walk me through the pre-flight briefing and let's do this right so p1d yep 12,300 these things were built essentially throughout the war counting the A's the B's the C's D's H's uh this a plane was built in Los Angeles um uh as it as the true D it's got the Rolls-Royce Packard Merlin in it 1490 horsepower uh airplane uses about 65 66 gallons an hour at Cru which is 36 uses over 200 takeoff well sure yeah you know she likes the gas you you can you can have as big a Chevron bill as you want the fast cruise the airplane up high at 25,000 ft is 4 437 mph if I could talk this morning um um it's a delightful airplane to fly we we Cruise usually around 275 indicated something like that at that is you know under 5,000 ft something like that we're in the and we're in the traffic Pann area we have to slow down because we have some speed speed issues with ATC but um that's that's the ultimate aw they give us some latitude though because to be safe we need energy and so um a little caveat in there where we can we can go a little faster because if we need energy to go high and make the runway they give us a little bit of latitude on that so but we don't we don't abuse it yeah um let's see so we generally take off on a CM one day on 31 I normally make a left 270 departure so we've got plenty Runway underneath if we need to come back we run down the valley um we go down past thermal Sut and CA and we kind of demonstrate the airplane and kind of show people what kind of the characteristics of it are like and what it kind of how it flies and kind of what it does uh you'll notice the airplane uh operates super smoothly with the 12-cylinder into the V12 it's just smooth as smooth as can be you might think you'd be a little more rally like maybe some of the radials but it's just super smooth super nice is this the supercharged yes this engine has a two-stage two-speed supercharger that's what I'm talking about and so so the way it works is it's got an updraft carburetor pressure injects the air and the fuel mix into the a Turbocharger boosts it up moves all that mixture into the second stage second supercharger goes through an after cooler and it goes into the induction uh trunk oh wow at 177,000 fetish they used to have an anoid barometer that would actually shift it into the second speed for you those have been pretty much disconnected because it's pretty it's a pretty violent shift if you're running power and a thing so what we do is we pull it back to about 20 inch shift the supercharger the toggle switch and then the thing will go like that and then you shift it back up to 36 in the thing will go to 41,000 ft I mean it's it's amazing and that was designed and built 1935 is you know by rolls Roy so piston engine go 41,000 it's still like the highest performing you know piston engine that I I don't Centaurus was had some advancements but that thing was amazing they could also run a water injection on them too just called Adi or would run on maybe some of the dash9 some the later engines but uh yeah it's a it's an amazingly uh fabulous airplane the uh internal fuel is 190 gallons and so it's about a 3-h hour range something like that so 2 hours plus you start wanting to land somewhere and that's going to be 650 miles across the ground maybe more depending on the Wind so it's a nice it's a nice um it's a nice distance to just fly two hours in land take a little break and then go again um so um now what is Sir you know the air for the engine does it come in down there no so good question interesting okay the the uh Inlet air for the carburetor is here okay and there's some air boxes inside if it's super cold you can you can use warm air instead of the ram air uh this this Ram Air does Supply additional manif pressure just with the speed the airplane flies at M and so that that's a pretty neat deal there's actually a little Guillotine here you can you can shut this off if you're in big rain or whatever and uh it'll run on the internal air so you actually lose a little bit of manifold pressure with that underneath the airplane is a we call this the scoop and and inside the scoop there are actually three cooling uh I guess systems the main radiator yeah the the the main radiator has two sections in it one's for the engine cooling itself one's for the after cooler it's in the same block and they're just they they're partitioned off and they just flow back and forth engine coolant goes to header tank through the engine back down the cool so the radiator down here below and in front of that big block is an oil cooler and both of those cooling um blocks have have uh fins on the back of the airplane and so the airplane has a little black box that controls each of those two fins underneath oh so down here these these big shov yeah these Outlet doors yeah so the forward one is for the oil and the f one is for the both coolants the engine engine coolant and the after coolant oh interesting and so the little black box tries to keep the oil about 75° C something like that and the black box for the coolant keep tries to keep the main engine coolant at about 100 C and so we we can take those out of automatic and run them manually to fine-tune them if some something is not working quite right um that door can also open another 6 Ines or so so if something happens to the the black box system uh then we can we can open the door like another six or seven inches have to pretty much land in because the coolant temp will really dive hopefully at that point um so it's it's a little bit more system oriented airplane than maybe flying a T6 or something because you