Bush Pilot Legends: The Incredible Story of the Moose Glue Propeller

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[@FlesHBoX]

Man, the last three minutes are absolutely RIVETING! Definitely make sure you watch until the end

[@pendarischneider]

Not so much riveting as glued to the screen.

[@jenm9347]

Kinda left me a bit in the dark,

[@andrewallason4530]

@@pendarischneider I was definitely playing with my computer moose to see what was happening.

[@pendarischneider]

@@andrewallason4530 I was tempted but stopped before I boiled the moose skin, that's.a lost art I fear.

[@JC-dt7jv]

I mean, the conditions were a complete blackout.

[@ColtonRMagby]

I've heard of improvising repairs on aircraft, but this was a stroke of genius.

[@JakeLewis-gl9sw]

That's some CanDo ingenuity

[@ColtonRMagby]

@JakeLewis-gl9sw Yeperdoo.

[@kilppa]

When you really absolutely need to get across that 10 minute mark.

[@cdtaylor7732]

As an aviator, I love when we get stories on any of Simon’s channels dealing with aviation and its triumphs, pitfalls, and tragedies. Keeps me tuned in the whole time!

[@LongNickOfDaLaw]

Simon I’m a true fan and will watch the 3 minute of dead air so you get good retention and paid accordingly. Love everything you and your team does!

[@AndrewBrowner]

just curious, do you get ads? im wondering if anyone actually allows ads in their youtube experience anymore, i havent seen on in atleast 5 years and its hassle free

[@EdrickBluebeard]

I'm glad you gave us a little nap time at the end, there. Can we get juice boxes next time?

[@Bacopa68]

It's like Davie504's Therapy Time.

[@mandywalkden-brown7250]

And popcorn please!

[@stephenreardon2698]

A lot of blank screen at the end of the video

[@bobcoombs7924]

Saw this happen on another video, different creator. KZbin WTF ?!?

[@ArmchairDeity]

Same... editing issue or YT encoding issue? Who can know? :)

[@rossharper1983]

Maybe still trying to hit that magic 10 minutes for ads, even though it's not necessary anymore

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

Sometimes youtube is still doing some work in the background when published. I've seen early drops only be available in 480p, only to be available in 1080p or higher a couple hours later. It's stupid, and maybe unrelated, but maybe not.

[@Zak6959]

New editor?

[@erikschuddeboom3223]

My grandfather flew bush planes in the Canadian north after the war. Those guys were epic heros.

[@52SquadronBand]

My grandfather was in a plane crash with one of the bush pilots of the North after the war. He lived, obviously. They had to get rescued but everyone made it. Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. The bush pilots influenced my family to take up aviation for the next couple of generations.

[@RobertJW]

I know a fair bit about Australian outback aviation but i don't know any of the stories of rural Canada's aerial history, so this was a fascinating watch!

[@JakeLewis-gl9sw]

Canada is the origin of the bush pilot. Only it's freezing cold too...

[@dosmundos3830]

my dad was a bush pilot in the 40's nicknamed the Flying Kid. He has a story of them welding a crankshaft back together to get home.

[@ianwilson4286]

I live in Ottawa and need to go see these propellers! Cool story.

[@adamtalpash6469]

True pioneers. It’s amazing how far they came to get a twin otter in a relatively short time, and that twin otters are still the mainstay bush planes…

[@Nick-gy2dv]

This story will definitely stick in my brain for awhile

[@jamesrochon2195]

Funny how at the time, this was probably world news. I’ve never heard of this before. It slipped from generational memory. Thanks for the video, Solomon!

[@DanielChaves1984]

Living in LA and dealing with the fires, I've found myself interested in all the tanker planes assisting in putting out the fires, could you do a video on whatever channel you feel is more appropriate on the various types of tanker planes and their design. Maybe a separate one on the various helicopters too

[@jaymcnaughton8368]

look up the MARS AIR TANKER

[@billpetersen298]

@@jaymcnaughton8368Not, mars water bomber?

[@alvonfinster2915]

I'm from northern Canada & this make-do attitude still exists, but not necessarily with props. Simpler times, limited government reach/over reach. You were what you did, not what you stopped other people from doing.

