I have worked in that Area as a professional Archaeologist for years. I recorded various military encampments, and my now deceased friend who worked for the Bureau of Land Management out of Palm Springs help develop and set up the fencing around Camp Iron Mountain to preserve it. One thing of note about that camp, is that in my opinion, I found the Bas Relief Map, to be more significant than the Quartz altar, in that making such a large scale map such as that, has become a lost art.

What a JOKER. He apparently doesn't know what a spark arrestor looks like off most small offroad vehicles over the last 70 years. Go find something worthwhile that matters to do, other than just creating worthless content for KZbin.

Thank you for making this - Gray, which is what everyone called him, was my uncle and very much appreciate the time and care you put into making this.

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6:08, motorcycle spark arrester

my experience with ATV's says the second part you found is just a spark arrestor for a quad or dirtbike

Flight og the Phoenix with Jimmy Stewart was also one of my favorite movies as well. I nominated it for one of the top movies showing mechanical design and engineering in a contest one of my trade magazines ran. It didn't win, but it went quite a ways towards the winning spot like the suggestion lasted 8 of the 10 weeks the contest ran. I even had a few other subscribers say it was a brilliant choice.

Great job Bill. Debi and I camped probably just north of there probably 30 years ago when our daughter was young while visiting the Quartzite rock and mineral show. However, we did not hear about the labyrinth then. Maybe it wasn't there?

No idea who made this spiral, or when? So precise! The land artist Robert Smithson made a big spiral at the shore of Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA

That’s a spark arrestor for a motorcycle exhaust pipe.

First time i see a video of the accident.....he hit hard.....RIP Paul, your legacy lives on.

I've seen this film a number of times, I didn't know anyone died whilst making it.

Very interesting video. Thank you.

1:15 And being drunk off your ass doesn't make it easier to fly

Paul Mantz's Bendix Trophy winning mustang, which he flew in his 1946 and 1947 wins, is on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia).

A metal detector would have been helpful, no?

Paul Mantz was a hard working man. He was a three time winner of the Bendix Trophy race from Los Angeles to Cleveland, Ohio at an average speed of 460MPH (in 1947). He was also a pioneer of low level aerial firefighting in California, using his aircraft to make two drops on the Jamison Fire (near Lake Elsinore, CA) on September 1, 1954.

Ranger Billy, you did a great job on this one! Sid

I liked and subscribed so now I can ask, don't the sand dunes move around all the time? I suppose there could have been enough plane parts left behind so that various ones are uncovered and then reburied from time to time. I too very much enjoyed that movie when I was a young lad, where I made an assumption it was a black and white movie. It was on our 17 inch RCA portable set.

loved that movie!

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That a beautiful area….

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I am from Scotland UK. I like to think I know and have a great knowledge of WW2. This however has never crossed my path! Thank you for bringing this to everyone's attention. Thank you to these men. Prayers to your family and your loss.

I just found your video on Camp Coxcomb and the Palen Pass. I have been to both of those areas a number of times over the years beginning around 1970. At the base of the Coxcomb mountains there is a place where they practiced throwing hand grenades. It is on the other side of the aqueduct. Also, while prowling the Coxcomb mountains, we found 37mm rounds from the tanks. Lots of foxholes and tank dugouts in the Palen Pass area. Up one small canyon we found a pile of practice anti-tank mines. I see you mentioned the church altar at Camp Coxcomb. Most know about the one at Camp Iron Mountain which is larger.

I knew a Jimmy Mantz in Key West, who said he was Paul Mantz’s son. He was a pilot and had some stories about flying for Southern Air Transport. I assume he was Paul Mantz’s son.

Interesting video. Thanks for explaining. One of my, and my fathers (Dennis Reginald Pritchard) favourite films, he was a pilot, ex RAF, from Biggin Hill, Kent.

I knew some ANG people who knew Capt Martin. Very sad

So I have to ask, would an airplane part just be resting on the surface of the dirt after 60 years? I mean, are those the dynamics of desert weather, and erosion? I live in Georgia, so I really couldn’t say from experience myself.

Yes, a part is from the exhaust silencer of an old ATC or ATV

I loved that film as a child, its so sad to hear that someone lost their life during the making of the film. My other favourite childhood film was 'Ice cold in Alex'

fucking cold video man thanks for filling me in on paul mantz never would have known about him.. What a chad

Great video! Regardless of where there are any parts there or not. Great job finding that location.

Typical ATV spark arrestor. The other part is harder to identify but isn't part of an aircraft either. I would say probably a brake cable bracket/connector, again from an ATV.

the cannon you show is a 240 mm howitzer, phased out sometime after WW2. There is also one at Pueblo Army Depot outdoor Museum in Colorado, I worked there. Atomic Annie was replaced when the Army developed both an 8 inch and 155mm Nuclear warhead that could be fired from standard artillery weapons. the 240mm howitzer is not a "long tom" which was a 155mm gun that was not capable of high angle fire. Lots of time was needed to excavate the emplacement for the 240 howitzer. As you can see in your picture there is no space available for recoil.

I’d never heard of Paul Mantz. Now I have, and I’m better for it. Fascinating man, thanks for sharing that.

wow. didnt know the story behind the movie. and all the real stunts in the biggest movies.. wow. thanks for your hard work and travels.

Mantz was the one that flew the plane following the train in the opening sequences of the movie, Bad at Blackrock. What is seen in the finished movie, is him flying forward, and then the footage reversed. A technological innovation in 1954

It was not hard to find. it was in Buttercup valley, most locals in Yuma Arizona know where that happened. There were some old timers who remember, but they are all dying off now, and maybe one or two left.

Thanks, Bill, for this video/research on Paul Mantz life. I have worked with his grandson for the past 25 years and have talked many times about his grandfather. I have forwardyour video to him. Will be fun to see what he things of it

I saw the movie on TV several years after it came out. Excellent movie and probably the best plane crash movie ever made. But I didn't know about the life and death of Paul Mantz, until seeing this video. So thanks for telling his story. And as a bonus this video also represents a couple of other video genres: finding stuff in the desert, and visiting old plane crash sites (desert or otherwise).

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What a fantastic documentary! As a videographer myself, it's these types of stories that truly motivate me behind the camera. Telling history is important. Subscribed!

Great job! Love your search for the crash site. FYI, You might want to re-edit the part about Mantz doing the fluing scenes in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. His partner, Frank Tallman flew sll those stunts.

I thought the studio would have all the location info and records?

We were able to find remains of an sr71 that crashed after refueling by using mountain pictures and flying and driving over 6 months. Still have a few pieces titanium from it

Neither one of those parts are from an airplane. The first one was a custom fabricated part with common stock that would not have been available at the time of the crash. It is very likely to be a homemade bracket for something like a flag made from stock you can buy at big box hardware stores. The second part is a common baffle/spark arrestor for an off-road vehicle. Likely a dirt bike or 4-wheeler. It is unlikely that the valley in the original film is still in the same place because sand shifts over time. I would hope that the people involved when that pilot died would have the reverence to make sure there was not a trace of the crashed airplane left behind.

No memorial to this very brave aviator?????What an absolute disgrace!!! Hollywood should be ASHAMED!!!

Fantastic, thanks for going out there. Thy must have scooped up all the parts.I certainly thought there would be more.