Flying To and Touring Through the Incredible Air Zoo in Kalamazoo!

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@jimtrombley3625 5 ай бұрын

As a Kalamazoo resident it is fun to see what others think of our little museum. Which is not so little anymore. It used to be just the building next to where you parked your plane. Now we have two rather large buildings! Great video!

@kkuenzel56 5 ай бұрын

Welcome to Kalamazoo! Hope you enjoyed our Air Zoo! Cheers!

@SkyhawkSteve 4 ай бұрын

at 20:20, that's a Douglas A-3 Skywarrior forward fuselage. It's a large carrier-based attack aircraft from the late 50's. I finally got to the Air Zoo last fall, and it was a great experience!

@rwhunt99 5 ай бұрын

I've been there and I love it; for me it's close, only an hour away driving. This is a true Gem that is relatively unknown.

@jimvandemoter6961 5 ай бұрын

If you're the least bit interested in aviation The Air Zoo in a place you need to go. It truly is an amazing place. Thank you for sharing this.

@jimvandemoter6961 5 ай бұрын

Something else, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo has an excellent aviation school.

@KatePosner 5 ай бұрын

We went there last summer (‘23) and it’s incredible. Simply incredible.

@astralbody 5 ай бұрын

Well it looks like I have a new XC to do from the twin cities for training fun! To the Air zoo in the future! Thanks Scott! Great video as usual!

@jeffobrien1836 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing. I went to an air museum in Colorado Springs yesterday. It had impressive aircraft and comparable to what you just showed. But wow, Kalamazoo really showcased some amazing stuff! I’ll add that to my list of places to see.

@flysport_tedder 5 ай бұрын

4:40 nice pushover! And then the controller was so .. bored? clearing you in. sounds like the same dude at 28:20. 6:00 is a ..what.. aircraft? 12:20 reminds me of the spinner on the RV12. slightly different purpose. interesting to see the size difference of the Vari-eze. It looks child-sized. cool museum! love the floor paint, thanks for bringing us along. love how you talk through it. looking forward to the oxygen install!

@CanardBoulevard 4 ай бұрын

The oxygen install video is already out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXrZmHZonK-Xjtk

@flysport_tedder 4 ай бұрын

@@CanardBoulevard Apologies- catching up on my subscriptions. I'll look next time, ugh.

@c4sualcycl0ps48 4 ай бұрын

I like how the air zoo has the 3 main navy fighters of WWII, a wildcat, hellcat, and Corsair all next to each other

@vmpgsc 5 ай бұрын

That Air Zoo is amazing. Hope to get out there soon.

@MattFran-flying 5 ай бұрын

Um……wow. Thank you for sharing this. Awesome.

@Borodinskyy 4 ай бұрын

my mom works at the air zoo so i have a bit of info on the hole in the xp-55's wing. according to her, someone was moving one something with a forklift around and they accidentally hit the wing with the fork. the hole was actually much larger but they fixed some of it, and they cant patch the whole wing without going through a bunch of bureaucracy

@johnabriggs6044 5 ай бұрын

I enjoyed all your video shared the good flying time and the trial and tribulation on maintenance of an experimental airplane. i liked the VK30 at it time was a nice change to see in the Flying of the experimental airplane at its time. Saw at Sun n Fun in Florida in a flyover there then three years later in 1992 at AOPA in Legas got to speak with the pilot that talked of his flight in Iceing condition with no de-ice boots on the aircraft.. at my service location in the USAF in 1968 I was tasked to work on the ECM of an SR 171 at Eglin AFB Fla was nice to see it fly in and out of that location and to have the experience of setting in the pilot seat. there one outside at an Air Force museum on base at Eglin main base that I got to see a few year back. now at age 78 I live near a local GA airport in Central Florida and just dream of past flying time in South Florida and down of the Fla Key. Thanks again for share you flying with us

@johncashwell1024 4 ай бұрын

Wow! I stumbled across this video by accident and as a Portage resident (where the airport & museum are located) I had to watch it. Now, there a couple of naming mistakes here & there and I point one out in particular just because... that Wright engine was on a B-29 "Superfortress" (later in its long career, they were designated the B-50) & the B-52 "Stratofortress" is an 8 jet engined behemoth that has been active for 70 years! I only hope that is helpful because I really enjoyed watching this video and mistakes happen to all of us. For me, the most frustrating mistakes that I make are when I know something yet my mouth & brain team up to make me (feel like I) look stupid. That is the last thing that I want to do someone else, so I try to be as constructive as possible. Anyway, great video, and I love that COZY! I live under the pattern and I remember that cozy flying overhead as I am often relaxing in my chair in the back yard.

