I DISCOVERED Hangar Full Of Abandoned Airplanes 

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These type of videos are great. There are a lot of great people out there with collections that just end up rotting away. It’s great to honor Jim’s memory by telling his stories and showing his collection to the rest of us.

I'm glad I could get you guys in contact! I'm the Jon who emailed!

My dad bought “Me” a U-Control airplane when I was 5 years old, took it out to the church parking lot to fly. My dad says let me show you how it’s done, he started the plane, had me hold the tail until he said to let go. So, he says let go, the plane shot forward, took a sharp nose up climb, followed by an immediate sharp straight nose down into the parking lot and busted into a million pieces. My dad said, welp, time to go home.

2 videos in one week , Jimmy your spoiling us , keep them coming ❤

WOW, Jim, you certainly lived the dream. R.I.P man. ✌️

I love these stories of these guys that are aviation history and their passions

I laughed, I cried, I saw cool things, I learned stuff, whispered "Whoa" many times. Met Jim (virtually.. Such an honor).. This video is going in my favorites. Thank you Jimmy, and Jim's family and friends as well.

Champ is front seat pilot My dad had a 7AC that his cousin found in a barn and rebuilt for my dad in 1976. It was a late tricycle model that during rebuild they converted to tail dragger with a 90 horse Continental, electrical upgrades and interior upgrades, loved flying with my dad in that Champ. In 1983 we took it to the second annual Aronica fly in at the old factory in Middleton OH from Republic, Mo, when we took off we had a 45 mph tail wind when we came back same wind but now head wind 😮 14 hours to get home

I had a U control airplane back in 1967-68. Little before Jimmy's day!!! Still surprised he had never heard of those before! I'd forgot all about them!

This is the first one of your video's that made me and my wife cry. I joined the 280 Chapter back when I was taking flying lessons at Spinks, Jim was truly a larger than life character and always had something interesting at every chapter meeting.

I like these older gentleman sorry for his loss Hayden seemed to be real close with his brother

That model of a F-117 Nighthawk was so authentic...I couldn't even see it.

That Pitts definitely needs to fly again. My dream is to own and fly aerobatics in a Pitts.

A few airplanes…. I’ll save that one for when I start collecting airplanes. “Honey I just need a few airplanes” this will be good😊

Good Ole Cleet would've likely been interested in some of those models. They would have looked great hanging from the rafters in his hanger. His hanger is rather sparse. He might of even flown some of them RC models.

Videos like this one make me wish "Jimmys World" was Simons World. FANTASTIC

I see Jimmy's world I hit like I watch.

Of the hundred of videos I have watched from you, this is one of the best. Absolutely fascinating. I feel lucky just getting to watch it, I can only imagine how amazing it was being there in person.

Thank you for trying to document some of that history.

Jim would have been a cool man to know. With all the stories he had. Obviously some he could tell and others he couldn’t especially working for Lockheed. Lockheed has always been once of my favorite aircraft companies ever. I had posters of SR-71’s and F-117’s in my bedroom as a kid and teen.

Dwain Marcus has my all time favorite RU-vid channel, closely followed by Jimmy's World, of course. I'd know Dwain's voice anywhere. Take a look at his channel- he does fabulous work and has for many years. Great to see two of my favorite channels and personalities together. There's lots of videos with Jim. Watch them and appreciate the friendship Dwain and Jim had for many decades. Two great gentlemen of aviation. I miss Jim without ever having had the pleasure of meeting him in person. RIP Jim.

Thanks to all Jim's family and friends for the great stories and airplanes. Great tour Jimmy.

Thank you Jimmy's World for a great hanger tour but more for featuring a fine group of gentlemen, who love aviation and sharing their knowledge. 😊❤

Man that Stinson takes me back. As a 13 year old boy the 1st time I ever got to go flying was in a 1941 voyager it had a Franklin engine.