[@grantm6514]

Exactly. These days anyone trying this would be in a world of trouble, plane would be impounded and license suspended for unauthorized modifications, failure to use CE approved adhesive, failure to use certified test pilot for the initial flight, etc, etc.

[@ArmchairDeity]

The video goes to a black blank screen at 8:03 for me... anyone else?

[@Sssp4582]

Yeah

[@hair_ofthedog5023]

yep

[@lorenzolbf927]

Everyone

[@chribra]

Yes, me too

[@eph2vv89only1way]

Me too. I started checking my wifi signal

[@timberwolfdtproductions3890]

Thanks for this great story of Canadian pioneering history!

[@deanneuburger3869]

“Can-do spirit!” Thank you!

[@robestey5628]

The legendary Wop May. Great incite.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

@7:40 onwards That's the longest outro from Simon and co.

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Frontier ingenuity

[@TheManFrayBentos]

Threre's a KZbin vid about a bush pilot who reconstructed most of the aircraft's fuselage from duct tape, after a bear attack, iirc. It's up here somewhere...

[@ChiefWaller]

Thanks

[@ericwarmath1091]

Cool story

[@TranscendianIntendor]

Never better.

[@hashfors]

Another day another 50 Simon whistler videos totalling 60 hours..

[@garyfranklin8712]

A wing and prayer!!

[@wu_dee]

Tom Daily is the most legendary bush pilot of the Canadian north. He is the most bad ass person I have ever met

[@Patricia-zq5ug]

I know a guy who worked as a bush pilot for a while. He had to fly in to a remote area looking for his father, who had flown in earlier but didn't report back and didn't return. Turned out his dad had been killed by a grizzly bear. Pretty grim thing for him to find.

[@likebot.]

Simon, if you're interested in a little kitchy music, Stompin' Tom Connors, a Canadian Folk singer/songwriter released a biographical song about Wop May around 50 years ago. Look it up and have a listen, you might get a chuckle.

[@alucide]

3 minutes of silence for the broken propellers, carburettor and ski. They gave their life to make a flight or two aircraft just interesting enough to warrant a video

[@captaintoyota3171]

Yes yes, thats why you must teach yourself every skill ,trade, and mechanisms of function of everything you use. That way you can make a prop in the arctic, or replaces leds in a tv ir rebuild an engine

[@Travenspear8]

The classic modified Car Beretta

[@competitionglen]

Suggestion: Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service.

[@williamjames9515]

The only problem with Moose glue is catching the moose. They're kinda big!

[@grantm6514]

And they _really_ don't like it when you squeeze them to get the glue out.

[@Mdxfiend]

what a fucking legend

[@GatorScientist]

The real story is WHY was the 2nd aircraft named after Taylor's secretary, Rene???

[@Mike-hu3pp]

I had the same thought. Why not his wife, the mother of his daughter, I would assume, or was it actually named after the mother of his daughter.

[@hanisk2]

If you can’t figure out why, you’re just not using your imagination 😂

[@GatorScientist]

@@hanisk2 I'm going with the assumption that the woman who christened the aircraft was having an affair with Rene. If I have to make up something may as well make it spicy, right?

[@oh8wingman]

Wilfred "Wop" may also had another incident where he knocked the tip of the prop after plowing into the bush on a runway that was too short. Solution? Cut the same amount off the other end of the prop and fly away. Real men don't worry about things like balancing propellers........lol

[@grumpybastard5744]

One of the Australian aviation pioneers did the same. The authorities took a dim view of him flying with an uncertified prop.

[@NiklasHolsti]

Why is this video, without comment, showing a lot of images of airplanes with /floats/, not skis? What is the relation of these float-planes to the ones in the story? Perhaps the same type of airplane?

[@Sid-gu5qk]

Floats for summer (water), skis for winter (ice).

[@grantm6514]

Yeah, because there must be literally _hundreds_ of photos of Junkers F13 bush planes operating on skis in the remote Canadian wilderness in winter, right? 😂

[@danharasty6686]

3:42 at controls ... Elmer Fudd

[@takeohtyme]

Man, do they really need you to get to that 10 minute mark? I say we let simon tangent on all channels! Then on wouldnt think my phone crashed.

[@stefanrichter9162]

Dumb qustion. Why you put a Junkers F13 in the thumbnail?

[@grantm6514]

Gee, maybe because the aircraft in the story were junkers F13s, built under license in the US?

