21 Years In A Museum Will It Start?

Will this home made airplane start and fly again after years?
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[@briansigler1158]

This is an emotional video for me. I spent my childhood riding in that plane. I would love to talk to you about your future plans with it. We had no idea it was for sale.

[@Philc231]

He once said he’s going to put this engine in his other plane , you should buy it to save it .

[@therealjimmysworld]

That is very cool. There have been some changes since the recording of this video. I learned that the owner had a close relationship with Evergreen and they had an agreement that it would stay at the museum. So, with all the new information it will be staying at the museum (including the engine). Given the deep emotional and personal connections, I didn’t feel right about cannibalizing it.

[@ryancarpenter986]

you are a marvel and an idol for the aviation world, respect.@@therealjimmysworld

[@dagger4146]

@@therealjimmysworld You are a very good man Jimmy.

[@mikeashcraft870]

Hi Jimmy, A couple of questions. Do you want a person that would help you record your videos? I live in Lakeland Florida and would be willing to do recording. Free other than lunch lol. Plus do you know if there are any people that fly DC out of the plant city airport?

[@emmanuelgoldstein1918]

No better tonic on darker days than a little bit of sunshine from Jimmy's World. Thanks Jimmy and the whole crew.

[@sneaks01]

Fantastic!!! It always makes me happy to see how much Silas is involved in your work. He’s getting such a great education but the biggest asset is how strong your Dad/Son relationship is! Keep up the great work!

[@sharkboy_twentytwo8155]

Love that museum. Been there a few times. Got to sit in that SR-71. I’m taking my first flight in one hour towards my pilots license. All thanks to your videos.

[@1coolsoundguy]

Thanks for the great video Jimmy! Silas' camera work has gotten to be unreal. Make sure when he goes to college that he takes some photography and film camera courses. He will always be able to fall back on his camera work.

[@manjisaipoe517]

Hi Jimmy, absolutely love your channel here. I have been an aircraft fanatic my entire life, and can not get enough of the video's you post. My dream is to one day get licensed, but so far its never been in the financial cards I hold. Keep doing the good you do for people and aircraft, maybe one day I will meet you near the runway, peace.

[@deltaleader71]

I was just at Evergreen, Got some nice photo evidence of these planes before they leave. I wish I knew when you were there, I would pop over...

[@chriscampion9906]

Reading the comments about this plane even makes me respect Jimmys world even more ...you guys are the best .

[@barrywood5357]

Absolutly nailed it yet again is there no end to your efferts nice to see silas again crack on

[@2Phast4Rocket]

Most of the old certificate airplanes shown in this channel were scary old with questionable airworthiness. So far, I think Jimmy hit the jackpot with these composite experimentals. They look a whole lot better than most of the flight school Cessna and Piper.

[@ClearedAsFiled]

Jimmy, GREAT video.....just what i needed recovering from back surgery....

[@mikedoran4186]

Awesome work! Hey Silas👊

[@av8tore71]

Last project my dad & I worked on was a Glasair III before he passed away. Instead of the IO-550 we went with a Rolls-Royce Allison 250-B17B turboprop engine. That airplane will cruise @20,000ft MSL @over 325kts. We would fly from KRFD to his hometown of KARG Walnut Ridge, AR. As a boy he told stories of WWII aircraft coming in to be smelted down and rows & rows of airplanes on their noses. Sad now to see all those pictures of planes waiting to be scrapped

[@chris121242]

Does it fly? What’s the tail number?

[@danblumel]

​@@chris121242 N482KM

[@charlessherman4412]

Saw a turboprop Glasair land at Eagle Creek Airport from Oshkosh in the 80's, only one I knew of. I was building a Glasair at the Greenwood Airport in Indiana at the time. Serial number 139, sold in 1992 and was 50% done wish I finished it.

[@kenhatfield8239]

Too funny.... You were reading the placard and said my name at the end of it. KH. I live about 4 miles from plant city airport. Long time follower.

[@patrickheavirland3599]

Good morning from Minnesota! Great episode!

[@odonovan]

"...fold up, on purpose." Best comment ever! 😁

[@terrallputnam7979]

I saw a new video drop and I got excited. I love these little homebuilt experimental rocket-ships! Very cool!!! I see you use the non-functioning starter encouragement tool too! That is a great tool like the torque enhancement tool, AKA Cheater Bar. LOL She's a runner! Congrats!