do need to make sure you keep those temps properly within ranges otherwise you'll have some problems of course all three gear retrack you know when we oh yeah that was one of the big questions does the tail wheel on this retracting yes sir so it retracts and it that's the first thing that retracts it go it goes up and down super fast just like almost now you see it now you don't and the mains take about I don't know 8 n seconds come up something like that um so yeah so uh the airplane has a stable tail wheel uh if the uh little if the clutch head is engaged to the top of the tail wheel assembly locks it to the rudder so so you get about 12 degrees left and right something like that and then if you need to maneuver in a tighter space push the stick all the way forward it pulls a declutching pin out and you can spin it around just differential braking uh so super nice airplane of ground handle it's got a nice wide gear uh works really nice I mean there's lots of questions that's happening here and just to break it down a little bit we're talking almost 1,500 supercharged horsepower up front right going over 400 miles an hour and you land faster than most training airplanes will fly correct that's what I'm talking about another St I really have fun with people that are pilots is I'll ask them say hey what you fly 172 182 whatever what what is your first Notch of flaps deploy at and they might say 105 or whatever 400 so this the whole scale of just mindboggling 400 miles now you're like click yeah so it's just a whole another kind of level of performance right so jeez that's awesome oh fantastic all right should we load up all right so we have to do a legal thing right now because this is not a normal flight by the way uh we get to do some some funner things that most normal people that would come and uh to the Palm Springs Museum get to do I mean Tom we haven't even had our first date yet I know right okay oh all right this cles across your chest here ultimately okay so the normal ride we do is called lhf which stands for living history see living history flight experience thank you and uh so so those are rides that with our program we have with the FAA we basically can can sell flights to the public we can share these experiences with the public so they can ride in a World War II fighter and they're they're super popular I mean we have people here in the winter time we can do sometimes four or five a day oh wow I mean it's just super great we have a lot of people that come here for the winter and they their plane I forgot to tell you ear the airplane commemorates a gentleman named Lieutenant Colonel Bob Fen he had 142 combat missions mostly in Ramel Italy he flew p-47s p4s and Mustangs this was his favorite type airplane so this this is not actually the same airplane but it honors his his service bunny was his fiance when when he went to war interesting came back they were married for a long time and uh he lived in Irvine and we I don't know who adopted who but we were blessed to have him kind of be our I don't know I'd say maybe our Menor on our link and uh fabulous gentleman um spent a lot of time here flew on the airplane quite a few times and and uh he passed in July 2019 99 and2 years old we almost got him to 100 who and we're hoping to just have a tremendous party when he hit 100 and we're going to try to have everything he ever flew here and uh so anyway he's uh he's a great memory that we all have that knew him and so we campaign the same plan every day in his honor when we do it so awesome that's fantastic all right are we ready to get in the aircraft yes so 6 50 cal machine guns on this thing these are not real actually but they they're there and then make sure not toid right here hold on to the side rails yeah and what you want to do is swing your right foot in as far over as you can okay bring left foot in when you're standing slowly sit on down with that parachute do not hold on to the seat when you sit down because the seat moves take your time mind your head all right cam back there all right sit back relax I will say this is the first time I've been in a seat where I didn't have a stick are you feeling a little vulnerable a little bit yeah yeah I know the feeling make sure's a little cut off sticks unlocked okay we're going to go off uh let's go off the right tank it's our Fuller tank today and go ahead and I'm going turn on the battery Jimmy push to talk is on the cord okay okay so battery's on we got a green light fuel boost pumps coming on and I get about uh about 15 lbs here on this one today it's interesting okay I'll go ahead and Prime at 6 seconds for a coold start okay starter is engaged clear prop okay I want to fire TR that again help us mer out the prime here you go CL bravo right1 bravo depart frequency 1267 squat 4607 okay 4607 on on the code and 126 point7 thank you sir oh that's [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] amazing ex 422 so approach Palm Springs optimer 29er 87 expect uh visual approach Runway 31 left set maintain ner th000 Yanke contct East Palm 4200 what are you clim to all right November 851 Royal mik unfortunately looks like your fight plan did time out I can't get it to uh repopulate now uh is it easy for you to [Applause] refile I'm in the air but I just get a reply back from see that they except at the 10:00 refile so I don't know what's going on okay you know what uh St real quick let me um I'll probably just do a manual hand off to the center and then may have to put for you e do on their side than our side here so just continue up to yucka maintain Alpha