83 Year Old Airplane Flies Again (Lone Star Flight Museum)

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[@scottmanley]

Glad you liked the space shuttle, but, a word of advice, don't try hand starting an RS-25 engine.

[@frostyfrost4094]

Can I thank my mother and those with wives n girlfriends who have been dragged around Aviation museums to suffer the enjoyment of aeroplanes and thank you Jimmy & co for giving us the opportunity of being able to watch this again and again. Thank you all

[@jimd421]

A old guy used to work with told me. After the war you could have bought p 51 new in there shipping crates for 750 dollars. I asked him why he didn't answer that was alot of money then...

[@2-Hands]

Where's a Time Machine when you need one...

[@joseaguilar5020]

Of course a whole meal with dessert cost about 10 c then today you pay about 22 - 30 Dlls

[@chriscook8076]

Jimmy, as someone who’s been in the aviation world since 1979, I would like to say thank you for educating the folks who don’t get to see how aircraft operate or any of the history behind them exists. There’s so much that goes into aviation that is unknown to the average person that climbs onto an airliner and this content goes a long ways towards explaining that history. Thank you!

[@mkrsek1]

Taping over gun ports was common, mostly to protect gun barrel from debris during ground rolls and take-offs from unpaved runways and also against moisture.

[@patricklockerby4308]

Also protect against mud daubers.

[@kcole7839]

The applied fabric also helped prevent the gun icing at altitude.

[@Scottuz]

Was gonna say the same thing, also to prevent Icing issues in inclement weather, but you'd think someone in a Museum would know that I suppose it's an Obvious thing tho? if the tape was unbroken, they hadn't fired their Guns?

[@thomasward4505]

Your son does a very good job filming

[@OcotilloTom]

I was wounded at the end of my 2nd tour in Vietnam. After 2 months in the Great Lake's Naval Hospital I got to go home. I caught a military "hop" from Waukegan, Illinois to Monroe Louisiana. That hop was a DC-3. We stopped twice on small town grass airfields to let people off. Later on I flew on a Trans Texas DC-3 from Monroe to Dallas/Ft. Worth before changing to a larger aircraft to continue on to California. Great memories. Tom Boyte GySgt. USMC, retired Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71 0331,Infantry Machine Guns

[@ik04]

I flew that PHI S-76A++ offshore many times until it was retired. Glad to see it was not sold off or scrapped.

[@jimseals8659]

in 1966, I flew from Friendly Airport in Baltimore to Norfolk VA on a Piedmont Airlines DC-3 that had been retrofitted with Rolls Royce turbine engines. I was 18 years old at the time. I remember it well.

[@TXGunGeek]

Jimmy, next time you're in this area, come by Texas A&M for a tour of the Wind Tunnel Facilities. You mentioned helicopter blades changing pitch every rotation, we tested that, specifically the supersonic shock wave that can form when transitioning from high pitch (downwind) to low pitch (upwind). Among other things.

[@RealRickCox]

Now THAT sounds like a fun tour!! If Jimmy is too busy, I'm sure Destin with Smarter Everyday would take you up on your offer! :)

[@ChevyJay283]

Do you work at the Nicks Memorial tunnel?

[@mars4508]

I miss the videos we're you worked on the airplane and you flew them 😮

[@alexdarcydestsimon3767]

@@mars4508 i miss these too. I'm just wondering if he is also a victim of the FAA.

[@RealRickCox]

@@mars4508 yeah.. not that into the museums either. Jimmy’s world has kinda gotten boring.

[@ils360]

I feel like Jimmy is more excited to see this stuff than most kids I love it!

[@MrPalmguy]

Thank you for the visit to my kind of a geat musium. Fascinating, to the N'th degree!

[@aljensen7779]

Just loving these hour & a half episodes - a person can really sink their teeth into each show.

[@ronaldvanzelst7894]

what a great excursion from this museum. I'll never get there, but I appreciate this KZbin report! thanks, greetings from the Netherlands 😎👍🏻

[@frostyfrost4094]

And a happy new year too

[@mikercflyer7383]

Jimmy. Get in touch with Dan Gryder and for a charge you can fly his DC3

[@simonmills9427]

can you please thank the Museum guy for his entertaining knowledge and dedication he needs his own channel

[@bigjohn2048]

Jimmy you should meet Dan Gryder if you don t know him. He owns and flys a DC 3 and trains pilots with it.. That would be your best chance to get to fly one.

