I used to do inspections on small Beeches in the 80's. It never ceases to amaze me how good an old well maintained airplane never shows its age...almost like stepping back in time.
Lots of comments on audio. I could hear everything you were saying...just had to turn it up a little. Last time I checked, you were doing this on your own time for free. 🙊 I appreciate you taking me up for a ride "virtually". Always enjoyable to have a birds eye view. Felt like I was a parrot on your shoulder, Captain.
indylovelace He’s aware and has acquired sound equipment for better sound recording but for some reason he lapsed back to camera mike-only for this project.
Bruce, you may have missed my point. People like to sit in their lazy boy and bitch about how much the video sucks because of sound quality, lighting camera stability and the list goes. One comment stated "worst video he's made". Juan can't make a reply like this because he loses 5,000 subscribers, but one of his fans can. In the mean while, the vast majority of viewers haven't gotten up out of their chair and produced a single video or original content in their life. So instead of judging. I'd recommend they say...hey Juan, sound quality was a little difficult to hear and leave it at that instead of throwing in all the judgmental "you need to do better" comments. A polite suggestion to a very intelligent person will get the job done. Hope that clarifies where I was coming from.
indylovelace Yes, and I’ve been doing professional video and audio production since 1980 and when I was young and dumb I owned and flew my own airplane in 1963 and I earned my instrument and commercial ratings so I identify with Juan, both as a pilot and a videographer. He knows who I am and he has thanked me for my constructive criticism and advice for improving his recordings. Please read the other comments and threads about the sound on this file and some that have Juan’s replies. We are subscribers and we want him to continue to succeed and I and I suspect others share his videos so that his views and subscribers increase.
Another great video, and a wonderful airplane... thanks for taking us along for the ride. And handling the bumps so well... I hope to do as well one day!..
Congratulations on the Bonanza. I flew one of those in 1961 to satisfy the "complex aircraft" requirement to get my commercial. Dad had a 1958 Skylane back then... a fun and practical family airplane. I miss those days. The Bonanza will be a fine family airplane for you. You'll need a helicopter next in your airplane stable. Happy Landings!
Good ol' airplane (Airworthiness Date 1956-02-03). My brother had flown many of those in his many years of flying. He also flew for Slick Airways and I believe when with them he flew "Connies". I remember him taking us up in one of these planes way back in the 1960's. As always, love your videos.
That brought back memories! I used to fly Bonanzas (more correctly; Debonaires) ... took my CFI checkride in one (no throw-over yoke and no passenger side brakes). That was a C-33 model. I love how they fly! And I love watching your flying videos!
Brilliant video Juan, thank you for sharing. Brings back memories of flying the "Turbo Banana" in the 70's when my father flew. Love the view from the cockpit.
Juan you have such a great way of putting things across! Whether talking bikes or flying planes, I can listen to you all day. Would give my eye teeth to fly with you in that beautiful Bonnie. Stay safe and looking forward to your next Max 8 & 9 update.
Juan, Thank You for taking us along. I used to work as a Flight Medic on a Twin Beech Bonanza Air Ambulance in SoCal. , but I don't fly any more, I've walked away from two air crashes - one Fixed Wing & one Rotary - so I'm not going to tempt Fate.
Juan, Your explanation of a military approach reminded me of how we went into hot LZs in a huey, nearly 50 years ago. Right over the LZ, reduce power (lower collective), pull back to 60 knots, then turn into a tight 60 degree bank. Usually a couple of rotations and we were doing a cyclic flare in the last 270 degrees of turn. Just a touch of collective at the end for a smooth landing or enough to hover. The main point was, if we had lost the engine during the approach, we were still going to land in the LZ. I love watching your approaches. Constant adjustment, keeping the aircraft where you want it to be.
Juan, what a nostalgia trip watching your video! Our lives seem so similar: I flew light aircraft through college, then the T-38 as an IP at Webb AFB, then rebuilt a 1947 Bonanza (ser num 62) following a gear up landing flying it for 21 years, then got on with Delta for a 30.5 year career ending up on the B767-400. No wonder I watch all your videos! Thanks again for your fine work!
I learned something again watchin' ya Juan! I've watched the Air Guard C-130's doing big circular approaches to the airport here in Reno for years. I always marvel at the steep bank angles they use here a lot. I just told myself that is a "combat approach". Now I understand more of why, thanks!!
