Road To Eldora: Planes, Aliens & Automobiles with Scott Bloomquist

[Music] so [Music] we're here at the property i've heard stories before and i i and then i've heard that even your neighbor will collaborate or you know will confirm it rather have aliens ever landed here absolutely tell me the story i want to know the story absolutely absolutely and i'm you know which i mean they they wouldn't they can't now because they both passed but um the pettys and there's petty lane when you're coming in here but two roads before mine they saw him also i just happened to go over to talk to him one day and and he's just about some by buying his property because he he owns on the other side of the lake and he also owned part of the piece connected to us and just and i was interested in the piece on the other side also but anyway he you know and i mean i i really never got into talking about it a whole hell of a lot you know just kind of make light of it and uh but when i was sitting in his living room he asked me if i saw you know and i just i didn't say much you know i just said well i think i know what you're talking about and and his wife was in the kitchen and now they're in there they were in their 80s and and he said um right over and it and it's right you know where the lake comes back up in a little cove here where there were no one no one could have seen but him and i and as he started talking his wife walked in and tried to shut him down and she said i thought we agreed not to discuss this with anyone was she afraid that he was going to he was afraid that they were going to both get locked he just get put in the old folk house okay this is about win by the way this is this is uh about the first time i've mentioned aliens i don't even remember what year actually i'd have to think about it uh but you know he said that that he saw a saucer come in and and hover right over right there how big is it and how big do you see it you're talking about if you're talking about it 150 foot okay it's pretty good size uh and and hover and then lower down where it got down out of his sight because he lives over the mountain hills hill right there and he said he started yelling for his wife to come out and he was on the back porch and he helped her to come out and said just stand there just wait just wait i'm telling you just wait you know and uh so she did and he said and it said it was 10 minutes 15 minutes and then all of a sudden sure enough it raised up and gone they both looked at each other and agreed they would never ever say what they just saw and i'll tell my story in the book you look across over here at how the trees are grown on that final piece that's the way this property was and i cut trees here for two and a half years and i wore out i don't know how many chainsaws and and cleared everything that field right there they actually grew in some crops but the rest of it was just grown like that was grown so to just do nothing but and i just wore shorts and was tanned like you wouldn't believe and just every day i cut trees and burnt trees and then i by the end of the day i was on the water and water skiing and fishing and you know so i mean i i had a i had a little different well and then there's no brain that people might think this is yeah i mean i think the thing is you know i think a lot of people you know they see you now and over the years which you've rolled in the track with and they thought everything was given to him but it seems like one one item at a time he cut the cord that was the end he said he never spent another penny and he never spent one never met your dad before today but just being in there with him for a few minutes i have a better understanding of scott bloomquist now just talking to your dad and it's it's very interesting if you spent more time with him you would probably understand me even more probably one of the most intelligent people you'll ever be around um i think maybe the only person that's ever made it to being chief pilot for jumbo jets flying around the world without a day of college wow just all self-taught and and self-motivated and that's probably that that's what that's where i never look back on anything and and watching him like he he built auburn uh boattail speedsters he built like cobra replicas when i was a kid you know the cobra the fiberglass kit cars and and then he there was an airplane a biplane that someone owned that he ended up getting very cheap because there were three very good pilots that tried to fly it and ground looped it and crashed and and he asked me to take him to go pick it up and i i get there you know i said then he tells me the story going there and he said ah they don't know how to fly you know whatever they say so you're just going to take off dad and you're going to fly it back to your airport and just playing this can you take your time so i can be there when you get there because i mean if three others that are supposed to be good uh i'd like to be there at least and and he set it down like it was nothing you know so that's where i've had pilot friends of his tell me that your dad's the best pilot that's ever lived i'm like oh wait a minute now i mean you can't say that he said your dad is the only pilot that's flown for an airline that's never crashed a simulator no matter what they threw at no they throw enough stuff for everyone to crash finally crash it they couldn't break him this is uh this this is a plane i soloed in i was 16 years old and and he taught me to fly and we were still in california and i soloed uh at 16 and this we're half on this plane uh it's a great flying airplane it's it's a tawbridge champ this yellow plane here is my plane won 13 of 14 summer national races and the 14th one the last one billy moyer spun me out leading when i passed him after i was passing him and he spun me and you still think about that and well you don't forget it because you would have had 14 to 14. perfect but like when i got back and i oh you know growing up in california you just always think you want something or you just think that something's going to make a difference in life and but i just always wanted a 911 porsche whale tail you know uh and so when i got back from that summer national trip and when i got back i got to looking and i found a convertible uh charcoal gray red interior whale tail 911 and bought that and and had it for a while and i had a little bit