Shopping For A Real SR71 At Smithsonian Evergreen Museum
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My dad was flying around Sacramento with his 110 camera and a SR71 came cruising by us and dad snapped a picture ,it was very impressive
Ah, the ole 110 camera 📷 🤗
Well I have a clock out the SR-71 Blackbird first lights or second flight the clock broke through changed it one of my family members changed it and it got the broken part clock
Can this photo be viewed anywhere on the ol interwebs? We'd love to see it
Proof please
Post the pic somewhere snd reply with the link
When I graduated from Air Force basic training in April 1990, we had an SR71 fly over our ceremony. We were told not to look at it by our TI's, you think I listened to him. Heck no. It was mostly cloudy that day and it dropped down below the clouds for like a split second and then BOOM it was gone. It was awesome. Ever since then I have been fascinated with that platform..I'm an aircraft mechanic by trade so airplanes in general fascinate me. Love the channel Jimmy!
Don't look at it??? It's a plane, not a nuke 😂 I'm glad you didn't listen and miss out on a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I was there as well. Flight 232 was my basic if I remember correctly. I was at the back of the formation due to being shorter. Heard it but never did get a look!
@@herbferguson They put the short guys in the back? WTF? I guess I'd have been back there with you, lol.
@@herbferguson don't even recall my flight number, will have to find it now that you have brought that up
@@Cantthinkofahandle117 Eyes forward while in formation... You need to be able to see and catch the person in front of you when they lock their knees and faint. Seriously though, I don't think we had a fly over during my basic graduation. Mine was in 1982 and I went on to work on F-16s, F-15Cs and B-1s. I saw my first SR-71 at museum outside Hill, AFB Utah. I didn't know it was there there and was shocked when I turned the corner in the museum and saw it. I didn't get to sit in it though...
Cool fact; In my younger days I spent a brief time working in a rebar plant in Portland.
During that time, the rebar used in the construction of the newer space and missle wing came through our plant.
I personally bent nearly all the rebar used in that portion of the museum.
that's pretty freakin cool!
My high school math teacher (I am from a very small town and we had our own school, my graduating class was 92 students) Mr. Klessel was a retired SR71 pilot. How friggin neat is that? He used to stump every class and ask them how long it took to get from NY to LA at Mach 2.2 or something along those lines.. Whatever it was I recall the answer was 54 minutes (I don't remember exactly the 2 points) anyway he had the most amazing stories!
edit: Museums are awesome!
Normally I would get upset with so called click bait titles. However, I knew going in the government would never let a private civilian buy an SR-71 with that being said I love the creative way you incorporated the real purchase in your video. All that to say love the work you do.
I can shop around for all sorts of things I'll never have the money or be allowed to buy, that doesn't deter me in the least.
why not just build the actual one yourself although it would be radar deterent
@@ryanlemons3255 yes lets bamboozle the Russians again to get the titanium and rebuild all the tools from scratch as the originals were all destroyed
Jimmy, at 6:03 into this video you pan past an F-105G Wild Weasel aircraft, #432 (visible on the nose gear plate). #432 was my aircraft when I served in the Georgia Air National Guard back around 1980. We got the Weasel mission when the F-105G's came back from Viet Nam.
I guess that confirms what my son loves to tell me - "Dad, all the airplanes you used to fly are in museums now!" Currently, I am a professor of Aviation at the University of Dubuque in Iowa - still flying at 70!
The Pima Museum in Tucson had some open cockpit days in the past. They opened their SR-71 to the public to take a seat in it. I was surprised by the amount of space in the cockpit, but the space suit would cut into that abundance really fast.
At 4:38, you are looking at a Cessna 337 Skymaster. 30 years ago, I flew a few hundred hours in the right seat with the pilot/owner out of 30A in Tennessee. His plane, N6200F, had a STOL kit and oversize rear intake scoop. Landing gear door hydraulics are quite complicated, and were a pain to work on, but the center-thrust twin could climb like a homesick angel. It was painted navy blue, and was called "Night Fighter" by many people who saw it. I miss that bird, not to mention my friend.
Actually, the plane in the Museum is an authentic O-2A.
@@buckmurdock2500 Thanks for the correction. Skymaster was the civilian version.
This one is on my bucket list. I visited the Spruce Goose in Long Beach, CA the second day it was on display. I saw it in pieces on barges on the Willamette River in Portland when they were moving it to McMinnville. But not living in the area now has prevented me from visiting the museum. It is on my bucket list and I hope to get it done now that we visit the Portland area frequently these days. One of the display building was built to tight specifications to receive a space shuttle, but shortly after President Obama was inaugurated the space shuttle was rerouted to another destination.