join 38 this is my [Applause] di rest un changed maintain 1 1,000 expect [Music] [Music] 430 [Music] [Music] woo good job so much you did it good J that was good times that was very fun good times there yeah and on uh the bonus note for for the video wise yeah the go Pro went dead about 10 minutes into the flight oh and my headset went dead too so we got no audio no video which means crap which means we're going to have to to go flying again somay that's what that means we do that's what that means yeah it was fun meeting you guys I can't wait to see some of your videos on on your website and uh while we're here in Southern California Los Angeles we are at the Palm Springs Air Museum first building we come in we're going to work our way through time why what's it's a p63 king cobra okay and first of all you don't climb in the cockpit you got door just like your SUV your car open the door sit down oh look at that and next thing look where the engine is behind the pilots in the middle of the plane Oh weird I didn't even notice that and then it's got a long drive shaft gear boox to turn into propeller and behind pretty poly where the engine should have been was a 37 mm Cannon thats out of the front part of the Noe did it used to shoot out right between the spinner right 37 mm Cannon have a lot of range so the military US Army didn't like it so what they did was they gave a lot of these to the Soviets you didn't need a lot of range to get to the front line the Soviets lot of women flew 37 mm enough to knock out German tanks this one still flies it just came back from the Areno Air Show won third place one of the really oh wow that is super neat and step around here the only plane in the entire Museum that actually flew in combat in World War II is the luno Spitfire that plane flew in combat it was built in 44 flew a couple of missions in France there a little bigger engine so you got five blades instead of four they're made out of wood and because it's British it turns counterclockwise and not clockwise of course they got to drive on the wrong side of the road spin the propeller on the wrong way sure why not so that plane flew in World War II over in France you sat her yes well it flew out of it flew from England to to and did a couple of missions in Fr wow that is super neat super neat is that an old chipmunk or something back there uh what is that thing that blue and oh yeah it's an old it's a training plane it's a British well I'm sorry Canadian trainer yeah what's it doing here whatever it's neat old airplane sure so that is super neat this airplane still flies they flewed in here like a week ago because it was at the Reno Air Races and as he was saying it had a gun a 37 mm cannon that came out of the middle of the spinner so they took the engine that normally would go right here and they pushed it all the way back to there and then you have you know a car door that you climb in to get in here and a drive shaft that goes right down between your legs is the pilot which that's a little nerve-wracking and a big old honking gun in front of you that's Pretty stinking fantastic and right away you can tell that these airplanes fly cuz look they have a bathtub for the oil and fuel that leaks out of them and it doesn't leak it seeps you know the big radial engine dripping here if it's not dripping that means out oh that's what I love to see that tells me this thing is actually working in my humble opinion I don't think a museum should have perfectly pristine presentation pieces I think they need to have stuff like this that's got scrapes and bumps and bruises because it's still working oh wow look at that the coolers are on both sides instead of one big one in the middle they put two of them on each side crazy the supermarine Spitfire this one actually flew during World War II in war missions 2,000 horsepower so this engine has more horsepower than the P-51 Mustang golly oh look at all the artifacts over here lots of German stuff and you got like what arm Badges and stuff rifles 1945 so a lot of the World War II troops as they were liberating would take the stuff and shove them in their uniforms and smuggle them home oh look here there's a passport whoa show me your papers cuz Germany they printed paper money and then by the end of the war the paper money was completely worthless it was cheaper to burn the money than it was to buy firewood that's how bad it was reminds me a lot of what's happening today which is why yeah here's a quick plug they weren't even asking for it Legacy precious metal silver gold use your retirement account to invest in those uh back things or buy the physical stuff for you that's what Jimmy does that's where because of that kind of paper money printing craziness that we're doing today like buying groceries how nuts is that yet silver gold kind of keeps it a little bit to be able to transfer it and we've had five currencies in this country before we're going to have have a six so just uh you know little quick plug Legacy precious metals there you go that's a nice vintage bottle of 19 whatever oh it's a Red Baron uh World War I fighter Ace of Germany so this airplane's I think this is a chipmunk and it used the same Ranger 440 inverted so all the cylinders are upside down this is what's in that little Sal Mustang that that I bought that's in in Texas and you know quick update on that since we're here yeah I I have not went back to go look at it since then and I don't know what to do with it frankly but I'm hoping maybe on our trip home we'll be able to swing by take a look at it see if it still exists and