DC7 running up engines

One of TBM-Butler's DC7s carries out a run up of its engines at their home base of Redmond, on April 22nd 2004

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Propliner
• DC7
• Butler
• Douglas
• DC-7
• TBM-Butler
• Redmond
• Oregon
• aircraft
• airliner
• firebomber
• airplane
• aeroplane
• engines
• propellors
• run up
• pistonliner
• airport

[Proplinerman]

Thanks danf321-I'd wondered why there was this effect.

[teaser1950]

Wild , nice and sweet! I simply ADORE this great monster!

Thank you very much for post it, I want to know more about it! ^__O

[Proplinerman]

It's owned by TBM-Butler Aviation and used then (and still, as far as I know, today) for firefighting. Ex-Eastern originally, I think, judging by the registration. Glad you liked the video and thanks for your comment.

[zeekwolfe]

I rode in one of these planes flying from Chicago to Detroit. Very comfortable but a bit unnerving when the exhaust pipes began to glow a cherry red. This was a United Airlines plane...very clean and the upholstered seats reminded me of Gramma's overstuffed chairs made in the 30's.

[Proplinerman]

Thanks for this nice comment-I always like to hear from people who flew on the pistonliners, what the experience was actually like in the time when they were in regular passenger service; something I missed out on, bar rides from London to La Baule, France on an Air France Super Connie in August/September 1962 (see my video posting of this, also on You Tube). Unfortunately tho, as I was only four at the time, I have no memory of it, but I do have the film fragment-video I've posted on You Tube.

[parim31]

how come the plane doesnt move if the props are on full throttle? wheels locked or does it have to do with the pitch of the props?

[Proplinerman]

Yeah, know how you feel-I did a lot of flying in the sixties (we're nearly the same age), tho mine was mainly on turboprops (Vanguards, Viscounts, an Electra-very fond memories).

[danf321]

Lovely. FYI, adjust the shutter rate on your video camera so the props don't look like they are barely turning when in reality, they're rev'd up. One way is to take the camer off the Auto mode and put it on the Cloudy Sky setting. If you have it on Sunny or Snow setting, the shutter is set at the maximum speed, which strobes in-sync to the props.

[fr8boy]

that is a cool airplane

[6V92TA]

@parim31 its the prop pitch. Its why it sounds the way it does in this vid. Even without the wheel chokes and brakes locked, with the props set right, the plane wont move at full throttle.

[teaser1950]

@Proplinerman You are very welcome ^^ 

[teletubbykiller23]

WRIGHT R-3350 18 CYL RADIALS?