Thanks Jimmy, that was a great trip around the museum. You should do one more often. Regards Richard 🇬🇧
Thanks for coming out to Oregon, Jimmy! Glad you had a blast at what a lot of us consider to be the coolest museum in the state, if not the West Coast!
It's always fun to go to! And also watching the air shows they put on is super fun. And on a hot day going to the water park lol
The Museum of Flight in Seattle is pretty cool too. I enjoyed both of them.
You were correct in saying it was the best day of your life after sitting in the Blackbird. I felt the sam way when I did it, but a few years earlier. I was fortunate enough to sit in the Operational #61-7974, the original Icheban Blackbird in 1978 when I was stationed at Kadena Air Base in Japan. I was one of the photo-processors that developed the film off of the Habu and 17974 was in the hanger next to our photo lab.
It was talking to one of the techs that got permission for a few of us to actually get to sit in the drivers seat of this monumental aircraft.
Unfortunately, that was the last Blackbird to crash in April 1989 off the Philippine coast. It is now in 25,597 feet of water, in an area known as the Mariana Trench. Buried at sea with full military honors.
I really enjoyed my visit here some years back. Got to play around in the b-17 there with a old fella who used to fly them. Spent a good hour checking stuff out and chatting with him.
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I visited the place with my grandma as one of the last things we did together before she passed. She had never been even though she lived in the area for decades and I had never been even though I remember growing up in the area and reading all about the Spruce Goose being brought up there - as I had moved away before the museum opened. Glad they still have the X-38. I never hear anyone talking about it but I thought it was pretty cool.
We went to the Evergreen Aerospace Museum recently and it was great. Going up in to the Spruce Goose was amazing. If anyone hasn't been, I highly recommend going. We didn't get to sit in the SR-71 so how cool was that you did! I'm jelly😝
Hey Jimmy, I am so happy that you got to visit the Evergreen Museum in McMinnville Oregon. That is one of the coolest Aviation Museums out there. I have visited the Smithsonian, but not the Annex Air Museum at the airport. I have Also visited the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum, the Warner Robbins Air Force Museum and the Air Force Academy visitors center. I have visited many private Aviation Museums and Evergreen was one of the best.
I don't see the SAC Museum on there! Definite shame as SAC has some great exhibits of the big bomber fleet aircraft, including a surviving B-1A. Best part is its right off of I-80 near Ashland, Nebraska so you can stop in while driving by.
Very happy he came here to see it
I joined the Air Force in January 1982 and retired in 2006 as a avionics technician. My first base was Beale AFB and at 19 I sat in that very cockpit running ops checks, replacing the avionics and repairing the wiring. I have been all over the world and ended my career working for Lockheed Martin teaching the AF, Navy, and Marines how to maintain the F-35, another even cooler plane. Nothing beats working on the SR-71 though. Great video 👍
I was there 10 days before you posted this one. What an amazing place! I also got to sit in the cockpit of the 'Goose', so much fun!! Recommended for everyone by me. The space side of the museum is very cool as well.
So Amazing , Thank You . Looks like a place to spend several Days Exploring
I was at a small private auto and military museum that was offered an SR71 tail fin from an aerospace museum. They didn’t know what to do with it, but who could turn such an offer down? Two days later, 2 FBI agents came knocking on the door, and were there to confiscate the fin. It seems the tail fin wasn’t classified, but the anti radar coating was! Bye bye tail fin!
It has to be a good day when you are allowed to sit in an SR71. Thanks for sharing that moment.
I loved this episode, Jimmy! Greetings all the way from Bulgaria :)
Wow, that museum has really grown up in the 20 years since I was there. Back then it was just the 1 hall with the H16 and some other stuff parked under it.
I agree. I haven’t been to the Evergreen Museum since about 2005. Wasn’t even aware the Smithsonian had acquired it. Just the one hanger when dad and I were there. I had seen the Goose in Long Beach next to the QM before she was moved to McMinnville. I’ll have to make another trip someday. Another air museum that is nearby is at Tillamook where the Erickson Museum is or was located. It occupied to US Navy Blimp hangers. If I remember correctly they are the largest free standing wood structures in US. The engineering of these structures was amazing to behold.
The Spruce Goose, actually not made of spruce. So he let you sit in the SR-71, then tells you that one is not for sale, but proceeded to sell you a non-functioning, reduced scale facsimile of one? Sounds like a bait and switch if I ever heard of one! 🤣
Great video, Jimmy.
