Ok jimmy make sure your boy gets the best dependable plane there and hopefully the one he likes. I think he has earned it dad from all the hanger help he has done for you and running that camera so good.
Jimmy - 1st off: Love your channel. Been licensed since 1944 and am still airborne. You're like a grown-up kid in a candy store, and that obviously appeals to planeloads full of us. Keep up the hilarious - and educational - escapades. Meantime about the Jenny misinformation with which someone mislead you, as Larry D, down below, correctly observed, the Wright Brothers had nada to do with the Jenny. The J was designed by Ben Douglas, a Brit designer with Sopwith ("Camel") at Glenn Curtiss' request, and, coupled with the other tractor-powered model N of Glenn's, they came up with a better version, the JN (Jenny), and quickly thereafter the JN-1, 2, 3, and finally 4 (they later had a JN-6, too), all mass-produced in amazing numbers for such a labor-intensive combo of wood, wire, metal, and linen fabric: 1210 by the Canadians under license, and some almost 7000 in the states. All in all these trainers were also responsible for training more than 11,000 young Army, Navy, and Marine pilots for duty in WWI. The real evolution to the first reliable version, the JN-4 was the engineering genius of Capt. Bennie Foulois and his First Aero Squadron (FAS), who flew out of Columbus, NM into Mexico in search of Pancho Villa, after the Mexican Revolutionary bandit's deadly sneak raid on the sleeping NM town on March 9, 1916, one year after Orville Wright had left his company for other aviation pursuits. The first Jenny biplanes delivered by Curtiss to the FAS in Columbus were not truly airworthy and were all in the scrap heap within a few weeks of their arrival for use in the Punitive Expedition under General 'Black Jack' Pershing, the Eisenhower of WWI. The Expedition involved not only the first deployment by the U.S. military of aeroplanes in sustained combat conditions but also saw the first use of mechanized ground vehicles, too. It was the virtual end of the U.S. Cavalry's serious equestrian enterprise and the birth of American Air Power. The rickety Jenny first used by Foulois and his young fledgling aviators was soon re-engineered by the FAS's brilliant aviation mechanics under the direction of Capt. Foulois - and also using his own mechanical genius (he invented the airplane seatbelt, did 1st airborne radio comm, put the first wheels under the Wright ("Military") Flyer in which he'd learned to fly and crash as Army Pilot Number 1 some years earlier . . . this frenetic re-designing and rebuilding of the JN-2s and 3s into the JN-4, was not a Curtiss design upgrade, but truly one done by the FAS. The Wrights undoubtedly forcibly retarded the evolution of aviation in the U.S. because they were intensely litigious with their non-stop suing of anyone and everyone who had ideas of entering the aviation business stateside, where the courts highly favored the two inventors' lawsuits perspective on the matter. Curtiss was the Wrights' first target, which began when they sued him in 1909, only six years after their famous 1st flight at Kitty Hawk. Also, once a bicycle builder-designer, then motorcyclist extraordinaire designer and racer, and early aviation enthusiast, Curtiss was not concerned with being sued, so he plowed straight ahead with his own front propellered craft development, including his Jennys. In short, that scaled-down VW-powered Jenny look-alike you just acquired represents the presently still number one Air Power on the planet - and the machine that really brought it up to speed. Forget WWI aviation technology, the Wrights had kept us out of that race by their law-suit frenzy, while the European countries managed to quickly eclipse our state of the airplane-making art. We had to borrow English and French aeroplanes for air combat "over there." But the Jenny wasn't finished over on this side of the pond - its trainer-only status notwithstanding, it was soon sold by the thousandfold as Military surplus - and next became the backbone machine for the great Barnstorming Era, which itself gave rise the great Aviation Romance with the American public at large. The Feds put a forceful stop to the Wright's incessant lawsuit frenzy, we took our lessons from the waring allies and the Kaiser's aeronauts across the pond . . . and haven't looked back since. "C'est la vie" as the Spad-makers put it. FAS> firstaerosquadron.com/
That truly was a mouthfull,but very interesting,cant believe u got only 2 likes.people are such idiots they cant see one tree in an entire forest!!! Your like a human google,snooky
Outstanding essay on the history and evolution from the experiments of the Wright brothers. It ALLWAYS irked me that people credit the Wright brothers for developing and inventing heavier than air mechanical flight when they actually got all the tech from the French inventor Chenault ( I don't know to spell that) I think the best civilian evolution of the Jennies was the hugely successful (progeny and stimulus for the beginning of the EAA) was the infamous PientPal air camper. Can't spell that either. I'm 80 and don't remember) Mechanics illustrated featured it on the cover and published the plans in that issue. People all over America were building them in their garages. With that horribly heavy ford modle T engine. I engine. I enjoyed your essay. Thanks. Dandahermit
My Dad died two years ago. He started building an ultralight plane during his retirement but never came close to finishing. He had to build a garage to even get started. Bad health then took over his life. He got the wing structures built and bought a few parts for this and that. I have his "Aircraft Spruce and Specialties" catalog in my bathroom. I read it sometimes. He's got certain items he has circled for purchase. Truthfully knowing his craftsmanship I'm glad he never finished it. I was a assembly mechanic for Boeing. He was an engineer for Boeing, and McDonald Douglas by trade. He'd have really loved seeing this video. Thanks Jimmy!!!
Jimmy as an owner of BOTH a Luscombe and Cub these are 2 of the most economical airplanes you can own and teach your kids to fly in! My Boys love flying in our Luscombe and Cub! If you need help retrieving the Luscombe I’d be happy to help you get it home to Florida!
I was just going to comment something like this. He could legitimately open something like the Wheels Through Time museum in Maggie Valley NC which has a huge collection of American motorcycles as well as some cars. And almost everything runs and is ridden.
WOW, two of my favorite airplanes, the Cub and the Luscomb. When I was 16 I soloed in both in one week. The Luscomb was my dad's, the Cub was owned by the mechanic I worked for and helped build it at Clow International airport in Plainfield ILL. back in 1969.
Then you should know it’s Luscombe (e at the end)! 😁 My dad had an 8E and then an 8F (that I rode in till my brother came along and he got an 11A Sedan). I love the 8’s but the A is a little underpowered for my local density altitudes. I’ll have to pass on this one
Jimmy, I am pretty sure that the unknown piece of farm machinery at 56:50 is a Reaper-Binder, or what's left of it. It would be used to harvest cereal crops like wheat and barley. It would cut the crop close to ground level and the rotating 'sails' would help to then lay it onto a conveyor belt which would transport it to the binding mechanism which would automatically gather it into bunches and tie it with string before dropping the bunch on the ground. The gathering/tying mechanism was mesmerising to watch working. It would have been pulled by a horse or early tractor, with all the power coming from the big centre wheel as it was pulled along. As a young boy in the 50's I earned my pocket money by walking along behind these things and stacking the bunches into groups of 10 or so to be picked up for threshing later on. Very common here in the agricultural areas of the UK before the combine harvester came along.
Jimmy, hit and miss engines. The hit and miss has a governor that when up to speed it holds the exhaust valve open until is slows back down. They also only have one rocker arm on the exhaust and the intake has no rocker arm. It uses vacuum to open the intake valve. They call it a atmospheric valve. Very neat how they work.
My Mom used to fly a Cub, I believe it's what she learnt to fly in. She was taught by exWWII-RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) pilots and actually got to go through "Basic Training" because her main instructor was an RAAF Instructor and, well, she wanted to. She went on to be a successful stunt pilot for a number of years until her fiancé had the wings fall off in the middle of an Air Show and flew straight down. Anyway, seeing these old birds really put a smile on my face. You always bring a smile to my face. Just the enthusiasm and joy of flying and tinkering.
