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

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!

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

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

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

Great tour--thanks Jimmy !!!

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...

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

B-25 Mitchell: The first bomber to hit Japan after Pearl Harbor, the B-25 Mitchell was found in every theater of the war and was a rugged, multipurpose bomber beloved by her aircrew for its survivability and ease to fly, and named after my cousin Gen. William Billy Mitchell the Father Of The Air Force.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The first airplane I ever flew on was a DC-3 in 1960 when I was 5 yrs old. We flew from Dayton to Atlanta. After a short layover we flew on a Lockheed Constellation to Orlando Fla. We were flying at night and It amazed me to see the blue flames coming from the engine exhaust. I’ve been an airplane nut ever since that first flight.

Great video... wow I learned a bunch

I love those vortices from The prop at 1:29:53

Thanks Jimmy. These are always great to see. Always a thumbs up. Has anyone found the 001 key bob yet?

I have always wanted to fly my own ultra light, it’s more than I can afford so watching your videos is almost as good as doing this things in person. Only you know a lot more than do I, so you ask intelligent questions. At least more so than I could.

I'm looking forward to seeing the "83 year old pilot flies again'' video.

I actually won a ride in an army Stearman a few years back. It was an absolute blast. One of the highlights of my life.

My first airplane flight was on a commercial flight between Dunedin and Wellington (New Zealand) in a DC3. I still remember watching the rivets in the wings spinning around during the flight!

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

The time to climb stuff was interesting to me because during my skydiving career I experienced everything from a DC-3 (big twin radial) taking almost an hour to get to 10,000’ AGL with 30 jumpers, to a souped up King Air (small twin turbine) getting to 16,000 in seven minutes with 8 jumpers. Then there were the 727 jet jumps with 200 jumpers to 15,000’ in five minutes but that was, to say the least, an anomaly, lol.

Hey Jimmy, you'll have to check out the Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania. They have an incredible collection of planes including Northrop P 61 Black Widow. When it's done it will be the only air worthy P61 in the world. The first weekend in June they have there WWII weekend. They have static displays, reenactors, and plane rides in a few WWII planes.

Another really enjoyable episode.

Awesome tour! Thankyou.

I have been lucky enough to log 5 hours in a Sterman. Even landed on my own the last time. What a handful. I have flown in a few bi-wing aircraft. Best I would say was a 1932 Cheifton Spartan.

The crank starter on the Stearman was called the "inertia starter" FYI. Enough with the museums already?

welcome to texas jimmy!!!

Bubble front Bell for your chopper.

Hey Jimmy how about an update on the seven planes you bought. Did they sell,did you get the cub running? Is that young man that helped you still around?

29:45 one step then another. Homebuilt

Hey Jimmy. My grandfather was a Spitfire then Mosquito pilot, back in the day. His sqdn answered directly to Churchill, based in Burma towards the end of the war. Do you know of any surviving Mosquitos, and also have you heard anything about the buried spitfires in Burma, and whether they are getting any out of there? Would love a vid on both Spitfires and mosquito's in active flight condition?

Love the Corsairs, My favoret WW2 fighter Plane. Was in Lone Star Flight Museum in the 90s it has changed a lot.

Be it as it may....noticed a minor but technical error regarding the vinyl graphics on the cowl of T-41 referencing specifically the text script "Fighting Mescalers". Time stamp (1:03:02) It definitely was not produced by a certified typographer or graphics pro. This is a frequent error made by many sign shop novices. The text (font) is called "Brush Script" and as such must have all the lower case characters connected together except the first capitalized character. i.e. "F" and the "M". A common amateur error among novices who have an incorrect setting in their software "kerning" of scripted fonts or perhaps they intentionally and manually "kerned" the text because they thought it looked better. Kerning is the spacial relationship between characters. Scripts are designed to emulate handwriting! Too nice of an airplane not be accurate and authentic! c'est-la-vie. Superb museum...great twice viewed video presentation!

Surface tension keeps most body fluids stuck to the bodys . Drull enough you could look like a head in a fish bowl .

Hey Jimmy. Buffalo Airways in Canada has a sleeper model DC-3 for sale. You should buy it and restore it before they sell it to Basler Get viewers to contribute to its restoration

Deep in the heart of Texas!

Best aviation museum video on RU-vid.,. Even though Jimmy is worse than my 5 yr old grandson with having to touch everything in sight.,.

hi Jimmy.. this Corsair was an ARMADA Argentina plane... not a South American plane.. thanks and wish you have a great year friend!

I've always wanted to fly in a DC3.. you're a lucky man to get a flight in a Stearman

Jim great video ❤!!!

Equedorian bulsa ,Alaska spruce,and Douglas fir.

F4 Corsair is my fav plane ever

My grandfather flew piper cubs as a liason pilot all through WW2.