uh try to figure out what the heck to do with it maybe we can find somebody to like trade it off to or something I don't know that's right yes okay so something super neat this is I don't know if this is a remok or a real one but they used to build these one time used gliders they would tow them behind a bomber DC3 or something like that and they would tow them in with a whole bunch of troops and they would Glide in land and then they got out and started fighting they were a disposable glider how would you like this like you're pilot of a glider you don't have I could not even begin to imagine what it must have been like me like all right we're going to go over enemy territory and clip and now you just Glide and it's quiet like like that and then you're just Landing where the bad guys are and you get out and just start shooting so that blue steerman over there they normally gives rides in and right now it's uh in maintenance for its annual inspection I'm not sure what story with this one is I think this one still flies as well whoa look at that it's a like coming 145 whoa radial what do we got a 2800 wasp engine two stacks and one really big honk and crankshaft and to think the Spruce Goose was a four stack so take this put two of these together that's one engine on the Spruce Goose B17 okay so a weird little bit of Jimmy history that was kind of strange at the time well these are like regular bombs but at the Dayton mum in Ohio at R Patterson Air Force Base they have the actual anol gay that dropped uh the bombs and stuff on Nagasaki and hirosima I was standing there and they have a copies of the bombs Too Fat Albert Fat Albert and little JY or something like that and I was standing there looking at it and there was a really old guy that came up and he was standing there looking at it and he goes yep that's what they look like and I turned over and I said how do you know he goes I was the co-pilot that dropped it and I'm like what it's crazy so is this we go in that way and take a peek around or there stairway in the back your lights it out okay back but give it a couple of minutes till these ties get out of here yeah so we can hear ourselves know quite a bit about the B7 well walk us through so uh yeah so this was a controversial airplane when it was developed in 1934 bowling designed this working with air at the time and it was to do something that never been done before the whole purpose of this plane is to be a strategic bomber never been done strategic B now there been other bombers before that day yeah what's the difference between a regular bomber and a strategic bom other bombers to bomb troops bomb Villages strategic bombers that take out the enemy's ability to make war other words we take out their factories that's making their PLS so this was controversial because several reasons number one those targets you're we're talking about like in Nazi Germany it's deep and Nazi Germany territory so it had to fly a long ways to get there way number two is technology of the day it had to do that in the daylight cuz they had to visually see their target we can talk more about the bomb site and all that you may know about the NN bomb site but we'll talk more about that so huge plane flying you know thousand miles in th miles back whatever depending upon the Rouse they took very vulnerable so many said it would never work but as you go through you're going to see there's like a bubble of protection around this plane of 50 Cals wow so look in there closely and then you're have to turn to your right and crawl just a few feet and they're going to pop up way up there uh behind the pilot and co-pilot we'll talk more there okay watch your head as you come up there's hard points here I got to get up between all this stuff the the pilot on the left co-pilot uh the pilot would typically be say 23 years old rank of either a lieutenant or captain Not only was he the pilot but he's also the commander of the 10-man crew he was in charge so he had to have some understanding of all these positions there was even a saying uh when this thing was in practice in the desert you know they were getting so accurate so good at it they even joked you know I could drop a a bomb and a pickle Barrel so when they got over to Europe didn't work out quite so easy but they used that term okay I can see the Pickle Barrel but uh when they're actually on a mission where all these factories are they are heavily armed aircraft guns so they're getting sh shot at that plane's bouncing around and you know all kinds of other variables happening so it's not quite as accurate as it was you know in in the lab if you will or in the desert where it was was practice but still did a good job it took a lot of skill for those uh bombers to to get good at it at first they weren't so good accuracy was not so great but there was another guy whose position was right here this is the flight engineer the flight engineer make sure the the plane's operating well that's kind of his job but like these other guys he has a second job he operates his top turret now there's a piece that's missing so we can easily get there's hand that comes right here puts his foot up in there and his head's up in here oh that makes and this may look like an Xbox controller but it's not this is a real deal this is an electric turet and it rotates 360° right now there's 250 cows are pointing behind us right now but they come up so what can happen is the way that rotate rotates and it come comes up they can protect the plane from any Fighters coming from above so that's what the flight engineer does