Jimmy, the mangled pile of steel in the yard is an historic piece of farm equipment. It appears to be an early model of a McCormick Deering Wheat reaper.
We call it a Binder here in the UK 'The reaper-binder, or binder, is a farm implement that improved upon the simple reaper. The binder was invented in 1872 by Charles Baxter Withington, a jeweler from Janesville, Wisconsin.'
McCormick story is something. He bought a bunch of property in upper Michigan and made a camp. Look up a story written by dick Bentley "the great camp". His grand father or great grand father was Cyrus Bentley and was McCormick lawyer and was partners in the camp. I have hiked back to white deer lake and seen the foundations, didn't make it to the island. Was 7.7 mile hike one way but so worth it.
We used that grain binder for oats and wheat harvesting in Michigan probably in the '50 's. The large wheel was called the bull wheel and, when the machine was pulled, that wheel rotation powered the machine. It originally was horse drawn but later converted to tractor drawn. The grain was bound in bundles and collected on a set of rods until 6-8 were collected and then dumped into a pile by a person riding on the machine. Farmers would then come behind and set the bundles up in shocks so the grain could dry. I worked with that machine when I was young.
Yup reaper, wheat binder ect. Missing a couple pieces as most are. Lol. Good stuff! Love the content. Never miss an video. Keep it up. You guys got the whole package at least for what i enjoy. A+++++++
I started flying when I was 14yrs old, although I couldn’t solo until age 16. After about 10hrs and 2 summers, the only FBO where I worked summers, acquired an old 150 and I was allowed to upgrade to that after solo. A qcouple of hours for me to transition from the tail wheel Cub to the nose gear 150 but after that I was ready to go. I think every young aviator should learn to fly in a cub or champ or something like that. You learn what the stick and rudder are used for and stalls and spins are not scary, but simply another maneuver to learn along the way in the adventure of flying. BTW my job at the airport paid $5.00 per week and 1hr. Duel in the Cub. (Not a bad deal since I would have done it for free.)
Hey Jimmy - Orville Wright didn't have anything to do with the Curtiss Jenny. In fact at one point, in the very early days of flight, the Wrights and Glenn Curtis were fierce competitors. Wilbur was long dead and Orville was out of the aircraft business (serving on various advisory boards and with the NACA) by the time that the Jenny came around. There was eventually a merger that produced the Curtiss-Wright company, in which the Curtiss portion produced airframes and propellers, and the Wright portion producted engines.
The Wright Brothers knew the importance of patents. They patented their Wright Flyer to make money. The Wrights sued Glen Curtiss for using hinged ailerons for roll control vice wing warping. There was a protracted legal battle over the flight control patent between Curtiss and the Wrights which resulted in Glen Curtiss having to pay a sum of money to the Wrights even though his ailerons were far better in controlling roll than wing warping.
Man oh man, man oh man. Boy oh boy. If only I lived in the USA. I would definitely go and help you with the those beautiful aircraft. I day maybe. Love what you do. Keep it up. Thank you Wiz
What a great time you had with those lovely folks & breakfast too , pity their Dad wasn't there , but he sure was in spirit & a great aviator as well ! I bet everyone want to see the "stang" fly , but I'd love to see that jennie or the SE5 lift them tyres off the dirt first , probably the Cub or Luscombe in reality though . Really enjoyed this trip keep up the Sterling work !
All i can say is wow!!!glad you could keep this guys handywork going and make his family so proud of there dads memmory and sweat n time to live on.his son you could tell he knew his fathers story n thoughts so very well.just amazing jimmy it was like a tour of museum pieces!what a playground of tinkering all them yrs!!thanks for taking us along,will be interesting to see ur prodigy learn the field of flyers.kudos💥🙏👍🙏💥
Jimmy, that cub would be great for your son to learn to fly in. I learned to fly in a J-5 Cub 4 years ago at the age of 15. Don't let the tailwheel factor scare you, those J3s are very easy to fly as long as you keep your feet on the rudders.
I learned how to fly in my Luscomb. The hardest thing to master with that plane is taxying. It nearly flies itself. Very easy to get comfortable cause no quirky tendancies. Dandahermit
Ranger engines were pistons-down to keep the cylinders below your line of sight. Weight up high can cause tip over when landing/braking too. Also oil leakage during flight would be less likely to cover the windscreen .
Yes upside down engines allowed the front to be lower as the prop was at the top and not the bottom. Worked on Gypsy Major and Gypsy Queen engines with the same configuration back in the 50's in the RAF
It is a corn reaper known as a binder in the UK and used for cutting oats or barley crops. The arms were for tipping the crop using wooden blades, towards the cutters, to make it easier to cut the crop. It was towed behind a tractor. It was not a powered implement but it used a huge wheel in its centre to provide all the action and also to support its motion and its weight. Moving canvas belts were used to transport the cut stalks to the binding mechanism and it also put out the stalks in a bound bundle which was left to be stooked and dried in the sun. Later the stooks (8 sheaves stood on their ends in a tent) were transported to the farm and formed into a stack for later threshing to grain. I spent many a day doing all these tasks as a youth from 12 to 18 years old on the farm. Happy days!
He was your typical grumpy old man but looking back over the years that we were blessed to have him on earth… we find the great moments and memories made with him. But wish more than anything that he was still here to watch his grand babies grow up.
The disassembled silver doped biplane he didn't like flying is a french Nieuport biplane from WWI, or a replica of it. The lower wing panels for it are in the hangar with the Luscombe.
I live in DOVER. At the rate you are going, I am afraid they are going to extend the hangar spaces in Plant City all the way to my property line. I draw the line if any of the taxiways crosses my front yard LOL
Jimmy, I agree with another poster about the old rusty farm machine. I believe it was a "binder" for cutting wheat, oats, or rye. It was pulled by two horses, or could be configured for three. A cycle bar cut the grain.... a large paddle wheel knocked the product down to a moving canvas table...the product moved up between two canvases where it was gathered into bundles... the bundles were automatically tied with "binder" twine and ejected. The bundles were gathered into shocks for drying and curing. A shock was about 10 or 12 bundles stood on in in a circular group. Two bundles would be folded and placed on top of the shock to serve as a rain cap. My grandparents had a horses drawn binder. I watched it operate on several occasions on their farm in Southwest Virginia (Carroll County, Virginia near Hillsville. I spent my summers on this farm in the 1940's and early 1950's. I really enjoy your videos. I am especially interested in what becomes of the Elvis Jetstar. I worked at the Lockheed plant in Marietta, Georgia. Many times I walked by Jet star #1 prototype bought and owned by Howard Hughes. It was parked outside on the tarmac outside of the factory surrounded by a fence with a 24/7 guard on duty in a one-man guardhouse.
That old machine in the bushes is a binder, it is the front part of what is now called a combine, it cut the crop and would tie into bundles which were then picked up and taken to a thrashing machine to separate the grain. The combine joined the binder and the thrasher to do the job in one pass.
Jimmy,hi, my name is Wayne and I'm one of your biggest fans, I watch all of your videos over and over I have had a few friends in the past years that have carried me flying many times I'm actually flew to Oshkosh just wanted to say I love what you do and wish I could be like you I'm disabled and suffer from a rare eye disease I am legally blind and it's just a matter of time before I lose all eyesight, my bucket list just to get to ride with you in the lancair, I would feel like my life was complete, I live in Philadelphia Mississippi but I would walk to Florida just to get to ride with you you are an inspiration and to many others in the aviation please don't stop
Can't wait to see them all fire up, whether to put them on a trailer. Or to fly out. I build 777s .the thought of hearing these vintage plane flying again makes me feel like a kid on Christmas morning
Jimmy and a CANDY STORE ! ! ! I have a feeling that Jimmy did backwards flikflaks in the shower when he woke up the next morning and realised -- Boom -- I just bought a whole museum full of aircraft ! ! ! I'm sure the seller was happy to sell to Jimmy -- Knowing how much they both love these planes ! ! !Hee Haaa !!!!!
