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Low Lead
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This channel started as a way for Mike to save and share some fun videos flying his L-16. Since then, a few of us got together and had some fun ideas for small adventures we could have in aviation that we would enjoy documenting. Fast forward to present day, and we are starting to finally share some of the things we have been getting up to. At this point we are a small channel, just a couple friends, and some low budget shenanigans. Hope you all enjoy.
-The Low Lead Gang
-The Low Lead Gang
Ep9 : A backcountry lesson and first "solo"
Recently Lars and his coworker Christian took a Super cub to the world famous (locally) backcountry airstrip known as Chukar Flats for a bush flying leson. After a bit of Practice Lars got out and Let Christian get a few Solo laps in to really get comfortable flying in and out of this somewhat technical little strip.
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Ep8 A Roadtrip: collecting rare vintage aircraft to bring back to the WAAAM.
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Back in April Lars got the chance to check off a life long goal (that he had only had for 6 months) to go visit one of the best private collections of golden age aircraft on the west coast. and with several other Museum crew members help bring back to hood river 2 Very special vintage aircraft. as well as getting to see with a couple other surprises.
Ep7.5 An Update!
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Its been a while. So I decided to take a few minutes to give everyone an update about all the things taking place behind the scenes at Low Lead. mostly its Airplanes, and Airplanes, and more Airplanes! But there is also, building stuff, and making things, and art projects, and even a hot rod.
Ep7 A Side Quest in our Favorite Warbird.
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After an unexpected complication developed involving Lars' choice of paint on a set of hand painted valve covers for a J-3 Cub restoration. Mike came to the rescue with his L-16 to fly out to one of his favorite private airstrips so Lars could fix the problem.
Ep6 : Stunning formation adventure with a Ford Trimotor
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Back in May of 2023 Lars stumbled into a once in a lifetime opportunity to fly formation with a Legendary Ford Trimotor through the scenic Columbia River Gorge. Flying escort to a vintage airliner into PDX for Alaska Airlines aviation day event. In so doing we got to participate in a flight of two arrival for a Golden hour landing in formation with an icon from the golden age of aviation.
Ep5 : Epic mountain views, and airports on our quest to find vintage airplane parts
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Mike and Lars set out on an overnight trip to procure parts for Lars' build. Along the way we visited a couple really fun mountain airports with our buddy Tor Bieker of Great Wave Aviation www.greatwaveaviation.com , Before Stopping for the night at a private strip that is the home of Bushliner. The Next morning we set out to visit Dan at Old Aire in search of elusive stock 1940s Grumman Widgeo...
Ep4.5 : A Day At the WAAAM (How the Heck Did I get this Lucky?)
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In a follow up to our Episode 4 Fly-In video, Lars spends a bit of time at the WAAAM with some post Fly-In cleaning while explaining how he managed to find himself in the rather special position of getting to fly some of the rarest aircraft in the world. Then takes us for a look behind the scenes in the restoration hanger to see what other exciting projects are in the works.
Ep .5 A Teaser, (Updated and Re-Uploaded)
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A Little Taste of what We're about and what is to come.
Ep4 : The WAAAM 2023 fly-in. (flying 2 rare antique Waco biplanes)
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Sharing some of the highlights of the 2023 Hood River Fly-in. Including some behind the scenes of the event and some formation flying, also Lars was given the opportunity to fly an airplane he has dreamed of getting to see for over a decade, and then to cap off an amazing weekend got to fly the oldest Flying Waco biplane in the world.
Ep3.5 A Different Red Biplane (The TacAero Waco)
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In anticipation of the Western Antique Aircraft and Auto Museum's (WAAAM) Fly in in one week. We decided to share a short video of Lars ferrying TacAero's Waco UPF-7 from The Dalles to Hood River for last years fly-in. this year is already shaping up to be a fantastic event and if you live anywhere in the PNW and enjoy vintage aircraft we encourage you to check it out!
Ep3 : A New Standard (Flying the Big Red Biplane)
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Come along on a Biplane Ride while Lars does his monthly refresher/shakedown flight in the WAAAM's New Standard D-25 In this episode we get to see a little behind the scenes of the museums Ride plane, as well as learn a little about the history of this airplane. Special "guest appearance" at the end.
Ep2 A Bad Idea, Lars is building an airplane.... that seems like it could be a problem
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While Mike is absent, Lars Introduces his airplane project. and then takes us on a sunset biplane ride in TacAero's Waco UPF-7
Ep1 An Introduction
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Mike and Lars Take the L-16 out for an after work ridge run, and introduce themselves. Moving forward we plan to put out monthly videos, we have some fun plans in the work for other content, and some other flyers we will be introducing in future episodes. That said we are new to TH-cam and would love to get your feed back. Do you want more talking? Less Talking? landing practice? Gossip? And wh...
