8000 FT mountain LANDING - The Worst Place To Land My KITFOX!! Landed BUT couldn't takeoff :(
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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I saw a snow-covered mountain ridge I could land my kitfox aircraft on with my bush wheels. It was one of my worst decisions I had ever made in my kitfox bush plane. The landing was great! the takeoff was a different story. My 26 inch bush wheels were not big enough for the mushy snow. I needed snow skis or 31 bush wheels. I ended up leaving the airplane there overnight. hoping in the morning the snow would be frozen and hard enough for me to takeoff from the mountain top.
Thanks to my friend Tom Simko for flying in and landing on the mountain to rescue me!
Thanks to Sander Hadley for hauling my ass up the mountain to retrieve my kitfox aircraft.
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Student: "Where does good judgement come from?"
Teacher: "From experience."
Student: "Where does experience come from?"
Teacher: "From bad judgement."
love it!!!
Judgment is always retrospective, and good decisions are recognized by survivors..
If you live that is.
ha! Seems to work that way!! Sometimes our mistakes make good teachers! :)
Well, you fly planes. You don't have an unlimited number of tries ^^
imagine climbing a mountain, feeling all nature-like and as if there was no human civilasation and then suddenly there's a yellow plane
Imre 9999 I don’t know if it’s your idea that made me feel this way or the fact that you spelled civilization wrong
Stevan Blum yeah sorry bout that I’m gonna blame it on being swiss, we don’t have civilization here
@Someone why are you suggesting there is something wrong with being Muslim? It seems you are the racist.
Like the Farcry 4 missions hahah almost identical.
Probably a yellow air taxi
When I clicked on this video I expected a ton of clickbait and I'm surprised of how good and true the content is, loved it
click baitish, haha but he is cool enough to pull it off. The title over estimated the risk, based on the tracks present and packed snow.It was possibly know or planned in advance. However, good pilots mitigate risk so a planned risk scenario with safe exit for plane means the pilot is not insane. Very cool points made and lessons learned. Yes also entertaining. hahahaha IMO side note, he drop that landing on a dime, very cool.
Meanwhile helicopters be over here like:
"Wanna watch me do it again?"
Undderated
Apparently, as men, we aren't capable of fully understanding the complexities of "consequence" until we are almost 30.
I have a history of broken bones that supports this theory.....
Good analysis as proven by how much he thought out if he could land the plane; and apperantly, never even thought for a second if he could take off again.
Still 18, but apparently broken bones teaches me a lot
Me too
i still get into dumb things!! and i am 58!! but there not as life threatening now!!lol
I'm a little late at 33 and have just fully realized that this year. Truth
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what state and what area was that filmed with the kitfox? on mountain?
Exciting video, great production values!
might have been a mess but what a beautiful mess. Loved the video your camera work and editing was great. thanks for the video you got a sub out of me.
Jonas Marcinko where are you? Alaska?
This is a great video. :)
Kit fox for sale, beautiful location, comes with tires, not skis.
lol 😂
Write a note with the smaller fonts: Get a crane to collect, or wait till the snow melts.
Free deliver... in Spring
Lol yes!
$5000 scam? I think not!
Congratulations on not ending up in an NTSB report.
Yaofu Zhou True story.
Yeah, but at the cost of raising your profile with the FAA!
As staged as staged gets......
This time, keep doing stuff like that and he will be, You wash any pilot that was just in a serious accident be interviewed and he'll say I knew it was a mistake I know I shouldn't have done it or this or that you know you should he knew he should know ended there and he did it anyways and if he keeps doing crap like that it'll will be the demise of him
Yaofu Zhou Well, it wasn’t for lack of trying.
Airplane for Sale: remote location. Another plane required to preview. No test rides w/o. Purchaser to provide own skis. Purchaser to provide own runway. Successful take-off is not guaranteed.
Dude this was the best RUclips video I’ve watched in a long time. Thank you for that, so sick. You’re living an awesome life and even better you have good homies that genuinely care for you.
Awesome to hear this! Thanks!
Wow I can’t get my friends to take me to the 7/11.
Throw them away
So you got in there quite easily, but couldn't get out?
Sounds like marriage.
Mier Beuker 😂 funniest comment yet!
100% truth right there....