Great video as always. Just saw a Bonanza fly over the house the other day - strange to think that's $100 an hour right there :). Been listening to two great eBooks - Lords Of The Sky by Dan Hampton (history of fighter pilots and aviation) and The Aviators by Winston Groom (about Rickenbacker, Doolittle, and Lindbergh). They really do make me wish I had pursued a pilots license years ago. Thanks for taking us flying!
Thank you so much for not using a billion cut jumps like some other channels. It's nice just to hear somebody talk in normal Cadence with a pause plus love the content thanks a lot
That brought back some memories. I did my complex endorsement in a BE33 Debonair. Beautiful aircraft to fly. Fast, solid and capable of some impressive short field work too.
Thanks for taking us along ! My boss back in the late seventies had one of those along with a Mooney M20F Executive , I think . I seem to remember some pilots got into trouble with the V tail ? I do not remember what the problem was . Only small plane I spent much time in was a Cessna 172 my buddy used to rent from the Boeing Flight Club around 1980 . If I remember we could rent it for 12 hours for $99 , including fuel ! I was always amazed at how a pilot could know what radio frequencies were needed depending on where you were . The Puget Sound area has several airports and military sites . My favorite runway was Friday Harbor on San Juan Island . You landed up hill and took off downhill . It was also the narrowest paved runway we ever landed on . Look forward to whatever your next video will be , thanks for your effort .
Wikipedia: In the mid-1980s, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the Beechcraft Bonanza due to safety concerns. While the Bonanza met the initial certification requirements, it had a history of fatal mid-air breakups during extreme stress, at a rate exceeding the accepted norm. The type was deemed airworthy and restrictions removed after Beechcraft issued a structural modification as an Airworthiness Directive.
Great Video Juan. I liked the dialog hanging onto the wing at the beginning. Everybody has an Uncle Joe story and mine is that my Doctor in Simi Valley, Dr. Elias Khoury, bought the farm in one of these. Had to find another Dr which was a real chore as he was a gem as well as a local character wearing tie-dye pants and rode a motor scooter around town. Interesting that as a pilot I never came across your explanation of the pattern approach modes used by the Military as opposed to the rest of us flying normal 45º entry patterns. Thanks for the info. Regards.
If i lived out there Juan, i'd go flying with you all the time.I find it fascinating as far as what needs to be done while flying etc. And the sites are great from the sky. Rob
GREAT video! Can tell you've been flying a long time - smooth landing, even in the winds! Also, the first time I've ever seen an AV gas pump nozzle, & fueling. :) I was watching another TH-camr that flies a small jet - he landed at Logan out here in Boston, and paid $8.05 per gallon for jet fuel! Cost him $2,600!!! Then all the fees Massport charges for parking pushed it up well over $3,500 if I remember right. WOW!! Thanks for sharing!
Love your flying stuff Juan. This was great... nice Beechcraft. I guess Avgas only choice. On board voice sound was a bit muted... voice over would have been better I think.
Nice flying and landing. Busy cockpit work for you! Perhaps you can figure out a way to plug comms directly into camera mic input to get around high ambient noise?
Thank you for this video Juan the Cadillac of the sky for sure! As far as gas goes I bet you would spend more on gas in the same year GM Cadillac on this round trip.Taking the heat running ac as well almost 3 hour 1 way trip.Comparing the 2 apples to apples I would think I'd take the sky route every time!
Very nice! I posted a link on the A2A forum. A2A makes really nice flight sim aircraft, one of which is the V35B Bonanza. I always thought that the P-51 Mustang is the "Cadillac of the Skies." Thank you very much for posting.
We lost an old family friend in the early 60s in one of these... Engine failure, easy glide to a farmers field, except for one very tall fence post that caught the pilot side wing root just before touch-down.. instantly rotated the plane thrusting him into the dash.. His wife survived with a broken spine, son in the back only a broken leg, I was a young at the time, and his death, the first pilot I knew to die flying. Be safe Juan..
Good old Doctor Killer ! Flown many a hour in one back in the day . Went to Oshkosh in 74 in it for the EAA fly in . (N 3215 C) and it's still flying down in Fla, .
Your videos are always so great! Love your stuff on Oroville. My wife is a private pilot, and her whole family flies. You should check out Fort Peck Montana
Thanks for the tour, Juan. Great video, not so much for the audio.... If you ever want to make a cross country trip to Utah, I would pay your gas to take me on a ride up over the Uintas!