[@hawkuser604]

O-360 is a great engine. I worked on them back in the late 90's. At the Indiana State Police we had 4 172 Skyhawks that were converted to 360's from 320's and had larger props as well. I think it was a pen yan aero conversion STC. I am not sure, it has been a long time . I just remember being a young mechanic and being handed that job with some help and changing that engine, all the cables and wiring, etc. I also put an entire new interior into it that was a weeks worth of painful work on its own. But, when it came down to the first run of the engine the senior mechanic handed me the keys and said.. go run it.. here is the checklist for breaking it in...Great satisfaction. I just sat there by myself and let the engine run through break in. I still remember the Tail Numbers of our old Skyhawks..N91SP, 92SP. 193SP. 94SP...

[@Frequency-ct4sf]

That engine. Actually sounded really healthy. Good to see and hear it running. Hope it spices up your other project. Cheers from the Netherlands.

[@Far2hip]

WOW!!! The engine sounds SO smooth!! I was very surprised at how silky smooth it sounded as soon as you brought it to idle. Very cool my friend!! What an amazing upgrade that should be for the Lance Air 2!!! Nice!!!👍🏻😎👍🏻

[@tonyf9076]

Plane and engine are now staying at the museum.

[@danblumel]

​@@tonyf9076sad, the engine should be swapped out and used.

[@timstubbs9779]

That looks like fun !

[@tennysoncason772]

Nice work.

[@hunterthomas9999]

Pro tip I learned the hard way always swing the handle of your vice grip away from bodywork in case slips you don’t damage it.

[@robertferrell8518]

Good job Jim good to see some success

[@--Zook--]

im loving all this content coming from my doorstep. also stuff in Oregon really doesn't rust despite all the rain we get.

[@MrBrentles]

Never gets old.

[@MrBeachbliss]

Jimmy I really enjoy your KZbin channel. I’ve watched quite a few and I just can’t stop laughing. You really put a lot of enjoyment for us in watching your videos. Hey what could go wrong(LOL)

[@garymessina1609]

Very cool great video thanks Jimmy

[@loualiberti4781]

I love 💕 your Vids !! Especially these ones having to do with reviving long silent planes !!

[@scottcol23]

Love the content! Keep up the great work guys. Just not the best idea to start a plane for the first time in 25 years from outside the cockpit lol. What if it decided to throttle up and run away? I guess it would have made a great video hahah.

[@grantnyenes3742]

Jimmy, you could start anything!!

[@mikeagresta]

Good job 👍 Engine sounds solid.

[@GENERATOR-924]

One more time BRAVOOOO Jimmy.......from Greece with all my heart!!!🙃😉😄

[@sherrilltechnology]

Great video Jimmy!

[@kmg501]

Nice motor, looking forward to seeing it on the job again.

[@AlJay0032]

What a clean start. No smoke.

[@bobmoyer8864]

Can I get a "Clear Jimmy & Silas super duper mechanic award" start up team award thing! Whooooot whooooot!! How fun.... now you need to buy a "fix it up" plane big enough to haul this stuff back to FL.... or have a Pacific NW division..... lol 😂

[@dhiskeywick1776]

Jimmy I've been watching your channel for a few years and you're in my town! Neat! I'm going to go down there and say hi.

[@dougwhite2897]

That's so cool 😎. I knew it was going to fire right up. 😂. Love your videos. Keep them coming.

[@focus82grothm.84]

Love it and the engine sounds nice and strong with good compression 😊👍

[@live2serv]

The engine sounds great!

[@luukse1986]

YES ONTIME woooohooooo go jimmy

[@Justatoy26]

I love your videos, keep them coming! I’ve always loved aviation & your videos inspired me to get my license finally at 25 years old. I am working on my PPL right now, but ran into some issues with some clerical mistakes on my medical chart, which made me not eligible to obtain my medical certificate (false depression and anxiety diagnosis that I wasn’t even aware of). However, through holding the physician accountable for his mistakes, the FAA and the AME are finally agreeing to grant the airman medical certificate to me. I’ve already logged 30 hours, so all I have to do is solo and some cross country and night flying, along with the oral and written, then I’m done👍🏻. Looking to purchase a Cherokee 140 or Warrior II and outfitting it with a GTN750 and three GI275s, then going for my IFR. Use that as my time-builder & commuter to my different construction projects & real estate properties. Hopefully after that, I can get my complex and multi-engine endorsement & purchase a second aircraft for longer/heavier hauls, like a 310!

