that half-truck thing had my brain so confused lol. great video!

@J.0.E

4 жыл бұрын

You ain't kidding man

@greybeard29

4 жыл бұрын

Looks trippy

@user-iw3lg8do9n

4 жыл бұрын

That's the reason I clicked

@jhosk

4 жыл бұрын

4x4 truck using front drive shaft

@garybrinkman1343

4 жыл бұрын

Genius is the result of necessity!

Wow, check out at 4:22, you can see the tips of the prop as they fling off the water creating a cool corkscrew effect.

@FlightChops

7 жыл бұрын

+Russell Senior cool yeah, I held that shot a little longer because of how neat it looked. It is actually the prop tip vortices being visualized by the condensation in the air.

@damonnugent548

7 жыл бұрын

Russell Senior s

@tomphillips6039

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZXammJiHZ7SuoLA.html . Depending on engine RPM and prop diameter, some operators would reduce Prop Rpm in winter to avoid going 'sonic'....

Awesome Video! I have always wanted to fly float planes on missions like this. Thanks for another great video!

@tigerthepilot5731

7 жыл бұрын

I appreciate you being here Steve. I admire your videos!

@SusheePerumal

7 жыл бұрын

steveo1kinevo Happy to take you up on floats... islands, beaches, docking at friends' cottages... sooo much fun! (Love your channel!)

@FlightChops

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steveo! I am actually fairly likely going to get my rating done out there and then do some advanced training with Peter! Wanna join for some of it?

@gentlejake605

6 жыл бұрын

i would lmao let me come lol meet in michigan XDDDD jkjk lol im 16 wouldve love to meet though gonna be moving soon

I was born 'n raised on the "doppler effect" just two miles from C-YVR Fraser River float plane base, home of the "flying beaver" on the mighty fraser river bc. Many sweet memories.

Nice to see the 'guts' of the Beaver in the shop. Where I grew up, many of the men in our congregation worked at either A.V. Roe in Malton, the big Kodak plant in Weston, or at de Havilland in Downsview. My high school was 500m as the crow flies from de Havilland's main buildings. Lots of pride and great stories about the de Havilland heritage. It was strange to be flying in a Twin Otter over the Grand Canyon as an adult and seeing the aircraft placard on the bulkhead "Downsview, Ontario, Canada." I traveled that far to fly in something made minutes from my home. Maybe I knew people that had a hand in creating it.

@srwfisher1

5 жыл бұрын

Went to the same high school, and watched the Twin Otters & Dash 7"s and Buffaloes fly out daily.

So he doesn't even have to kick the tyres? What a seriously professional man this is. Respect.

One of my favourite films yet. What a legend. Thanks Steve!

I'm glad that you were able to share this mission with us. Some more like this would be amazing.

I've watched this video at least 20 times, and I still get excited to watch it again and again. Thank you

I think this is my favorite flight chops vid. Thanks man!

That was one of your best videos!!! It looked like both of you really liked it!!! I hope you continue to be a float pilot!!! Keep up the AWESOME work!!!

I really appreciate the great work you do on your videos. You capture the story of the pilot and plane in such an organic way! Cheers!

Ill always love the dhc-2 beaver, floatplanes and flyingboats always seem to hold a particular fascination for me. great video

Awesome!! A new FlightChops video out on my birthday AND it features one of my favourite planes! :D I had the privilege of being a dockhand one season with beavers and turbo otters. Truly fantastic airplanes

Great video! I loved BC when I was there, and I loved watching the Beavers flying around! Definitely a favorite.

Yes!!! Haven't watched yet but man I'm so happy you uploaded this. I loooove the Beaver! It's been my favorite prop plane ever since I first saw one. The cowl, the tail, the windows, just a great looking plane. FYI the doors can fit an oil drum sideways or upright.

absolutely beautiful. This was one of the most enjoyable films I have watched on youtube. Definitely a piece of history

Great video! The pilots that make it look easy are the ones that are the true professionals. One older instructor pilot that I spent a lot of time with in the early days of my flying once said, "The ones that are stressed out don't know what they are doing.".

Steve the production quality of these videos are amazing. Seriously cool stuff.

I love these old time planes and the life they help create !!!

This has to be about the most epic kind of flying there is. What an awesome aircraft and environment. I hope to try this someday. Great episode and thanks for sharing.

Great video with some spectacular scenery. Outstanding aircraft with a great pilot behind it.

absolutely beautiful... Awesome flying...

I always watch these guys and others operating out of the harbour if I’m in Vancouver. Thanks for a great inside look at something so iconic, both the plane and the operation itself. As a non-pilot, your videos are highly informative and entertaining.👍

Way to go, Peter!

Excellent video! I agree, this area is the best place to fly, for sure.