My dad had a Cessna 180 (tail-dragger) for quite a while. He sold that and bought a used Cessna 310. As a non-pilot, I thought the 310 was sexy, but I liked the high wing of the 182 because I could see more scenery... :-)
Spent many hours maintaining a club’s Bonaza back in Detroit Metro back in the eighties. Loved the Bonaza. We worked for free flight time, just payed for fuel. Sad to give it up when Delta pulled Maintenance in the nineties.
Thanks for the explanation of a military landing pattern. I've seen the circle pattern in books but until you explained it didn't understand what it was for.
years ago when I was getting my PPL my instructor told me the story of a guy that wanted some avgas. Pulled his pick up to the pumps and had a plastic fuel can sitting on a plastic bed liner. it ended badly and since then Ive always filled cans sitting on the ground.
Good stuff Juan, thanks. I think my first ride in a private plane was in a Beeccraft, I was about 7, so I'm not sure. So, do you like the low wings better than the high wings, Dyer told me the low wings were a bit faster...he used to have a Mooney (?), said it was the 'hot rod" of small prop job planes. I always liked the high wings...I like looking down, more that out...better for photography, I think. Thanks again, good stuff.
At 75 knots or 115 you still can get a greaser in a bonanza. Try coming in hot and high in a Mooney Enjoyed your discussion of obi and DME, but was looking for the ADF. If I remember the older bonanzas sometimes had many fuel tanks. Thanks for sharing.
awesome videos all around juan, where's the motorcycle videos :) i cant blame you for flying though i just got to take the stick for the first time a couple weeks ago, a kitfox and an rv7, loved it! im hooked time to start lessons :)
Those Bonanzas are kinda choppy even on good days. Back in the 60's and 70's I lived about 300 yard walk through the woods from a small airport in Bellevue Washington. I spent a lot of time over there talking to the pilots and sometimes got rides from them. Been in a few Bonanzas. Lots of rides in Piper cubs too, in fact they made me get out and ush a few times. (wink)
What do the bombers do if some poor slob like me comes along and tries to fly a standard landing pattern? Actually happened to me once at Columbia, though I was taking off, not landing. Just waited till they were off the runway and got the heck outta there. But it was unnerving knowing they were landing backwards.
Was an awesome video. Next time it's at all possible could you patch us into your mic so we can hear exactly what you're saying when you're in the aircraft?
I was trying to spot your gear and flap handles, but couldn't see them. The old Bonanza pilots would sometimes flip up the gear because it was located right beside the flap handle. They were shaped like flaps and wheels, but so much for that form of biomorphic design! I don't know when they changed them. I was just talking to a guy today who has a '62; he says his has the new-fashioned handles. I wonder if you had a way to plug your mike for the camera right into the intercom if the in-flight audio would be improved? I've never flown the Bonanza, but had the gearbox fail from metal fatigue (or casting flaw?) on the T-34 and plowed a furrow with the spinner. Yeah, I wish you would do more videos like this for the benefit of us private/sport pilots. I like the circling approach, but I didn't know it was legal on a civilian field. Can you straighten me out on that?
So if I understood you right, the tankers that day were taking off down wind? Not being a pilot, I would think they would take off into the wind and land down wind. What am I missing?
Sparkylights Unless there is an extremely strong tailwind, the advantage of the slope and gravity to accelerate to flying speed and obstacle clearance is greater than taking off upwind and upslope.
I used to do inspections on small Beeches in the 80's. It never ceases to amaze me how good an old well maintained airplane never shows its age...almost like stepping back in time.
I always enjoy your teaching and experiance videos, you are a natural teacher Juan. keep on keeping on.
Ray Bankes Thanks Ray!
I own a 1960 V-Tail Bonanza, I love it. I enjoyed your video and look forward to watching more.
Zanshin S Thanks Zan!
Love that Beechcraft Cadillac! Very bumpy and fun to see! Thank you Juan! 🇺🇸
Lots of comments on audio. I could hear everything you were saying...just had to turn it up a little. Last time I checked, you were doing this on your own time for free. 🙊 I appreciate you taking me up for a ride "virtually". Always enjoyable to have a birds eye view. Felt like I was a parrot on your shoulder, Captain.
indylovelace He’s aware and has acquired sound equipment for better sound recording but for some reason he lapsed back to camera mike-only for this project.
