Class, wisdom, enthusiasm, an interest in and tendency to promote others, boyish goofiness and excitement, expert knowledge based on decades of learning - Everything I have come to love about your videos Juan. You are a gentleman and a scholar to be sure, but equally important, you are a good ole boy, and you make us feel like your pal in taking us along on your journeys. Tailwinds and blue skies to you always!
I love the fact that Juan doesn't cut his videos or shoot retakes to make them perfect, each piece feels so much more authentic and the entire video feels so much more cohesive because of that. And... I bet he's the only pilot that doesn't "uh" on the PA announcements. Haha.
My mother grew up on lake ocachobe in Florida and her father was a dusting pilot. She helped build his airplanes back in the 1930. Doping wings and fusalages, sewing fabric for each, and helping prepare for assembly. She was learning to fly but at 4' 9", the Sterman biplane was too much for her and she gave it up. Seeing these old planes from that era reminds me of her stories from my childhood. Keep up the great work and keep the blue side up.
WOW! My Dad enlisted the day after Pearl, because of his math skills, human calculator, he was chosen for the "Flying NCO's" glider program, as we know now a huge disaster! He got his twin engine certification, C-47, luckily the program was canceled soon after he graduated! He told me stories of flight training which perked my love of flying! In the 7th grade I read every book in the library and then continued into High school! Later on we visited my mothers younger sister, my uncle was career Air Force and a member of the flying club! My first flying experience was a T34 trainer, I asked if he could do a loop, but unforcedly because of my size the seat belt was too loose. Because of my vision I was rejected from flying in the military for flight training! The top "Bucket" on my list has always been a ride in an open cockpit Biplane! I love ur videos!
What a treat! Juan you are without a doubt one of the class acts in aviation today. Your love and respect for the craft is truly admirable and appreciated. You’re one of the good ones sir! 🤠👍
Videos like this make me very thankful that we get to enjoy the fruits of your deep involvement in your local aviation community. I’ll always be a supporter!
Back in the late 1960's my dad, with me as his helper, painted airplanes at the airport location of the Taylorcraft factory on Pennsylvania. This video takes me back to my childhood, sharing my dad's love for tail-draggers.
Juan my weekend sucked, I broke down on the side of the road Friday with what should have been a reliable 3-year-old car thankfully under warranty and it's been a nightmare ever since. I have had to go through three different County Sheriff's to try to file a report that the car was missing and presumed stolen and all three blew me off. I finally settled down tonight had myself a frozen dinner which was the best food I've had all day and by the way the only food I've had all day and came across your video here. If you have any doubts about the value of the work you do don't. I'm feeling better tonight and this wonderful video had a whole lot to do with that peace and love American Airlines forever
Juan, every time you do one of these videos I wish I had been there. The planes, the history, the knowledge, the friendships. This kind of event I feel is better than Airventure. Much more relaxed and you have the time to really talk to the owners and pilots about their machines. Great to see the kids there, they are the pilots of the future.
That tandum landing gear is "Art Whitiker" Gear. Back in the 1950's Art was the northwest distributor for Piper. Great aviation guy that Died in 1993. The STC was done while he had a shop in Vancouver Washington. He Done a lot of STC's for the fabric Pipers like the rotating beacon mount for the cub's. Verl Bourker done a lot of the test flying for these STC certifications. Neil Bowman was one of the mechanics involved in these programs. All personal friends that are now gone.
Excellent, Juan!! I'm waiting for the long version where you spend about five minutes with each plane and their owner. Yep, could watch that all day! Thank you!
Always a great video, Juan!!! Learned something new each time I watch your videos, like that Boing having to pay royalties for the double bogie landing gear!! Interesting tidbit. Looking forward to your next installment!
Man the thought of planes used to scare me to death I hated riding in them but ever since I found your channel way back I have been into aviation and these planes look so good.
