327409427

THX for the kind words...this a/c now belongs to the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation with the intend of getting it back in the air...!

[mprophet100]

I agree...Old Smoking Thunder...hahaha

[mprophet100]

Hi 1vdn992 this a/c has been sold and one will fly again with the BAHS...and for your info just turn up the volume....to hear its sweet noise

[mprophet100]

Hi vladidaddy88

No this plane doesn't fly cargo anymore. It is a survivor and it belongs now to the Berlin Historical Foundation and is in restoration at Floyd Bennet airport, NY.

cheers Mp..

[CounterCultureLives]

@mprophet100 Watching those engines fire up and watching the C-97G taxi out exhausting!!

[NeosimianSapiens]

PLAY LOUD!

[Bellerspitts]

Oh, this is the ol Douglass Strataboner!

[a8127]

No take-off run ?? Or am I missing part 2 ?? Great video BTW :)

[Philobeddoe12]

Wow what kind of carbon footprint is that baby leaving will all that exhaust (Al Gore call your office). So when are we gong to have electric airplanes? In the automotive world we have the highly sucessful Chevy Volt. When is the aviation industry going to catch up.

I hope you enjoy sarcasm.

[caskigm]

Neat, I have many a hour on these ole birds , ( Travis AFB 1954-1957 )

[LChapman75]

Worked on these in 1957-60, Hickam AFB, dam cowling came off in pieces, hard to store and hard to put back on.

[ALB437]

@mprophet100 - Ever shown at the RIAT UK?

[JBofBrisbane]

@mowrman100 - The real reason those engines were called "corncobs" is because they each had 28 cylinders in four rows of seven.

[geoago]

Ends before the engine oil that the fuel....