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The news media nick named it the Spruce Goose. What rhymes with Birch? Not catchy huh.
@@petemoss8245 I can think of something that rhymes with birch, but it's not a word that would have been used in media.
I was just there at 3pm today. It was 107 outside, and they had closed earlier because of the extreme heat we are having. I'm going back and I'll camp there and spend a week looking at every inch. Really enjoyed this video. Thanks
I used to sit on a seawall in Kadena, Okinawa drinking beers and watch the SR-71's take off and land. so cool.
I was just there a few months ago. My family lives nearby. Glad to see it in RUclips.
Great way to start a Saturday morning with jimmy’s World
I agree 😎👍
I live here in Va.Beach and was in a local restaurant and the old guy standing in front of me had on a flight jacket and hat with SR-71 nomenclature so I had to ask. Hey cool jacket I love the SR-71..! turns out he was a pilot that flew it quite a bit. He was telling me that they would only carry enough fuel to get off the ground and meet up with the tanker and then fill up and go on their mission.! About that time his wife pulled his arm and mine pulled mine and that was that..!
I got to sit in the pilot seat of the Spruce Goose last Memorial Day weekend. The Evergreen Air & Space Museum in McMinnville Oregon is cool place to check out.
If you're gonna be down there, don't forget the Oregon Air and Space Museum in Eugene! The volunteers are fantastic and it's very well stocked considering its size.
What a great channel man I freaking love the knowledge you give to us keep up the amazing work I wish you safe flying for many years to come !!
one was on the ground at an airshow in the UK some years ago. Surrounded by razor wire and an armed guard and the windows blanked off, and drip trays all around it, catching the fuel that was dripping out the tanks and off the wings and fuselage. Awesome, it took off later if my memory serves me right, circa 1980 maybe?
Jimmy you never cease to entertain and enlighten👍👍
Got a kitset ftom Heller of an SR71 since I was a kid.
Am a bit envious and proud you got to sit in the real one.
That's marvellous 😂
My uncle was the president of Evergreen for. Any years. He was the one that insured the new home for the Spruce Goose. Such a cool place. McMinnville OR.
Very cool!
Jimmy so awesome - in the Early 2000's I was a VP with Evergreen, and used to buy and sell - been in the cockpits of those planes back in the day...... even the Spruce Goose HAHAHA seems like a thousand years ago..... nice visit I haven't been there in years. Since Dell Smith was still alive and my boss :)
Except his nickname was Del Smith with one "L" as that was a shortened version of Delford.
@@buckmurdock2500 yep u got that right on my phone so Del spellchecks to Dell - thanks great catch….. after Michael passed away a lot of things change I was there in the late 90s until 2002. I worked out of Miami and flew back every month for meetings crazy.
Had to buy some aircraft right out of 9/11 for training for the US military out of Marana. Crazy times.
Your in my territory Jimmy. 100 miles from the Museum. I worked all around that area when the Spruce Goose was in pieces across the road from there. 2 big long temp controlled, semi-clear tents. One tent held the wings and motors, and the other tent had the main fuselagee in it. Howard Hughes kept the Goose in 100% flyable condition until his death in 1976, by his orders. Evergreen was working on the funds and permits for quite some time for that museum. They used to fly model airplanes on that spot in that museum area. They had a paved control line circle for awhile, for U-control string planes and a paved landing strip for RC planes. The control line circle was to the west of the museum and the RC flying field was right behind it.
I used to live an hour away from Evergreen Museum, a great place to spin the day. McMinnville airport is across the road from the museum, for those wanting to fly in for a visit.
What a place! I visited it a few years ago specifically to see the Spruce Goose but was surprised by their other exhibits.
I took the family there on vacation, 2007. Very cool place ! McMinville Oregon.
I’ve seen 3 SR-71’s on display.
Evergreen Museum in Oregon.
Hill AirBase in Utah.
Pima Air & Space Tucson
My wife and I got to walk thru the Spruce Goose when it was in Long Beach..and spent the night on the Queen Mary docked next door.. Good Times!
I grew up going to this place- even had prom under the Goose! Very very cool!
Hello from Minnesota!! That place is on my bucket list!!
I remember in 2000 or 2001 my aviation explorer scout troop took a trip to johnson space center and we saw that x38 as they were working on on it. Too cool.
I have a SR-71 plane tag .. when ever I hold it I feel the power 😂😂 love that bird !