Vintage Army Taildragger Crop Duster Strip Short Field Take Offs
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Super low density altitude farm strip touch and goes in 1947 straight piped C85 Aeronca 7BCM w/metal climb prop, 8.50 tires and no electrical system. NOTE: Posted for entertainment value only. NOT a substitute for certified flight instruction.
Aeronca Champ Gorgeous Fall Colors Take Off (Wide Angle)
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Grass departure from 4S2 RW 7 Hood River, Oregon out to the mighty Columbia River in C85 powered 1947 Aeronca L-16A. This is the less favored calm wind runway due to the river canyon. NOTE: Posted for entertainment value only. NOT a substitute for certified flight instruction.
Army L-16 Grass Strip Power Off 180 Approach & Landing (Wide Angle)
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Army L-16 Grass Strip Power Off 180 Approach & Landing (Wide Angle)
1947 Aeronca L-16A Departing KDLS RW 31
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1947 Aeronca L-16A Departing KDLS RW 31
Deep Woods Grass Strip Departure 1947 Aeronca L-16A
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Deep Woods Grass Strip Departure 1947 Aeronca L-16A
Back in the 1960's we didn't have shoulder harnesses on ours (N6081V). Just a heavy military type webbed lap belt. Keep it flying, my friend.
Lars Jr? If so, I was at Pilot Pastures when we lost Lars Sr. I remember helping when his starter on the T-6 was slipping.
This is indeed Lars Jr. It's always nice to hear from one of dad's friends.
@@low_lead Cheers.
Great to see, thanks for sharing!
Happy to. Glad you liked it.
Nice short flight, enjoyed it!😄
Too much " music"...this is airplane stuff ...not big band or dance ha!! Entertainment!!!
Fun day!
It was definitely a fun day. It's hard work, but somebody's gotta do it.
You chaps are so lucky to have area like that to land in, even in Scotland we would be very hard pushed to find places as wild as that on which we could land.
We are very fortunate to have so many amazing wild places that are relatively close to home. It's definitely easy to forget how spoiled we are to have these opportunities. But this is one spot that does make you stop and really appreciate just how lucky we are.
@@low_lead the States are so open for aviation, I hope you can keep it that way.
Awesome, once again. I need to make my way down there once the weather cooperates.
Please do!
Epic John Day River footage. Love how chill you are giving technical canyon flying instruction - making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.
It's amazing how comfortable you can get doing something this technical when you do it on a regular basis.
Spectacular
Thank you!
I want to see the petroglyphs.
Nice plane. All you need to have a great time flying. Do you have still the Hemingway "A farwell to arms" starter?
Love that name for it. Yes, it still has the old "Armstrong" starter.
Cool music
Thank you, I'm rarely completely satisfied with my music selections, but some of them end up pretty ok.
Engine PW 450 hp?
It is indeed. (Assuming you mean the Cunningham-Hall)
2:20 that is a beauty!
it really is! I am hoping to get an opportunity to do a little bit more in depth episode about the Cunningham-Hall in a future episode. if all goes well.
Very VERY good video. Good views od what went on and showed how much you like and care for vintage aviation, what more could you do, well I don't know.
Thanks. I feel incredibly spoiled to get to participate in these types of adventures. and hope to continue sharing exciting airplanes in the future.
@@low_lead Well that is your USP and what makes your channel different to others.
nice early-50s truck there. 5 window or 3 window? and lol, hopped up on red bull.
Thanks! it's a 5 window. It'll probably make an appearance in the future.
Thanks for showing us a video of your face. Too bad we couldn't see the airplanes.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked the video.
THANKS SO MUCH ! I'm absolutely in love with vintage aircraft. The rare, and unusual are even more fascinating. Thank you so much for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Felicidades al cámara y montador del film 🤗🤗
Gracias!
It looks like you borrowed an 8 year old girls sunglasses.
Borrowed implies I intend to give them back. I'm keeping these.
Beatiful aircrafts!!!
They really are!
Arrow sport F? ( the I don't know airplane,) There's a Thomas Morse at rhinebeck.never saw it fly, but they've got lots of rotary engine stuff to entertain
its not an Arrow F. When and if I find out what it is I'll report back here. to let you know.
you were Close! its an Arrow Sport M (the F has a ford flathead V-8)
Excuse/ Flight Trip: I see a long 180 x-country in our future!!
10:20-11:00 that is an epic fly by! Also the slo-mo of you hand propping it is super cool
yeah, I've watched that clip countless times now, and keep coming back for more. I have a couple other cool clips that aren't as well shot I am hoping to figure out how to use in the future. I had a bit of fun trying to capture that slow-mo hand start, some of which are..... not graceful.
Loving the episodes! Keep sharing!
Thanks! We will certainly do our best to keep them coming.
Congrats to WAAAM on the new acquisitions!
Not that I'm qualified to speak on behalf of the museum but as a volunteer, thank you! we are all pretty excited about their arrivals.