[@dagabedaho3513]

Really wanted to hit that 10 minute mark heh

[@SonicReborn-jm3nh]

Guys who know about sigma 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@zafarsyed6437]

Open cockpit, in the Arctic? Forget that!!! How the hell did they protect their face? Eyes, ears, and nose can only be protected up to a point. Even with goggles, no ice shards from the tear ducts? They must have been mouth breathing the entire time they were in high elevation. Q to pilots: In that kind of atmosphere and terrain, do pilots just fly like 100 feet above the treetops? Making sure not to get too high up? But then only accounting for mountains when necessary to go over then and then back down again?

[@TheManFrayBentos]

They had a low screen, which would be very effective at flying speed. Lot of early pilots just didn't like the idea of being behind a proper enclosed windscreen, in case of wipe-out conditions.

[@Sid-gu5qk]

People actually were tougher back then, but yeah, that would be hell.

[@IAmAlgolei]

How to make a moose glue propeller: 1. Get a moose. 2. Glue it to a propeller. 3. ??? 4. Profit.

[@Mind4chaos]

3 min of nothingness 7:40-10:42

[@auro1986]

why did they go there in hot air balloon?

[@maureenjacobs3697]

Mr. Man looking a wee bit toned

[@Crioten]

Go early -starfishes

[@Ralphster1988]

The aircraft were named after his daughter and his secretary. I bet his wife was suspicious when she found out

[@benejeneb]

Dude! Best 2 minutes!! 8:02

[@Joseph-z7s3b]

Where I'm from,"Bush Pilot" means something entirely different. Damn you wax shortage! Damn you to hell....

[@Sid-gu5qk]

Try gorilla tape. 😅

[@pollyg562]

unlike the longer format, only 50% of this video is filler and white noise. opposed to the normal 85%

[@stancil83]

Hey, 10 minutes is 10 minutes.

[@chrisgrill6302]

A long list of places names along the journey is absolutely meaningless without a map.

[@darrinscott6612]

Naming your aircraft after your secretary and not your wife is sus af

[@timcarder2170]

Should do a video on Wop Mays bush piloting story. (Immortalized in song by Canadian icon, Stompin' Tom Connors) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jp2UXmZ7aMutoMUsi=7BmTbxHD1QOjJnEo

[@timcarder2170]

*You have 3 minutes of dead air at the end of your video.* Best give your editors a a talkin' to, and send them to bed without dinner.

[@fredrickbeondo8695]

It is considered established lore that all contracted writers and editors reside in the dungeon underneath Chateau Whistler in the Czech countryside, subsisting on what sunlight manages to make it through the two windows over the course of the year, and if they're good, they might get some AG1 instead of the gruel and whatever water they manage to conjure through condensation and pure luck...so some of them would be okay AF with skipping dinner 🤣

[@timcarder2170]

@@fredrickbeondo8695 😄😆😄😆😁

[@StevenPine-s8t]

EH.........Canadians!!!! What are you gonna do?

[@pepperjack6421]

Named after his daughter and secretary huh? Nothing to see here.

[@stay_at_home_astronaut]

Lots of people make their own propellers for their homebuilt aircraft. Not a big deal.

[@edwardjohnson3547]

Nothing amazing just the old way of making woid glue from melted hooves

[@klondike69none85]

adding 2 min of blank video to bring you into monetization is wild. thumbs down

[@Klipschrf35]

Wop may also had a brief stint living in neepawa manitoba where his mom is, 45 minutes out of Brandon mb. Source, brandonite. And visiter of the wop may museum in neepawa

[@danethanor]

Alaska trumps canada every time.

[@n4rut089animereviewer]

Over 2 minutes of extra nothingness.

[@craigcorson3036]

Sounds like a rather bad head cold, Simon. I swear by the curative power of megadosing vitamin C. 3,000-5,000 mg/day for a few days should fix you right up. Feel better.

[@KarlBunker]

The curative power of megadoses of vitamin C has been tested and it doesn't work. Your positive experiences are the result of placebo effect, confirmation bias and self-delusion.

[@KarlBunker]

The three minutes of silence at the end are to commemorate the moose who gave their lives to become propeller glue. 🫎🙏

[@oxcart4172]

They had some skin in the game!