SocialFlight Live! - Ron Strauss - Elvis Presley's Pilot

With nearly 30,000 hours in his logbook, Ron Strauss has done it all, but nothing Ariel Tweto, star of Discovery Channel's "Flying Wild Alaska" joins us again for a fun evening of hangar flying and adventure. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of "Flying Wild Alaska" as well as stories about her new movie "Into America's Wild", her new TV show on FOX "The Great North" (with Nick Offerman and Jenny Slate) and so much more! It's another amazing episode of SocialFlight Live!
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[@margarettaylor8107]

Elvis was a precious gift from God. He believed his money meant nothing if he could not share it with his friends. He was a very spiritual man, a devout Christian. There will never be another Elvis Presley.He gave away most of his wealth while he was alive.

[@kelliintexas3575]

Yep! They estimated at the time of his death he GAVE AWAY 87% of his ENTIRE LIFE EARNINGS!!!! 🤯

[@gracieg7601]

@@kelliintexas3575 I’m not surprised. He had earned well over a billion dollars.

[@lindamills6939]

He would have had to get healthy and in shape to continue touring. Also maybe the drama movies he wanted to do. His movies made mi $ than his music. He could do anything!!! He was lonely even on a crowd…didn’t trust many people. Also his mama was his lifeline and security. Had he not continued performing, he would have lost Graceland. The expense was tremendous. I think when he died he had 5 million dollars.

[@lindamills6939]

His best music was gospel… won two Grammys for gospel albums. When he does sing gospel with his small group around the piano, it came from his heart and soul. As he sang, one could see the glory of God in his face. He didn’t intend to be a solo artist to start with. He wanted to be part of a gospel group and study the ministry. He tried out with different groups but was told he couldn’t sing good enough and others didn’t have openings. The way he started at Sun wasn’t intended to send him to stardom. This shy boy who only knew three chords on the guitar, went in there to pay to record a song for his Mama. The lady assistant recorded it since Sam was gone. She kept telling him this boy had something special. Sam called him to come in and talk. There he met Cash, JLLewis, Perkins, and couple more. It all went from there with Sam helping him get little gigs.

[@kevinhoneycutt238]

Elvis was not even a lukewarm Christian. He would read Madame Blavatsky on stage to the audience.

[@dwevors]

A bet today's stars don't treat the people who take care of them as well as Elvis did! How do you say it? CLASS!

[@timritchey5497]

Just another reason why ELVIS IS..... THE G.O.A.T. !!!!!!! THE KING FOREVER!!!!!!!

[@MasterTheNEC]

Wow...love these stories about Elvis and how generous he was. He was an amazing man and still so much to learn and know about him and how he was behind the scenes.

[@robbiejenkins4379]

It's always sad listening to the story of the 16th August a sad day for all the Elvis fans around the world. Thank you SocialFlightLive. From New Zealand

[@shirleyfernandes6971]

This was so awesome thanks to Ron for the Elvis stories

[@scottsimpkins350]

I wasn’t sure I was gonna watch this…. But once it began, I was hooked from start to the end! What a great story(s) he had to tell.

[@mattskustomkreations]

I’ve never considered myself an Elvis “fan”, but I went down the rabbit hole starting 2 years ago. It’s fascinating! What’s cool about EP is that his daily activities are perhaps the most recorded/tracked/ discussed of any single person of the 20th Century. I recommend Spa Guy for all the detective work he does to revisit locations and interviews with people like Mr. Strauss. All have nothing but love for EP.

[@patriciacuomoi3494]

T❤

[@mapachehombre1581]

I'm surprised once airborne Elvis Presley didn't walk into the cockpit &.say OK Ron I'll take it from here 😂

[@mattskustomkreations]

Exactly. He drove all his own vehicles, rode his own horses so why not? Haha!

[@mariatorres-zo4yz]

@@mattskustomkreations lol agree 💯 percent 🤣😂🤣😂 Elvis saying I'll get you all home safe. Lol

[@robbiejenkins4379]

Beautiful Ron. I love Elvis stories, God bless you Ron

[@bigstud98]

Good thing Ron Strauss is a live to tell us these Great stories. Thank U Ron!

[@rosasp.2936]

Thank you sir for your service to our country and thank you for the Elvis stories. God Bless you

[@vickiecraig9578]

What a life Mr. Ron lived even before Elvis. Wow how interesting. Thank you for sharing your story ❤️

[@robanderson7471]

Enjoyed this greatly. Thanks for sharing. You can tell how much he enjoyed his whole career especially his time with Elvis.

[@johnmullis5753]

I love hearing his stories. Hope he tells more

[@irenemackie7821]

What a fantastic show. Love Elvis

[@robbiejenkins4379]

Thank you SocialFlightLive: thank you Ron love listening to you and your life with Elvis. Elvis sounded like a great boss.