Very nicely done, Juan, thank you! The peek into the Twin Bee and Travel Air were great. I lived fifty years in Alaska, mostly near Merrill Field, Anchorage. The Pacer with bogey gear reminded me of the gent who began the Pacer conversions to tail-draggers (single mains, not four) -- Bob Coward was an instructor, I believe, at the University of Alaska, Anchorage A&P program in 1974/75, when I was in high school. The Anchorage School District opened its Career Center, and offered an A&P orientation course, and we got to see Mr. Coward doing some of the Pacer conversion work. Tragically, he as later killed in a Chase C-120 crash (predated the Chase/Fairchild C-123 "Provider" that the USAF and Alaska Air Guard flew). I recall seeing a Twin Bee around Merrill/Lake Hood years ago, and there was still a nice looking SeaBee at Merrill Field when I moved last year. South Dakota now... I sure miss airplane noise. Fly safe and press on. -- Dana Nichols
JUAN,,Hello, quite a lot of older flyers were there for that fly in good to see them kept up in great condition, THANKS, for showing them, stay well ,,,,,,🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hey Jaun, great fly in. I used to fuel that twin bee at Opa Locka near Miami. 123br used to be owned by Bebe Raboso, Nixon’s next door neighbor on Key Biscayne. He used to tell me, if my wife calls, you never saw me. It still has the same red white and blue paint job.
The taylorcraft with the 0200 engine is a F-19, built in the 70's, which turned into the F-21 that had a Lyc. 0235 engine on it, I owned a 1979 F-19 back in the mid 80's, great little airplane. I have always thought it awesome, how a newer model Husky of cub will blend in perfectly with aircraft built in the 30's and 40's, proving aircraft builders got it right from the beginning
Very cool. Juan, you have shown again the true camaraderie in the aircraft community. This was a great fly in. The only thing missing was Little Pete. He was probably in school but should have called in sick to be with his dad.
How cool was that? I'm sitting here at 0900, 5k miles away, with fresh brewed coffee, watching a Blancolirio video of like minded people enjoying a pleasant get together. Really, really interesting video JB, thanks for sharing.
Looks like a good way to spend a Saturday. I can’t wait to get back into GA someday. The airline job has a way of sucking all of the fun out of flying.
It must be truly awsome to be living your lifestye! My wife recently flew to SF to London and I told her to ask if Juan Brown was flying! Thanks for giving us an inside view of the full-on aviator life.
Nice Juan, The tilting boggy gear is actually a Whitaker gear, invented by Art Whitaker at Pearson Field, Vancouver,Was. A whole lot of history there, I'm a little surprised you're not aware of. The gear was contract built to equip J3 Cubs of the Atomic Energy Comision flying around and landing on the sage brush at the Hanford nuke site.
Nice fly-in. Appreciate the share. Fun to see all the taildraggers ~ some of my favorites. Oops, where were the Citabrias? 🙂 Sounds like fun to camp with them. The nearest I ever got to that was crashing on the beach with some friends who flew in for Watsonville. That was a long time ago. Have fun. Stay safe.
It was a great time flying into here and it was good to run into you good sir..( i am the guy at 12:45) unexpected surprise! Some good looking airplanes and great food!
I ground looped (intentionally) that particular Twin-Bee in 1983. The aircraft was in rough shape back then and a brake failed on landing roll out. Rather than stick a runway light through the bottom of the hull, I stomped the good brake an opened the opposite throttle to go into the grass, in a big cloud of dust. We then towed it back to the hangar using a rope on the bow cleat. Good times.
SeaBee (TwinBee) with the "rare" suicide door modification. Make sure that door is closed and latched before takeoff! Definitely don't want that baby coming open in flight!
McFarlands! I see my CFI's Legend Cub back there at the 3:16 mark and the C152 I did most of my PPL in at the 10:08 mark. Welcome to the central valley.
Class, wisdom, enthusiasm, an interest in and tendency to promote others, boyish goofiness and excitement, expert knowledge based on decades of learning - Everything I have come to love about your videos Juan. You are a gentleman and a scholar to be sure, but equally important, you are a good ole boy, and you make us feel like your pal in taking us along on your journeys. Tailwinds and blue skies to you always!
Juan is the real deal , a true attribute to RUclips
I love the fact that Juan doesn't cut his videos or shoot retakes to make them perfect, each piece feels so much more authentic and the entire video feels so much more cohesive because of that.
And... I bet he's the only pilot that doesn't "uh" on the PA announcements. Haha.
