Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I really enjoyed the first ferry flight of that plane, looking forward to the rest of the ride. Happy holidays.
Great video and also great commentary. So the T-6 pilot & owner, Steve Gustafson is the son of Merle Gustafson. Mr. Merle had a Corsair named "Angel Of Okinawa". He kept in Tallulah Louisiana and would occasionally fly it into Tiger air FBO at MLU in Monroe Louisiana. I worked there for a short time while in college and got to fuel her up. It was a beautiful bird, and Mr. Merle was very nice to me. He and my father, Jack Hardin were old friends and both life-long pilots. Small world.
Hi Jug! Happy to see you are still out there flying. Roger on following the roads. I do that a lot up here in the ADK's. Not a lot of forced landing fields available in these mountains. If you ever get up New England way, be sure to let me know. I'll be happy to fly out for a meetup. I really miss the Patriots gang. I get regular updates from them, but being absent for a few years now, I've kind of lost touch. Fly safe! Thud out...
Thanks Thud. This was my most challenging trip in many ways. I did a reunion show with the Patriots last year at Fleetweek. It was fun, but nothing has really changed. I don't really miss the new team. I miss the old 3 and early 4 ship days.
Beautiful flight Jon. Small flying small airplanes across the country are my favorite trips. Flew my 172N from Florida to Phoenix,AZ and back. All time favorite trip. Thanks for sharing and inspiring me to get out and do a long trip in my 172.
back in 1975 i was flying one of those across the Gobi desert delivering it to company in China for the Inda government. halfway across the desert we lost all the electronics! i had to sit the old bird down on the sand. with no radio we were stuck! in about 2 hours a caravan of Kazakhs desert dwellers happened along. we were saved! the chief took one look at the old bird and was quiet taken with it! i speak some Mongolian, he told us that he would be glad to take us back to civilization if I would give him the old bird! well, I had no choice but to agree. so he sent for a team of camels to come pull the plane to his lair. on the trip across the desert on camel back I noticed the chiefs young daughter, she was a striking beauty! the chief noticed I had taken a liking to her. he felt bad about taking the plane so he told me that he was going to throw in the daughter on the trade! there was no way I could refuse because that would have been an insult! so I took a wife that day in the hot sand. when we got back to America, I got a job with an airline and my wife Altansarnai got pregnant. we soon had a girl; but the kid came out black! i am white! then she got pregnant again, this time she had twins, but something was funny, the twin girls looked a lot like my old flight engineer who was Chinese!! I had noticed he kept in close contact! mostly with Altansarnai! then she got pregnant again! but this time the kid looked black again! and a lot like my co-pilot on the airline I was working for! so I started to drink heavily! then I wrecked the DC 10 I was flying on the runway into a parked 747, I was hog drunk out of my mind! I was fired. so, I took a job at a small airport cleaning out hangers, it was a sad thing. I lost my home and had to move into an old c54 parked on and old abandoned runway at the airport that I work at. the wife's dad gave us a camel and a few goats for food. the girls all got married and then all of them with their no-good husbands moved into our plane home with us! I became so depressed that I am a full time drunk! as I type this, I am looking for a rope to throw over one of the propellers of the c54 and end it all! I HAVE HAD IT!
This engine anytime it wasn't completely warm/hot, it would stumble coming up through 1500-1800 rpms. I think it is due for a carb adjustment/clearning.
When you were in the 2nd at TY, was that when Capt (at the time) Donovan was the F15 Demo pilot? I remember watching him practice over the airfield at the end of the flying day.
@@Jugheadf15 I had to go look it up. November 1991-January 1994, Air Combat Command F-15 Demonstration Pilot, F-15 Eagle West Coast Demonstration Team, 325th Fighter Wing, Tyndall AFB, Fla.
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great documentary. nothing too rushed . great scenery . looking forward to the next video.
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I really enjoyed the first ferry flight of that plane, looking forward to the rest of the ride. Happy holidays.
Great video and also great commentary. So the T-6 pilot & owner, Steve Gustafson is the son of Merle Gustafson. Mr. Merle had a Corsair named "Angel Of Okinawa". He kept in Tallulah Louisiana and would occasionally fly it into Tiger air FBO at MLU in Monroe Louisiana. I worked there for a short time while in college and got to fuel her up. It was a beautiful bird, and Mr. Merle was very nice to me. He and my father, Jack Hardin were old friends and both life-long pilots. Small world.
Wow. What a small world. I never met his father, but I have learned a little from recent research.