[@andrewmyralane6673]

Sue that AME!

[@nickc8760]

I love the interior. Reminds me of a Pontiac Fiero

[@Jeffrey-ed8sz]

Nice,Jimmy. 'Nuff said.❤

[@jamesbrown3358]

Nice win!!

[@highbrass7563]

Super fantastic channel

[@1cumminsdiesel]

That things sounds healthy 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@samholdsworth420]

Lets go jimmy. Its cool your giving the plane back. 🫡

[@gregmerryman7939]

That little biplane looks pretty cool

[@larrysouthern5098]

You lucky dog....😮 Oh and get some oxegen bottles for that one ...you are gonna need it!! 😊

[@tywebb140]

Good thing those breaks work 😂

[@oodimvale]

lol....very nice....Best vídeo... São Paulo - Capital - Brasil

[@clarencewiles963]

Good to find out all was returned to the museum per the wishes of the previous owner.

[@conradboss]

The blue knob is usually the prop control and the black knob the throttle.... 😊

[@kevinsnell1622]

I aviation are those hinges also called a piano hinge?

[@danblumel]

Exactly so

[@quinlansullivan7516]

Hey jimmy nice plane ya got

[@garybondurant8097]

Jimmy Sky King, you are like a big kid in a candy store, only the store is full of planes. KARATE CHOP!✋

[@ronnydowdy7432]

❤ Sometimes you have to walk away Jimmy

[@3SM20Pilot]

The A1A is the same engine I have in my Mooney. It can be a pain to start at times. I just installed a surefly and it's insane how much better it is to start. I'll be flying it out to Prineville OR to LASAR in a couple weeks for some speed mods, let me know if you need help flying anything back!

[@danblumel]

If set up correctly, only hot starts are a bit tricky, but once tricks learned, no so much. Leaned to shut off, no priming, cracked throttle maybe 1/2 inch, crank a few turns and it fires, push full rich and adjust throttle to idle. I have a Light Speed Plasma 3 electronic, cold starts on 2-3 blades.

[@sactu1]

I had a Glasair IRG (VH-AHU) with an O-320 D1A, which cruised at 185kts. A 210hp plant in that thing would give it over 200kts of awesome!!!

[@bluckfox]

can i get a clear jimmy lol great video lol

[@user-rw9xi8qv7x]

Hay there Silous😮

[@jdd1979]

Just start the spruce goose already

[@therealjimmysworld]

I asked them! Hahahaha

[@jdd1979]

@@therealjimmysworld it’d be one helluva “clear prop”!

[@thewoodpost]

Giddy up Jimmy

[@brettolague7474]

The white biplane is pretty cool

[@buckmurdock2500]

Oldfield Baby Lakes.

[@MikeCris]

Lycon does great work.

[@carlbeaver7112]

Nail a few blocks of wood together and screw the prop to it. I'd think Pops would appreciate at least part of the plane being useful vs not doing anything for anybody. I'm guessing he probably thought someone in the family would learn to fly it or would sell it on to someone who would. It's a rare person that wouldn't. BTW, when I was a young mechanic in Ft. Lauderdale ('70s) the STP Corp. offices were down the road from the shop I worked at. One Saturday, for a promotion, they sent the Novi Special over for the day. It also had a stack of wood under the hood to hold up the header and provide the weight needed to have its correct stance. (of course we had to take turns pushing each other around the lot in it. ;-) )

[@kerryseabrook2438]

nice engine jimmy

[@dandahermitseals5582]

Dude that's a great airplane😅

[@nYatYm]

Definitely a promising engine

[@locknut5382]

The fact that the engine fired up at the first attempt speaks volumes. Let's hope that the 'heart transplant' is both feasible and successful. 220 knots is 253 mph. Thanks Jimmy and Silas. 🙂👍

[@Sauerbrew777]

I would never feel comfortable flying a homebuilt plane that had been in a major accident, so I think the old owner was correct in saying the plane should never fly again. The engine on the other hand would be perfect for a heart transplant in to your new Lancair. Before you do the swap you should do a performance test, so you can have before and after numbers to compare.

[@Smitty65721]

but you would fly a certified plane after a "major accident"? You don't think a Glasair airframe, controls, mounts, etc., can be inspected?

[@peteranderson037]

@@Smitty65721 It's fiberglass, they can't. It's part of the reason why fiberglass fell by the wayside in favor of sheet aluminum.