Cameron, you said exactly what I was thinking. ❤
Nothing better than a real fly-in! And nothing better than a Juan Browne narration.
Grass strips are the birth place of aviation. I love events like that!
My mother grew up on lake ocachobe in Florida and her father was a dusting pilot. She helped build his airplanes back in the 1930. Doping wings and fusalages, sewing fabric for each, and helping prepare for assembly. She was learning to fly but at 4' 9", the Sterman biplane was too much for her and she gave it up. Seeing these old planes from that era reminds me of her stories from my childhood. Keep up the great work and keep the blue side up.
I love everything about this video, Juan. This is the absolute best example of what RUclips can be.
Thanks for coming out it was nice to meet you!
WOW! My Dad enlisted the day after Pearl, because of his math skills, human calculator, he was chosen for the "Flying NCO's" glider program, as we know now a huge disaster!
He got his twin engine certification, C-47, luckily the program was canceled soon after he graduated! He told me stories of flight training which perked my love of flying! In the 7th grade I read every book in the library and then continued into High school! Later on we visited my mothers younger sister, my uncle was career Air Force and a member of the flying club! My first flying experience was a T34 trainer, I asked if he could do a loop, but unforcedly because of my size the seat belt was too loose. Because of my vision I was rejected from flying in the military for flight training!
The top "Bucket" on my list has always been a ride in an open cockpit Biplane!
I love ur videos!
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Thanks Juan for this clip. Being a now grounded long time many hours “tailwheel “ guy I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks.
What a treat! Juan you are without a doubt one of the class acts in aviation today. Your love and respect for the craft is truly admirable and appreciated. You’re one of the good ones sir! 🤠👍
Nice landing at "McXXXX" Juan.....looks like Alaska is next! Atlee Dodge was a great and friendly man....was a pleasure to have known him.......
Videos like this make me very thankful that we get to enjoy the fruits of your deep involvement in your local aviation community. I’ll always be a supporter!
Back in the late 1960's my dad, with me as his helper, painted airplanes at the airport location of the Taylorcraft factory on Pennsylvania. This video takes me back to my childhood, sharing my dad's love for tail-draggers.
Very enjoyable! That's what a flyin is. I could look at and watch and talk airplanes all day! Thanks Juan
Juan my weekend sucked, I broke down on the side of the road Friday with what should have been a reliable 3-year-old car thankfully under warranty and it's been a nightmare ever since. I have had to go through three different County Sheriff's to try to file a report that the car was missing and presumed stolen and all three blew me off. I finally settled down tonight had myself a frozen dinner which was the best food I've had all day and by the way the only food I've had all day and came across your video here. If you have any doubts about the value of the work you do don't. I'm feeling better tonight and this wonderful video had a whole lot to do with that peace and love American Airlines forever
Thanks Jaun for taking us along. Some sweet planes in cali
Secret location...dang .looked like a fun time for a lucky few.
Thanks for taking us for a ride. Great planes. Love the sound of those old engines.
That was cool thanks Juan. I delivered that orange Denali from the factory to California.
Cool to see James’ Ercoupe 👍👍
Thanks Juan, Always excellent videos and descriptions. Good to see so many aviation enthusiast keeping the traditions alive.
Juan, every time you do one of these videos I wish I had been there. The planes, the history, the knowledge, the friendships. This kind of event I feel is better than Airventure. Much more relaxed and you have the time to really talk to the owners and pilots about their machines. Great to see the kids there, they are the pilots of the future.
Yup, air venture is ok, but too many people! I much prefer these kinds of get togethers
Just yesterday I was reading an old Flying magazine and Martha Lunken was talking about her early days in a Pietenpol Air Camper.
Excellent video Juan. “You gotta be a special kind of nut”… I like that!😂
Very nice JB. Always love your content.
Kids love it too.
Yes, that Pietenpol had GREAT performance with two aboard and overweight...Lol ! A real Grass Roots Flyin...Thanks !
It’s an experimental ;)
Very interesting and entertaining video. Thanks for sharing
That tandum landing gear is "Art Whitiker" Gear. Back in the 1950's Art was the northwest distributor for Piper. Great aviation guy that Died in 1993. The STC was done while he had a shop in Vancouver Washington. He Done a lot of STC's for the fabric Pipers like the rotating beacon mount for the cub's.