okay so I mentioned when they get about oh 3 minutes from the Target open the Bombay doors and when he sees that Target he hits a button way up front and releases the bombs back here so this is the bomb bay and there's really just these two racks of bombs This Plane would uh typically have 6,000 lb worth of bomb it's could very little bit depending upon the distance of the mission and the weight of the plane other variables but around 6,000 lb worth of box so he'd hit that button and they would all drop at once now you think that sounds like a lot but what we found early in the war is if you just hit a factory with a few of these b7s they could quickly recover and they're up in production again they can move machines around do whatever they need to do and get back into production we had to annihilate those facilities so what they learned is they needed dozens of these on a mission at times there were missions where there are hundreds of these oh so if you want you to have a seat these are the the real seats of the day this is you know the bolted down it's not a I guess you can see they're business class seats it was all business so again that's what that is okay so what you see here these are called the waist guns now why they call them waste guns think of this where we are on the airplane that's like the waste of the airplane FAL M2 rounding machine guns the these guns were used actually before the V7 and other applications and they are still used today by our forces important gu now you can see the the ribbon yes exactly see the ribbons and then the you know um ribbon all the way up in that box in now uh the way that this worked is they only had so many bullets because there's a lot of weight to this so they only got allocated so many what they really had was 27 ft of ribbon here 27 ft is 9 y have you ever heard the term the whole nine yards oh that's where this came from don't use a whole nine yards that's all you got interesting I didn't realize that's where that came from around 600 640 rounds is what they have you can see on the side of that box there some examples 50 counts yeah yep okay watch your head as you go out [Music] okay watch your head again [Music] here okay here's the tail Gunner if you want you can poke your head there and look back at it and you can see where he sat you notice that seat so there was a supplier to the Boeing Company that supplier of stand that provided that seat for the bicycles they in the World War II H man okay I got to see that now oh there you go it does look lose like a bicycle seat doesn't it yes that is super cool super super if you come back here I like this view of because you can just see how big this plane is yeah it's a pretty good size in in 1935 when the first one rolled out in Seattle in Seattle Washington the plant 2 there was a a Seattle Times Reporter that was there that saw this thing roll out H nothing as big as this to that that time saw this huge plane roll out four engines guns everywhere and he said oh my gosh that thing is a flying fortress and the name stuck from airplane number one roll out through 12,731 of these there you go want to first look at this image see how this guy is just sitting in this this ball it's called the ball you got to look at he's turned the other way to the back of his head where my hand is looking through the Gun Sight and the the cows are on the opposite side the handle right there how he closes the door isn't it that's right now up above here is is this controls that's nut so he is actually riding in this ball it turns 360° it spins all the way around and oh so he uses this to spin him and do his thing to control yep control his position good comes down then the guns come down so he's rotating with down so he can shoot at anything trying come up from below but he's riding in the ball so syus you're even too big to have been a tail or a ball turret Gunner good fantastic wonderful well thanks so much for the tour of this thing this is it's it's it's fascinating it's super neat yeah so I was wondering what all these signatures are those are tus what for real for real so wait wait so these These are Tuskegee signatures so these were real Tuskegee Airmen mhm and there's Bob friend signature right there and that's who this was dedicated to yeah Harry Stewart these are the rest of these are pilots or you know they were with the but Harry Stewart won the Top Gun trophy in the US US Air Force when they reorganized in um 1949 I have to check that I think but he he actually won the Air Force's Top Gun Trophy and so and he has uh I believe three kills on a pass with uh with the fak w0s oh wow and he made a pass he hit two of them and the um the third guy bailed out I don't blame him it was right towards the end of the war oh yeah right and they were not you know those guys they look like they were going to get shot down they hitting the so so yeah what was one of your favorite stories that he would tell uh probably I was interviewing him at the Nixon Library put his hand on my arm and he looked me in the eye and he said I was never out to kill the other pilot I was only out to prove I could fly better than they and I thought that was a very interesting way of looking at aerial combat is he told a great story he bailed out twice of Mustangs oh wow which is also an interesting thing and the second time I believe it was the second time he bailed out and I may have him in the engine cut out so he rolled over In This Storm and bailed out of the airplane so he went inverted so he could fall out of the airplane and so he falls out of the airplane at