Grew up and flew in a Champ many times as a kid. It and the fly baby were both at a tiny airport in Bismarck MO

I should be outside doing yard work, but then Jimmy stops me to watch this. Ahh It will be fine

First a bit of back story, I live in an area of Canada where in the late 60s and early 70s a lot of Americans would come up with there motor homes and travel trailers, they would park in what we called Little America. And they would spend thier days fishing. Many would can thier catch onsite and ship it home to get around possession limits. Some of these tourist would come by plane do some fishing and fly home. As a young boy I was introduced to my father's friend Wayne who owned a Flybaby that he had built back in the late 60s or early 70s. Wayne and I became friends as well. Wayne was a real character. Always had a story and could keep me laughing for hours. One day in the early 80s Transport Canada issued an AD on the Flybaby. Seems there was a problem with the control cables. Wayne would have had to completely rebuild the Flybaby to conform to the AD. Well, he was in the middle of building an RV4 at the time and did not feel like doing the rebuild on the Flybaby so he decided to scrap it. He pulled the engine off and pulled out the guages and then one morning he went to the airport with a chainsaw and axe. He was in the process of demolishing his little bird when a woman came out of the flying club building and in an obvious American accent she proceeded to ask him what y'all doing? Wayne played dumb and punctuated by hammer and axe blows he proceed to tell her that this here plane belonged to one of those Americans who come up here and rape our oceans and steal all of our fish. I guess the woman went white as a sheet and disappeared back into the flying club building. The airport is a little ways out of town so it took the RCMP about 20 minutes to show up and ask Wayne what was going on.

Thanks for taking us along! Being an average guy I'd never get to see that kind of stuff unless in a museum. That Champ has a farmers name written all over it! A lot of that stuff should be in a museum so the history isn't lost along with the stories from these people that knew this man. How cool is that to find a collection from an employee? I don't think you could get better than that!

There is a model airplane museum in Schulenburg, Texas (between Houston and San Antonio) called the Stanzel Model Aircraft Museum. I wonder if they might be initerested in some of those models if there are extras that won't fit in their museum?

This video brought back so many memories for me. I learned to fly in an Aeronca Champ with the 90 HP upgrade and got my license 1997. Forty years after my grandfather got his license in the same plane.

Wow, what an awesome toy box! Great content this week Jimmy, thank you!

This hangar of fun seems more interesting to me then the other one from before, I’d be interested in these ones Jimmy.

U control airplanes, we had them as kids, they where hard to start and hard to fly and we as kids struggled to fly them and if you crashed it bye bye. My uncles pilots friends used to come out and fly the heck out of them, we would be in awe.

Those models are absolutely awesome!! Jim must have been the coolest guy to listen to.

I mean I really wasn't expecting any other kind of quality of documentation from a guy like that.

What an awesome tribute to a man of aviation. Thanks Jimmy.

Man... I just love seeing all these planes and models and hearing all the stories associated with them and Jim. Outstanding group of gentlemen. Thanks for sharing, Jimmy!

Wait, you can't just cut away after saying that Schweizer 126 was owned by Neil Armstrong!

OMG what a paradise of aviation great find jimmy.

Jimmy, so glad you are celebrating Jim and his love for planes. It obvious that he was much loved by friends and family...

What an interesting guy Jim was, and some Sirius good airplanes and stories about his life in the aircraft world. So thank you Jimmy and son for the great video !! 🇸🇪💚🇺🇸✌️

That Stinson is a find, Jimmy. Buy it!

The Aeronca Champ is the most fun airplane ever. Like a faster cleaner Cub. You fly it from the Front seat, the aileron cables are inside, not out on the struts. The elevator trim tab is simple, not a jack screw. There are no landing gear bungee cords to change. The fabric on the wing ribs is screwed on with PK screws so no stitching needed. I owned the 65 hp version and there were 7 on the local airfield. No one ever complained of it being underpowered.

This collection of models is just exquisite. I hope that Jim’s models will stay together. The man and his history makes this a very special and important collection. Fantastic video Jimmy!!!