Wow Jimmy that was so cool, seeing and hearing the stories what an incredibly talented and dedicated man and family. I think I'd love to see the Scaled down Mustang's fly but honestly I'd love to see them all flying again as a tribute to Jerry and his family. A lot of work to do man. Have fun... CLEAR PROP! 🇦🇺🇺🇸
@@PVPjustPlaneMayhem you're very welcome, your father was a very special and unique man from what I have seen, and you guys also. I'm a former Australian Military Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and I know what it takes to build aircraft, hats off to your late father, it must be extremely difficult to have to sell all those memories. Life is short so make the most of it. 🤗🎸🎤🎶🤠🇦🇺🇺🇸
The rear seat sling on the J3 Cub is incorrectly installed. The screws are drilled into the frame structural member. The sling needs to be wrapped around that member and thru bolted with 2 batten strips slid into the pockets on the canvas sling. Be careful Jimmy. Oh, yeah. Watching that hand-propping event made me shiver. Extremely dangerous method, etc.. Have fun. I'll be happy to come down on a weekend and work on the old birds and help out! Cheers
Jimmy you’ve outdone yourself! What an outstanding episode…I love the cubs…my best friend had a ‘47/48/49 that I got to fly with him circa 30 yrs ago…I can still remember how quickly it got in the air and how much fun it was to fly…I guess my personal favorite was the Mustang…what an incredible plane! It gets my vote to be the first one you fly back to Florida…so cool…if you’re looking for a buyer for the Honda motorcycle, let me know..great content and I cannot wait to see the next episode. What could possibly go wrong?
Hey Jimmy, your positive infectious attitude has given me the bug to acquire my pilots license and perhaps a Moony or an experimental Lancair!! Take care and keep posting! You have quite a following now!!
The Luscomb was great old All Metal plane in the time when others of the same class were fabric covered ,I remember Helping a guy change out his 65 HP continental to a 85HP back in the mid 50s at a sod field a half mile from where I lived until I Joined the Military in 1961,this episode brought back some awesome memories for Jimmy thank you
And this is a big part of why … we didn’t want them to sit but to have them fly again. It’s like my dad’s legacy will live on because others will get to enjoy them.
i work late nights sometimes and my work detail is quite hard. your videos help me relax thanks man great storylines. such entertaining concepts always funny .
At this point it's probably easier to buy more things than fix the projects you have lol. Got that other mustang, the Mig, Elvis jet, Citicar, the RV, Cameron... You need to write a book about the key to a happy marriage because most people would be homeless with half those projects and the money involved in them. Keep up the good work.
Dang, Jimmy's bouncing around in my back yard. I saw that advertisement for the estate sale auction with the red biplane and SE-5. The biplane was advertised very reasonably as I recall. I wondered where that add went to so fast, and now I know. I've got to get something cheap to build time in eventually or I'll never get to change careers. I was hoping that thing would operate in and out of our hay field to save on hanger rental. Oh well. Back to work for now I guess. Gotta keep saving and getting things lined up for the right time.
You are making me remember the 1980's Movie "Used Cars" with Kurt Russel where they had to come up with a mile of used cars for sale at the car lot or be charged with false advertising. Jimmy and his mile of used airplanes. Still think you next purchase should be an airport to hold all your airplanes. I love the old Cub and Luscomb. Others were pretty impressive also. I am waiting to see who gets the short straw and flies back the Pup. You are going to have to start your own Ebay Store.
My great grandfather was a Lancaster pilot during the war, after the war when he retired he bought all 4 engines an everything to build his very own later on there was some family drama an my great grandfather donated everything he had left to the hamilton heritage museum where it is flying now..great feeling seeing that fly over head
Wow! I used to be from west Texas. You are flying those from west Texas to Florida?! Yikes! That will be an interesting video. Almost like VGG, but I'm sure yours will have passed a legit inspection
Jimmy, As a Luscombe 8E owner, Silas needs to learn to fly in the 8A! There’s no better airplane for a young person to fly! Heck, It’d be a great airplane to pass on to his kids when the time comes!
Way to go jimmy.. kudos to you sir for doing this as in any form aircraft do die from time to time but with you they live longer nice one again Crack on
I would take the Piper Cub first, then the Luscomb. Watch out with that aerobatic bi-plane that looks similar to a Pitts S1-b because it can be squirrelly to control. I highly recommend getting a qualified aaerobatic pilot to fly it home. BTW, how are you going to bring Elvis's Lockheed Jetstar home? Looks like it might fit inside two shipping container trailers once its disassembled. Anxious to see you start this project. Keep up the great work!
Being a cousin of the Wright Brothers, I know neither died in a plane crash. Wilbur died from illness and Orville of a heart attack. As for one of the brothers having input into the building or anything else to do with the Jenny I don't know. Except that Curtiss was building planes during WWI like the Wright Brothers to keep up with demand. Pretty cool to see those Gems in the east Texas Hill country. I know the Bandera are well all the way to the west Texas Hill country due to working in the Oilfield. Awesome Potential for those planes Jimmy !!
One of the Wright brothers were in a accident of which Thomas Selfridge died,first military officer to die in a plane crash, Selfridge ANGB is named after Thomas Selfridge.
One of your best videos EVER!! Can't wait for you to get them flying!! Love them ALL!! I don't want you to sell any of them!! (LOL) I have the same problem with old cars!!
@@lescleaver3113 well i never ever believe that jimmy is gonna let that 234k jet sitting like that for too long. but it will be a hell of a job to take it apart and load it up on flat bed trucks to haul it to florida. hudge logistics involved.
Jimmy you've just made my day! All those beautiful aircraft and some actually handmade... Its just heaven! Love what you are doing keep up the good work and may you always have clear skies!
I was fascinated with everything you showed on this episode. So cool seeing the old planes. I'd love to see the Lusco fly out - for some reason it strikes my fancy. No flaps; I take it you'd have to slip in in on final, Is cross-control even taught anymore?
With all the new acquisitions of late Jimmy I think that it's about time you looked into creating, developing, a "Jimmy's World Aeropark" somewhere on the outskirts of your part of Florida. Or wherever would work best.. It just makes perfect $en$e.
He lives close enough to Kermit that he could have a great place to display. Also, to find help with the Elvis Plane?? That sounds exactly like a Kermit kind of project!
@@mclotfelter5664 The type Air Park, Aero Park, Sky Ranch. etc, that I was referring to is an 'aviation community' with aviators, etc, to buy residential home lots and build suitable homes with hangars out back. Akin to golfers living on golf courses.. boaters and fisherman living on a lake. Jimmy could have his own aviation stuff over in one corner of the community. With Jimmy's imagination the sky would be the limit. He'd reinvent the airpark thing,, with class. Google search ''airparks florida''
Great history of a man who lived and breathed planes. My Grandpa has a similar background, he served as an electrician on the HMCS Nabob, Canada's only aircraft carrier in WW2. He fell in love with planes and owned quite a few after the war. My first memories are full of him flying me and my youngest Aunt to Disneyland when I was 4 years old. I really enjoyed this video. My condolences over the loss of this family's patriarch. Cheers and God bless! Cant wait to see the Mustang fly SOON! That has my vote!
my grandfather (Bathurst Cuddeford, likely known as Barry), also served aboard the HMS Nabob, he was in the fleet air arm, an air engineer. He was aboard when she was torpedoed on 22 august 1944 in the Barents sea.