[@danalawton2986]

I watched the whole video... and I had a grin on my face starting from when Ron began talking about his time working for Elvis. You could see Ron's face, he truly enjoyed his time flying for him. That was fun to watch. Thank You!

[@robbiejenkins4379]

Thank you Socialflightlive, love watching this interview with Ron. Ron's life's journey was amazing and the icing on the cake was working for The king of rock n roll.

[@MasterTheNEC]

That was an amazing set of stories. To those 8 people who gave a thumbs down...You fools are insane. Again great stories and love hearing the human side of Elvis.

[@debsmith1956]

Anyone an Elvis fan needs to watch this....

[@dotmoran9808]

I really enjoyed Ron’s stories about Elvis. No matter who it is everyone says he was just a great person and so generous with everyone. God Bless Elvis and prayers for Elvis🕺❤️🎼🎼❤️

[@MarneyII]

What an amazing, warm individual Ron is. Thank you for sharing these Elvis stories.

[@robbiejenkins4379]

I have listened to you Ron and your time with Elvis a few times, I enjoy listening to you Ron God bless you

[@Kymoon99]

Great story Ron! Really enjoyed knowing more about the Lisa Marie. TCB ⚡⚡⚡

[@jtmd11]

Great interview!! sounds like Elvis was a wonderful Guy to his inner circle.

[@artd.]

Ron was not the only Pilot that flew Elvis.......Mr. Milo also was an Elvis pilot. " Milo High, Elvis' personal pilot takes Elvis and five others on a brief one-hour flight in Elvis newly purchased Lockheed JetStar aircraft. The Name of the JetStar was "Hound Dog"

[@cortezibanez3890]

+ Elwood David..

[@robbiejenkins4379]

Well they need to tell their story own stories with Elvis

[@robbiejenkins4379]

Ron would not be able to fly the plane by himself, he would need someone else, gosh I can't think what he would be called,

[@robbiejenkins4379]

Ron said there was 2 pilots, 1 engineer, 1 flight attendant.

[@davidharrison1523]

Great to listen to these stories, though sad at the end. Thanks to you both.

[@marlinkojak9882]

this is great to hear him talk

[@wesmcgee1648]

That old 880 was a great plane. They were workhorses. Not too many people can say they slept in Elvis' bed!

[@judytinker3392]

This guy is way to cool. Of course I know nothing about airplanes but his history and the stories he tells are so interesting. Loved listening to his journey to how he reached where he is today.

[@tammy6743]

Elvis really appreciated them pilots ❤❤

[@pierreishakguitar649]

Amazing stories Ron

[@flyifri]

I thought I heard it all until I found your show. Thank you so much Ron for your appearance on SocialFlight that really made my day. Well done on all counts.! What a wonderful story that I have never heard for now. Again well said and well done.!

[@elvis-jj1sc]

great storys ty ron tcb!

[@gracieg7601]

I also enjoy the stories the Nurse Tish told about the time they spent living on the Graceland grounds. One story she told about the dog that peed on Elvis. So funny.

[@ElvisGirl1128]

Amazing story. Thank you for more insights into EP. Loved it. ❤

[@rustyruss2962]

⚡️⚡️TCB ⚡️⚡️GodBless Ron ❤️🙏

[@joshmcown6840]

Thank you

[@stevenhuckaby2902]

Great story, Great guy mr. Strous

[@paulazemeckis7835]

I saw a clip recently where these guys were interested boneyard were Elvis's and resides...maybe New Mexico?Anyway they plugged in a power source into Elvis's plane and all of the electronics worked!!!

[@charlenedonovan8948]

A lovely interview.

[@sheilajenkins8065]

Enjoyed interview

[@listerine414]

Excellent

[@elvisfangirl9093]

26:04 Elvis was in the room ☺️

[@catfish24]

How lucky can you get what an interesting life.

[@janiceleighton7348]

.I think at the end Elvis had no way of keeping this up the kindness and thought I'm out if here

[@davemitchell1323]

TCB .

[@christelsmeets5702]

❤elvis aron presly broken heart and heart all geving to elvis and not elvis.gospelds verget elvis to os living thanks for love songs yousiñg beautiful giffing my loving men Elvis aron presly beautiful shows and beautiful songs maked

[@gayle344]

Is this broken English?

[@susansaffioti2111]

Beautiful English

[@larair001]

So EP also owned the Jetstar, did the 880 crew also fly the Jetstar ? If they didn’t , he would have to employ at least 4 or possibly 5 pilots ?

[@exdus235]

👌👌👌

[@user-rr2eo7gb7z]

Presley must have made lots of money in 1975, 76...RICH MAN ! Sooo generous, always Elvis was.... True millionairexwho did not value money; he wanted to make you happy...!!! Thats all....

[@VladimirChegoniaev]

❤👍🏻

[@BobWwwaa]

I really enjoyed this. Thank you very much, sir. Nice to hear about things that happened that you would never hear and you had somebody close to Elvis in the pilots were close to Elvis thank you👍👨🏻‍🦳👍.