Those models are museum quality items. They would last about ten minutes in the hands of a child. Donate the models to a good aviation museum.

My Dad and his brothers were private pilots. I miss listening to their aviation stories when they would get together. For the longest time, when I would bump into an old pilot I would mention my Dad's name and almost every one of them knew my Dad. It was such a great community. Unfortunately, most of those pilots of that generation are gone.

You outdo yourself from one video to the next. Your work is fantastic, Jimmy! Congratulations and, thank you!!!

That's a 108-2 Jimmy. I helped restore a 108-3 station wagon. The engine is a O-335 Franklin 165HP engine. They came with either 150HP or 165HP. The Franklin's were hard to get parts for 40 years ago when I was going to A&P school and we were restoring that 108-3, but they may be producing parts for them now, I'm not sure. My understanding is due to the small rudder surface the Stinson 108 can be tricky in a crosswind landing. Also flew in a 7AC Champ with a retired USAF fighter pilot friend of mine, it was a 90HP Champ also. 90HP is a much better Champ, good power. Flew in and flew that Champ a lot. We flew his Champ on Skis up in northern Minn. You can solo a 7AC from either seat. There is your tail wheel endorsement airplane Jimmy. Get your tail wheel, buy the Fly Baby Jimmy. He had an S1S Pitts also, that we put the skis from the Champ on so he could land it on the lake in front of his house, don't tell the FAA we did that. 😲 Mr. Ireland knew how to pick good airplanes.

The Ryan and Champ airplanes brought back memories. In the early 70's I used to fly out of Evergreen Airpark in Vancouver, Washington. It was primarilly an antique field where these airplanes and many others were common. While few knew it was there, Clyde Cessna's 5th effort at building an airplane was hidden in a hanger along with a Bamboo Bomber and other planes waiting for restoration. Wally, the owner of the airport finished restoring a Jenny while I hung around the airport and I learned to fly a tail dragger in his rental Aronca Champ. The Ryan always stood out because the owner kept the aluminum polished to a high shine at all times.

I love this video. These elderly chaps talk about 'U'-control. In the uk we call it 'control line' i used to race these control line models with my friend as a kid; great memories (Alasdair!)

Well done, Jimmy. Great to honor a more modern day 'pioneer' while taking a look at some of his classics.

What a neat story and welcoming people. Those old Lockheed models are amazing!

Best one, Stinson.

Wow, what a great history lesson and museum!!! I love the Ryan especially and the Pitts is special as well.

That is absolutely incredible! The world lost a really talented man when he passed away. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

I lived in White Settlement Texas, which was right next to Lockheed. And I worked at Lockheed as and IT person. We had to make sure All computers were working. And we were very busy. It was my favorite job of my life! And I talked to a Lot of Pilots.that worked at Lockheed. I was given a coffee cup, that has General Dynamics. on it. While working at Lockheed. They had an air show Free to the public. And was controlled by the Navy. It was Spectacular!

Flying GA is about stories. So glad you asked them to commemorate Jim with a few aviation stories. I’m sure that was a blessing for them. And glad you could visit the Vintage Aircraft Museum in Fort Worth! Wonderful place.

An amazing life and a treasure trove of memorabilia!

Y'all need to give all those models away to kids .. cool stuff

OMG!!! Fantastic Find.

So cool thanks for taking us along, It sounds like he was one hell of a guy, With excellent taste in aircraft!

That man lived his passion for airplanes.

Thanks Jimmy. Spending my 61 years in North Texas, and less that 50 miles from the former Carswell SAC base (where he undoubtedly spent many days), I really wish I'd met this man and his love for aviation. Mine is just as deep only no where near as fascinating! Cheers from (North) Texas.

❤This guy didn't need to die to go to Heaven: he spent his entire life living there!!!!!!❤

When I was a Cadet in the Civil Air Patrol from 1961 to 1966, I used to enjoy flying the 7-AC Champ, we also has purchased a Stinson 108-1 (low tail) which was under powered at 150 horsepower. Sure miss those days.