We had some ice cold beers one hot afternoon on the back deck. There was a big umbrella poking through the middle of the table. Someone, not gonna' say who, name rhymes with stupid, the most learned of the group, proposed that the owner of the domicile being of slight build could in fact jump off the peak of the roof and float back down the approximately 12 feet to the deck. Sixteen would be stretching it. Besides we all would be there to catch him. That was the plan. Well when he came off the roof the nice shady umbrella turned into a screaming 8 foot lawn dart and we all scattered. He impacted the deck at a speed of exactly E=mc2. The umbrella was absolutely no help. So we had to get him beers for the next few weeks until his ankle unbroke itself. Just because we are polite does not mean we are smart. As a Canadian.
LOL...loved to see a Luscombe. They were famous for ground looping. Dad's was a 48 all aluminum. Electric start, but one day the battery was dead and I got to watch him hand prop it. Pretty little bird. They are a very capable aircraft. They don't stall. They "mush". No flaps. Fully aerobatic. Just watch your head. A tight squeeze for two adults.
So much history here ... the love of aviation that filled this man's heart and occupied his time on earth to three wks before he died ... he loved what he did ... he lived his dreams ...
Jimmy, I found this information on Wikipedia for the stallion four place aircraft. Check out the speed at which it flies: General characteristics Crew: one pilot Capacity: 5 passengers Length: 25 ft 0 in (7.62 m) Wingspan: 35 ft 0 in (10.67 m) Height: 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) Wing area: 140.1 sq ft (13.00 m2) Aspect ratio: 8.8:1 Empty weight: 2,200 lb (998 kg) Max takeoff weight: 3,800 lb (1,784 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Continental TSIO-550-B air-cooled turbocharged flat-six engine, 350 hp (224 kW) Performance Maximum speed: 306 mph (493 km/h, 266 kn) Cruise speed: 295 mph (474 km/h, 256 kn) Stall speed: 71 mph (115 km/h, 62 kn) Range: 2,700 mi (4,345 km, 2,346 nmi) Service ceiling: 32,000 ft (9,750 m) Rate of climb: 2,600 ft/min (13.2 m/s)
Another Plane what happened to the ELVIS JET. I have been waiting for some updates about it. Now another Plane Jimmy Your bouncing around tooooo much. FOCUS FOCUS SON.
@ 25:20. The Jenny was built by Glenn Curtis and thus the name Curtis Jenny. He and the Wright Bros. did not get along to well because of Patent Disputes over ailerons vs Wing Warping. The Wright Bros. contended that Wing Warping was ailerons and that anyone who used them had to pay the Wright Bros money which Glenn Curtis denied because He developed the modern Ailerons we see on almost all planes today. The Wright Bros. lost the Law Suit and Glenn Curtis was able to use His Aileron configuration.
That was so fun to watch but that Mustang replica blew me away. I wish I could make one of those. Never knew theres plans for those floating around that you can buy. Honestly if I were you, Id buy those blueprints with the planes.
The Gladiator reference in the intro... nice That Stallion is an AWESOME find! They're a 6-place homebuilt... I used to want one so badly, I used to see them advertised in the back of Flying Magazine and AOPA Pilot Magazine all the time. Its like a homebuilt 210 10:45: I know what he was thinking... He was going to use that Honda engine for an ultralight or a homebuilt... Back in the day there was a book that came out about composite construction for homebuilt aircraft... It was a tiny yellow book... The mini-imp or micro-imp was in the book as well as the KR-2 and the Quickie and the Dragonfly... The section on the mini-imp by Molt Taylor said that you could use a Rotax 447 or an engine off a Kawasaki Ninja or snowmobile. Edit: Found the book its called "Composite Construction for Homebuilt Aircraft" by Jack Lambie
My grandfather was training in Arkansas & Texas when WW1 ended. He bought a Jenny and flew it back to New England & barnstormed awhile. Ended up managing traffic for NAT/TAT My dad lived in 10 places by the time he was 10.
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Jimmys spending money like a drunken sailor/aviator.. gotta love it!!!!!
Yeah, we need some color commentary from Jimmy’s wife!
My guess is he made his money somewhere and invested well and retired to do aviation lol
@@lescleaver3113 Actually he did ^^
Plus a jet
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Ok jimmy make sure your boy gets the best dependable plane there and hopefully the one he likes. I think he has earned it dad from all the hanger help he has done for you and running that camera so good.
Jimmy - 1st off: Love your channel. Been licensed since 1944 and am still airborne. You're like a grown-up kid in a candy store, and that obviously appeals to planeloads full of us. Keep up the hilarious - and educational - escapades. Meantime about the Jenny misinformation with which someone mislead you, as Larry D, down below, correctly observed, the Wright Brothers had nada to do with the Jenny. The J was designed by Ben Douglas, a Brit designer with Sopwith ("Camel") at Glenn Curtiss' request, and, coupled with the other tractor-powered model N of Glenn's, they came up with a better version, the JN (Jenny), and quickly thereafter the JN-1, 2, 3, and finally 4 (they later had a JN-6, too), all mass-produced in amazing numbers for such a labor-intensive combo of wood, wire, metal, and linen fabric: 1210 by the Canadians under license, and some almost 7000 in the states. All in all these trainers were also responsible for training more than 11,000 young Army, Navy, and Marine pilots for duty in WWI. The real evolution to the first reliable version, the JN-4 was the engineering genius of Capt. Bennie Foulois and his First Aero Squadron (FAS), who flew out of Columbus, NM into Mexico in search of Pancho Villa, after the Mexican Revolutionary bandit's deadly sneak raid on the sleeping NM town on March 9, 1916, one year after Orville Wright had left his company for other aviation pursuits. The first Jenny biplanes delivered by Curtiss to the FAS in Columbus were not truly airworthy and were all in the scrap heap within a few weeks of their arrival for use in the Punitive Expedition under General 'Black Jack' Pershing, the Eisenhower of WWI. The Expedition involved not only the first deployment by the U.S. military of aeroplanes in sustained combat conditions but also saw the first use of mechanized ground vehicles, too. It was the virtual end of the U.S. Cavalry's serious equestrian enterprise and the birth of American Air Power. The rickety Jenny first used by Foulois and his young fledgling aviators was soon re-engineered by the FAS's brilliant aviation mechanics under the direction of Capt. Foulois - and also using his own mechanical genius (he invented the airplane seatbelt, did 1st airborne radio comm, put the first wheels under the Wright ("Military") Flyer in which he'd learned to fly and crash as Army Pilot Number 1 some years earlier . . . this frenetic re-designing and rebuilding of the JN-2s and 3s into the JN-4, was not a Curtiss design upgrade, but truly one done by the FAS. The Wrights undoubtedly forcibly retarded the evolution of aviation in the U.S. because they were intensely litigious with their non-stop suing of anyone and everyone who had ideas of entering the aviation business stateside, where the courts highly favored the two inventors' lawsuits perspective on the matter. Curtiss was the Wrights' first target, which began when they sued him in 1909, only six years after their famous 1st flight at Kitty Hawk. Also, once a bicycle builder-designer, then motorcyclist extraordinaire designer and racer, and early aviation enthusiast, Curtiss was not concerned with being sued, so he plowed straight ahead with his own front propellered craft development, including his Jennys. In short, that scaled-down VW-powered Jenny look-alike you just acquired represents the presently still number one Air Power on the planet - and the machine that really brought it up to speed. Forget WWI aviation technology, the Wrights had kept us out of that race by their law-suit frenzy, while the European countries managed to quickly eclipse our state of the airplane-making art. We had to borrow English and French aeroplanes for air combat "over there." But the Jenny wasn't finished over on this side of the pond - its trainer-only status notwithstanding, it was soon sold by the thousandfold as Military surplus - and next became the backbone machine for the great Barnstorming Era, which itself gave rise the great Aviation Romance with the American public at large. The Feds put a forceful stop to the Wright's incessant lawsuit frenzy, we took our lessons from the waring allies and the Kaiser's aeronauts across the pond . . . and haven't looked back since. "C'est la vie" as the Spad-makers put it. FAS> firstaerosquadron.com/
Wow, thank you for the history corrections. So much packed into that comment.