Verl Bourker done a lot of the test flying for these STC certifications. Neil Bowman was one of the mechanics involved in these programs. All personal friends that are now gone.
Great vid, Juan, felt like I was there with you enjoying the day. Thanks, man.
There were some very nice birds there, thanks for sharing!
I rode in that travel-air you showed. Bob Berwick, years ago. Barnstomers tour in South Dakota. Was awesome.
Thanks for sharing, nice to see how much you still enjoy the basic airplanes even though you fly the heavy metal all over the world!
That was a real treat Juan. Thanks so much for sharing.
Aw, that looks nice ! Have fun !
This was a great time. It was nice to see a couple famous RUclipsrs show up. Great family of aviators.
Your passion for aviation really shines
I was there ! My favorite fly-in . Thank you Matt !!!!!
Excellent, Juan!! I'm waiting for the long version where you spend about five minutes with each plane and their owner. Yep, could watch that all day! Thank you!
Awesome display of killer aircraft! Thanks Juan
Great to see... An aviation community enjoying their fellow aviators fly-in!
Always a great video, Juan!!! Learned something new each time I watch your videos, like that Boing having to pay royalties for the double bogie landing gear!! Interesting tidbit. Looking forward to your next installment!
Man the thought of planes used to scare me to death I hated riding in them but ever since I found your channel way back I have been into aviation and these planes look so good.
I remember Joe Gigante doing this at KOWD” Norwood Mass. when I was first learning to fly there. Nice to see one out there thanks
Very nicely done, Juan, thank you! The peek into the Twin Bee and Travel Air were great. I lived fifty years in Alaska, mostly near Merrill Field, Anchorage. The Pacer with bogey gear reminded me of the gent who began the Pacer conversions to tail-draggers (single mains, not four) -- Bob Coward was an instructor, I believe, at the University of Alaska, Anchorage A&P program in 1974/75, when I was in high school. The Anchorage School District opened its Career Center, and offered an A&P orientation course, and we got to see Mr. Coward doing some of the Pacer conversion work. Tragically, he as later killed in a Chase C-120 crash (predated the Chase/Fairchild C-123 "Provider" that the USAF and Alaska Air Guard flew). I recall seeing a Twin Bee around Merrill/Lake Hood years ago, and there was still a nice looking SeaBee at Merrill Field when I moved last year. South Dakota now... I sure miss airplane noise. Fly safe and press on. -- Dana Nichols
Juan, thanks for making the trip down, glad to meet you. Their family sure does make GA fun. Keep making the great videos.
JUAN,,Hello, quite a lot of older flyers were there for that fly in good to see them kept up in great condition, THANKS, for showing them, stay well ,,,,,,🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Your enthusiasm and knowledge are a pleasure to watch. Great work Juan!
Thanks Juan! Loved doing that in my C120 back in the day. Great video!
That was a really fun one to watch.
Beautiful husky
What a great video for the grass root flying enthusiast. Great job Juan! Love your stuff!
I never want to be a pilot, but I've put that wind-sock on my list of 'strange objects of desire'.
Try this vid " Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly (Official Music Video HD) " on the channel " Pink Floyd "
@@bobroberts2371 Tom Petty's version is pretty good to. I thought
Clearly you guys are having the time of your lives. Thanks for sharing it.
#597👍👏🎉Great family gathering!! Thank you!!
Great episode, thank you, Juan.
What a nice relaxing 20 mins brilliant entertainment 👍🏻
Hey Jaun, great fly in. I used to fuel that twin bee at Opa Locka near Miami. 123br used to be owned by Bebe Raboso, Nixon’s next door neighbor on Key Biscayne. He used to tell me, if my wife calls, you never saw me. It still has the same red white and blue paint job.
Thanks for sharing, it was a special treat to be able to get a tour of this fly-in. Really enjoyed it!! Best regards from Brasilia, Brazil.
Wonderful video Juan. Some really nice planes showed up. Know you had a great time making this one. Thanks for sharing.
Bert published an alternate design back in the day with a welded tube fuselage, so that Pietenpol is authentic to the original plans.