of fun with it but i end up trading that for this yellow plane here what do you love so much about this plane this plane this this is actually the plane that they taught all the pilots that in the second world war that couldn't fly when they were trying to train pilots this was a training airplane it's one of the easiest flying airplanes it gets off the ground extremely quick like his big plane is going to too and it'll fly at 50 miles an hour uh let's say i've been out i've been out at once when the mag started messing up and it's i wasn't sure i was going to make it back but one thing i'm just confident with this plane i can fly it over the lake and i've crashed skiing i'm going for more than 50 okay and i just jump out because when you fly you can leave the you leave the window open and it's just you're just out popping around the hills and i would i knew you know i just jump out when i got close to the water i just get down there and just let go you have put a lot of thought into how you get out of these airplanes when they're about to crash that actually worries me what you've experienced think about that the good thing about airplanes though not unlike helicopters is a helicopter when it quits it goes straight down and the airplane keeps keeps on gliding but this is uh this is a world war one plane that before they had timed the machine guns to the cam shaft they had to shoot over the prop okay then later it went on but my dad built this airplane here uh completely from scratch including the aluminum spun all those little circles on a uh drill press with a wire brush going and just just laying them out um all this is fabric same as that plenty's building uh so make something all the cables and and just oh that's that's that's why you have airplane i mean uh birds you pick one up they're like that's why they fly so but this this is the most beautiful airplane in the it's in the sky because when we get back and you see those big zeros on the top of the wings when he does a big bank turn over those green hills it's awesome but when he it's like the original plans for airplanes are original plans right and then and there's big fields they take off and if things don't right they just lift and set it back down so when he commits here he's committed so he took this airplane off and you see this wedge right here well it wasn't there so this was down where the plans said it should be and when he took off because the angle of attack of the elevator here it did nothing but climb and it wouldn't do nothing but climb and when he throttled back it was just going to stall because it was still staying at a climb attitude and he ended up finally pushing hard enough on his stick to break the stops in the floor to get it leveled off and brought it back the next day he built this wedge took off the next day plane's been perfect ever since he hasn't changed the thing so clearly he gets dynamics he gets angles the the construction well and the yaw and the wings is all you know all this you know this certain amount of angle has to be you can see see that see the yaw that's that's basically the yaw and the wings all that has to be precise and and you'd use those cables and and uh all this stuff to adjust it all so with all of his knowledge of this have you ever leaned on him when you're trying to design something for racing you can't quite everything i come up with new i run by him really everything and just ask him but he doesn't have he just it's just because i like him to respect me for some of the thoughts we that i have and and to see if he has anything to add to it and sometimes he might but most of the time he just goes we'll see when he says that does that concern you like i'm missing no no because i mean i just know that i think different than he does like this is his world and that's my world and he doesn't he doesn't cross over there's some things that definitely do but but what it takes to go faster in a race car even i've been humbled by thinking one way and learning another later and learning the way you were doing it which made total sense at the time then you do it's the the opposite and and then now you get a whole new understanding of what makes sense have you got a good example of that something in your career absolutely you know it's really a uh it's so bizarre because and it's something that and he's always had some input you know it's always like unsprung weight okay you unders understand on spring weight okay unsprung weight the biggest thing with unsprung weight that people if if anyone's ever drove a dually as real heavy front suspension you can understand unsprung weight you go into a corner and and it's got some bumps in it you will if you're turning you will not keep turning you will shake off the corner because the suspension cannot stay on the ground because it's so heavy that the shock can't control it spring can't get it back on the ground fast enough so it just hovers over the bumps so you lose steering and you just start shaking off the road so unsprung weight in theory should absolutely be faster to keep your tires on the ground having your your rear end let's say okay being ultra light your rotors your everything connected to the rear end so that the rear end isn't so heavy when it hits a bump it doesn't continue going up it comes back down quicker so you stay on the ground better so you have more traction supposedly okay so then along in life so i i actually went as far as getting rid of my quick change rear end and using just a regular rear end and had the quick change in the transmission doug nash built them back long time ago and won the first world 100 with that setup in 88 and anyway so as years go on you know next thing you know you know we're testing and we're putting a piece of we try a piece of lead on the left rear two like 20 30 pounds it's faster you gotta analyze everything that's part of the whole equation because um with a stiff sidewall tire it just like a dually or whatever you know with something real stiff when you hit a bump the tire doesn't dampen the bump like it does in our race car our sidewalls on our tires are so thin that when you hit a bump the tire absorbs it first before the shock ever moves then then it tire goes so far then it sends the uh load to the shock once the tire is compressed as far as it's going to then the shock starts moving so most people don't realize that when they