I hope I am not the last to give your comment the 👍 Thumbs Up!
That truly was a mouthfull,but very interesting,cant believe u got only 2 likes.people are such idiots they cant see one tree in an entire forest!!! Your like a human google,snooky
Outstanding essay on the history and evolution from the experiments of the Wright brothers. It ALLWAYS irked me that people credit the Wright brothers for developing and inventing heavier than air mechanical flight when they actually got all the tech from the French inventor Chenault ( I don't know to spell that) I think the best civilian evolution of the Jennies was the hugely successful (progeny and stimulus for the beginning of the EAA) was the infamous PientPal air camper. Can't spell that either. I'm 80 and don't remember) Mechanics illustrated featured it on the cover and published the plans in that issue. People all over America were building them in their garages. With that horribly heavy ford modle T engine. I engine. I enjoyed your essay. Thanks. Dandahermit
My Dad died two years ago. He started building an ultralight plane during his retirement but never came close to finishing. He had to build a garage to even get started. Bad health then took over his life. He got the wing structures built and bought a few parts for this and that. I have his "Aircraft Spruce and Specialties" catalog in my bathroom. I read it sometimes. He's got certain items he has circled for purchase. Truthfully knowing his craftsmanship I'm glad he never finished it. I was a assembly mechanic for Boeing. He was an engineer for Boeing, and McDonald Douglas by trade. He'd have really loved seeing this video. Thanks Jimmy!!!
Jimmy as an owner of BOTH a Luscombe and Cub these are 2 of the most economical airplanes you can own and teach your kids to fly in! My Boys love flying in our Luscombe and Cub! If you need help retrieving the Luscombe I’d be happy to help you get it home to Florida!
You guys are great! One heck of an audience Jimmy has and some great pilots as well! It's good to see.
I think we are going to need a Jimmy's World aviation museum
He needs to go to an aviation museum and learn a little…
@@aviatorflighttraining You do know he makes $12,000 a month off RUclips right?
He knows how to make money. The airplanes are just click bait.
I was just going to comment something like this. He could legitimately open something like the Wheels Through Time museum in Maggie Valley NC which has a huge collection of American motorcycles as well as some cars. And almost everything runs and is ridden.
How long before Jimmy buys a C130 to haul unflyable planes home in?
@@TerraMagnus LOL why bother with a lil ol herky bird when the ukranians have a pre used antonov which does need a little work to get flying :)
WOW, two of my favorite airplanes, the Cub and the Luscomb. When I was 16 I soloed in both in one week. The Luscomb was my dad's, the Cub was owned by the mechanic I worked for and helped build it at Clow International airport in Plainfield ILL. back in 1969.
My grandfather used to fly me to clow to eat breakfast. Morris airport too!
Then you should know it’s Luscombe (e at the end)! 😁 My dad had an 8E and then an 8F (that I rode in till my brother came along and he got an 11A Sedan). I love the 8’s but the A is a little underpowered for my local density altitudes. I’ll have to pass on this one
I, too, have flown a Luscombe.
It was fantastic.
I've never flown a Cub, but my grandfather told me he earned his private rating in one.
Jimmy, I am pretty sure that the unknown piece of farm machinery at 56:50 is a Reaper-Binder, or what's left of it. It would be used to harvest cereal crops like wheat and barley. It would cut the crop close to ground level and the rotating 'sails' would help to then lay it onto a conveyor belt which would transport it to the binding mechanism which would automatically gather it into bunches and tie it with string before dropping the bunch on the ground. The gathering/tying mechanism was mesmerising to watch working. It would have been pulled by a horse or early tractor, with all the power coming from the big centre wheel as it was pulled along. As a young boy in the 50's I earned my pocket money by walking along behind these things and stacking the bunches into groups of 10 or so to be picked up for threshing later on. Very common here in the agricultural areas of the UK before the combine harvester came along.
Jimmy, hit and miss engines. The hit and miss has a governor that when up to speed it holds the exhaust valve open until is slows back down. They also only have one rocker arm on the exhaust and the intake has no rocker arm. It uses vacuum to open the intake valve. They call it a atmospheric valve. Very neat how they work.
They also make a rather unique sound.
And they're very well sought after too!
Saw several of a steam & vintage rally last summer.
My Mom used to fly a Cub, I believe it's what she learnt to fly in. She was taught by exWWII-RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) pilots and actually got to go through "Basic Training" because her main instructor was an RAAF Instructor and, well, she wanted to. She went on to be a successful stunt pilot for a number of years until her fiancé had the wings fall off in the middle of an Air Show and flew straight down. Anyway, seeing these old birds really put a smile on my face. You always bring a smile to my face. Just the enthusiasm and joy of flying and tinkering.
Jimmy, the mangled pile of steel in the yard is an historic piece of farm equipment. It appears to be an early model of a McCormick Deering Wheat reaper.
We call it a Binder here in the UK 'The reaper-binder, or binder, is a farm implement that improved upon the simple reaper. The binder was invented in 1872 by Charles Baxter Withington, a jeweler from Janesville, Wisconsin.'
McCormick story is something. He bought a bunch of property in upper Michigan and made a camp. Look up a story written by dick Bentley "the great camp". His grand father or great grand father was Cyrus Bentley and was McCormick lawyer and was partners in the camp.
I have hiked back to white deer lake and seen the foundations, didn't make it to the island. Was 7.7 mile hike one way but so worth it.
We used that grain binder for oats and wheat harvesting in Michigan probably in the '50 's. The large wheel was called the bull wheel and, when the machine was pulled, that wheel rotation powered the machine. It originally was horse drawn but later converted to tractor drawn. The grain was bound in bundles and collected on a set of rods until 6-8 were collected and then dumped into a pile by a person riding on the machine. Farmers would then come behind and set the bundles up in shocks so the grain could dry. I worked with that machine when I was young.
We called that a binder. Makes bundles of what you're cutting and binding.
Yup reaper, wheat binder ect. Missing a couple pieces as most are. Lol. Good stuff! Love the content. Never miss an video. Keep it up. You guys got the whole package at least for what i enjoy. A+++++++
Boy, my dad would've loved seeing these planes! This episode made me both excited and teary-eyed. I miss him a lot
While watching this I imagined your son in 50 years walking through your hangers telling the prospective buyer the stories of your crazy escapades.
They'll be there for awhile! 😂
i was thinking the same thing lol
he'd just give a link to this video ;) and then they would all laugh as airplanes modern to that day in future, will all be self-flying ))
just like this video yes sir lol.
I started flying when I was 14yrs old, although I couldn’t solo until age 16. After about 10hrs and 2 summers, the only FBO where I worked summers, acquired an old 150 and I was allowed to upgrade to that after solo. A qcouple of hours for me to transition from the tail wheel Cub to the nose gear 150 but after that I was ready to go. I think every young aviator should learn to fly in a cub or champ or something like that. You learn what the stick and rudder are used for and stalls and spins are not scary, but simply another maneuver to learn along the way in the adventure of flying. BTW my job at the airport paid $5.00 per week and 1hr. Duel in the Cub. (Not a bad deal since I would have done it for free.)