Bruce, you may have missed my point. People like to sit in their lazy boy and bitch about how much the video sucks because of sound quality, lighting camera stability and the list goes. One comment stated "worst video he's made". Juan can't make a reply like this because he loses 5,000 subscribers, but one of his fans can. In the mean while, the vast majority of viewers haven't gotten up out of their chair and produced a single video or original content in their life. So instead of judging. I'd recommend they say...hey Juan, sound quality was a little difficult to hear and leave it at that instead of throwing in all the judgmental "you need to do better" comments. A polite suggestion to a very intelligent person will get the job done. Hope that clarifies where I was coming from.
Yes, "he lapsed" lands as being a judgmental phrase. Maybe not your intent, but it how it landed for me.
indylovelace Yes, and I’ve been doing professional video and audio production since 1980 and when I was young and dumb I owned and flew my own airplane in 1963 and I earned my instrument and commercial ratings so I identify with Juan, both as a pilot and a videographer. He knows who I am and he has thanked me for my constructive criticism and advice for improving his recordings. Please read the other comments and threads about the sound on this file and some that have Juan’s replies. We are subscribers and we want him to continue to succeed and I and I suspect others share his videos so that his views and subscribers increase.
Well done. Glad to hear it is with the intent to help Juan succeed.
Thanks for the aviation video. Even if there wasn't any sound, I would still enjoy watching this. I just love going along for the ride.
I live real close to ABQ and see many planes. Haven't seen a Bonanza in ages. Nice to see that a few are still up there. Great ride along, Thanks!
Another great video, and a wonderful airplane... thanks for taking us along for the ride. And handling the bumps so well... I hope to do as well one day!..
Congratulations on the Bonanza. I flew one of those in 1961 to satisfy the "complex aircraft" requirement to get my commercial. Dad had a 1958 Skylane back then... a fun and practical family airplane. I miss those days. The Bonanza will be a fine family airplane for you. You'll need a helicopter next in your airplane stable. Happy Landings!
Fine looking aircraft.My Uncle Joe Townsend use to manage the Tehachapi Airport .These videos bring back good memories.
Nice video Juan... I am a big fan of your aerial themed videos. Thanks for sharing! :)
You have created a riveting channel to observe. I love your dirt biking, dam updates, but most of all piloting skills!
Good ol' airplane (Airworthiness Date 1956-02-03). My brother had flown many of those in his many years of flying. He also flew for Slick Airways and I believe when with them he flew "Connies". I remember him taking us up in one of these planes way back in the 1960's. As always, love your videos.
Beautiful, so much fun and fond memories of bumpy rides and exciting landings in remote places in Alaska.
Thank you for taking me along.
That brought back memories! I used to fly Bonanzas (more correctly; Debonaires) ... took my CFI checkride in one (no throw-over yoke and no passenger side brakes). That was a C-33 model. I love how they fly! And I love watching your flying videos!
Brilliant video Juan, thank you for sharing. Brings back memories of flying the "Turbo Banana" in the 70's when my father flew. Love the view from the cockpit.
Juan you have such a great way of putting things across! Whether talking bikes or flying planes, I can listen to you all day. Would give my eye teeth to fly with you in that beautiful Bonnie. Stay safe and looking forward to your next Max 8 & 9 update.
Juan, Thank You for taking us along. I used to work as a Flight Medic on a Twin Beech Bonanza Air Ambulance in SoCal. , but I don't fly any more, I've walked away from two air crashes - one Fixed Wing & one Rotary - so I'm not going to tempt Fate.
Appreciate the education on the military approaches. Your sky Cadillac looks to be in great shape. Thanks for the video.
Juan, Your explanation of a military approach reminded me of how we went into hot LZs in a huey, nearly 50 years ago. Right over the LZ, reduce power (lower collective), pull back to 60 knots, then turn into a tight 60 degree bank. Usually a couple of rotations and we were doing a cyclic flare in the last 270 degrees of turn. Just a touch of collective at the end for a smooth landing or enough to hover. The main point was, if we had lost the engine during the approach, we were still going to land in the LZ. I love watching your approaches. Constant adjustment, keeping the aircraft where you want it to be.
As with Juan, THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR SERVICE FLY BOYS. 💙💙
Totally awesome and beautiful plane..Thank you so so much for your videos too..
