I was unaware of this De Havilland model. Very nimble bird!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iStRkk5O3sg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tq-wlspDb8

In true De Havillad tradition the Caribou is a fantastic back country heavy hauler STOL aircraft. I have worked with several guys who flew them in Vietnam. Being as slow as they were I'm told that they were very effective bullet sponges too.

Turbine conversion Caribou test flight gone wrong...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YydkHy2P0dU

Ford Trimotor did the same thing. Don't forget to check the gust lock and controls...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA-Dn-_2OoE

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Originally posted by Opus1:
Ford Trimotor did the same thing. Don't forget to check the gust lock and controls...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA-Dn-_2OoE

Wow.............

They served with much distinction in the RAAF, there is one still flying with an aviation museum down this way.
Very sensibly it went straight from military service to the museum in full serviceability with no restoration required.

From Wiki:

A gust lock can pose a serious safety hazard if its removal is omitted before an aircraft's takeoff, because it renders the flight control inoperative. Many internal gust locks have a safety feature that locks out the aircraft's throttle or engine-start controls until removed and stowed. External-only gust locks typically lack this safety feature, and must be tagged with a large red Remove before flight streamer.
The prototype of the B-17's crash on October 30, 1935

The very first example built of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, the initial Model 299 aircraft, was lost in just this way on October 30, 1935, when its self-contained gust locks were left engaged, with the resulting crash killing Boeing chief test pilot Leslie Tower, and United States Army Air Corps test pilot Ployer Peter Hill.[citation needed] Less than a year later, Nazi German Luftwaffe Generalleutnant Walter Wever lost his life in a similar accident from gust lock neglect, when his Heinkel He 70 Blitz monoplane crashed on June 3, 1936, from the Blitz's aileron gust locks not being disengaged before takeoff.[citation needed] Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, the American singer and actress Grace Moore and 21 others were killed in 1947 during the crash of a KLM flight at Copenhagen Airport due to the flight crew forgetting to disengage the gust lock on the tail fin of the aircraft. The crash of Air Indiana Flight 216 occurred due to failure to remove the gust locks.

A C-124 transport carrying US servicemen home for Christmas crashed in 1952 due to engagement of gust locks.

One recent example of a tragedy involving a gust lock left in place was a crash of a Gulfstream IV at Hanscom Field on May 31, 2014. This crash killed Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz as well as 6 others.[1]

As these many tragedies (and this is far from a complete list) illustrate, when a gust lock is used, its disengagement is a very important step on the preflight checklist.