My latest video... C-123K in flight...

[flight17]

filmed this saturday. I didnt get my camcorder in time so i had to use my point and shoot in movie mode, which it turned out pretty well. The audio wasnt that bad either. Most of the high pitch sounds are the APU which is in the cabin or our hyd. pumps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EdvTYeqMdY

enjoy, its a little long though

[Babalonian]

Wonderful plane, nice footage, and thanks for sharing!      

(yours isn't one of the C-123s that might get caught up in the whole Vietnam Agent Orange contamination hoo-ha, I hope?)

[GFShill]

I keep expecting to see guys in Hawaiian shirts hanging out of the ramp.

[flight17]

Wonderful plane, nice footage, and thanks for sharing!      

(yours isn't one of the C-123s that might get caught up in the whole Vietnam Agent Orange contamination hoo-ha, I hope?)

na, ours was only used as a trainer before it was sent to the desert.

[flight17]

here is our's history...

"The Thunder Pigs" Military History
54-0664
Manufactured By Fairchild Aircraft, Haggerstown, MD.
May 4, 1956: Delivered To The USAF

May 1956: To 513th Troop Carrier(Assault) Group (Tactical Air Command),
Sewart AFB, TN.

Nov 1957: To Middletown Air Material Area, Olmstead AFB, PA.

Mar 1958: To 551st Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing
(Air Defense Command), Otis AFB, MA.

Oct 1959: To 4650th Combat Support Detachment (ADC) Stewart AFB, N.Y.

Mar 1960: To 4603rd Consolidated Maintenance Squadron (ADC)
Stewart AFB (Deployment to Myrtle Beach AFB SC.)

May 1962: To 4603rd Air Base Group (ADC) Stewart AFB
(Deployment To Wright-Patterson AFB OH.)

Feb 1964: To 1st Air Commando Wing (TAC), Hurlburt Field FL.

July 1964: To Rome Air Development Center (AF Systems Command)
Griffiss AFB NY

June 1965: To AF Missile Development Center (AFSC), Holloman AFB NM.

Jan 1966: To Aeronautical Systems Division (AFSC), Wright-Patterson AFB
OH. (To UC-123B, Defoliant Configuration)

April 1969: To Hayes Aircraft, Napier Field, Dothan AL.

May 1969: To Fairchild Aircraft, Hagerstown MD. (To C-123K Configuration)

Oct 1969: To 317th Tactical Airlift Wing (TAC), Lockbourne AFB OH.

July 1970: To Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center
Davis-Monthan AFB AZ.

Sept 1971: To Hayes Aircraft, Napier Field, Donthan AL.

Dec 1971: To 906th Tactical Airlift Group (USAFRES) Lockbourne AFB
(Deployment To England AFB LA.

June 1975: To 355th Tactical Airlift Squadron (AFRES), Lockbourne AFB OH.

Feb 1976: Base Renamed Rickenbacker, was Lockbourne AFB OH.

June 1981: To Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center,
Davis-Monthan AFB AZ.

[MachFly]

Nice!

Which part of the airplane were you filming from? Cockpit?

[flight17]

Nice!

Which part of the airplane were you filming from? Cockpit?

the camera was in the window just aft of the door. I was sitting in the first seat on the left side which would be in between the "Dangar Prop" line and the next aft window. Pretty much where the line of oil runs up the fuselage, was where i was sitting. And if the prop would i failed and came through the cabin, i would probably have been hit...

[flight17]

I just noticed, i forgot to post some of the pics from the air show...

The Main attractions were Panchito and Quick Silver and us It was more of a fly in type air show. People came and went. Panchito was doing crew training flights as well as giving rides so it was constantly coming in going which was cool. A formation of two Beech T-34's and a Nanchang (or whatever they are called) flew over and then landed. There were two T-6's, a Sterman, a 1957 Bell 47, a J-3, our L-21B and some private aircraft that i didnt recognize.

Im so mad with this shot (before we left)... for some reason my camera randomly took photos in 640x400 res, so some really good photos ended up being too small...

I was driving the space shuttle around all day lol


beautiful King air

one of two t-6's


Bell 47

Panchito (never was able to go up to it close, was always driving while it was on the ground, then ran out of time b4 we left)

Quick Silver (this is the best looking P-51 i have ever seen!)



Panchito and Quick Silver


i got video of Quick silver's startup and takeoff and flyby along with video of Panchito departing multiple times.

[flight17]

lol panchhito is filtered as panchito... that was the only way i could type it

[MachFly]

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the camera was in the window just aft of the door. I was sitting in the first seat on the left side which would be in between the "Dangar Prop" line and the next aft window. Pretty much where the line of oil runs up the fuselage, was where i was sitting. And if the prop would i failed and came through the cabin, i would probably have been hit...

I see. Judging just by the video (not knowing where you sat) it seemed like you had a great field of view, not just one window. Great job on the recording. 

[MachFly]

I just noticed, i forgot to post some of the pics from the air show...

The Main attractions were Panwatermelono and Quick Silver and us It was more of a fly in type air show. People came and went. Panwatermelono was doing crew training flights as well as giving rides so it was constantly coming in going which was cool. A formation of two Beech T-34's and a Nanchang (or whatever they are called) flew over and then landed. There were two T-6's, a Sterman, a 1957 Bell 47, a J-3, our L-21B and some private aircraft that i didnt recognize.

Im so mad with this shot (before we left)... for some reason my camera randomly took photos in 640x400 res, so some really good photos ended up being too small...
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I was driving the space shuttle around all day lol
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beautiful King air
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one of two t-6's
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Bell 47
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Panwatermelono (never was able to go up to it close, was always driving while it was on the ground, then ran out of time b4 we left)
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Quick Silver (this is the best looking P-51 i have ever seen!)
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Panwatermelono and Quick Silver
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i got video of Quick silver's startup and takeoff and flyby along with video of Panwatermelono departing multiple times.

Which airshow was that?

[rpm]

Very cool. The video and audio are awesome. The music needs some work. Great job!

[100Coogn]

I like the "AH" on the tail of the C-123K

  Coogan

[flight17]

I like the "AH" on the tail of the C-123K

  Coogan

Air Heritage

Machfly, it was at the Butler Air Show, in Butler, Pa.

as for the view, what allow it is the fact that the fuselage starts to narrow right at that window. And it just so happened to work out that the alluminum has holes through it to save weight. Well i was able to put my skinny tripod in this holes and just had to extend one leg on the backside to touch to fly to steady it. It was literally a perfect fit. So i could look out 90 degrees and get the engine, or i could turn it forward until the side of the window was just barely in the picture and could see in front of the plane pretty well.

The audio was better than any video i have recorded from the outside, which supprised me. I actually wasnt that loud on the inside, at least from the engines. I didnt have my headset on during runups (which i had to cut out of the video for time) and was fine. The majority of annoyingly high pitched sounds are actually coming from the APU which is in the cabin or the electrical system.

[MachFly]

Machfly, it was at the Butler Air Show, in Butler, Pa.

Ah, missed that one. Will try next year.