Hearing and reading shit like this definitely makes me think twice about marrying
Hummm, soooo🤔💡Thanks for the answer to my prayers!! Which mountain is that?? Lol...
Truth spoken
Did this dude just land on the top of a snow covered mountain in an airplane with no skis.... wearing nothing but a sweatshirt?
yep
Wasn’t the brightest decision was it. He will know better next time.
😂
#FULL SEND!
He landed on a snow covered mountain full of snowmobile tracks!
I love how stateside you just stick an ‘experimental’ sticker on it and it’s airworthy. So, with that, I’m loading up my leaf blower powered office chair and I’m going over the pond complete with experimental sticker. I’m good 👍
Which would be an ultralight, and wouldn't require any kind of license or training to fly.
Where exactly do they draw the line on that one?
@@FromNothingICome If you crash, they tend to frown on that.
"An ingenious solution to a problem that should have never existed in the first place."
-James May
Travis K but then there’s no story to tell, lol
Found a way to beat it!!! Landed up by Peru B' something, their airfield is 10 miles long!!! I drove down it really fast, but couldn't take off...air too thin!! So....as I was on my computer, I simply plugged the plane to 11,000 feet, couldn't climb but flew out of there!!!
Well I guess we know who’s buying the beer for the next 10 years.
Friendship isn't all about money mike mike mike - guess what day it is!?
Curt Coller well beer isn’t about money.
me.
Kudos!
Where do we donate?
(for skis, that is!)
Reality, this guy would not even buy a 6 pack after getting his ass off this mountain.
I'd definitely hit F5 to quick save before attempting that.
lol
tjp353 lmfao!
That'll learn ya!
OMG LOL
When in that situation flatten tires make bigger footprint I land and take off in 2 ft of snow I'm on 31s
I live in the bush of Alaska
Sometimes don't have a choice love your channel
William Davis you should make some videos here let me be your first subscriber
Photos or it didn't happen.
John Roberts
RUclips rules 😂
was wondering about dropping tire pressure. any off-roader who hits sand knows that. soft tires would float over the snow. Great music!
@@michaelchaplin2248 But you need to land on the other end too, so not too soft right?
The lengths men will go not to straddle another man. 😂
At least to the top of a mountain
Brilliant. At least the 60 year old (as always) bails out the young buck.
Looks like somebody owes somebody a steak dinner with all the fixin's! That, in addition to a tank o' gas for his snowmobile!
Beezlie727 Like some cash
Awesome story! Thanks for sharing. Guys doing stupid stuff but surviving to tell and laugh about it later...
During my 300-miler on the way to getting my pilots license (a few decades ago), I ended up having to land on a golf course as fuel state was low (real long story as to why) and I was not sure how much further it was to the airport (dead reckoning, no fancy nav equipment). I was flying over dense-packed suburbia in Maryland and did not want to have to deadstick if the engine quit. I wanted to at least have a shot at a go-around. Flew very low, burped throttle to make people figure out that I was in distress. Landed the Cessna 150. Legs felt like rubber as I got out... Adrenalin, no doubt.
Golf pro came out in a golf cart to greet me. I asked how close I was to the destination airport -- a mile or two!!! Damn. We got 5-gal of high test fuel (the golf pro drove me to gas station LOL), and I clambered up the wings and put it into the tanks. Went to the longest fairway, swung the tail as close as possible to the back of the fairway. There was a dogleg 80% of the way down the fairway, trees bordering the right-hand side, sandtrap and some trees at the left-hand side at the dogleg. Hot, but dry, day. Hard, dry grassy surface. Did my best short-field takeoff roll, cleared the obstacles. Gave a wing waggle of thanks. And continued my journey. (Except for getting stopped just as I was about to do my takeoff roll: "Did you just land on a golf course?" To be continued... )
I was ~16
Is that you Harrison Ford?
@@shanek6582 best comment yet
How is "I fucked up" a real long story?
I want a book of pilots experiences like this
This video is so damn American it's awesome. Between the flying around leaving your plane on a mountaintop, your friend that has a backdoor hangar and your other friend with the backcountry snowmobile. I wish we were this free in Europe sometimes. I'm glad I passed my PPL in the States!
I laughed at this comment only because I actually do have a friend that has an airstrip in his yard and a hangar, even though it's really not that common.
Believe me, it’s not like that all over the US.