Enjoyed this one, Juan. That view out thru the vent window with your shadow on short final is neat! Bonanzas look cool with gear and flaps down!
Juan, what a nostalgia trip watching your video! Our lives seem so similar: I flew light aircraft through college, then the T-38 as an IP at Webb AFB, then rebuilt a 1947 Bonanza (ser num 62) following a gear up landing flying it for 21 years, then got on with Delta for a 30.5 year career ending up on the B767-400. No wonder I watch all your videos! Thanks again for your fine work!
I learned something again watchin' ya Juan! I've watched the Air Guard C-130's doing big circular approaches to the airport here in Reno for years. I always marvel at the steep bank angles they use here a lot. I just told myself that is a "combat approach". Now I understand more of why, thanks!!
Juan, thanks for the great flight vid in the Bonanza. What a great airplane.
Your flying content is very valuable! Thanks!!!!
Great video as always. Just saw a Bonanza fly over the house the other day - strange to think that's $100 an hour right there :). Been listening to two great eBooks - Lords Of The Sky by Dan Hampton (history of fighter pilots and aviation) and The Aviators by Winston Groom (about Rickenbacker, Doolittle, and Lindbergh). They really do make me wish I had pursued a pilots license years ago. Thanks for taking us flying!
I like all your videos but I especially enjoy your flight related vids, thanks for taking the time to do these.
I kept hearing "Song Bird III" (Sky King television series theme song, my favorite show as a kid) in my head while watching this video.
Duck Landes not too many remember that show, but I made sure I was in front of the black and white tv for my man Sky King!
I have a friend who was such a fan of that show she named her son Sky King. I have all the available Sky King radio shows, it ran from 1947 - 1954.
"Out of the clear blue of the western sky--comes SKY KING!!!"
Couldn't decide who was better looking--Songbird III, or Penny?
I was born in 47 so don't remember the radio version but I sure remember the TV show.
I just love your Channel. Great to see the details of how to fly these awesome flying machines.
Thank you so much for not using a billion cut jumps like some other channels. It's nice just to hear somebody talk in normal Cadence with a pause plus love the content thanks a lot
That brought back some memories. I did my complex endorsement in a BE33 Debonair. Beautiful aircraft to fly. Fast, solid and capable of some impressive short field work too.
Thanks for taking us along ! My boss back in the late seventies had one of those along with a Mooney M20F Executive , I think . I seem to remember some pilots got into trouble with the V tail ? I do not remember what the problem was . Only small plane I spent much time in was a Cessna 172 my buddy used to rent from the Boeing Flight Club around 1980 . If I remember we could rent it for 12 hours for $99 , including fuel ! I was always amazed at how a pilot could know what radio frequencies were needed depending on where you were . The Puget Sound area has several airports and military sites . My favorite runway was Friday Harbor on San Juan Island . You landed up hill and took off downhill . It was also the narrowest paved runway we ever landed on . Look forward to whatever your next video will be , thanks for your effort .
Wikipedia: In the mid-1980s, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the Beechcraft Bonanza due to safety concerns. While the Bonanza met the initial certification requirements, it had a history of fatal mid-air breakups during extreme stress, at a rate exceeding the accepted norm. The type was deemed airworthy and restrictions removed after Beechcraft issued a structural modification as an Airworthiness Directive.
Enjoyed riding along with you Juan . . . Bob
Great Video Juan. I liked the dialog hanging onto the wing at the beginning.
Everybody has an Uncle Joe story and mine is that my Doctor in Simi Valley, Dr. Elias Khoury, bought the farm in one of these. Had to find another Dr which was a real chore as he was a gem as well as a local character wearing tie-dye pants and rode a motor scooter around town.
Interesting that as a pilot I never came across your explanation of the pattern approach modes used by the Military as opposed to the rest of us flying normal 45º entry patterns. Thanks for the info. Regards.
Nice v tail Juan. My Dad had a '50 D model, N5042C, for many years. It had the yaw "preventer" under the rear fuselage. Smooth, fast and pretty quiet.
You’re right about the care required with the doors of light aircraft in windy conditions.
It’s a particular issue in aircraft with “gull wing” doors.