I've always been fascinated with these types of planes and this was amazing to watch

It's great to see BC featured on one of your vids, Steve. I think Peter taxi'd past me in a Beaver on Amphibs at Boundary Bay last summer while I was washing the plane. Now I know who I exchanged a wave with. Another great installment, thanks!

Amazing footage and learning about the best float plane to have.

Great video, gave me an insight into another part of the world , another way of life and an amazing piece of machinery.

I love the Beaver. I flew on them when I lived in Nanaimo flying to Vancouver Harbour or the Airport or to the Sunshine Coast.

Super cool stuff !! Very inspirational! Thanks for this video, Steve! Greetings from Slovenia!

This is so cool! Extra special for me since my first flight in a small airplane as a kid was in a beaver in Whistler.

Couldn't wait till the morning coffee to check this out. Love how you captured the pace of Peter's short notice charter. Some job you both have lol!!

Great video chops!

What a great plane, video and idea of the truck-taxi.

Lived in North Van long ago, such a beautiful place. What a great flight.

I love the DHC-2...,phenomenal.

Wow, thats incredible. Amazing once again!

Totally incredible video and the view was super too..and the information on this is great to..Thank you so so much for your videos too..

I love how much you feel the flying. And then you get that sense of awe and wonder into the videos! Kudos.

@FlightChops

7 жыл бұрын

+penguinista - thanks! That is definitely what we are going for :)

Great Video! Perfect way to experience the west coast and couldn’t have asked for a better operator. Well done!

Love Peter's mentality and community spirit. Good dude right there. As a Fire/Rescue/EMS guy myself, that means a lot getting that Chief in to work that fire.

Great video! Thank you for all of your work to bring us these great videos!!!

@FlightChops

7 жыл бұрын

+Nathan Reynolds - thanks for the feedback! It makes it all worth it!

Brilliant video!

So glad I got to ride right seat in Harbour Air's Beaver many years ago on a Vancouver layover, you people are awesome.

When I was ten, me, my brother and our father flew over James Bay in the middle of late winter 1964 in a ski equipped Beaver. Later on we got a ride in a Bombardier ski half track again over James Bay. Lots of snow, cold and northern lights so close you could almost touch them.

Superb video. I remember my first real short field landing - onto Savary Island in a C-172 in the mid '90's. I was sad to learn that they closed the gravel runway a few years later. The Beaver is one hell of a platform. If I ever went back to fly airplanes for a living, it would be to fly up and down the Pacific Northwest. It is refreshing to listen to a Beaver operator / owner say it like it is when flying a float plane - It takes LOTS of practice to dock a float plane and it can still 'wind' up being a dinger when you do everything right.

Nice work, Steve! I love the Beaver. Good storytelling too.

@FlightChops

7 жыл бұрын

+Backcountry Pilot - thank you sir! I'm enjoying your recent stuff as well!

He clearly a very nice guy..love to be friend with him..and you 😄 keep flying and keep it save..

Loved the editing, camera views and the dialogs. Great video!

Great Video...very interesting learning experience about float plane for me ..thanks FlightChops...Fly-On !

I remember going to Downsview on Saturdays with my father, and being amazed at the machinery. The big 80 ton presses, the huge jigs and the salt baths for heat treating and especially the machines that were in production.That was 1968 they were building the caribou (DHC-4) and the buffalo (DHC-5).

Simply beautiful

Beautiful. Nice. Awesome. Thanks.

Wow great video, thanks for posting!

What a cool plane and a great pilot. Great video Steve!

That sort of vehicle is common for getting planes in the water. I have video of the same thing at Victoria Airport Water Aerodrome. You can even see them on Google streetview from outside the gate. I love the startup procedure for the Beaver, the way they cough into life they sound like they'd never run well, but once they warm up they just thunder along.

@catfish552

6 жыл бұрын

Radial engines, man. At idle you think they're gonna cough and die any minute now, at power they're the most beautiful sound in the world.

Currently building a flying 1/10th scale DHC-2 with floats. These are beautiful aircraft and I hope they remain flying for many generations to come.

@richarddarlington1139

7 жыл бұрын

Are you building from a kit, or is it a foamie?

4:23 is one of the coolest shots ever, the vortices off the prop creating a spiral con trail.

Just got back from Savary Island family vacation it was our 11th annual trip there it is absolutely beautiful no need to go south when this place is right here. Great video as always!

Nice video. Often see those beavers over the mountains of North Vancouver. Went up in one in Whistler, so much fun.

fantastic video, and the part about your parents working at the de havilland plant is very touching.

@FlightChops

7 жыл бұрын

+Yisrael Lipschitz - thanks my friend!

I really love all your videos! The Beaver is such a cool machine. Seems robust and well built as a tank. Don’t know if we have any flying here in Sweden but I sure would want to ride in one some day. Keep up the great work you are doing with your channel. Thanks for sharing.