Jimmy's Airway, so sit down relax and hope for the beat, nah, what can go wrong? Can I get a Clear prop?

Soooo the hole reason for the gull wing is because of a big propeller??? That blows my mind, I always thought it was deeper than that..but u learn something new everyday

you mean that you don't 'pre-flight' your cars...?? Always have done on this side of the pond, supposed to check for road worthy ness (tyres, lights, brakes, etc) Even more so having 'served' & checking for sabotage/devices.... 😎 (hmmm, you guides mannerisms, reminds me of the actor Nigel Bruce, who played Dr Watson to Basil Rathbone's Holmes)

Question as an event as oshcosh when there are special planes like ww2 or something when they fly in is there also a special treatment for those? (I was a bridge and lock master and special or old boards gets special treatment that's why I ask ❤)

Did he give a background on the gentleman who gave the tour? I must have missed that.

Have flown in DC3/C47 a couple of times. Great times Great aircraft. But that one the door is on the wrong side

cool video. We just inherited a Cessna prop, motor and nose cone and know zero about aircraft. Probably from the 80s. Is it worth selling doing anything with?

In my opinion, i live to fly with an open cockpit or a slid open canopy like on a T6

I wonder what happends if you FART IN THE SPACESUIT!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAAH.....that could be deadly in some case!!!!

ANderson Greenwood had another airplane they were trying to build in the 1970's It looked more like a Piper Arrow

I stopped counting how many times Jimmy interrupted Jerry, not even introducing him properly.

My first flight was on dc3 it was shaking and cold rattling all over scary thing

Same age as my granny

Eey Jimmy. Is the earth flat or round. Please tell me❤😊

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.

I'm guessing part of the reason a lot of military pilots didn't want to fly after they left the service is due to the fact they would have to get a FAA private pilots license because it doesn't carry over from the military.

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

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.

I flew a aircoup my uncle had one. I soloed it when I was 13. His didn't have ruder pedals because he was in a wheelchair.

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

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. 😂🚀🛫✈️😂

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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!

in grade 12 my engineering teacher put me up in a WW1 finch biplane, Mexican air force, Canadian made. Best experience of my life, better then when i lost my virginity.

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

PHI is Petroleum Helicopters International

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.

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.

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

Another reason for the tape over the guns was to keep F.O.D out of the gun barrels during takeoffs from unimproved runways and any runway for that matter. Not sure about carrier ops though.

The leaking likely has to do with the rapid war time production. Tighter tolerances would slow production. Also a lack of CNC machining.

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

JIMMY........have you finished reno'ing any of the other aircraft not featured in video's? We want finished projects shown to please.

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

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

I loved seeing the PT19, were the wings held on by rubber band ? 😊 many moons ago I had a control line PT19 powered by a Cox 0.49 glow plug engine, sooooo many fun memories of getting dizzy flying it 🙂👍

FYI Jimmy...those are called "Split flaps"... Love your content!!

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.

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

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

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

Jimmie I may have flown on that plane from Fort Hood Texas to Pittsburg PA all military going on leave before going to Korea 1953

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 ?...

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..

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

Jimmy if you ever have the chance to come to Canada and specifically Hamilton, Ontario you should look into going to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum they sell rides in one of the last flying Lancaster bombers on a regular basis along with quite a few other WW2 aircraft as well it is something that an aviation person like yourself should do if you have the chance. i know it would be a very long trip for you from Florida but it is also not something that you will ever have the chance of doing anywhere else in the world. Since there are only 2 flying Lancaster's left in the world one in the U.K. the other is here in Hamilton and the one here is the only one that they offer flights to the public on so it is something that I would highly recomend to you if you want to have the opportunity to touch and fly in a vintage WW2 bomber that I am pretty sure saw action during the war. It is something that has no way to actually describe it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be able to do I think the flight is like an hour long or so I could be wrong but i know it ios not just up and down it is a fairly good flight and you can actually go into the plane before hand in the museum and be able to touch it and get as close as you can to actual flying WW2 bomber closer than any of the pother museums you have been to without having a guided tour by a curator you can just get close to all the aircrafty and theyhave some displays that show the restoration process. hopefully you will be able to make it hereone day and getthe chance to take a flight on the Lancaster as I am sure thiat this would be something you would truly enjoy and also something that you will never forget and be able to share with your audience as well. If you do read this thank you for taking the time to read this msg and hopefully I have convinced you to start making some plans to come ere and book a ride on this aircraft.

Ah man you were about 10 mins from me. I could have taken you for some legit Mexican food. Anyway I hope you and your family had a great Christmas and a blessed new year. Keep them coming

Jimmy. You should fly a Stearman with a 450 hp R985 Pratt & Whitney hung up front.