Woo, Evergreen Wings and Waves! Glad to see them getting some recognition. I've been there many times. (Took a troop of Girl Scouts from Atlanta there.) They do need to trim down the speedbumps into the parking lot though.
Fun video. On the SR-71 the "speedometer" is in fact the triple display indicator (TDI) which is right below the instrument you pointed to. The TDI reads out Mach number, altitude, and "KEAS" (knots equivalent airspeed).
Awesome video Jimmy! I should have hung onto the back of your RV when you left Oshkosh, I've been wanting to visit the Evergreen museum. Just a heads up the tail wheel on a T6 can be unlocked and can do full 360's so it can be easily pushed around. That said some times it fights you when you are shoving it around to get it to go straight again.......ask me how I know lol. 😆
Now that Jimmy owns a SR-71 we need a "Can I get a clear.......turbine???" shirt.
And Jimmy demonstrated the importance of asking for what you want... It can never hurt, right? Awesome visit to the museum!
McMinville?! Awesome, this is my back yard and I love that place.
Evergreen is one of the most amazing places. Second only to the Smithsonian and that is close. I wanted to see the Spruce Goose from the age of 5. In june I got to go for the first time. A life long dream was realized that day.
Jimmy so jealous you got to sit in the SR71.
I used to have a poster of it on my bedroom wall in the 70s , and seen it flying many times from RAF Mildenhall at the 80s air displays, one time at about 300ft in a tight turn to avoid the crowd line it went BOOM BOOM BOOM as it approached me at near stall speed, I thought I was a goner as flames came out of the back end.
Have dozens of Kodachrome slides I need to copy somehow!
When I worked at the Toronto international Airport (YYZ) I had the chance prior to the 9/11 to go inside every commercial aircraft since I was a refueler. The amount of space in the AN-124 crew cabin was amazing. Had behind the control cabin a small kitchen, table large enough for 4 members then further in the back is the sleeping quarters which I didn't look at. However almost all controls are in Russian. The amount of fuel it took was roughly 7 loads at 50,000 litres of fuel where it was in route to a place in Africa then to continue to Australia. It was an awesome plane to see up close.
Thanks! Greetings Jimmy. Been watching you for awhile. Love the “barn” finds and all the others. Keep it up and don’t sugar coat anything. I am a long tine airline A&P in the Knoxville, TN area.
Awesome! Thank you!
OMG! Green with envy over you Jimmy! SR71 is THE best plane ever made. I would love to sit in there
If I'm not mistaken, the Swedish Airforce radar division was the first and only to lock their radar on the SR71 when it took a ride around the Baltic sea during the cold war. I was on that radar unit doing my military duty. Unfortunately it wasn't I who locked the radar on it.
According to what I heared, they got a congrats card from the US for that.
Hooray for Sweden, we have "sunk" one of your aircraft carriers too with one of our submarines of Gotland class, in a training session. This led to that the US Navy rented the sub and its crew for a year.
I love your videos! You are a funny and crazy dude! 🙂
Thank you for the upload, I had no clue that the BB is there!
My father was maintenance chief at Dobbins ARB back in their late 70s early 80s he was a major in the Air Force. He came into work one morning, and in the hangar where several C-130s were supposed to be parked, they were nosed out of the hangar. Behind a lead shielded curtain in the back of the hanger apparently was sitting an SR 71… It developed a hydraulic leak somewhere over Mississippi and made it to Marietta Georgia in about 15 to 20 minutes. Dad got a chance to talk to the pilots, and they told him some crazy stories about flying that bird. Those pilots have seen three sunrises on a flight, which is pretty cool, also, they told him a couple of stories of where they were shot at with missiles just outside of Soviet air space, and by the time the missiles got up to altitude …the SR71 was somewhere else. That bird could absolutely move.
My home airport is just north of there at 7S3. The airport at that museum is the airport I usually use for landing practice. Based on the weather in the video I’m assuming it was filmed a while ago. I enjoy your videos by the way.
That’s a great museum. My good buddy’s name is on the side of the A-10 there. It was used as a test bed for Raytheon.
I been watching jimmy for like a week and my entire libary is full of his videos
Nice purchase! Fuel cost shouldn't be too painful. Enjoy.
Lol. you really had me going with the SR71 purchase ...... Cool museum 😀
welcome to Orygun...lol. I wished i knew you were here because I'm only 40 mins from there. Love that museum. In the back there are some old russian military vehicles or even some across the street. Where is your next stop? Head to Tillamook museum? Seattle's Museum of Flight? Paul Allen collection? Erickson aircraft collection in Madres, OR. Have fun in your PNW stay. If you get out to the coast you can drive on the beaches at some places from Seaside to Warrenton.