Hey Jimmy - Orville Wright didn't have anything to do with the Curtiss Jenny. In fact at one point, in the very early days of flight, the Wrights and Glenn Curtis were fierce competitors. Wilbur was long dead and Orville was out of the aircraft business (serving on various advisory boards and with the NACA) by the time that the Jenny came around. There was eventually a merger that produced the Curtiss-Wright company, in which the Curtiss portion produced airframes and propellers, and the Wright portion producted engines.
You should check out the Curtiss museum in Hamosporte New York state
The Wright Brothers knew the importance of patents. They patented their Wright Flyer to make money. The Wrights sued Glen Curtiss for using hinged ailerons for roll control vice wing warping.
There was a protracted legal battle over the flight control patent between Curtiss and the Wrights which resulted in Glen Curtiss having to pay a sum of money to the Wrights even though his ailerons were far better in controlling roll than wing warping.
A good book to check out with some good stories on Curtiss and Wright is A Viking with Wings.
Man oh man, man oh man. Boy oh boy. If only I lived in the USA. I would definitely go and help you with the those beautiful aircraft.
I day maybe. Love what you do. Keep it up. Thank you Wiz
What a great time you had with those lovely folks & breakfast too , pity their Dad wasn't there , but he sure was in spirit & a great aviator as well ! I bet everyone want to see the "stang" fly , but I'd love to see that jennie or the SE5 lift them tyres off the dirt first , probably the Cub or Luscombe in reality though . Really enjoyed this trip keep up the Sterling work !
All i can say is wow!!!glad you could keep this guys handywork going and make his family so proud of there dads memmory and sweat n time to live on.his son you could tell he knew his fathers story n thoughts so very well.just amazing jimmy it was like a tour of museum pieces!what a playground of tinkering all them yrs!!thanks for taking us along,will be interesting to see ur prodigy learn the field of flyers.kudos💥🙏👍🙏💥
So thankful that my brother has the knowledge and memories to share of our dad! 😁😁
Jimmy, that cub would be great for your son to learn to fly in. I learned to fly in a J-5 Cub 4 years ago at the age of 15. Don't let the tailwheel factor scare you, those J3s are very easy to fly as long as you keep your feet on the rudders.
I learned how to fly in my Luscomb. The hardest thing to master with that plane is taxying. It nearly flies itself. Very easy to get comfortable cause no quirky tendancies. Dandahermit
Ranger engines were pistons-down to keep the cylinders below your line of sight. Weight up high can cause tip over when landing/braking too. Also oil leakage during flight would be less likely to cover the windscreen .
Yes upside down engines allowed the front to be lower as the prop was at the top and not the bottom. Worked on Gypsy Major and Gypsy Queen engines with the same configuration back in the 50's in the RAF
@@gerryh0011, my air experience flight had one, DH Chipmunk from Halton.
It is a corn reaper known as a binder in the UK and used for cutting oats or barley crops. The arms were for tipping the crop using wooden blades, towards the cutters, to make it easier to cut the crop. It was towed behind a tractor. It was not a powered implement but it used a huge wheel in its centre to provide all the action and also to support its motion and its weight. Moving canvas belts were used to transport the cut stalks to the binding mechanism and it also put out the stalks in a bound bundle which was left to be stooked and dried in the sun. Later the stooks (8 sheaves stood on their ends in a tent) were transported to the farm and formed into a stack for later threshing to grain. I spent many a day doing all these tasks as a youth from 12 to 18 years old on the farm. Happy days!
Fell in love with the two little cub/pup combo!
Their Dad must have been a awesome man to know. Jimmy thanks so much for this video. ❤️
He was your typical grumpy old man but looking back over the years that we were blessed to have him on earth… we find the great moments and memories made with him. But wish more than anything that he was still here to watch his grand babies grow up.
The disassembled silver doped biplane he didn't like flying is a french Nieuport biplane from WWI, or a replica of it. The lower wing panels for it are in the hangar with the Luscombe.
It's so awesome seeing and hearing from Jimmys followers. Talk about the highest percentage of pilots watching on any YT channel!
I'm glad I grew up during a time, where kid's could walk out to the airport ask a stranger to go flying.
We had true freedom.
I live in DOVER. At the rate you are going, I am afraid they are going to extend the hangar spaces in Plant City all the way to my property line. I draw the line if any of the taxiways crosses my front yard LOL
Aytac, you'd love it to happen. You'd pick up and move your house around to accommodate the need, And I'd help you do the FOD walk each day.
Jimmy, I agree with another poster about the old rusty farm machine. I believe it was a "binder" for cutting wheat, oats, or rye. It was pulled by two horses, or could be configured for three. A cycle bar cut the grain.... a large paddle wheel knocked the product down to a moving canvas table...the product moved up between two canvases where it was gathered into bundles... the bundles were automatically tied with "binder" twine and ejected. The bundles were gathered into shocks for drying and curing. A shock was about 10 or 12 bundles stood on in in a circular group. Two bundles would be folded and placed on top of the shock to serve as a rain cap.
My grandparents had a horses drawn binder. I watched it operate on several occasions on their farm in Southwest Virginia (Carroll County, Virginia near Hillsville. I spent my summers on this farm in the 1940's and early 1950's.
I really enjoy your videos. I am especially interested in what becomes of the Elvis Jetstar. I worked at the Lockheed plant in Marietta, Georgia. Many times I walked by Jet star #1 prototype bought and owned by Howard Hughes. It was parked outside on the tarmac outside of the factory surrounded by a fence with a 24/7 guard on duty in a one-man guardhouse.
Hay if I was Jimmy my wife would have threatened me to within an inch of death by now LOL. Love this channel.
That's because your wife wears the pants in your family. Pretty simple.
She's smart
Its emotional to see someone's life through his belongings. Enjoy life since nothing you have in this life will go with you when you are gone.
THERE you go :D NEW PLANES @ NEW CONTENT ... Love the P-51 replica. he should fly first, in honor of the real one, they're simply legends!
That old machine in the bushes is a binder, it is the front part of what is now called a combine, it cut the crop and would tie into bundles which were then picked up and taken to a thrashing machine to separate the grain. The combine joined the binder and the thrasher to do the job in one pass.
Jackpot. I can't wait to see you get these going and the story of the new owners. These videos are going to be fantastic.
Jimmy,hi, my name is Wayne and I'm one of your biggest fans, I watch all of your videos over and over I have had a few friends in the past years that have carried me flying many times I'm actually flew to Oshkosh just wanted to say I love what you do and wish I could be like you I'm disabled and suffer from a rare eye disease I am legally blind and it's just a matter of time before I lose all eyesight, my bucket list just to get to ride with you in the lancair, I would feel like my life was complete, I live in Philadelphia Mississippi but I would walk to Florida just to get to ride with you you are an inspiration and to many others in the aviation please don't stop
"It'll be fine..." Love your work and hope you dont break your bank account!
...or your neck.
Jimmy, Get off mine lawn! - signed by … Angry Old White Guy. 😂😂😂
I can't wait to see these planes flying. this man left leaving a spectacular legacy
Can't wait to see them all fire up, whether to put them on a trailer. Or to fly out. I build 777s .the thought of hearing these vintage plane flying again makes me feel like a kid on Christmas morning
Awesome, glad to see Sylas will get his own plane!
OMG,.....a dad getting an airplane for his son....how AWESOME is that...!
I'm thinking forget Sun n Fun and Oshkosh the new annual trip should be to Jimmy's house. You can see more airplanes
I'm just hoping we don't see him having to move anytime soon, you know if his wife doesn't see the humor in this purchase like we do!