@CanardBoulevard 4 ай бұрын

I went through and took videos and pictures of things that I found especially interesting...but I did not take notes at ALL, so most of the identification is me trying to remember what I saw, and identify things from what I see in the video. I figured I would get a few of them wrong, and I knew that people in the comments would make corrections for me! :)

@mkrampitz1966 5 ай бұрын

Amazing tour.

@johnisley4578 5 ай бұрын

There are so many places in the USA such as Kalamazoo, we have virtually nothing in Australia. BTW, the open cockpit is an F-106 Delta Dart. Cheers.

@flysport_tedder 5 ай бұрын

cool! glad someone knew what it was.

@alexandermikhailov2481 5 ай бұрын

That particular Ford Tri-Moror was featured in a movie, don't remember which one though. Their SR-71 is rare as it is one of a couple of trainers ever existed.

@schecter6l6 3 ай бұрын

The plane in the front was a P-40 not a P-51. Thanks for the tour!!

@darrengladstone3159 4 ай бұрын

Great video. But FYI it was a F1 rocket engine from a Saturn 5 booster, not a Saturn engine for an Atlas rocket.

@ThePudgie123 5 ай бұрын

Can't believe I've never heard of the Zoo....I just drove through that area recently.

@aaronhammond7297 5 ай бұрын

Apparently it depends on aircraft type but on some, counter intuitively, pulling nose way up when high on final adds a heap of drag and helps with those close in circuits.

@CanardBoulevard 5 ай бұрын

Pulling the nose way up high when on final (at low approach speed) is going to increase your angle of attack beyond critical, causing a stall and a spin. I'm not sure what airplanes' operating handbook would recommend doing this...? Even if you didn't reach the critical AoA, you're going to be very close to it, so only a gust of wind could cause you to stall/spin into the ground. Not good!

@donmiller2060 5 ай бұрын

love your channel Scott - I watch all your videos I don't think the SR-71 start cart ever used Chevy 350's. The original version used a pair of Buick Nailhead V-8's and then years later the updated version used a pair of Chevy 454's. The one at the museum looks like an original one with the Buick's

@carlbeaver7112 5 ай бұрын

Ditto. Came to see if anyone else caught that. I began as a mechanic in '70, it's been many years since I've worked on an actual Buick V8, let alone a Nailhead.

@CanardBoulevard 5 ай бұрын

I remembered they had used Chevys, and you're right, they did use the 454's, not the 350's, and now that you mention the Buicks, I remember reading that as well.

@c4sualcycl0ps48 4 ай бұрын

@@CanardBoulevard350’s are the small block V8, and only make about 260HP NA (my family has a boat with 2 of them so I’m pretty damn familiar with them) I forget what 454’s are though but know some people who had a slightly smaller boat with a SINGLE 454 and it kept up just fine.

@RossaviationistheF16VIPER 3 ай бұрын

The pink plane isn’t a p51 it’s a p40 it belonged to the co founder of the AIRZOO and I have 1 of 50 of a model of that plane ;)

@RossaviationistheF16VIPER 3 ай бұрын

I also don’t mean to be rude 😅

@peterjones-b5b 5 ай бұрын

Della and a dealer and a dog named jake , and a cat named Kalamazoo ... all got stuck in a pick up truck .. gonna make some dreams come true !!!

@thewaterengine 5 ай бұрын

Thx for leaving in comms!

@robseaton2734 5 ай бұрын

Pink P-40, not a p-51.

@valleyken 5 ай бұрын

- Cool.

@elliottowen2569 5 ай бұрын

You did not mention if they still have the original location. There were many cool planes there as well, and just a short walk in between buildings.

@CanardBoulevard 5 ай бұрын

They do. if you look at the video starting at 19:12, I show the original building, which is now the restoration center, and the aircraft outdoors on the walk between them.

@Verb130 5 ай бұрын

Have you done a video of the Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH, at Wright Patterson AFB? You'd have to land at a civilian field and get a ride over to the museum; but the museum is free admission. Good catch on the B airspace, but I don't think the FAA would have taken any action against your certificate, but you never know if you catch the wrong operations investigator on the wrong day.

@CanardBoulevard 5 ай бұрын

I haven't been to the Air Force museum in quite a few years, I know it is massive and will take at least a couple days to go through properly, but it's in the plans!