Amazing hangers, and some great stories about a great flier.

Tks Mrs. FAntastic video , here from Brasil , we love this.

Now this probably what I love about USA most...airplanes paradise, hangars and barns full of treasurs (both airplanes and also cars)...very interesting story about this man who appears to be a really good men, in love of airplanes since he's childhood, like all of us...Men I would just love to walk around inside those hangars, feel and smell those planes...great episode Jimmy !😲👍🛩

My dad owned a Pietenpol! His last airplane before he passed away.

How Cool!!!! I’d love to walk around in there. Those models and the Howard Hughes looking planes are amazing.

Single pilot from the front on the aeronca. That Ryan is stunning. Love the video, what a great find

I almost bought a Stinsen with the Franklin engine but I was not confident in the franklin. It was beautiful.😢dandahermit😢

Might one of the best videos to date jimmy 👍

Nice find. Some cool planes, with some great history behind them.

WoW, what a passion. Amazing 🎉

Jimmy, it's always fun when we can tag along with you. Thanks!!

What I would give to have that rc collection! I'm literally drooling just looking at them!

That Fly Baby is beautiful. That would be a wonderful plane to fly. That's some real history. Just amazing to me.I had a friend in the Navy back in the early 80s, his father was one of the engineers that designed the SR 71. Just brilliant people.The Stinson is really cool too. 😮

Super cool guys all of em including Jimmy! Thanks for the videos!

Awesome video an incredible planes. Thanks for sharing Jimmy

Thanks for this video. Love seeing people recognized for their achievements even after death.

Give me this what I enjoy about your channel the older aircraft love to see somebody get these and just hang onto them and fly

Well done 👍 thanks!

That looks like the best find you ever had. I would be interested in those RC planes

Yes, Jimmy, Control Line (i.e. U-Control) model airplanes. I grew up with these and it was our 'remote control models', with the 0.27 gas engines - if memory serves me. My flying kit in the '50s consisted of: model airplane - mine was the Cub 2) A container of gasoline 3) cleaning supplies 4) glue - for minor on-site repairs 5) A box of Band-Aids and spray Bactine. Every one of us serious 'pilots' had 'Prop Finger' from the 'kickback' when finger spinning the prop to start the engine. 🤪

Awesome video Jimmy and great history of Jim❤️❤️❤️🤠🤠🤠

I have followed Dwain and those flyers for several years(a great bunch of guys) ...I enjoy the fly along videos, they are slow and low flying videos where you can enjoy the land below...they are beautiful old planes...and men with great knowledge.

Brilliant Jimmy, back to what you do best

Saw Felix on the vertical. Got excited being an old VF-31 F-14D tech. Felix rules!!!

Great presentation Jimmy!!

This realy is Jimmy’s world!!!

Fabulous video, awesome planes and great stories 👍👍👍

This is an amazing video Jimmy and thanks for reminding me of my memories of my Dad owning several vintage Navy surplus aircraft. He got his Pilots license on the G I Bill after his Honorable Discharge from the Navy in 1946. His first purchase was a PT - 19 Navy Trainer. Also through the coming years of the late 50's and 60's he also had an Aronca Champ and a Taylor Craft. Having a family of 6 kids and the changing times of Aviation rules he couldn't afford buying radios so he sold all of his planes. Thanks again Jimmy for the videos 😁

Great way to start my Sunday! Love the ending.

Amazing Jim - can u go meet Kermit Weeks ????

I love all the airplanes, Jimmy finds!

Would so love that pits

early 70s, my first solo, my 7ac champ, from the front seat. My instructor took 8 mm video from the ground, still have the video.

I flew a 7AC, with the 65HP engine, in 1969. Solo from the front seat. Best BASIC TRAINER around ! ! ! !. If you can fly a Champ, you can fly just about anything ! ! ! ! 🙂 Loved it ! ! 🙂