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

@lynwoodjones

11 ай бұрын

Ah, the ole 110 camera 📷 🤗

@justinbrents3110

11 ай бұрын

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

@anthonysmalawipredators8794

11 ай бұрын

Can this photo be viewed anywhere on the ol interwebs? We'd love to see it

@husky2423

11 ай бұрын

Proof please

@Apple1grApe2

11 ай бұрын

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!

@Cantthinkofahandle117

11 ай бұрын

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.

@herbferguson

11 ай бұрын

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!

@Cantthinkofahandle117

11 ай бұрын

@@herbferguson They put the short guys in the back? WTF? I guess I'd have been back there with you, lol.

@drshepherd1969

11 ай бұрын

@@herbferguson don't even recall my flight number, will have to find it now that you have brought that up

@scottlarish5837

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@bad74maverick1

11 ай бұрын

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.

@Skinflaps_Meatslapper

10 ай бұрын

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.

@ryanlemons3255

10 ай бұрын

why not just build the actual one yourself although it would be radar deterent

@MetalFalcon99

6 ай бұрын

@@ryanlemons3255 yes lets bamboozle the Russians again to get the titanium and rebuild all the tools from scratch as the originals were all destroyed

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.

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 🇬🇧

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!

It has to be a good day when you are allowed to sit in an SR71. Thanks for sharing that moment.

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.

@buckmurdock2500

11 ай бұрын

Actually, the plane in the Museum is an authentic O-2A.

@accousticdecay

11 ай бұрын

@@buckmurdock2500 Thanks for the correction. Skymaster was the civilian version.

So Amazing , Thank You . Looks like a place to spend several Days Exploring

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.

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!

@Oregun44

11 ай бұрын

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

@nachobroryan8824

11 ай бұрын

The Museum of Flight in Seattle is pretty cool too. I enjoyed both of them.

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. 🍻

Great way to start a Saturday morning with jimmy’s World

@wes8354

11 ай бұрын

I agree 😎👍

Jimmy you never cease to entertain and enlighten👍👍

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.

@billchasser8978

11 ай бұрын

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.

What a collection!! WOW!!

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!

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 loved this episode, Jimmy! Greetings all the way from Bulgaria :)

I grew up going to this place- even had prom under the Goose! Very very cool!

I was just there a few months ago. My family lives nearby. Glad to see it in KZread.

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 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.

Amazing feildtrip !!

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😝

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.

@mikeschillinger4427

11 ай бұрын

😂😂

@petemoss8245

11 ай бұрын

The news media nick named it the Spruce Goose. What rhymes with Birch? Not catchy huh.

@stansdds

11 ай бұрын

@@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 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.

Hello from Minnesota!! That place is on my bucket list!!

I have loved that beast of a jet since I was a child!

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.

@Whiskey11Gaming

11 ай бұрын

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.

@sawfather06

11 ай бұрын

Very happy he came here to see it

Great video!! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Jimmy nice tour

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 😂

McMinville?! Awesome, this is my back yard and I love that place.

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..!

Awesome! Amazing! Thanks Jimmy!

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!

What a place! I visited it a few years ago specifically to see the Spruce Goose but was surprised by their other exhibits.

YESSSSSSSSSSSS Finally a Jimmys World video!

Cool video thanks for sharing Jimmy.

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.

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

That is an awesome museum have been there twice and still will go back!

I have a SR-71 plane tag .. when ever I hold it I feel the power 😂😂 love that bird !

That was a fun one. Thanks Jimmy!

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 :)

@buckmurdock2500

11 ай бұрын

Except his nickname was Del Smith with one "L" as that was a shortened version of Delford.

@morningcoach

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

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?

I cycled across America 2018 and went and spent the day here just amazing !!!!

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.

That looked fun!!

Lol the ending though that was hilarious 🤣

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.

And Jimmy demonstrated the importance of asking for what you want... It can never hurt, right? Awesome visit to the museum!

Good job! That was fun.

Great visit to the Smithsonian great video thanks Jimmy

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.

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 !!

Lol. you really had me going with the SR71 purchase ...... Cool museum 😀

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 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.

That spruce goose is crazy. makes me want to watch the aviator again

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.

@therealjimmysworld

11 ай бұрын

Very cool!

Thanks for visiting our neck of the woods.

Fun video. Thanks Jimmy!

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.

We have one of two Lancair (235) here in the UK. Great to see one in the museum…👍

I've been in the goose a few times, when it was in long Beach. Fascinating aircraft..

Ok, i am officially jealous , sitting in the sr71. Super cool 😎

I been watching jimmy for like a week and my entire libary is full of his videos

Thank you for the upload, I had no clue that the BB is there!

thats my neck of the woods. Love that museum

I loved this video! So cool!

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.

that sillouette is so amazing

Been there and actually sat in the pilots seat of the spruce goose. WAY cool.

I just love these silly video's. Thank you. That little sr71 just made me laugh..... Love it.

I'd love to visit this place!! I can spend the whole day just looking at planes

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.

Epic museum!

Place looks fun!

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.

been there many times! but now i want that flight cert for the goose!

seeing you in the blackbird i freaked out , how freaking awesome

OMG! Green with envy over you Jimmy! SR71 is THE best plane ever made. I would love to sit in there

Sitting in that SR71… epic!

Jimmy, I think you're having more fun than is legally allowed!

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.

@therealjimmysworld

10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

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! 🙂

Looks like I need to go back. I saw some new stuff since we were there last!

Great job Jimmy

Spruce goose is there, love that museum

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.

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!

Very Cool Jimmy, Very Cool. VCJVC. Cheers from Texas.

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.

@buckmurdock2500

11 ай бұрын

Baby Lakes. Barney Oldfield never used "Great" in the name.

God I'm glad to live near by the musems can't wait to see the new aircraft coming in

"Wherever the Skunk works is". It was at Burbank, CA. until 1989 when it moved to Palmdale, CA.