Learjet 24: Short documentary 

I have about 950 hrs in the '24, and the same in the '25...The 24's big brother. Having been trained by the USAF, I found the 24/25 to be as close to a jet fighter as you could get. I loved these models, later models were not the same. I never had a problem with either aircraft.

I have never had more fun than the mid sixties in the left seat of a Lear 24 during takeoff watching the go up meter indicate 8500 fpm; the only problem was the fuel gauges were going down at about the same angle; 350 gph, but what the hell I was getting paid to have fun and the boss was buying the fuel👍

The narration in these videos is exceptional and with well written content. 👍👍👍

The climb rate is/was insane for a business jet! 😍

In a previous lifetime, I was an AME on Learjets, Cessna Citations and Israeli Westwinds. To me, the Learjet was the Rolls Royce of jets to work on. The build quality was very high. I only got to fly once on a Learjet to fit a wheel on our Westwind which was involvwd in TNT freight in Australia. It was a memorable flight back with me being the only pax arriving back at sunset into Mascot International Airport.

I flew on a leased 35 which had a larger cabin between an airbase in ILL. and Maryland. It was used to give younger military pilots extended flight experience rather than risk military aircraft.

I just discovered your channel and I’m really enjoying your content and how you present it. Job well done.

Great video! Glad you mentioned the Swiss fighter DNA. Many of the mishaps were high altitude upsets, as I recall most were pilots working around the yaw damper or some other safety feature. Bill Lear was quite a character- he invented the 8-track, new auto radios and other inventions. His inspiration is found in the antithesis of the Learjet in the Canadair Challenger. A tubby looking biz-jet but I believe the 1st "stand-up" cabin. Everybody could go fast but people were looking for real comfort. The Challenger provided that and was eventually stretched to become a regional airliner.

I got trained and typed in serial 23-77 at the age of 23. I only flew the Lear 280 hours but it was a thrill every time I pushed the throttles forward. The Lear experience definitely helped me get my next job. I would love to fly one again as long as I wasn't paying the fuel bill.

This is one of the finest historical recountings of aviation history. Well done! 😎😎

Your showing Lear 23, 24. and 25's. At least you used the good clips from Periscope films

Another excellent video.

We flew a 24D with no TRs for 20 plus years. Very grateful to have flown it but glad when the 35s came along with better fuel flows lol. Nothing could beat the excitement of the takeoff and climb out though.

We had 3 at zantop, they were model 23’s.

miss flying the 24D, fun airplane

Nice footage but I'm not sure how many times the narrator could have said the same exact thing over and over in a slightly different way.

Thank you for sharing.

The iconic professional golfer Arnold Palmer owned a Lear 24. That was his second jet after a Rockwell Jet Commander.

Wasn't the 23 the first model?

What happened to the Lear 24… Did it go out of style? Was it too loud? Were there no mufflers for their shriek? Were the mufflers crazy expensive so plane owners couldn’t afford to keep flying them? There is a great pic of Frank S. standing in front of his… back in the 60s.

Most of the shots in this video are actually Lear 23's.

There was a Lear 23, right?

Gostei

My father flew a Learjet for Pratt&Whitney that had the fuselage of a 35 and the wings of a 45. As it was an engine test-bed it had a hard foam aerodynamic modification over one wing. It was a bizarre beast. My dad loved it and said it was the closest to flying a fighter since his days with the F-86.

What would you say about Dassault Falcon aircrafts of the same period? 😌

I got my type in all electric(no jet pumps),two piece windshild hand flown half the time with bad yaw and kill you gyro switch 12499 mtow tried to be certified part 23 burn more fuel at idle on the ground then 8.0 at 41,000

That's 23 my friend......round windows...get it together my friend!

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Narration is on point but it has no alignment with this random series of repeated film clips. Narrator says one thing, something completely unrelated appears on-screen.

Nice writing and narration, but you’ve not properly researched your subject. Most importantly, you’ve padlocked on the Lear 24 as emblematic for the various concepts you discuss, but that effectively misses the point. It was the Lear Jet that was emblematic, NOT the 24., which was the least significant model. Also, the Lear didn’t arrive from the P.16 in whole cloth. They are not the same size and do not share a single common part. What the P.16 was to the Learjet is a cost-saving entree into a new design by utilizing the platform, configuration, airfoil and most importantly, the wind tunnel and flight test data of an existing program.

The Lear 23 (Intro 1962) was the first exec model offered by Bill Lear. Initially, the 23 was given certification as a fighter jet. The 24 came along in 1966, which was the 23 with an increased MTOW, and no other significant design changes. (signed LR-JET type rated pilot, time in C-21/35A)

Tired of hearing about "sustainability". It IS just a buzzword. The Lear was simply a cool AF airplane.

Poor. Supposed to be a video about the Lear Jet, sounded like it was written by Gulfstream Corp.

Formulaic AI generated tosh. "In the annals of aviation history...." "A beacon of audacity and innovation forged..." "cultural upheavals and new societal norms" Oh give it a rest. Every video of this channel is made up of the same regurgitated cliches interspersed with a few random facts. Oh, and woke issues like sustainability. Just what aircraft designers were obsessed with fifty years ago.

You really butcherd this. The report you gave reflects in no way almost anything in the history of any of it. This was one piss poor report.