[@danblumel]

​​@@peteranderson037that's a totally false statement about sheet aluminum. I built this exact same model of airplane, this plane could easily be repaired and flown unless the main spar was damaged. Cirrus and Diamond aircraft are some of the most modern aircraft currently in production, no sheet aluminum at all.

[@TheAverageDutchman]

​​@@peteranderson037When did fiberglass fall by the wayside? The majority of new plane designs nowadays are composite (glass and/or carbon) If anything I'd say aluminium riveted construction is falling out of favour. It's also not nearly as impossible to inspect or repair composites as you claim.

[@Smitty65721]

@@peteranderson037 That is just not true.

[@gregl6002]

such a shame it may never fly again but awesome video

[@danblumel]

I built the same model of Glasair 1RG, my engine dynos 245 HP. 3 blade Whirlwind prop. My S/N is 730 Should be an electro hydraulic pump in the back and that leaver you saw is for a manual gear extension handle encase of a failure of the pump etc. Starting that specific engine when cold is easy, once the gascolator is full only needs 3-5 seconds boost pump of prime, full rich, cracked throttle, boost pump off. Start only using mechanical fuel pump. Hot start cracked throttle, engine mixture fuel cutoff, no priming, once engine fires, mixture full in and adjust throttle. That engine can be increased to 240+HP 10:1 pistons, flowed, ported, balanced, blueprinted and modified cam profile. That cowling was enlarged to fit on those angle valve cylinder heads. Some did cheeks others like this top cowling, a minor reshape. I did a total aerodynamic reshap of my top cowl and minor rework on the bottom 1/2.

[@SeanWhite]

Well I have a Lanair 360 with a 200hp for you. And it goes slower than a 180. Cowl needs to be modified to fit the engine. And that what slows it down.

[@Chopndrag1]

Need any experimental aircraft builder / slash pilot mechanic types near you? I'm not to far haha

[@PatGill-tu6oq]

2.32 looks like a hand operated hydraulic pump, maybe for the retractable gear!

[@danblumel]

Emergency gear extension pump, encase the electro hydraulic pump fails to function. The long handle is missing. My G-1 has the identical emergency down hand pump.

[@edwardwilliams9874]

Good afternoon y'all

[@dennisbackstrom2244]

Silas is a great kid. Super Dad Ladd Duo 👍

[@MoconomySt]

meet you near the runway

[@rebelyell22]

Glasair is a better airplane than a Lancair. Much better built

[@richlandfirefighter]

Just casually says oh they got a sr-71 🤣

[@sixtyfiveford]

How do they not keep track of the keys?

[@deani2431]

Jimmy. I have yet to see an engine sit that long that doesn’t need a tear down due to a corroded cam and/or cylinders. It may start, but will make metal.

[@a-hvlogs2046]

Some people slapped a Subaru EG33 in those Glasairs

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

I remember pouring a good amount of eyeball juice on this bird back in 2009. Very cool runner.

[@billcarrier9622]

Nothing turns me off quicker that the donation stipulation "must never fly again". Next project please...

[@greghanson5696]

Great content Jimmy! @12:43, no safety wire but I believe I can see roll pins in those prop castle nuts.

[@alyn7d7]

Kool

[@sanfran5110]

Great video as usual! I watched the Elvis 1935 tag giveaway, but what happened to the beacon?

[@therealjimmysworld]

Update coming soon

[@sanfran5110]

Yeaaahhh🎉

[@67mlb67]

That will be a great motor for the Lance Air.

[@danblumel]

Not without a lot of cowling modification and CG location work.

[@bigguy5155]

i would start with safety wire that prop

[@walter2990]

Was the plane tied down before you started it? I can't see any straps on the aft tie down bracket.

[@roudyrusty610]

how are you going to get them all home ?

[@winstonsayer]

yes, it will start.

[@jimellison3358]

Curious ,are there any more parts you can salvage off of the rest of the plane/

[@RobertoRMOLA]

Nothing like a "general purpose" tool to fix the starter...

[@petebraven1522]

Always used to make me laugh the random bolts and bits I'd find rattling around inside the airframes of aeroplanes I was cleaning out. On one I got a 10mm combination spanner actually taped to a retract leg! (Which is odd cos everything was imperial?) 🤔🤣

[@renataavgeri1132]

The battery must be the anti-theft system, not the key😂