@@haskellfilmz I agree 100%. I love his channel too much too see anything bad happen to him or his family
Jimmy and a CANDY STORE ! ! ! I have a feeling that Jimmy did backwards flikflaks in the shower when he woke up the next morning and realised -- Boom -- I just bought a whole museum full of aircraft ! ! ! I'm sure the seller was happy to sell to Jimmy -- Knowing how much they both love these planes ! ! !Hee Haaa !!!!!
Wow Jimmy that was so cool, seeing and hearing the stories what an incredibly talented and dedicated man and family. I think I'd love to see the Scaled down Mustang's fly but honestly I'd love to see them all flying again as a tribute to Jerry and his family. A lot of work to do man. Have fun... CLEAR PROP! 🇦🇺🇺🇸
Thank you… we look forward to seeing them fly again.
@@PVPjustPlaneMayhem you're very welcome, your father was a very special and unique man from what I have seen, and you guys also. I'm a former Australian Military Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and I know what it takes to build aircraft, hats off to your late father, it must be extremely difficult to have to sell all those memories. Life is short so make the most of it. 🤗🎸🎤🎶🤠🇦🇺🇺🇸
@@ScottSillis yes sir, a very hard decision and one I hope to not regret. But I do think that with them flying again helps ease the thoughts.
@@PVPjustPlaneMayhem I'm sure Jimmy will do his best to get as many flying as possible to honour your father and family. 👍😉
The rear seat sling on the J3 Cub is incorrectly installed. The screws are drilled into the frame structural member. The sling needs to be wrapped around that member and thru bolted with 2 batten strips slid into the pockets on the canvas sling. Be careful Jimmy. Oh, yeah. Watching that hand-propping event made me shiver. Extremely dangerous method, etc.. Have fun. I'll be happy to come down on a weekend and work on the old birds and help out! Cheers
Jimmy you’ve outdone yourself! What an outstanding episode…I love the cubs…my best friend had a ‘47/48/49 that I got to fly with him circa 30 yrs ago…I can still remember how quickly it got in the air and how much fun it was to fly…I guess my personal favorite was the Mustang…what an incredible plane! It gets my vote to be the first one you fly back to Florida…so cool…if you’re looking for a buyer for the Honda motorcycle, let me know..great content and I cannot wait to see the next episode. What could possibly go wrong?
Awesome find and such good family, love the stories ,nice video
Hey Jimmy, your positive infectious attitude has given me the bug to acquire my pilots license and perhaps a Moony or an experimental Lancair!! Take care and keep posting! You have quite a following now!!
Go for it!
The Luscomb was great old All Metal plane in the time when others of the same class were fabric covered ,I remember Helping a guy change out his 65 HP continental to a 85HP back in the mid 50s at a sod field a half mile from where I lived until I Joined the Military in 1961,this episode brought back some awesome memories for Jimmy thank you
The first Luscombes had fabric covered wings. This one Jimmy is looking at has fabric covered wings.
Jimmy there are 2 Red Arrows aerobatic display ex RAF planes for sale in GB. Maybe not for you but they may make your mouth water a bit!
This is a wonderful group of beautiful airplanes . The greatest thing is they will be flying not just forgot can't get any better than that Jimmy
And this is a big part of why … we didn’t want them to sit but to have them fly again. It’s like my dad’s legacy will live on because others will get to enjoy them.
i work late nights sometimes and my work detail is quite hard.
your videos help me relax thanks man
great storylines.
such entertaining concepts
always funny
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What a find this was! Seven plus planes to have fun with! The cub is the jewel out of the whole bunch!
At this point it's probably easier to buy more things than fix the projects you have lol. Got that other mustang, the Mig, Elvis jet, Citicar, the RV, Cameron... You need to write a book about the key to a happy marriage because most people would be homeless with half those projects and the money involved in them. Keep up the good work.
That rusty thing in the field is Sikorsky Sky Crane A1-Prototype.
Was that before or after the crashing of it,ha ha lol!!snooky pa.💥👍💥
Dang, Jimmy's bouncing around in my back yard. I saw that advertisement for the estate sale auction with the red biplane and SE-5. The biplane was advertised very reasonably as I recall. I wondered where that add went to so fast, and now I know. I've got to get something cheap to build time in eventually or I'll never get to change careers. I was hoping that thing would operate in and out of our hay field to save on hanger rental. Oh well. Back to work for now I guess. Gotta keep saving and getting things lined up for the right time.
You are making me remember the 1980's Movie "Used Cars" with Kurt Russel where they had to come up with a mile of used cars for sale at the car lot or be charged with false advertising. Jimmy and his mile of used airplanes. Still think you next purchase should be an airport to hold all your airplanes. I love the old Cub and Luscomb. Others were pretty impressive also. I am waiting to see who gets the short straw and flies back the Pup. You are going to have to start your own Ebay Store.
My great grandfather was a Lancaster pilot during the war, after the war when he retired he bought all 4 engines an everything to build his very own later on there was some family drama an my great grandfather donated everything he had left to the hamilton heritage museum where it is flying now..great feeling seeing that fly over head
Watching another Jimmy buying everything video ,while hoping my wife does not see UPS drop off a balsa RC plane KIT this week.
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Just realized when you went to the restaurant your in Medina Tx. Next door to Me basically lol
Wow! I used to be from west Texas. You are flying those from west Texas to Florida?! Yikes! That will be an interesting video. Almost like VGG, but I'm sure yours will have passed a legit inspection
that N3 Pup is amazing, that would be my favorite.
Jimmy,
As a Luscombe 8E owner, Silas needs to learn to fly in the 8A! There’s no better airplane for a young person to fly! Heck, It’d be a great airplane to pass on to his kids when the time comes!
This video brought me back to 1965 when all those airplanes flew. Greatest time working at an airport.
Way to go jimmy.. kudos to you sir for doing this as in any form aircraft do die from time to time but with you they live longer nice one again Crack on
Jimmy keeps buying these kind of planes, the channel has a shelf life
I would take the Piper Cub first, then the Luscomb. Watch out with that aerobatic bi-plane that looks similar to a Pitts S1-b because it can be squirrelly to control. I highly recommend getting a qualified aaerobatic pilot to fly it home. BTW, how are you going to bring Elvis's Lockheed Jetstar home? Looks like it might fit inside two shipping container trailers once its disassembled. Anxious to see you start this project. Keep up the great work!
Think it was a EAA Biplane
Looks like a single seat Acrosport to me.
The EAA bipe is actually pretty docile compared to a pitts
Being a cousin of the Wright Brothers, I know neither died in a plane crash. Wilbur died from illness and Orville of a heart attack. As for one of the brothers having input into the building or anything else to do with the Jenny I don't know. Except that Curtiss was building planes during WWI like the Wright Brothers to keep up with demand. Pretty cool to see those Gems in the east Texas Hill country. I know the Bandera are well all the way to the west Texas Hill country due to working in the Oilfield. Awesome Potential for those planes Jimmy !!
One of the Wright brothers were in a accident of which Thomas Selfridge died,first military officer to die in a plane crash, Selfridge ANGB is named after Thomas Selfridge.
@@dllmpb06 That would have been Orville Wright.
I have some experience with the P-51 projects like that. would love to help you get it flying.
One of your best videos EVER!! Can't wait for you to get them flying!! Love them ALL!! I don't want you to sell any of them!! (LOL) I have the same problem with old cars!!
And yall still got to restore that elvis jet...CLEEAARRRR JET STREAMMMM. And dont forget to ask Pricilla about the ham radio thingy 🙏
Lockheed Jetstar!
Got to get it out of desert first lol
@@lescleaver3113 well i never ever believe that jimmy is gonna let that 234k jet sitting like that for too long. but it will be a hell of a job to take it apart and load it up on flat bed trucks to haul it to florida. hudge logistics involved.
