@@GMELECTRONICS365 you have to have good starter money, but if you don't do it right, you can lose it all. looks like they are doing it right. Why do so many companies use the ICAO Phontic Alphabet to name their models? Best Tugs, Honeycomb, etc. list goes on and on
The Patey Brothers are the most energetic, inventive guys in many fields today. Their enthusiasm is contagious and their products are outside the box in capability and advantage...Happy that they are Americans who love their country!!! Thank you Mark and Mike Patey! One of your wives was standing by...great to see your kids involved too..This family is certainly an American treasure!
I beg to differ, Ive seen some bad salesmen that own the business. I bet Patey is skilled enough not to own a company and still be able to sell products better than the owner.
I think Mark just uttered the words that would serve well on a coat of arms for the Pateys, should there be a need someday. "Stuff can be cool." Sooo very Patey.. :)
Of all the people that have come and gone this guy is one of the ones I most want to meet. I used to work on the F4J in the navy and his engineering is top of the line.
when Mark chokes up talking about his grandson... how can you not love this entire family? My greatest regret is not able to work with them in some capacity. I need some of that passion they have to rub off on me!!
I've been watching the scrappy build for a while now but that is where I began watching Mike and the channel and somehow I never knew he was a twin.. lol When the guy in the video said Mark I totally thought he called him by the wrong name.. Blew my mind!
OK !OK! I’m sold! I need/want one! There is not one plane at our airport big enough to use this thing! But I want one! So awesome Patey family! Love you guys.
**I LOVE TO LISTEN TO SOMEONE THAT KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT & MIKE & MARK KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT = ALWAYS +++ I LEARN SO MUCH JUST LISTENING TO THEM!!! = GOD BLESS THE PATEY TWINS!!!**
One of these days you wont see an operator on a tug, it will be complete automation. These awesome tugs are staged perfect for this. There is going to be a guy on a computer in another location. Just a matter of time im afraid, at least for the high dollar stuff anyway. Again, Mike and his brother Mark have hit a home run, incrediable engineering, so proud of these guys and family. First class all the way. Everything thought through as usual, incredible...
I did not realize you made tugs that big. I do have one suggestion for the big tug, nose gear load vs aircraft weight class agreement so that if the nose is really light, we don't accidentally have the tug set for a really heavy aircraft. I have a lot of ideas for small tugs suitable for owners to put in their own hanger. Things like summon the tug from the hanger to the aircraft, return to base (tug makes its way back to the hanger and hooks up to the charger and closes the hanger door), aircraft and hanger awareness (don't let the operator push the tail through the wall...) Maybe someday we can have a tug that can pull the aircraft out, disconnect, go back to its charger, close the door and wait for the aircraft to return, open the hanger, find the nosewheel, hook up and put the aircraft back in the hanger... Imagine being able to load and unload without you, your cargo or passengers ever having to get out in the cold, hot or wet - it might even pay for itself...
Nice overview. Reminds me of leaving aviation in the late 80s and coming back in 2000s…and seeing the SAME carbs in most airplanes 20 yrs. I thought, How in the world is there not prolific use of newer tech? WiFi? GPS? iPad interfaces? Performance monitoring and digital logs/messaging? Glad to see you’re leading the market forward, esp. around safety. Well done.
My friend is a customs officer at Birmingham international airport UK. He drove a Customs Range Rover at 50mph into the nose wheel of a 747. If you could add a feature to swerve around idiots driving too fast on a rainy night that might be cool…. Or he could learn to drive, either way great product launch 👍
These brothers are very smart, and they did it off their own backs, granted from easier times, but nothing was handed to them. On holidays both 16, they decked someone's yard to earn some money, by the time they were 18, their decking company employeed 200 people. Selling this and their inventive skills got them both the money and the motivation and the smarts to invent stuff more inline with their passion - flying. The young generation of today don't have these opportunities sadly, but these guys came from an era before quite so many GMOs and other toxic slush crushed people's creativity right before they even finish school. These brothers also appreciate that, I've heard them talk about the state of things, and they are humble enough to realise they had the opportunity to work so hard. Maximum respect
It's so sad that such a well written post, with insights many people these days lack, trails off into lala-land with the GMO BS. I think you need some sane information about GMO's ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GVMH7L9zEjY.html
I've got a smaller best tug the only changes I could see that could be made that has a timer to turn it off in case some idiot leaves the switch on it doesn't ruin the batteries and the other item would be a permanent mounting plates for the connector for the battery instead of just having the wires hanging out of the handle. But still it's the best tug on the market
I guess there's no more doing donuts on an empty ramp after a fresh freeze like we did in the 90s when we were young, stupid, and safety was a suggestion.
@@Airplanefish The car makers don't even let you do that anymore. Stupid traction control and ABS bullshit! I miss my old, ugly, dumb truck. Simple, reliable, and robust. Until some clown t-bones you.
@@TakingOff He does have children working there. It's the only business that they run that would cater to the young "line workers" or young general employees perhaps in high school as high school jobs or in college as college jobs. Since they are a manufacturer, you can find a plethora of things for a teenager to do and early 20's to do and keep them out of trouble and "in the zone" so to say. It's a luxury to have a business of your own and be able to put your own kids to work.....but make no mistake, Mark and Mike work extremely hard at what they do and I'm not sure I've seen a harder working family. Now enough with all the typing, BACK TO WORK!!!!
did you know they take competitors tugs in trade..service them and offer them for sale as a cost alternative? ...smart business as that buyer when able will come back for a new or refurbished best tug
They build the Sierra for the FBO which sees aircraft of all types and categories. Our local FBO is ordering a Sierra. Better service for the customers means more business, while the features will lower the FBO's cost of doing business. And the owners of the FBO are a husband and wife who started out with a small Cessna flying center nearly 40 years ago, and built their own family business over the years. They are most definitely not the "1%."
I think all this fly in and vendor stuff should be moved to Arizona or someplace where the weather doesn’t threaten all these planes every year that are “worth gold”. Here come the Tornadoes as I write this and I’m wondering why this event is scheduled through this weather nonsense “”every year””, it’s dumb as fk. It’s just a fly in, so fly in somewhere else instead of having these super rare aircraft exposed to weather threats every year. Get a friggin clue already.
Great idea. We should also move The Masters to a city that has more hotel rooms, Mardi Gras to a place above sea level, The X games to a less expensive and bigger city etc etc etc Do you have any idea how dumb you are? Just kidding, you don't.
People have a choice to fly away before the storm arrives. People have a choice to fly to OSH. Airplanes are insured. The aviation community has the money to afford this, dinged up with hail or not. It was quite the exciting night of rain and the unknown. Many friends were made huddling up together. People helping people figure out how to protect their planes. It was a brotherhood out there in those tents, hangars, cars, trucks, & buses. Bottom line, it was a blast.
