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

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

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, 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!

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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!!

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

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

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!

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

Great tour--thanks Jimmy !!!

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

Another fantastic video. Thanks for taking us along.

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

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

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!

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

Happy Friday we got a jimmy’s world video

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!

Great video... wow I learned a bunch

Thanks for bringing us along to the museum. Always interesting

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.

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.

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. 😂🚀🛫✈️😂

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.

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

Love the back of the shirt Jimmy!

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.

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. 😀

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.

Always look forward to your next video.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Jim great video ❤!!!

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

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.

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

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.

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

Feeling pretty good about today 🙂

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Awesome tour and tour guide!

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

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

This content is a real gem💚

Awesome tour! Thankyou.

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.

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.

Good stuff Jimmy!

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 ?...

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.

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

Jimmy such a great tour of this museum! just loved it, something I haven't done for many years, awesome displays of aircraft and the tour also display's your depth of knowledge about aircraft, very impressive thanks, Oh and 9 min to 12 here in Sydney Australia so HAPPY NEW YEAR from the future Dx 🙏🏽🎉🥂

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.

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

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.

Jimmy , thank you for taking me back to when I was 6 and moved from grand Bahamas to miami on Mackey air lines dc3 , I sat in the pilots lap while flying , it got me to love flying , I'm 67 now !

This guy is a great host. Great ambassador.

Great tour Jimmy! Thank you!

Incredible museum. Aviation museums are always my hideout in whatever town my wife forces me to go visit family. They never disappoint. You can almost always find something you didn't know about.😁

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!

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

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.

Amazing tour! That Howard 250 is stunning! I'm going to have to look up more about the Glacier Girl P38. The flight footage was breathtaking.

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

0:33 Wow - the Space Shuttle flew in? :o

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

Jimmy love your You tube Lone Star museum brought back memories of My Dad Tom Hines flew for TTA then For Texas International. We actually went to 6 flags over Texas in a DC 3 from TTA our family and Dave Devines family. Both pilots were working for TTA and later Texas International. Don't remember if they rented or how they got the airplane but it was a great ride. My dad also flew crop dusters in Katy Texas for Scrogens dusting not sure if they are still in business. Unfortunately he was killed in motorcycle accident when I was 12 years old i'm 63 now. Brother was a pilot as well lost him to cancer about 6 years ago. Watching your channel makes me want to get back into flight I have 29 hrs. of instructed flight. will be working out of town in North Dakota for 6 0r so month going to go back to flying. would love to come down some time and look at the Elvis Jet you see I'm a bit of creator my self but low budget from trucks to motorcycles to boats. Nothing normal. I used to own a Tri pacer 22 but plumbing business went to the scrap pile back when we had the bad inflation. couldn't get my head back in the clouds. but am ready again to start. just wanted to thank you for your you tube channel. Hope to visit your sites to see your airplanes in person aviation is in my blood. Thanks, Denny Hines

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