night and he somewhere you know he doesn't really know where he I think so he is but he so the light comes on in the house house and the the door swings open and there's this woman screaming in Italian and she has a huge butcher KN and he's like she comes running out of the house and he's like oh no you know he doesn't want to shoot this woman he doesn't know what to do she runs right past him grabs the parachute cuts the the strings on the parachute and runs back in the house and the light goes off she was only after the silk probably to make dresses what for the parachute silk that is the most bizarre weird thing that I've ever heard and I prefer seeing them with drip pans little bits of you know like the the Spitfire here I like seeing that with things around the quick you know the screws and stuff like that because it means it actually flies yeah we we do you know we we have about 14 airplanes that we fly give or take some come and some go depending on the annuals and all the basic stuff but uh I don't the biggest problem problem I have is that I like I watch what you do and everything I I hate airplanes getting cut up oh my gosh you know Fighters and airplanes so I just cringe and so you want to save every one of them and you realize you know sometimes you just can't do that yeah and that's been difficult and the other thing is being being um realistic about what they you know this what they cost oh my goodness when you did the Elvis thing I'm like oh he's low see people like there's no way it would cost 5 million I was like you have no idea that's just if the everything perfectly goes right with no issues in the middle it was I wasn't surprised and we run into this yeah yeah I couldn't even whenever we got that Mig 15 and did that it we got the metal work and stuff done so technically you could fly the thing but we're like it's 12 years since the last time well 13 now so you got to go through everything front to back top to bottom we don't do that I we're in the same and a lot of it's you know it's liability right you know you yeah it would be cool to do that but the alternative is you and end up with an airplane in 10,000 pieces that didn't solve anybody's problem some of them you know we do run up a lot of aircraft in our facility other than the 14 a lot of the World War II are Fighters like the wild cat some of those but we only ground run them yeah cuz they just if we ever wanted to fly them we would we'd have to pull a plant send it out yeah you got to worry about bearings I mean you know before it was restored see now that is a will it start yes yeah oh yeah you guys found it in the bottom of one of the Great Lakes yeah somewhere they I think the the Navy had it and then they you know they uh gave it to us it's on loan from the Naval Aviation Museum thank you very much and then we restored it wow so does this one run now no no it's just St I know if it was yeah it it's spending that much time underwater you know they they're pretty much done they made great display airplanes yeah and they did a really nice job with it pretty the difference between this and thej or the the T6 the well this is the the T6 this is a you know you can see it's got the actual it's a it's a dedicated dive bomber it's got the flaps and the whole nine yards oh okay so it it but you got to remember it's beefed up for dive bombing and then that bar there some people don't realize what that is is that throws the bomb away from the airplane so oh so it comes down and goes yeah oh look at that so this bar right here attaches to the bomb yeah you can see it and when he releases it it swings down and then the bomb starts spinning this thing yeah and that's the that's the fuse and then the idea is to get it out of the you know get out of the propark the TBM that's actually in uh George Bush's colors this is the airplane after the one that he was shot down in chii gima the colors okay the size of the propeller on that thing yeah it's is insane and it it was um at one time the largest air airplane that operated off the US aircraft car then the Corsair which is always a favorite oh yeah now I'll let you in a little secret with this one okay this one actually has battle damage oh and act this one it it got it in the soccer Wars okay which were down in Central America last fight between p-51s and Corsair on opposing side sides what yeah they got into a fight down there and uh they had two different Air Forces and the one side was corsairs and one side was p51s weird okay and you see in the gear door right there is a bullet hole oh cool so that is a bullet hole you know watching the things on this I always wondered why the wings were bent up like that because of the propeller size they had to bend it up right there in order for the propeller not to hit the ground whenever they were on that's correct on their Mains going or otherwise they would hit the ground does this one still fly um it ground runs okay it ground runs I saw it all hooked up with batteries and stuff we we ground run uh most of the fighters the two that we fly consistently right now are the p63 and the P-51 yeah and of course you know now this is a TF P40 and that it has a full um you could fly it from the back it's two seats oh has stick and a full console it use as a trainer wow yeah the P40 Warhawk you know all these planes were designed by like 12-year-old boys yes this how big of an engine can we put on it how many guns many guns that's very true oh that's fantastic fantastic okay we got sub I mean there's just so much we I don't even know how long this video is so far is we're