Yep. Love the flying content with you informative take. Thank you!
great video....you just explained to me the landing approach that was used at Moffet when I got to ride/fly the P51 last year
Nice approach and landing, love V-35, amazing flight units................
good job showing us the landing and all
Thanks, Juan, that was fun!! I concur about the voice over in previous comment. Seeing pattern on Garmin was way cool!!
If i lived out there Juan, i'd go flying with you all the time.I find it fascinating as far as what needs to be done while flying etc. And the sites are great from the sky. Rob
GREAT video! Can tell you've been flying a long time - smooth landing, even in the winds! Also, the first time I've ever seen an AV gas pump nozzle, & fueling. :)
I was watching another TH-camr that flies a small jet - he landed at Logan out here in Boston, and paid $8.05 per gallon for jet fuel! Cost him $2,600!!! Then all the fees Massport charges for parking pushed it up well over $3,500 if I remember right. WOW!!
Thanks for sharing!
Man that's a rough ride, and you are a great pilot.
Great video Juan! Love your aircraft stuff. Well done as always!!
Love your flying stuff Juan. This was great... nice Beechcraft. I guess Avgas only choice.
On board voice sound was a bit muted... voice over would have been better I think.
Nice flying and landing. Busy cockpit work for you! Perhaps you can figure out a way to plug comms directly into camera mic input to get around high ambient noise?
Thank you for this video Juan the Cadillac of the sky for sure! As far as gas goes I bet you would spend more on gas in the same year GM Cadillac on this round trip.Taking the heat running ac as well almost 3 hour 1 way trip.Comparing the 2 apples to apples I would think I'd take the sky route every time!
Very nice! I posted a link on the A2A forum. A2A makes really nice flight sim aircraft, one of which is the V35B Bonanza. I always thought that the P-51 Mustang is the "Cadillac of the Skies." Thank you very much for posting.
Thanks Juan , enjoying your channel.
Thank you Jaun that was sweet.
I wonder what ever happened to my departed friend Bob, 1947 Bonanza?
What a cool aircraft!!
We lost an old family friend in the early 60s in one of these... Engine failure, easy glide to a farmers field, except for one very tall fence post that caught the pilot side wing root just before touch-down.. instantly rotated the plane thrusting him into the dash.. His wife survived with a broken spine, son in the back only a broken leg, I was a young at the time, and his death, the first pilot I knew to die flying. Be safe Juan..
Looking good, reminds me of my T-34 days in Corpus Christi!
Jaun you are the best. This was so cool. Thank you.
Great video, Juan. Been years since I've heard reference to a "greaser." And the Bonanza is sure cool.
Good old Doctor Killer ! Flown many a hour in one back in the day . Went to Oshkosh in 74 in it for the EAA fly in . (N 3215 C) and it's still flying down in Fla, .
Your videos are always so great! Love your stuff on Oroville. My wife is a private pilot, and her whole family flies. You should check out Fort Peck Montana
Thanks blanco - really enjoy your flying vids
Had several hours as a passenger in a V tail. I don't know the year they all looked alike to me. Yours looks new
Thank you Juan!
That Bonanza is one beautiful airplane...for 65yo!
Thanks for the tour, Juan. Great video, not so much for the audio.... If you ever want to make a cross country trip to Utah, I would pay your gas to take me on a ride up over the Uintas!
My dad had a Cessna 180 (tail-dragger) for quite a while. He sold that and bought a used Cessna 310. As a non-pilot, I thought the 310 was sexy, but I liked the high wing of the 182 because I could see more scenery... :-)
Spent many hours maintaining a club’s Bonaza back in Detroit Metro back in the eighties. Loved the Bonaza. We worked for free flight time, just payed for fuel. Sad to give it up when Delta pulled Maintenance in the nineties.
Thanks for the explanation of a military landing pattern. I've seen the circle pattern in books but until you explained it didn't understand what it was for.
Love the classic "dash"... :-) You need a small patch of ScotchBrite pad over the mic opening to reduce the wind noise
years ago when I was getting my PPL my instructor told me the story of a guy that wanted some avgas. Pulled his pick up to the pumps and had a plastic fuel can sitting on a plastic bed liner. it ended badly and since then Ive always filled cans sitting on the ground.
Brilliant Juan thanks
I love that you made an excuse for the "squeaker" landing. You will have to touch down on the end so we have a little more excitement. LOL
New to the channel. I love this kind of stuff. Saw many planes like this at the EAA Oshkosh airshow a few weeks back.