Thanks for the ride, always enjoyable and informative when riding along with you! Thanks!
It was a pleasure meeting you in Longview TX. You are cooler in person!
The pleasure was mine Raul. Keep working hard on your flight training.
Hi Jug! Happy to see you are still out there flying. Roger on following the roads. I do that a lot up here in the ADK's. Not a lot of forced landing fields available in these mountains. If you ever get up New England way, be sure to let me know. I'll be happy to fly out for a meetup. I really miss the Patriots gang. I get regular updates from them, but being absent for a few years now, I've kind of lost touch. Fly safe! Thud out...
Thanks Thud. This was my most challenging trip in many ways. I did a reunion show with the Patriots last year at Fleetweek. It was fun, but nothing has really changed. I don't really miss the new team. I miss the old 3 and early 4 ship days.
Love the painters tape on the doors
Beautiful flight Jon. Small flying small airplanes across the country are my favorite trips.
Flew my 172N from Florida to Phoenix,AZ and back. All time favorite trip. Thanks for sharing and inspiring me to get out and do a long trip in my 172.
I am glad I could inspire you in a small way. Have a great adventure
Thank you for the flight...from an old pass flyer in the Texas area...loved those low and slow flights.
Thank you for watching
I live a few miles north of bham.
Flew real close to my parents turf runway in Columbus, Mississippi . I had my Carbon Cub over there the whole week.
back in 1975 i was flying one of those across the Gobi desert delivering it to company in China for the Inda government. halfway across the desert we lost all the electronics! i had to sit the old bird down on the sand. with no radio we were stuck! in about 2 hours a caravan of Kazakhs desert dwellers happened along. we were saved! the chief took one look at the old bird and was quiet taken with it! i speak some Mongolian, he told us that he would be glad to take us back to civilization if I would give him the old bird! well, I had no choice but to agree. so he sent for a team of camels to come pull the plane to his lair. on the trip across the desert on camel back I noticed the chiefs young daughter, she was a striking beauty! the chief noticed I had taken a liking to her. he felt bad about taking the plane so he told me that he was going to throw in the daughter on the trade! there was no way I could refuse because that would have been an insult! so I took a wife that day in the hot sand. when we got back to America, I got a job with an airline and my wife Altansarnai got pregnant. we soon had a girl; but the kid came out black! i am white! then she got pregnant again, this time she had twins, but something was funny, the twin girls looked a lot like my old flight engineer who was Chinese!! I had noticed he kept in close contact! mostly with Altansarnai! then she got pregnant again! but this time the kid looked black again! and a lot like my co-pilot on the airline I was working for! so I started to drink heavily! then I wrecked the DC 10 I was flying on the runway into a parked 747, I was hog drunk out of my mind! I was fired. so, I took a job at a small airport cleaning out hangers, it was a sad thing. I lost my home and had to move into an old c54 parked on and old abandoned runway at the airport that I work at. the wife's dad gave us a camel and a few goats for food. the girls all got married and then all of them with their no-good husbands moved into our plane home with us! I became so depressed that I am a full time drunk! as I type this, I am looking for a rope to throw over one of the propellers of the c54 and end it all! I HAVE HAD IT!
Dude I would love to take ferry trip with you.
That's just about one hour away from where I am. Longview texas
Jon ... I'd love to hear some of your trip planning detail flying a non-electric plane across country
I will try to add that into one of the next couple parts
@@Jugheadf15 I'd love to hear it too, just bought a Glastar in PA, I'll be flying it home to Calif soon.
That initial take-off didn't instill much confidence, she sounded like she wasn't going to make any power 😆
This engine anytime it wasn't completely warm/hot, it would stumble coming up through 1500-1800 rpms. I think it is due for a carb adjustment/clearning.
HA, just after I sent the tape message you explained it to the unknowing
When you were in the 2nd at TY, was that when Capt (at the time) Donovan was the F15 Demo pilot? I remember watching him practice over the airfield at the end of the flying day.
I don't know if that is who was the Demo guy back then. He and I were in the same squadron a few years later in Alaska.
@@Jugheadf15 I had to go look it up.
November 1991-January 1994, Air Combat Command F-15 Demonstration Pilot, F-15 Eagle West Coast Demonstration Team, 325th Fighter Wing, Tyndall AFB, Fla.
Nice job. What did you fly in the navy?
I was actually USAF, but I did a 3 year tour at VT-4, flying T-34 and then initial cadre on the T-6