Wellnspine my prop ! Great adventure jimmy! What could possibly go wrong! Peace/Love!
This is the Jimmy content we all came for! Love it
Jimmy you've just made my day! All those beautiful aircraft and some actually handmade... Its just heaven! Love what you are doing keep up the good work and may you always have clear skies!
They were all handmade
I was fascinated with everything you showed on this episode. So cool seeing the old planes. I'd love to see the Lusco fly out - for some reason it strikes my fancy. No flaps; I take it you'd have to slip in in on final, Is cross-control even taught anymore?
You better do whatever it takes to get that thing In The air there is an army of people that wanna see that
That property must have been real fun to be at during its hay-day!
It was and soon the fun will continue with our own three boys when we move back
@@PVPjustPlaneMayhem that is sooooo awesome, I hope you folks get all the same enjoyment.
Jimmy's living my life long dream! Love seeing someone/anyone actually out there doing and living that dream!! Man that's sick AF!
With all the new acquisitions of late Jimmy I think that it's about time you looked into creating, developing, a "Jimmy's World Aeropark" somewhere on the outskirts of your part of Florida. Or wherever would work best..
It just makes perfect $en$e.
Can I be the first to buy tickets.
He needs to partner up with Kermit Weeks at Fantasy of Flight
Not really a huge fan of Kermit Weeks.. even though he has some cool planes.
He lives close enough to Kermit that he could have a great place to display. Also, to find help with the Elvis Plane?? That sounds exactly like a Kermit kind of project!
@@mclotfelter5664 The type Air Park, Aero Park, Sky Ranch. etc, that I was referring to is an 'aviation community' with aviators, etc, to buy residential home lots and build suitable homes with hangars out back. Akin to golfers living on golf courses.. boaters and fisherman living on a lake.
Jimmy could have his own aviation stuff over in one corner of the community.
With Jimmy's imagination the sky would be the limit. He'd reinvent the airpark thing,, with class.
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Great history of a man who lived and breathed planes. My Grandpa has a similar background, he served as an electrician on the HMCS Nabob, Canada's only aircraft carrier in WW2. He fell in love with planes and owned quite a few after the war. My first memories are full of him flying me and my youngest Aunt to Disneyland when I was 4 years old. I really enjoyed this video. My condolences over the loss of this family's patriarch. Cheers and God bless! Cant wait to see the Mustang fly SOON! That has my vote!
my grandfather (Bathurst Cuddeford, likely known as Barry), also served aboard the HMS Nabob, he was in the fleet air arm, an air engineer. He was aboard when she was torpedoed on 22 august 1944 in the Barents sea.
@@tech4pros1 OMG yes my grandfather talked about that often, nice to meet you
We had some ice cold beers one hot afternoon on the back deck. There was a big umbrella poking through the middle of the table. Someone, not gonna' say who, name rhymes with stupid, the most learned of the group, proposed that the owner of the domicile being of slight build could in fact jump off the peak of the roof and float back down the approximately 12 feet to the deck. Sixteen would be stretching it. Besides we all would be there to catch him. That was the plan.
Well when he came off the roof the nice shady umbrella turned into a screaming 8 foot lawn dart and we all scattered. He impacted the deck at a speed of exactly E=mc2. The umbrella was absolutely no help. So we had to get him beers for the next few weeks until his ankle unbroke itself.
Just because we are polite does not mean we are smart. As a Canadian.
Gotta love exploring another man's toy box. Hangars are some of the coolest.
Thanks, Jimmy. Now my 12 year old wants me to buy him an airplane. I don't even have one yet!
LOL...loved to see a Luscombe. They were famous for ground looping. Dad's was a 48 all aluminum. Electric start, but one day the battery was dead and I got to watch him hand prop it. Pretty little bird. They are a very capable aircraft. They don't stall. They "mush". No flaps. Fully aerobatic. Just watch your head. A tight squeeze for two adults.
Jimmy looks like a kid in a "candy store"!
So much history here ... the love of aviation that filled this man's heart and occupied his time on earth to three wks before he died ... he loved what he did ... he lived his dreams ...
Nailed it!! He did enjoy it up until his passing.
You’re going to need a Jimmy’s world Air Force to fly all of those planes home. Start with the Cub please.
The ranger engines and many inline engines are “upside down” to allow for better prop clearance and visibility for the pilot.
Jimmy, I found this information on Wikipedia for the stallion four place aircraft. Check out the speed at which it flies:
General characteristics
Crew: one pilot
Capacity: 5 passengers
Length: 25 ft 0 in (7.62 m)
Wingspan: 35 ft 0 in (10.67 m)
Height: 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m)
Wing area: 140.1 sq ft (13.00 m2)
Aspect ratio: 8.8:1
Empty weight: 2,200 lb (998 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 3,800 lb (1,784 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Continental TSIO-550-B air-cooled turbocharged flat-six engine, 350 hp (224 kW)
Performance
Maximum speed: 306 mph (493 km/h, 266 kn)
Cruise speed: 295 mph (474 km/h, 256 kn)
Stall speed: 71 mph (115 km/h, 62 kn)
Range: 2,700 mi (4,345 km, 2,346 nmi)
Service ceiling: 32,000 ft (9,750 m)
Rate of climb: 2,600 ft/min (13.2 m/s)
Love this!❤
I wish I could have been there in person to see all these treasures! What a fantastic find!
Bring the Cub home. Have your son fly it with an instructor after a thorough annual. Think of the time he would build.
Fly out whichever one you want first! Every single one of those is going to make a fantastic video! Can't wait!
Another Plane what happened to the ELVIS JET. I have been waiting for some updates about it. Now another Plane Jimmy Your bouncing around tooooo much. FOCUS FOCUS SON.
@ 25:20. The Jenny was built by Glenn Curtis and thus the name Curtis Jenny. He and the Wright Bros. did not get along to well because of Patent Disputes over ailerons vs Wing Warping. The Wright Bros. contended that Wing Warping was ailerons and that anyone who used them had to pay the Wright Bros money which Glenn Curtis denied because He developed the modern Ailerons we see on almost all planes today. The Wright Bros. lost the Law Suit and Glenn Curtis was able to use His Aileron configuration.
Jimmy, the first step is to admit you have an addiction.
Fun episode. Kudos to the camera operator and editor.
As a south african and a fond liking in planes I love watching you come up with these finds.
Congrats, Jimmy! Go Silas!
That was so fun to watch but that Mustang replica blew me away. I wish I could make one of those. Never knew theres plans for those floating around that you can buy. Honestly if I were you, Id buy those blueprints with the planes.
The Gladiator reference in the intro... nice
That Stallion is an AWESOME find! They're a 6-place homebuilt... I used to want one so badly, I used to see them advertised in the back of Flying Magazine and AOPA Pilot Magazine all the time. Its like a homebuilt 210
10:45: I know what he was thinking... He was going to use that Honda engine for an ultralight or a homebuilt... Back in the day there was a book that came out about composite construction for homebuilt aircraft... It was a tiny yellow book... The mini-imp or micro-imp was in the book as well as the KR-2 and the Quickie and the Dragonfly... The section on the mini-imp by Molt Taylor said that you could use a Rotax 447 or an engine off a Kawasaki Ninja or snowmobile.
Edit: Found the book its called "Composite Construction for Homebuilt Aircraft" by Jack Lambie
My grandfather was training in Arkansas & Texas when WW1 ended. He bought a Jenny and flew it back to New England & barnstormed awhile. Ended up managing traffic for NAT/TAT My dad lived in 10 places by the time he was 10.
People (I) love to watch crazy people. LOL love it.
that SE5 is SO cool!!! congrats Jimmy!!! this is awesome!