I cycled across America 2018 and went and spent the day here just amazing !!!!
Thanks Jimmy nice tour
"Wherever the Skunk works is".
It was at Burbank, CA. until 1989 when it moved to Palmdale, CA.
We have one of two Lancair (235) here in the UK. Great to see one in the museum…👍
That is an awesome museum have been there twice and still will go back!
I just love these silly video's. Thank you. That little sr71 just made me laugh..... Love it.
Lol the ending though that was hilarious 🤣
What a collection!! WOW!!
Shoulda made your way out to the big airship hanger in tillamook after evergreen. The collection isnt massive but theres some cool stuff there.
I have loved that beast of a jet since I was a child!
That airplane that was in the farmers field is an F5D Skylancer, they made 4 of them, it was a follow on to the F4D Skyray. I have always wanted to go see the Spruce Goose.
You are thinking of the 337 Mixmaster Jimmy. Actually it is the Skymaster.
Ahhh, Jimmy the F-85 was an Oldsmobile, that is an F-86H. They did make two XF-85 Goblins though.
I'm jealous, to get to sit in the cockpit of an SR-71 would be really cool.
Such an awesome adventure. Only a bit of click bait. lol
Great video, Jimmy. Thanks for sharing.
Can't wait for the next one.
Only about 30 miles from me. Been there at least twice before they built the water slide out of the 747. yea I have touched the SR71. I love pointing out that the P-38 (they had one last time I was there) and the SR71 were both designed by Kelly Johnson. And yea, I got that same model of SR71 as well =)
That was a fun one. Thanks Jimmy!
That spruce goose is crazy. makes me want to watch the aviator again
Ok, i am officially jealous , sitting in the sr71. Super cool 😎
Cool video thanks for sharing Jimmy.
I've been in the goose a few times, when it was in long Beach. Fascinating aircraft..
Great video!! Thanks for sharing.
Neat seeing some of these old airplanes. I used to live in Seattle (before people went crazy) where we had the Museum of Flight. They've got an SR-71 there also. You definitely should grab that 310 if you can get it for .35 cents. :D
I'd love to visit this place!! I can spend the whole day just looking at planes
Amazing feildtrip !!
I was the guy that rebuilt the green jack for that sr71. I used to work in evergreen restoration department. Along with that navy heli drone. I remade the antenna covers from scratch. Ive got tons of behind the scenes pics and my father and I doing all the work.
Been there and actually sat in the pilots seat of the spruce goose. WAY cool.
Holly Shirt! I worked on that SH-2F Seasprite!!! She looks GREAT!
You should go do the airspace museum in Huntsville AL. You can stand next to a complete Space Shuttle tanks and boosters.
I was in the USAF 1984 to 1990. The only reason for limiting the SR71 to mach 3 was heat. It was actually able to do sprinting beyond mach 3 for short periods of time.
Bro no freaking way. I went their a couple of weeks ago and took pictures of that same SR-71 Blackbird. That place is so awesome. (I may or may not of spent $50 in the gift shop after we saw all the stuff). New sub btw
I worked with the SR71 mission while I was in the ASA (Army Security Agency), based at Torii Station Okinawa.
I try to go to evergreen every couple years. They let you park the rv in the parking lot. Perfect 3 day weekend trip. Maybe I'll be able to park my custom rv next to the elvis jet there someday?
That little biplane is a Baby Great Lakes, designed by Barney Oldfield. It was advertised as as having champagne performance on a beer budget. Great fun and aerobatic! Friend of mine had one and stored it my hanger.
Baby Lakes. Barney Oldfield never used "Great" in the name.
Awesome museum! I am wearing my Spruce Goose shirt right now! I went there for the first time last year. Wish I could of stayed longer, so much to see and take in. Super cool you videoed inside the water slide. That has to be the most unique water park ever! Looks like you had a great time, I plan on going back someday. What helicopter is at 8:09 ? It was pouring when I was there and didn't want to go outside again haha.
We had that helicopter in Korea in 1963-64 . Don't remember what it was called.
CH-37 Mojave guys 😊
Jimmy you need to check out the air museum in Tillamook, oregon. The building itself is amazing.
Looks like I need to go back. I saw some new stuff since we were there last!
Great visit to the Smithsonian great video thanks Jimmy