*Snowmachine (Sorry Im alaskan)
@@bernarrcoletta7419 This is true. (also have one in my backyard though)
I live in Texas, there are subdivisions here which center on runways, the houses face outward and their hangers face the runway. But the greater issue, you bet, regardless of the fake news, America is great, here we are free...!
procedure to take off at 8000ft:
1)find a cliff with 5000ft vertical drop
2)approach the cliff at full speed
3)drop 2000ft and wait to gather enough airspeed
4)pull slowly on the elevator
5)successful take off
You've been watching Avatar or 2012 too many times lol
There’s never a 5000ft drop when you want one.
Lucky for you never end up in the 6 o'clock news. AWESOME video.
This is known as creating a problem where non existed.
indeed
@@-Uranos- Also known as living life to the full. (Not to mention perfecting the art of the first person video adventure film story in the process.)
Amen to THAT!
Great to see flying cute baby
NonyaBusiness,
It was calculated!
F = ma.
That pretty well sums up the Newtonian universe!
Hey, look over there! I see another mountain top you can land on.
Nice flying, that is a kit fox ,just fold the wings and it won't fly away while your gone. Also a 8 x 10 tarp will keep most of your wings free of frost when they are folded did that with my Avid many times.
Ray Fletcher it didn’t even cross my mind! 🤦♂️. Hopefully there won’t be a next time but if there is, I’ll remember the wings fold!
Thanks!
Face Palm - 🤦♂️
@Wroger Wroger It's big rocks up there, for sure! Ray:Folding the wings: yeah, that'll work, depending on how much fuel in the wing tanks. It was a real stable high pressure system, a very slim chance of any wind that night, no biggie. I had a Kitfox 1 and used that trick a few times in similar emergencies. But the 1 had a fuselage tank, (12 gallons as I recall) not just wing tanks, so that helped a bit in unplanned wing folding.
Jonas I love ur personality and calmness👍
That take off was absolutely wicked
Bad decisions make for awesome stories.
Bad decisions makes you a better problem solver.
Bad decisions lets you know you have true friends.
Bad decisions is part of living life.
But bad decisions can bite you in the ass.
Stay frosty my friend.
Bad Decisions Make You Dead...Stone Dead
Diffrent ways of living life
Some people go through life with out ever knowing what it means to be truly scared or happy. Some people never find out what they are capable of doing. If that means making a mistake or bad decision. There soul is never fulfilled. Just my 2 cent
escolhas erradas podem fuder com a sua vida. Deixa de ser trouxa, da proxima sorte pode nao ser tão generosa bro. Take care.
@@stuguy2 : Nah, those are *horrible* decisions that make you dead.
“Two bros chillin’ on a snowmobile, 5 feet apart cause they’re not gay”
Jk love your vids👍🏼
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Saludos desde Mexico,un abrazo para usted!!...very nice.very nice!!....happy for you and your plane.
In my mind, smartest thing would have been too sack out and take off at first light, secondly, you could have always bright the skis off the other plane in on sled
Just let the tyres down as low as possible.
Man that takeoff was intense. I admire the perseverance
It really was!
Big ups to Tom because not only did he pick you up and get you somewhere warm and safe he let bro use his ride and did everything he could to help 🔥🙌🙌
I won't state the obvious.
I'm glad you're safe and that you have such great friends.
Tom's like you can use my car and go anywhere you want but you sure as hell aint spendin the night at my place
Amazing film work! I'm genuinely jealous of the filming and editing skill!
You should just watch more tv.
😉
No, but really.
Its all timing. Watch your favourite show and count the seconds of each -scene- cut.
You might be surprised how short each one is.
@@alexanderzerka8477 I cannot tell if you are being sarcastic or not. If so funny response. If not, I want to be clear I honestly just trying to help the guy out whilst adding some levity. There is no need to be jealous, just need to improve one's self. TV
If you do believe that my post contained malice of any kind, I would say you need to explore your own mindset. As my implication was intended to be jovial, but your inference of it, found it to beneath that of a decent social standard. I understand that there is some ambiguity when reading posts on the internet, and that misinterpretations are common. I don't begrudge you if this is the case.
I'm just saying, You might want to ask yourself, why you are seeing malice where non exists?
@@alexanderzerka8477
It's clear who is trying to be a jerk here.