This is the second time I viewed this video, thank you for sharing, very inspirational and I have followed this model aircraft (Its versatile utility appeals to me) it is definitely a timeless classic. I think I've seen a Dehaviland with a turboprop engine once.

i was born and raised in N. Ontario, flew in these from a baby onwards until the highway came in. Worked for White River air service from the age of 11 as a dock boy, had many dozens of flights delivering supplies to the tourist camps etc. Beavers, Otters and Norsemen were the rigs of the sky back then. So wonderful to see them being loved and cared for. There is one in Victoria called Olivia at Pacific Sky, fully converted to turbo with a glass cockpit, incredible machine.

Growing up in the northern Canada my dad was a fishing guide and I got to go on a lot of float planes. Great vid.

Awesome video!

I love the ADF indicator, big and in the center.

This is outstanding! I was in Vancouver 1988 and first saw the Beaver float planes. After seeing them, that’s all I wanted to do. I sure wished I’d followed that dream.

This brings back memories... As a kid we'd go to the family's cabin up at Keats Island about 15 mi NNW of YVR for summer vacation... fly in from LAX to YVR, then catch the floatplane from YVR direct to the dock at the cabin. Yeah, a few times, we got pretty close to some sailboats on takeoff.

I'm a cameraman. I spent a whole summer with a Beaver on floats shooting a TV drama series called "Ritter's Cove" back in the 80's. The aircraft was the star of the show and I got to shoot the heck out of it every day. You couldn't ask for a more photogenic subject. Sometimes after work, I'd fly right seat to Vancouver, a 40 minute flight originating at Egmont, BC, down the coast a bit from where you swapped passengers. Running back home in the evening after dropping off the exposed film, I'd sometimes get to shoot an approach into Egmont, officially making me a real Canadian. :) A heck of a summer, that one. Thanks for the ride, 'Chops! Brought back good memories.

What a great video...thanks

nice video, nice, relaxed typical Canadian pilot.

Greatest experience of my life: Seattle to Victoria to Eagle's nook resort for a fishing trip and back in a 1957 Beaver.

Your videos are fantastic Flight Chops - you have a dream job, man!

@FlightChops

7 жыл бұрын

+zekezero12345 - thanks!

Excellent video , thanks for posting . 300 ft ceiling and good to go !

Love it! Almost done with my PPL. Family lives in Seattle and I really want to get my Float Plane add-on just for fun!

1956. That’s the year I first became aware of these aircraft. Never flew in one but fell in love with it nonetheless. What a workhorse!

Another great video +FlightChops !! I have flown an 04 Lake Buccaneer” but never a plan on actual floats. I flew about 2-3 hours. The Lake is an amphibious aircraft landing on the belly so it you look like you are going to fly right into the water as allowed to a wheeled landing in that airplane. I sure enjoyed it and would love to do that some more. Thanks for a great video. Have always loved the Beaver!

Awesome video.

Kenmore Air has got a bunch of these flying out of Seattle, and actually right up to the Gulf Islands and Sunshine Coast. Otters, too. Fantastic airplanes, and a spectacular place to fly.

That is bad ass! Thanks for posting very well done!

Great video! I've never been up in a Beaver, but I was up a couple of times as a passenger in an original Otter, back in the early 1970s when I was in Air Cadets. De Havilland built some pretty amazing planes!! Now that Viking Air owns the type certificates for the Beaver, hopefully, they will be building them again!

Loved it! Great video!

Beautiful plane

Great video!

A few years back my wife & I took a trip to Victoria and got a real nice intro flight on a DH2 Beaver absolutely loved it.

That is a beautiful paint scheme on a beautiful plane

I fly in one contently and every time is amazing .. What a great plane

Great Vid Chops!

Man am I glad you got some fly time in the Beaver at least once. It has a unique blend of lift and heft that make it really stable in crosswind.

Got excited by intro, thought it was C-FOBY, it's a beauty any way. C-FJFQ s/n 963, thanks for the great video. Grew up with OBY and OBT flying over the house every day in the summer and sometimes in winter. got some rides occasionally. great memories. Thanks again.

love your vids

That is one beautiful plane.

Wow! So cool!

Love the video

Cool video, you are my favorite flying channel. Thanks

A great video, love the Beaver

These things are awesome. I got picked up on one in a strip we built on a mountain in AK. While floats are fun, dirt was more! ~900' of useable dirt (no real trees for a while at elevation) 3-4" of mud, had to push the tail around with the pilot to takeoff. Thing took off with a lot of dirt left- thanks to that huge wing. Soooo much better than the 206 (which barely made it!). The windshield leaked the whole ride home flying at 200-300' back to Anchorage with no vis imho. Pilot was cool as Fonzi. What a ride.