The taylorcraft with the 0200 engine is a F-19, built in the 70's, which turned into the F-21 that had a Lyc. 0235 engine on it, I owned a 1979 F-19 back in the mid 80's, great little airplane. I have always thought it awesome, how a newer model Husky of cub will blend in perfectly with aircraft built in the 30's and 40's, proving aircraft builders got it right from the beginning
Man, you folks have too much fun! Thanks for taking us with you, Juan. I do enjoy your channel. All the best!
The Husky is looking good 👍✈️
Juan and James 👍
Really enjoyed this Juan and the top notch production made me think it was your intern’s work. Great job sharing these aircraft
Very cool. Juan, you have shown again the true camaraderie in the aircraft community. This was a great fly in. The only thing missing was Little Pete. He was probably in school but should have called in sick to be with his dad.
How cool was that? I'm sitting here at 0900, 5k miles away, with fresh brewed coffee, watching a Blancolirio video of like minded people enjoying a pleasant get together. Really, really interesting video JB, thanks for sharing.
Thanks Juan for this Fiesta at the Air Club , many kids like us started watching airplanes at the Air Clubs and flying rubber powered models.
😉😊😎
Whenever I watch your videos Juan, it gets me in the mood to go flying😀
Looks like a great day Juan enjoyed the watch
Looks like a good way to spend a Saturday. I can’t wait to get back into GA someday. The airline job has a way of sucking all of the fun out of flying.
It must be truly awsome to be living your lifestye! My wife recently flew to SF to London and I told her to ask if Juan Brown was flying! Thanks for giving us an inside view of the full-on aviator life.
Great quality production JB🎉
Nice Juan,
The tilting boggy gear is actually a Whitaker gear, invented by Art Whitaker at Pearson Field, Vancouver,Was. A whole lot of history there, I'm a little surprised you're not aware of. The gear was contract built to equip J3 Cubs of the Atomic Energy Comision flying around and landing on the sage brush at the Hanford nuke site.
Aah shucks I wanted to see your landing back home. Fun video.
That was great Juan. Looks like a lot of interesting airplanes and pilots.
Nice fly-in. Appreciate the share. Fun to see all the taildraggers ~ some of my favorites. Oops, where were the Citabrias? 🙂 Sounds like fun to camp with them. The nearest I ever got to that was crashing on the beach with some friends who flew in for Watsonville. That was a long time ago.
Have fun. Stay safe.
Hi from Wales.🏴
Great video! Nice to see Ercoupe Master James in here!
It was a great time flying into here and it was good to run into you good sir..( i am the guy at 12:45) unexpected surprise! Some good looking airplanes and great food!
Great to meet you!
So cool! Thanks for sharing!
That's cool, the N69UP aircraft came from my airport where it sat for years.
I ground looped (intentionally) that particular Twin-Bee in 1983. The aircraft was in rough shape back then and a brake failed on landing roll out. Rather than stick a runway light through the bottom of the hull, I stomped the good brake an opened the opposite throttle to go into the grass, in a big cloud of dust. We then towed it back to the hangar using a rope on the bow cleat. Good times.
SeaBee (TwinBee) with the "rare" suicide door modification.
Make sure that door is closed and latched before takeoff! Definitely don't want that baby coming open in flight!
That horse right next to the flying field? It seemed totally unconcerned. This is the kind of horse you want if you love both planes and horses!
So cool! Thanks for taking us along!
JUAN THANK, TELL EVERYBODY HELLO, GREAT VIDEO...
Couple of really cool aircraft, the Husky, and an eurocoupe.
thank you.
Wow what a show that was
Didn't know about the bogie landing gear on a Pacer, thanks. We put wider gear on ours after the groundloop.
Thanks Juan
Great video Juan! Thanks for that
This is Awesome!
SWEET stuff
McFarlands! I see my CFI's Legend Cub back there at the 3:16 mark and the C152 I did most of my PPL in at the 10:08 mark. Welcome to the central valley.
Excellent video Juan 👍
Looks like a great event 🙂
Wow great video, much appreciated..
Excellent, where is Pete? Miss him riding along
Nice job, Juan!
Good camera work there, James! 🙂
That's Real flying!!!!
Great video