I like the part where you showed airplanes. (Swallowed a handful of prescription jealousy blockers to sit through this.) #somanycoolradials
Ole Fahlin prop. My wet dream is that some day somewhere in front of the plane like that TM. someone would go. "Look at this prop think that someone has made this by simple tools" and I would go.Yes gimme a Week and I make one I have made a fifty props.
Wooden propellers are a true work of art.
So awesome. Nice job. You should bring a plane to the Olympia Airshow !
I would love an opportunity to do so. The WAAAM is very open to the ide of taking aircraft to various airshows. The biggest hurdle seems to be getting invited/sponsored to pay for the fuel and insurance to do so.
Nice wheels.
They are!
Looking forward to the Reno episode! (I need to work on mine too) We need to fly soon!
Yeah the Reno episode has been a struggle. Agreed we do need to fly soon!
What a laugh! 🙂 Looking forward to the road trip.
Thanks! I'm chipping away at it. Hopefully it won't be much longer
Here is your encouragement,... Keep up the great work. I know the paine of pointing on camera! BTW I didn't know you were up here with Don and the 140, we are literally neighbors on the Eastside.
Thanks man! Don is a good friend of mine. I ferryed the 140 up to Paine when he first got it and then drove up for a few days this past winter to get him his tailwheel endorsement.
I know this guy.
Lars, good to see a new posting and I can't believe you are too heavy to fly WAAAM's smaller aircraft....I could see one of the gliders being an issue, but powered aircraft?? Keep up the good work 👍Dale
Thanks! Glad to be back to posting videos. I'm not hugely overweight. But at 6'1" & 230lbs I am more person than a lot of the small single seat, sub 50hp airplanes were ever designed to handle.
@@low_lead Well, 230 is a health weight 😉 and most pilots were really small people back then.
What a coincidence, I’m watching random plane videos on TH-cam, and I see the 540 delta mike, the plane I use as a student based out of dallesport
Delta Mike is a great plane. I think a lot of people have fond memories of this plane.
❤👍
Im interesting in knowing about the red one with the F-24 looking landing gear and the uncowled individual cylinders, what is it.
That one is a 1928 Waco ATO. It is a taper wing, with a 440 hp Wright Whirlwind.
that private field is super beautiful. I'm guessing it's somewhere near grove, can you name it or is it Super Secret? guessing WA78 Sky River Ranch.
pilot brought along a change of caps for diversity.
I'm not sure what change of hats... unless you mean us switching seats? Sorry not getting the joke.
Great video! Weather permitting, I'll be flying up the Gorge for the first time this weekend. Just got back into flying last October.
Exciting! It's a beautiful flight, and this video doesn't do it justice. Let us know if you see any roosters.
did you do it? hood river was pleasantly busy on Saturday.
@@flysport_tedder It ended still being IFR/MVFR at our planned departure time so we changed the plan and went west towards Astoria instead. I did see that later in the day it cleared up beautifully so next time I'm going to try to rent a block of time in the afternoon.
@@BeauInPDX where were you flying out of? I was leaving HIO, it was on the verge of MVFR in the morning, and then there was a big pile of clouds in the afternoon just off the west end.
I was at KTTD, we ended up going up NW staying to the east to SCP, over Kelso. Definitely saw some clouds building on the way back into TTD.@@flysport_tedder
Thanks from a former owner/student with a 1946 7AC, the C85 was more powerful than the 1969 VW Squareback (65 horsepower, air-cooled). Taking a winter month off out of Alaska to Reno-Stead to learn with a Super Decathlon was the best PPL training for a "new guy". Spending the day at the airport, with other opportunities. (We need to warm up this Cessna 177 before it goes into the shop to fix the flaps. Yeah, we don't need flaps with Aeroncas, so I logged three no-flap landings before we pushed it into the shop.) After that first break to Nevada, I splurged and replaced an old passive headset with a new Sennheiser HME-100MG (designed by Michael Goulian). My uncle on Mom's side learned to fly in the 1950s with a Champ, and bought one as they were being sold off by other operations in the Twin Cities. We traded experiences by mail, and before his passing, mailed a copy of the Aeronca Aviators Club magazine so he and his daughter had a brightened day while she was his caregiver. 8.50-6 bush wheels, compare to the 1955 flight logs of Elemendorf AFB pilots flying the Champ in the Copper River. Now it's Super Cubs with monster tires and more horses... 😄
Thanks for sharing the storys. Mike sure got himself a good little airplane. And it's amazing how much money people spend on big tires just to go to the same places we go in Mike's champ.
"the Battery ran out in my ANR". 😂Happens all the time!
Yes I do.
2runways and you use the grass?
I loved the comment "I have learnt to let go of your estimates, I have brought a sleeping bag". The halos around aircraft shadows is always fun to see. Funny how the people at the airfield a keen on aircraft 🙂 Every time you try to do a piece to camera, the radio fires up with people making looong calls, it's how 90% of my videos go 🙂
Clover loves this. The music, your voice, and of course she’s all about aviation. 😂
Sooo exciting 😊
Thanks! It was a pretty exciting weekend.