Your misinterpretation of my post is a refection of you, not I.
What do you mean I, "completely miss the point of how [I myself am] coming across.
My entire response was about this very subject? How did you miss that point?
Critical Reading Skills; you aren't applying them.
@@alexanderzerka8477 How is it you poses this amazing ability to make such assertions of another with so little evidence? I mean professional psychologists whom have dedicated their lives to the practice, don't even poses this skill. It's truly uncanny.
Moreover; when the person in questions, clarifies their meaning (showing the inaccuracies of your claims), rather than accepting that you may have been in error, you continue make more assertions about this person you have never met. I think it interesting that you have invoked a concept narcissism into a the conversation whilst going down this road.
@@alexanderzerka8477 In your opinion, which is more narcissistic
1) A person that offers an apology for an unintentional offense?
or
2) A person attempting to belittle another with words like "Jerk", "spectrum disorder", and "arrogant asshole", whilst also being unwilling to concede that they may have been wrong, when the author provides more details to their intended meaning?
Again I suggest that you ask yourself, "How much of my opinion have I applied to his words?" and "Am I listening and applying what he is saying to me, to my claim?"
Only imagine if you didn't have a camera or a cell! Tom looked like he's been rescuing youngsters from those peaks for the last 50 years. =) Cheers to friends!
My guess is there was probably a lot of being rescued first. Wisdom is built on a foundation of bad decisions
Well, at least he didn't flip it this time.
Wanted to see him put that snowmobile back in the truck!
play the video backwards.
Best 20 minutes on RUclips all week!!! Your content has been killing it. Thanks for making it.
James Laursen feelt lika e movie!
That dudes house where he can land and take off is beautiful.
Song is called Suffer City by Blues. Thank me later :)
mat mat 1 - Thank you, now.
i'll thank you right now!
Thank you!
Darwin award trials, 2019. lol You're right, you won't ever try that again :D Wild video man.
But sometimes your deviations from caution lead to your best adventures -- as long as you live through it. This is a good place to plug a great book: Deep Survival -- Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why.
I bet he still had a good time doing it... Adventure at it's best, he had the balls to try it, it all worked out.
That was awesome, but a few passes for runway evaluation may have prevented it....don't ask me how I know!
Wow, what an adventure. You are a lucky guy with great friends. Just fantastic to see how you guys have eachothers back. Thanks for sharing
And that's how that mountain got named "Regret Ridge"
As an old, 7500 hour, conservative pilot I was shaking my head, but by the time you got out of there I was enjoying it. Fly safe and enjoy life.
Couldn't your friend have brought you some skis to install on your plane?
put em in the back of the plane
Yep. That was my first thought too.
That is what I thought he was bringing him. Lol
@@RyanReddell but they didn't.
A+‼️🤪
The moment when you realize you wish you had VTOL. Idaho is my native homeland, it's so beautiful. Where is this location?
I finally got around to watching this. Not sure why it took me so long!
Great video, shows that sometimes we put ourselves in bad situations and shit happens.
All we can ever do is learn from experiance.
Wow some people really live life. Way to go. I love it.
Hello Jonas great video's on the tube. As a retired Navy pilot I would not have landed there except for an emergency. I flew C-130's into the south pole back in the 80's and even with ski's it was dicey at times. You are fortunate that a heavy wind didn't blow you off the mountain.
Glad you survived to make more video's.
Fly safe and you will live a long life!
You seen incident prone. Incidents in planes will bite you eventually. Take care out there.
The fact that you shared your bad decision so eloquently
the fact that you shared with us your recovery method
the fact that you shared with us all of your amazing friends who care enough about you and help you
all of that means more to me than anything else
of course, I'm sure you wish you had the turbo version of that road tax motor at that moment
I wonder if there was more than 75 hp, helping you at the time of take off
well done
you make me like KITFOX.... Even more, which is hard to do
again, thanks for sharing
That was super enjoyable to watch. Great job!
Oh man it was fun , great experience, bravo 👏
That's what you get for not bringing enough beer. Then you don't have one to throw out the window
and see how it lands in the snow.
The lack of skis was probably not the only problem. At 8000' a normally aspirated engine is producing only a fraction of the power it can at sea level, even at freezing temperatures, not to mention the higher speeds required for takeoff. The down-slope is probably what saved the day.