My Grandfather was a cropduster pilot back in the day. He also had a landing strip and hanger on his farm in Minnesota.
Good stuff Juan, thanks.
I think my first ride in a private plane was in a Beeccraft, I was about 7, so I'm not sure.
So, do you like the low wings better than the high wings, Dyer told me the low wings were a bit faster...he used to have a Mooney (?), said it was the 'hot rod" of small prop job planes.
I always liked the high wings...I like looking down, more that out...better for photography, I think.
Thanks again, good stuff.
Always entertaining. Good work.
At 75 knots or 115 you still can get a greaser in a bonanza. Try coming in hot and high in a Mooney
Enjoyed your discussion of obi and DME, but was looking for the ADF. If I remember the older bonanzas sometimes had many fuel tanks.
Thanks for sharing.
awesome videos all around juan, where's the motorcycle videos :) i cant blame you for flying though i just got to take the stick for the first time a couple weeks ago, a kitfox and an rv7, loved it! im hooked time to start lessons :)
I'd like to see how the rudder and elevator works on that thing.
So now I know why nv airguard c130 circle around reno so much.😀
That's it!
Thanks!
A cup of joe and Juans video at 530am, east coast. Relaxing.
love that aircraft.
Those Bonanzas are kinda choppy even on good days. Back in the 60's and 70's I lived about 300 yard walk through the woods from a small airport in Bellevue Washington. I spent a lot of time over there talking to the pilots and sometimes got rides from them. Been in a few Bonanzas. Lots of rides in Piper cubs too, in fact they made me get out and ush a few times. (wink)
I had a 1947 straight V35 and flew it all corners of the U.S . It’s great to see your C model. Which way is the best to contribute to your site.
Juan... Could you go back and do a narrated version of this video?
12:10 you also generate static by transferring fuel from the tank to the plane.
That was fantastic! Wish I wasn't a huge wuss growing up as a teen; I'd love to fly now.
Very sweet, always love the Bonanza’s. Such elegant aircraft, but not very forgiving if you don’t know what you’re doing.. 😎
The Cal Fire S-2 airtankers carry 1200 gallons of retardant. Thanks for the great videos.
Yep, but on hot days here at Nevada County, they don't always carry a full load...
Never realized the 1952 had a small rear window. Thought that came on later models but I see I was wrong.
Likely had third window added as I believe you are correct
What do the bombers do if some poor slob like me comes along and tries to fly a standard landing pattern? Actually happened to me once at Columbia, though I was taking off, not landing. Just waited till they were off the runway and got the heck outta there. But it was unnerving knowing they were landing backwards.
They'll work with you...
Sometimes I'm talking on a unicorn frequency. I'm circling around at the time but I eventually come in for a landing.
Have you ever flown a DC-3? Your love of airplanes and flying comes through in your videos.
beautiful plane
Please ACTIVATE the closed captions, bro! Thanks.
Nice grease job.
I hope that old bonanza has the V tail up to current spec.
Oh yeah.
Sweet ride!
Was an awesome video. Next time it's at all possible could you patch us into your mic so we can hear exactly what you're saying when you're in the aircraft?
I was trying to spot your gear and flap handles, but couldn't see them. The old Bonanza pilots would sometimes flip up the gear because it was located right beside the flap handle. They were shaped like flaps and wheels, but so much for that form of biomorphic design! I don't know when they changed them. I was just talking to a guy today who has a '62; he says his has the new-fashioned handles. I wonder if you had a way to plug your mike for the camera right into the intercom if the in-flight audio would be improved? I've never flown the Bonanza, but had the gearbox fail from metal fatigue (or casting flaw?) on the T-34 and plowed a furrow with the spinner.
Yeah, I wish you would do more videos like this for the benefit of us private/sport pilots. I like the circling approach, but I didn't know it was legal on a civilian field. Can you straighten me out on that?
Wayne Tyson just call it out on the Unicom...don't mess up the pattern for others...
Is that similar to Sky King's plane, of the TV show?
So if I understood you right, the tankers that day were taking off down wind? Not being a pilot, I would think they would take off into the wind and land down wind. What am I missing?
The slope of the runway...
Sparkylights Unless there is an extremely strong tailwind, the advantage of the slope and gravity to accelerate to flying speed and obstacle clearance is greater than taking off upwind and upslope.