[@ticdelarue]

Just last night I was planning on going to The Lone Star Flight Museum for the first time. It's about 25 minutes from my house and I have never been there. Now I won't have to go because Jimmy gave me the VIP tour.

[@justinjones9007]

Love that place. My office is just down the road on post.

[@gregsanders6835]

Colorado springs has several awesome aircraft museums. One is ran by certified mechanics and every plane in there is still airworthy and flys. They even do an airshow every year in the summer. I hope you have the chance to check them out some time!

[@danlistermann9960]

My father restored a PT-17 after the war, but couldn't afford to fuel it. It still flies today near Ft. Worth.

[@mike30534]

In the spring of 1999, I had the privilege of visiting the hangar in Middlesboro, KY while Glacier Girl was being restored. It was in a hangar just large enough to accommodate the plane comfortably. The hanger was only for expert restoration and not a museum, I was able to walk right in, view Glacier Girl without restrictions as well as photograph some really good "before & after" examples of the toll the extreme environment and incredible pressures took during its 50 years under the ice. Of course, forty-three thousand (43,000) pounds of pressure per square inch affects the wide variety of materials used in many different ways -- glass breaks, rubber tires are squeezed until they explode and metals bend or snap. One of the volunteers working on Glacier Girl explained that original parts from the plane are often unusable, except for hammering back out flat to use as a pattern to recreate the original. Very nice people who took time away from restoration work to talk to my 5 year old son. I'm hoping for an opportunity to see her fly someday.

[@jonathanfreedom1st]

Jimmy looks like an Astronaut. If you told me he were a Lieutenant commander with USN and fighter pilot and Nasa STS payload Commander. Also having spent time aboard ISS. Also having many awards and honors and even making the Commandants list and Commodores lists with distinction...Id believe it. 😂 He does have the right height 5'11 and weight. Just go with it Jimmy its not stolen valor to dream. 😂🚀🛫✈️😂

[@adamluke1289]

Awesome tour and tour guide!

[@indogrizz]

I remember flying TTA, Tree Top Airlines. Seems to me they had two seats on one side and one on the other. Once leaving Fort Polk, the stewardess was so fat that she ha a hard time squeezing up and down the aisle. The pilot had to retrim when she went from front to back. She sat in two seats in back and we commented that she couldn't sit in a single seat on the other side. Just another DC3 TTA memory.

[@stephenreese5921]

My first flight was in a Waco UPF-7 with Paul Lantz in Orange County at the Santa Ana (John Wayne) airport. I never came back from that flight wanting to do anything else!

[@paulendicott9151]

I liked seeing the L19 and T41, both of which I use to fly back in El Paso days in the Army. Thay could be rented at the flying club. I flue the T41 cross country to Kansas city to visit my family in 1978. There is not much noise damping in them. But I regained my hearing in a day or so, LOL.

[@ScottsSynthStuff]

2:22 I got to meet (and talk to, for about ten minutes) Hoot Gibson at OSH in 1998. What a fantastic, just all-around nice guy.

[@waynetaylor121]

You can tell this man really enjoys his job ,by the sound of his enthusiasm.....😊

[@stevearcher3921]

My son actually flew the PHI S-76 helicopter thats on display when it was still in service

[@i.r.wayright1457]

I'm old enough. My first plane ride was a 1955 DC-3 trip from KIPT to KPHL. That is all it took to get me hooked, so I spent 42 years fixing planes. But I have always liked looking down on people. 😀

[@afanofdieselengines675]

49:59 I remember seeing commercials on TV when airlines were trying to sell their fleet of surplus DC3's. "Be the first on your block to own a DC 3". Man walking up behind a DC 3 on a residential street holding onto his hat with his tie whipping in the wind. One of the regional airlines sponsored the ads.

[@petrokemikal]

I love that they fly the darn things.. They were meant to be flown, a flight here and there would be better for an engine than leaving it sitting doing zero for the next 20 years.. Awesome Museum..

[@dabneyoffermein595]

Your tour guide was so knowledgeable it's incredible.

[@user-bu8bc6kg4f]

Reminds me of my grandfathers converted crop-dusting aircraft. He had a air tractor but before regulations you could make a powder duster out of these type old aircraft. Dust hopper was front passenger seat area. Ive got pictures if i find them them they're yours buddy.😊 He'd land with bean and cucumber runners all over the landing gear😂 he got low Farmer got their moneys worth. No wasted poison.