@@matwest711 Dumb ass comment
Lower temperature makes air thicker which makes planes fly better.
That's what superchargers are for.
The other plane didn't have any issue coming over right away and then take off with two people
Skis, downslope take off ...
Looks like your tail wheel was basically a brake in the soft stuff.
Joe- I was thinking the same thing. He mentioned needing 31" wheels, but I think he just needed a bigger tail wheel, or maybe a ski there.
This looks awesome, just flying at your own leisure.
Glad you made it off safe. Having said that, what part of landing on a suspect mountain top (without skies no less) sounded like a good idea?
Probably the coolest thing I have ever seen on RUclips
"It's really beautiful up here"
- Shows pics of plane....
congratz getting her back man!!!!
Hi Jonas
At what point, exactly, did you say to yourself "Oh Shit!"?
I have a great life where I am, a good family, wife, daughter and grandchild, work is good and home is good too but I've never been so jealous of a guy with his plane stuck up a mountain. The way you guys get to live out in these places is amazing to me. I live on an island 9 miles long by 3 mile wide island and the ocean is our wilderness but your part of the world is truly beautiful beyond words.
This sounds like a case of ”the grass is greener on the other side.” Sounds like both of you have beautiful backyards and views. 👍
@@RyanReddell That's an excellent comment and you are correct.
I live in the mountain West and dream of an island.
never seen two people stand up and ride a sled
Yeah, what was that about? I'm guessing one of them doesn't want to ride bitch.
@Never PC can't be. They had a GPS location telling them where it would be.
On mountain sleds the seat is just big enough for one to sit on. No room for passenger. Riding like that sucks but is the only way.
There's old pilots and there's bold pilots!
But there are no old bold pilots!!
Just dropped a link in your newest video comments. Hope people come here. Probably your best all around video!
You just taught me what schadenfreude means. Thanks!
Contrary to some of those commenters; I believe you made an intelligent, calculated decision. It was not an unacceptable risk. You had several backup plans. Ultimately, you were successful - after a little hardship. Even had you not been, you were not risking life, only property.
The only way to avoid this sort of situation is to fly from point 'A' to point 'B', and always land on long / wide paved surfaces.
You handled the results of your decisions like a man. You gave us all a thrill in the process.
Great story. Great storytelling. Thank you.
@Individual 1 Agreed. He risked his own life, but worse, risked the lives of others. What if Tom hadn't stopped on his landing...or if the ridge had collapsed? Going after 'thrills' should only be done at your own risk, not others.
He said something about 'stupid'. He's right.
@Individual 1 - No, you missed the part about TWO planes flying off that peak within 12 hours. Who knows when all those tracks that were already there were laid down, but many people have obviously visited that spot; were already there and gone. Good precedent that it was do-able, and a Kit Fox is as close to a hang glider as an airplane gets.
The snow the next morning was more firm (as water will do when subjected to cold), as anticipated. That slope was so long and way downhill, that only an F-105 'Thud', couldn't have made it into the air. It was as close to a catapult launch as the author is ever likely to get.
Keep flying those ILS approaches. Everyone enjoys life in his/her own way.
Probably would have dropped the tire pressure to the bare minimum you can land again with. Would have helped you float.
I don’t think that would help that little tail wheel
@@OffTheBeatenPath_ ... blow the tail up
@@hotrodray9884 I didn't see him able to do that
What a blessing to have such friends
WOULD LOVE TO STAY IN SOME PLACE LIKE THAT. And fly about in place and snow wagons... RESPECT. “🏴SCO”
A bad situation, but I love that you approached it with calm, joy, and friends! Thank you for sharing this.
Wow! Man I love this... like fantastic story and plot progression, killer video my guy! I think everyone needs a friend like Sander to be their hype man. You should shoot some stuff of Sander shredding on his sled.
I'm sure Amazon would have overnight shipped some skis right to your Kitfox. Lol
MrBtdobie that would have been nice!
Two hour drone delivery like in Chicago I believe.
My thoughts, or perhaps AAA?? U might need AAA Gold though for that trip
These things don't always turn out the way we want them to but I admire your spirit of adventure. I'll bet your armchair critics have seldom enjoyed an adventure like this. Stay at 'er!
The last guy I watched tried this ended up upside down. So, there's that. Better than the other guy's day.