probably just an hour into this part of the video and we still have a whole bunch more so let's let's hit the uh let's hit miles Vietnam yeah let's let's start seeing the jet stuff you know your civilian aircraft that's actually clay lazy's airplane why do I know that name um was basically like clay Lacy Aviation okay heavily involved with the l oh okay and that's his Lear clay Lacy I believe that's a 727 nose we salvaged that they they scrap the rest of the airplane that's the airplane that was in the equator you know when the year 2000 flew one TI year in '99 the other year in 2000 oh that's pretty neat no I didn't know that possibly one of the sexiest airplanes oh yeah to ever be created I think like the SR71 and then there's the lar 20 basically all the Lear you know the 24 the 35 all those are just you just want to Li well you didn't you have like Molly you had some Molly it was a 35 yeah and I found out about that one is it was repoed for like taxes or something like that and apparently Vince NE Vince Neil created a charter company to then lease these Jets to other rock stars or celebrities or whatever and it went belly up and he never bothered to pay any of the taxes or whatever so then the government of Miami uh Broward County They seized it as to help pay the taxes that they owed and that's why it was being auctioned off no log books no anything for that airplane I have no idea what the final selling price was but that's what I at the same airport yeah Lear number one or number one or number two was sitting there for the last like 25 years rotting away on the ramp and for the longest time I kept asking about it asking about it well finally the daughter I don't know her name but it's Lear like whoever the guy that created Lear was was that him Lacy well Lacy that's Lacy clay Lacy oh CL well whoever family whoever was the founder of that the daughter who is still alive they got that jet my understanding is they even were able to fly it from there out to Midwest somewhere like Oklahoma or wherever they're at they Resto it and they're either statically restoring it or they're going to be flying it again serial number either one or two I well this one flew in it is retired she will she will live here forever and just gosh this is just such a beautiful airplane you're not allowed to see this top secret top secret we're in Area 51 that officially does not exist yes this area does not exist and we'll have to eat your camera when we're done that's right yeah F-117 this is stealth fighter tail number 833 second highest combat time stealth in the fleet uh the first uh highest combat time is on a stick at the Reagan Library wow outside the Reagan library and um the aircraft when it came in it looked like that c over there was completely stripped so this is what it looked like is this aluminum magnesium or something I think it's aluminum there's other you know metal on the airplane but they they blast the whole thing and then it basically comes stripped m and then our job is to put it back into like it flu like what we think it should look like yes pretty much pretty much uh Beast Feast was the first guy in in the Gulf War uh he was the first aircraft F-117 in so he was also the guy that dropped the first bomb on a pro of concept outside the Panamanian celf fence for fores when the first time they ever used stealth that we can now talk about yes yeah and what what they ended up doing is they um they called up the panamanians and they basically said you see that parking lot out front you know just watch that and the bomb landed right in the middle of the parking lot and so they called back they're laughing and they're going well you missed and they go no no that's where we wanted it to go the next one is in the building all right surrender and they all surrender yeah so at least that's how the story goes well I got to say you have uh quite quite the uh the collection here and I will tell you my biggest appreciation is that you fly or at least keep as many of them as operationally as they can be so from the bottom of my heart and I know I speak for the viewers when I say thank you for that thank you for that we try and you know it's just a challenge of you know money and resources money just you who cares we just print off some more right we we do the best we can and and we we get a lot of people that support us and we we really appreciate that and thank you for coming out oh it's my pleasure if you ever you know go to sell one you know the Bearcat or something like that I'll call you and come on down sure we'll you know we'll see if it'll start up fly back I'd be happy to do that you know you know that I I enjoy your videos where you you like will this fly I don't know if it'll or not I think that's one of the funniest things that I I like watching about it so oh that's unfortunately with ours we can't do that will it fly I mean you could you could but that's a not a good idea yeah I will tell you though that that wait there's a penny of the stealth one here I didn't see this is there one of these in every hanger I need a lot more money in pennies some quarters and uh we'll get you some pennies or something yeah we're going to have to come back through and do that cuz we got the one the B17 ah there you go I got that one did you see that front section of that b29 yes so naturally whenever you're he you got to get your squished Penny and let's see which one do we want Tire Cat Bearcat Hellcat wild cat I think a wild cat that's what I'm thinking oh look it's already on it boom wilded command as Mitchell's wishes [Music] exited