[@stephenreese5921]

Just watched Ward Carrol’s interview of a 100 year old B-17 pilot who deployed in 1943. Amazing!

[@harryboersen514]

I was a passenger in a DC2 or a DC3 in 1965. It was Central Air lines and it left Kansas City and stopped at Topeka then to Manhaten Kansas. Never will forget that flight. They dropped the mail bag in Topeka then left for Manhatten. They gave me a blanket to stay warm and had one one male sturadess for the flight.

[@MrEferrell]

The Cessna model number for the L-19, 0-1A was 305A.

[@ccc771]

love your channel jimmy! you have the same passion for aviation as i do but your lucky enough to be a pilot!

[@Patshes]

I am so jealous of you flying in that Steerman! If I had one last request on this earth.........🆒😎👍!

[@Thunder_Dog_Gaming]

jimmy you should come to the Hudson heritage museum aircraft hanger in Hudson Massachusetts edit they have the only p40 left that was at pearl harbor in 41 and most of their aircraft saw combat

[@tplugnickel]

Awesome tour! Thankyou.

[@sportclay1]

Seeing the Fairchild 24 was a pleasant surprise. My father and a friend restored one in the late 50's early 60's. The original engine from the plane , the inverted 6, is currently on static display at the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Schenectady, NY. My father also co-owned a Culver Dart GW model there were very few made less than 10 if I recall. Thanks for the Lone Star tour!!

[@mikebon8352]

Jimmy is following in John Denver's footsteps.. lol. Nice been knowing U, Jimmy!!!!

[@richardclark4610]

An old friend (now deceased) flew B-25's during WWII. After the war, he bought a surplus Stearman for $75. He eventually became Chief pilot for Japan Air Lines and flew 747's.

[@OsvaldoGulledge]

This content is a real gem💚

[@jordanmatte1144]

My grandparents flew in a DC3 from the US to Germany back in the day..

[@mrbill8542]

Great tour--thanks Jimmy !!!

[@practicallytactical3075]

Jimmy wish you would have came after Thanksgiving, they have Glacier Girl (P-38) there now

[@glenfangboner1568]

Another fantastic video. Thanks for taking us along.

[@easttexan2933]

My brother in law just paid for a T6 ride there about 2 months ago. Very enjoyable. When this museum was located in Galveston at Shoals Field we went there a few times. It was great. Had lots of memorabilia that was destroyed by a hurricane a few years back, hence, moving to Ellington Field. Thanks for sharing.

[@dalemullins4562]

Talk about money to noise converter that Corsair manifest itself in a big beautiful flame out the exhaust

[@kevinjared69]

Jimmy check out Great Lakes aircraft detailing for the 310 they specialize in aluminum polishing out of Oxford, Michigan.

[@TSLAaddict]

Thanks for bringing us along to the museum. Always interesting

[@Cookiegrabber-]

Great tour Jimmy! Thank you!

[@stephenreese5921]

As a kid, I accompanied my father on a flight in a Piedmont DC-3 and later when overseas I flew in a KLM DC-2 (Uvier) which was re-enacting the McRobinson Trophy Race to Australia. Both flights were amazing!

[@frostyfrost4094]

Lakenheath has never recovered from Uvier visit 😊

[@glennschlorf1285]

Great video... wow I learned a bunch

[@jhaedtler]

Also the dye cancels each color out so if your fuel is clear there is mixed octanes.

[@johngarneau4073]

Jimmy, We all love airplanes and flying but you need to do more flying. Museum visits are nice but, start flying them. Had 12 airplanes, including a 3 Pitts Specials, a Stearman, AT-6 . Checked myself out in those and others. Fly'em Man!

[@RandoCommando]

Great tour! Loved this! Thank you Jerry Scott for taking the time out of your schedule to give Jimmy really good content!

[@ronaldbrantley6795]

Always look forward to your next video.

[@ramvan2284]

I love these museums, so awesome. Thanks for the show Mr. Clear Prop

[@olddogg60]

What a fascinating tour. Thanks to you Jimmy and your guide too.

[@tomeickhorst6787]

There is a family in northern Missouri that rebuilds replicas of these and swopwith camels and spads

[@Factory400]

The last time I saw that Dauntless it was going down off-airport.....pilot Ralph Royce did a great job on a low altitude formation emergency while blinded with gas in his face. I had rigged it for cameras and was watching from the nose of the B25. Glad to see it back together.