Well despite this fella I have know some smart pilots in my time.. Kind of a dangerous toy to play with if your not on top of your game.. Well, any mistake that doesn't kill you makes you smarter eh? well done son!
2:47 , “Best Ill-timed Comment Award” Champion: “...gosh, I gotta get skis!”. Priceless!
I think we know what your next plane upgrade is gonna be. XD
Oh hey James your here too! lol
JohnnyBoythePilot wow gee you’ve found me again!
In sand we deflate the tires - would that work in snow?
Yes, because it increases the surface area of the tire touching the ground. Snow is like sand but wet.
Key Rules of GA....Leave no fuel behind, no runaway behind and now ....no skiis behind...
OMG the quality of the footage, like 'werk' videos here and editing are soo cool it seems to be a planned bad decision to make such a good footage with drones etc ;)
Tfw you're chilling watching a beautifully edited video on backcountry flying, and then one of the sickest freeskiers out there just shows up outa no where
15:45 "is that yours?" nah its some other guys yellow plane ya dimwit
Could deflating the tires a bit ( works in sand ) help to distribute the weight on more ground and allow less rolling resistance ?
q80aziz you would just have that much more drag.
That’s for traction. You don’t need traction here.
That was an awesome video! Good work on filming a real adventure! Could not have been better if it were scripted! I really enjoyed watching people pull together to help save the day.
Umm, I think that it was scripted...
Boys, boy, boys - and that's not a criticism ! Stay young brothers. I'm watching this from the comfort of my home in the beautiful New Forest in the South of England UK. My local scenery is great in its own way but those snowy mountains - WOW. Great video, thanks
Just stumbled across this video. Incredible. Loved it!!
That was awesome 👍 nothing wrong with making bad dicisions every now and then. Its a learning experience and just makes you a more experienced pilot every time and it's fun to talk about it afterwards. Keep the great content coming👌
Jonas, you can look at this as a story you'll save for your grandkids. I grew up in the late '40s & through the 1950s in Alaska with a dad who flew in the bush. Winter flying was nearly always on skis and summer was on floats. Some of what paid the bills was hauling freight (food, tools, dynamite, etc.) to the miners in the mountains. Being winter-time in Alaska, the daylight hours are limited so often he would have to fly in and unload midday, secure the plane with the tail strut tied to a post anchored in the ice & snow. The plane spent the night with a tarp over the cabin & engine down around a flat metal pan beneath the engine covered with BBQ briquettes. The heat rising off the pan kept the oil from turning into tar.
The next morning (midday!) when the sun came up, he'd fire it up and take the time to get well into operating temp range. The typical temps were in the -20 to -30 degree range and often colder. It was a bit like your experience, diving off the top and gathering flying speed before you hit anything along the way. The difference was it was off a glacier and you couldn't depend upon the surface not to flake off and leave you even shorter for a "runway."
The general flying population down in the states (Alaska was still a territory.) just couldn't conceive of those conditions. I really enjoyed your video, those of Trent Palmer, and those of the other Flying Cowboys. The internet and RUclips has brought this experience to a huge audience that never would have been able enjoy this. A few -50 degree storms and the effort required to survive them are certainly not fun at the time but they do make great memories...
Thanks Jonas for telling us your story. I'm subscribed and looking forward to your next adventure!!
-Gary
Gary Goodlund thanks for telling your story! I love hearing stories like that. wow. just wow. Thanks for subscribing. I'm glad to bring you along for the adventures.
Shoots video on ski flying
Talks about how important skis are
Immediately decides to land on snow without them
"Oh no! I can't take off"
Dude, you're lucky to have such awesome friends. What an adventure! You got yourself into a bad situation, you got yourself out.
@D. Jones
No, I believe his absolutely great friends got him out of his bad situation. But I will say this: a man is known by the company he keeps and if Tom and the Sandster are who he mixes it up with, he may, just may not be half bad.Nice save guys...semper fi - OORAH!
Brother, I clicked because of the thumbnail and subscribed because of the music!
you should return his ropes and fill up his fuel tanks
Gawd, that was hilarious! Every element of a great comedy was present in that video, complete with a marvelous cast 😂 🤣 I've done some damned fool things in my years of flying but, if you're alive at the end, what else can you do but laugh?