work on shocks shocks are never in real time with the bump secondary they're they're always behind and and you can do some things there's some things with shock absorbers that that we've messed with that you can actually delay the timing of when the shock reacts either by waiting certain parts or doing different things and and i've experienced it to the point where it attract that you could feel all the bumps in the steering wheel and then you do this to it it changes the timing of the piston and it's just smooth as glass and you're just like man okay there's there's so many things in racing that your thought were absolutes that are not and that may contain you know to change and well that's life absolutely absolutely this is a beautiful point this plane here was actually this is a rumpler uh it was in the movie lawrence of arabia right this plane yes from here and they and they and they but it was no here's the deal is it was they crashed it and uh and it was overseas where they made the movie in a barn and somebody bought it and brought it to america and it was so in such bad shape he said he could have probably built it from scratch easier but he restored it to better than anything ever was when it was new that's kind of the thing that he had some people from hollywood want to come out and maybe do some footage with his gotha once he got it done and again he's got this sop with pup that was the first one to shoot one now this guy and so and and maybe wanted to get some footage but and they're they're absolutely right when they told him they said that these planes are too perfect there were never planes like this back then and there were not uh he ended up going and deciding to build even though he's got this folk or triplane here which is the same type of plane just like the red baron flew right uh he went it's beautiful and uh and decided from there that he was going to do the research and build one that was absolutely 100 like they built them when they were done back in the first world war so this airplane is going to be a tri-plane like that one okay but if you look this is is all been hand-brushed and they actually figured out back in the first world war that the brush strokes swirl here okay just like this that's how the brush strokes goes just like i just drew on the back okay the sides of the of the plane here the brush strokes go this way because obviously there's high spots when you when your hand down like brush strokes you can see the strokes so there was less drag because you weren't riding on as much surface so they had they actually figured that out back in the early 1900s that you know rather than one that was slick like that so this is uh this is going to be absolutely original uh he bought these tires here from harley davidson brand new and he saw me buffing tires and he saw how good i wasn't buffing tires so he wanted me to make a set look like originals back in the first world war so these slicks i took two brand new harley tires and made them look and there's been guys that are big aviation uh nuts come in here go where did you find those tires you know scott this place is better than most museums oh it is a museum it's it's another really good story that's gonna come and i could have showed them to you back there i can still take you back if you'd like to see them but anyway i don't know if very many people know this but bill simpson was a world war one enthusiast and built world war i won airplanes for a hobby but nothing he ever built ever flew so he saw some pictures of my dad's stuff in a magazine with me and stopped me at the trade show and said hey i heard your dad flies all of his world war one stuff he does i said yeah yeah he said i've got something for him i'd like you to give him i'll send to you uh he said that these these need to fly and anything i do is never gonna fly and then i'm like okay uh and he sent me these two created up boxes and and there was a note in it it's he was over in germany at von richthofen's museum which is the red baron okay and his cousin was running the museum and he was there with a formula one driver and he spent the whole day there because he was a big enthusiast and uh and the guy must have really liked him and when he left he said it'd be something you know waiting for him out when he left and and these they were in these boxes and he said you stick these home and uh well in the box it said these wheels flew on the red barons airplane and so they're the original spoke wheels off of and and that's what's going to go on this plane and so that's that's pretty big is there any world where your dad would ever sell any of these you know you know what don blankenship offered to buy all of them and build a museum and put his name on the thing and he told everyone it's not what it's about for him is it he really doesn't you know we've had discovery uh explore he had had many different people have approached him on the on the go the project and wanted to do a documentary and he he really just you know and i guess even though you know i might play i know how to play this the game and this deal and all but but most people wouldn't really believe that i i really like staying under the radar myself and he really likes staying under the radar and he's taught me a lot about i think i think you read my mind a little bit actually when you describe your dad that's actually how i envision you i know when you're in that light and i put that camera in your face you're going to be honest we're going to go with it but you're not going to go chase that camera that's not who you are no again meeting your dad for five minutes it just it allows me to get a better idea of who you are yeah well this is this is amazing building we really appreciate you showing us around no problem you

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Keywords: Scott Bloomquist, Aliens, Alien encounters, eldora speedway, eldora speedway late model, world 100, prelude to the dream, tony stewart, dirt late model, dirt track racing, hunt the front, kyle larson, kyle larson dirt, kyle larson late model, nascar eldora, world of outlaws, dirt late model racing, dirt late model racing 2021, dirt late model racing crashes, dirt on dirt, dirt on dirt late model racing, dirt track racing 2021, dirt track racing crashes

Id: FmmDazcKnm0

Length: 22min 19sec (1339 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 03 2021