[@TheRealCaptAmerica]

Love the back of the shirt Jimmy!

[@BearMeat4Dinner]

Jim great video ❤!!!

[@CurtisDrew1]

This video brought back so many fun memories for me Jimmy. My wife and I rented a ride in a 29 Steerman at the Seattle Airport/ Boeing Museum several years ago. Our flight went over Peugeot Sound. What a blast! We also caught a ride in a C 47 out of the Fort Worth Mecham Airport a few years back. ( before cancer) An experience I will always cherish. We did a lap around the city of Fort Worth at about 1500 ft. They even let the passengers get up and move around the aircraft while in flight. I have some cool pictures of the cockpit from right over the pilots shoulders literally! And back then, cell phones were smaller so I got to stick my phone/ camera out the C47s gun porthole and shoot pictures down the side of the aircraft while in flight. They also rent rides in the OV10 Broncos that I hope to do soon. I have the New Fairview Airport in my back yard (70T) if you're ever passing through and want to grab some lunch. I'm retired so I'll be here most of the time in my hanger sized shop just off the airport. I'm buying because I've really enjoyed your channel. We still find ourselves making an annual pilgrimage to MD Anderson and have planned to visit the Lone Star Museum one of these trips!

[@colinboneham7387]

Happy Friday we got a jimmy’s world video

Very nice and patient the gentleman that guides Jimmy tru the museum 👍🏻

[@icaro2555]

Incredible museum and beautiful plane, Jimmy. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Argentina.

[@conradboss]

The Corsair Skull and crossbones, they’re cool. 😊

[@deanwest7623]

My dad was a cropduster and had a stearman for years. Then he parked it the hanger and he would fly it once a year. He wanted to convert it back to a two place but ended up selling it in the 80s and it ended up going somewhere in California. He always regretted selling it.

[@World-as-i-c-it]

Good stuff Jimmy!

[@brianshersby8979]

Hi Jimmy, happy new year! Great video - love the expose of the bathroom facilities on the spacecraft. You have a wonderfully hilarious way of asking questions which usually only children ask! Keep up the good work, withe your ability to humour into most situations. Best wishes from the UK side of the pond.

[@dandunlap8638]

Jimmy you would have been in a suit not shorts to fly on that DC3😂😂😂

[@RonAnderson-ul9sf]

Thank you Jimmy for the education of theses beautiful planes....love it...and happy new year Jimmy and family

[@alyn7d7]

Love your museum videos wherever you’re at, they are very intriguing❤

[@Cooldad87]

Thank you Jimmy once again for showing not one but two Corsair fighters! Just awesome 👍 I also wanted to add that it's just crazy how I commented on an earlier video of you showing the Corsair ...I mentioned that my grandpa used to take me to see one and grab a burger and stuff what are the odds of that.....that you flew over where I grew up near the same place my grandfather used to take me to see the Corsair what are the odds ha ha! who knows could have been the same exact one! Thanks Jimmy for all that you do just incredible!

[@talon2pro]

My father in 1942 learned to fly in one of these aircraft for the USAAF. I flew vicariously with you guys today. Thank you!😊

[@dabneyoffermein595]

The Air Corps ceased to have an administrative structure after 9 March 1942, but as "the permanent statutory organization of the air arm, and the principal component of the Army Air Forces," the overwhelming majority of personnel assigned to the AAF were members of the Air Corps. Father's uni says U.S. Army Air Corps. The above is just a bit of trivia for you (that you probably already knew),,,,but i'd be interested to know what your father's issued uniform (dress uni) said on it.

[@talon2pro]

@@dabneyoffermein595 The patch on his dress uniform was blue field, yellow/gold AAC propeller through the Wing insignia. Ty for the historical info.

[@afterburner2869]

I’m fortunate enough to have taken a flight in a Stearman many years ago. It’s a day I’ll never forget!

[@DanBirasi]

That was a super interesting video. The enthusiasm of the museum employee was just great and he crowned it with that landing. Thx for taking us along. Greetings from Germany

[@conlethbyrne4809]

Great tour, Jimmy. Slan ❤️

[@ChileExpatFamily]

Doolittle's raiders trained through out South Carolina. Some of the airports still have the markings in memorial to show that airport was one of the secret airports. I did my first cross country solo to three of those airports. Jim in Chile

[@bradok3695]

Great tour Jimmy. Jerry does an awesome walk around tour. Flight at the end was the topping on the cake! Happy New Year!!

[@user-ve2hr9yl4z]

Thank you so much to your tour guide for the time he took for your tour.

[@bigteddy66]

Got to say Jimmy this was absolutely fantastic, you were like a child in the nasa section (meant in a good way) Jerry I think his name is was a fabulous down to earth guy. And of course congrats to the cameraman, very well and professionally done. Definitely one of the absolute best channels on youtube.

[@remicallant8756]

Very nice video and very nice interesting airplanes, congratulations to the maker of this video, greetings from Remi, Belgium

[@jimbower4249]

Loved this video. Your host was awesome. I really enjoyed seeing everything the museum had from NASA and WWll. My grandfather was a tail gunner. Ive been planning on going for a flight in a bomber for awhile. Keep up the great work. I personally love the mix of videos.

[@richardsweeney197]

A pilot for Provincetown Boston Airways said: "The difference between a DC-3 and a modern jet Liner is, in a jetliner you might recognize a stadium as you flew over. In a DC-3 you could watch a play.

[@savethehumans7460]

What and amazing tour given by a very knowledgeable man. Thanks for the share Jimmy, happy New Years.

[@Bass.Player]

Debby Rihn-Harvey was a National aerobatic champion. Her Husband Eoin "Doc" Harvey gave everyone their annual flight medical, he was known to be somewhat lenient and easy to work with. The school your pilot friend there was training at was their school in La Port TX. I hope I remember all of this correctly it's been a minute. There is a good chance I know your PT pilot but I don't think I heard his name ?...

[@stevehammond7485]

An hour and a half! That's too long... or so I thought. What a lucky man. Making it happen James.

[@wadja62]

While you were in the DC-3 I was having flasbacks of my Air Force days. I was an Air Freight Spc. at Luke AFB in in Arizona in 63 to late 66. For about 2 years the aircract was a C-46. You not only had to walk uphill you had to load freight uphill. Cargo loaded in the large door with forklift and put in place using 3-4 men and J-bars. What fun!!!!

[@hobo1452]

I was fortunate enough to get some flight time in the military version of the DC3, the C-47 in Vietnam. Our USAF psyops unit had two of them at Bien Hoa AB that flew night missions to drop leaflets and play propaganda tapes over a loud speaker system. Ours had the double cargo doors on the left tail section removed with a cargo net stretched across the opening. We would sit with our legs through the net out in the slip stream and toss leaflets out. It was not uncommon to see red and green tracers on the ground where night combat was happening. Red for American/South Vietnamese forces and green for the NVA/Vietcong. Heady times for adventurous young men!

[@Ultimatevr123]

Man what a treat this video was! Thank you. We have the New England air museum about 30 min from me . They have a TOMCAT!! Which is so cool to see in person. I’ve seen a lot of fighter jets but the f-14 is enormous, they also have some really cool older planes and ordinance.

[@justpauls]

Feeling pretty good about today 🙂

[@dnoslen6124]

Hey Jimmy, i think you need a DC3. Save the DC3!

[@nigelappleton2963]

Another really enjoyable episode.

[@ruten45]

Amazing example of aircraft and history of flying and pilots as well as crews. A wonderful place to bring my great grandkids as well as my grandkids and even our own kids for education about Aviation. Wow! You are a lucky man! Great program!

[@craftmasters1]

The museums and the Elvis jet are interesting, but I prefer the repair and flying of your planes.

[@DragerPilot]

I am old enough to have flown in a DC -3. My home was western Nebraska and I was returning from PHX on a Western Airlines Boeing 707 into Denver. I had to switch to Frontier to get to Scottsbluff, which was an easy thing to do at that time. (Yes I had on my Sunday goin to church suit). Anyway, the flight to Nebraska was supposed to be in a Convair 580, but that particular aircraft had a mechanical problem. From, I suspect the back of the hanger, they found a DC-3. It was a cold winter night, and I remember how cold it was as I boarded and walked uphill to my seat. The cough of the engines and the blue smoke were the highlight for me. It was a clear starlit night and too short a flight. I couldn’t wait to tell my father about the trip, as he was a B-25 pilot in WWII, but also a significant number of hours in C-47’s (DC-3’s). Great airplanes.