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Hi I'm QDC. At the time of this recording
there are over four thousand
subscribers to my channel and for those of you who subscribed to my channel,
I want to thank you by taking you too small field trip.
Today, I'm going to take you to an airshow call
"Wings Over Wine Country" sponsored by
the Pacific Coast Air Museum located in Santa Rosa, California.
The main attraction of this air show
are the P-51 Mustangs. It's going to be very exciting
and so let's go ahead and go to the air show
right now. Okay so we're at the Santa Rosa Airport
and right behind me are one of the the planes that are on display. Let's go see
what we could find throughout this entire airport and what's on display
for us to see.
These are the airplanes that's going to be in the air.
Most these are P-51 Mustangs.
This controls the nozzles of the degree
whatever you need to take off. If you want to hover or
forward flight.
You have your throttle right here.
This is your forced air. Your flight instruments here.
Your weapon selection panel here. This is called the "Heads Up Display."
It takes some of your pertinent information and it will projected up on here so you don't have to
keep looking down.
You're radio controls. Your ejection handle right there. Your counter measures
are right here.
Your oxygen is going to hook up here.
Those are the basics on it.
It's very impressive to be here in a cockpit of a
Harrier Jump Jet. I'm taking a picture
looking out in the open. It's really amazing to see
you know...being in an aircraft...(docent said "cool") THAT'S IT! That's the best word to
say! This is pretty cool! (Laughter)
How often you get to say that you've been on an actual
fighter jet. A Harrier Jump Jet for that matter here. That's exactly!
I'm pulling...
I think it's called the "Yolk" right? Yes.
There's a camera mounted in the nose
and if you want to take pictures you use that white there. This is your trim to make small
corrections.
For dropping the bombs you use that.
Right here is your trigger
for the cannons and ... I'm very impressed. There you go.
What you're seeing right behind me see is a F-14 Tomcat. According to the docent
this one of the five actual planes that
flew in the popular movie "Top Gun" with Tom Cruise.
So lets look around this plane and lets go inside it.
So this is the F-14 Tomcat.
Yes. Can you tell me more about it? Sure.
This is for letting the wheels go up and down.
The brake.
This here moves your wing in and out. This is your throttles.
Your radio equipment.
This is your
yoke.
It's switches to missles, bombs,
Phoenix missiles.
And this is both of your computers
for radar.
And right there is your arrest hook.
This here releases your canopy.
If I can move this up.
There there is your ejection handle.
There there the black and yellow. Right behind you
is the other one. In case if your wheels don't come down, here is the
pump. You pump back and forth to bring your wheels down.
And your fuel. And ugh! I don't know what that is.
I'm sorry. I forgot what that is. That's perfectly OK.
It's quite an honor actually for me to be here
inside the cockpit of a F-14 Tomcat because
watching the movie "Top Gun" and everything.
They romanticized this so much that I really wanted to be in it
for the first time. This was the 5th airplane
in "Top Gun."
This is the 5th airplane? Yes. Now if you remember you see that airplane
coming off
the the aircraft carrier that flips? Yes.
They think that's this one here that did that.
We're inside the belly; the bomb bay.
Okay, so we are in a B-26?
No, you're in a A-26. We're in a A-26
and this is from World War Two.
Compared to the other
modern jets...it's old.
Yes, it was built in 1944 this aircraft.
This is an old plane.
The altimeter is new.
The rate of climb.
Here?
No, that's speed.
That's in miles per hour.
Climb is third one.
That's a new instrument and the manifold pressure on top
right side.
Right here? No, further right.
I see it right there. That's a new instrument.
Manifold pressure.
A measure pressure in the
intake manifold.
This is amazing.
This is a piece of history.
It's very reasonably complicated airplane.
I think a lot of people want to get on with this airplane I think.
You can go out through bombardier's passage
and out through the nose.
I'll do that. That will be interesting.
We're going through the nose.
By the way folks. This is very, very cramped quarters trying to get through the nose.
I think this is the Norden
bombsite. I think?
Normally it would go 360 degrees but
with the setup, we haven't been able to set that up yet.
That's cool!
Okay we're back!
So I hope you enjoyed the airshow.
It was pretty exciting for me and I really
had a positive experience from the air show because the staff and volunteers of the
Pacific Coast Air Museum... they're really nice... they're really nice people.
They really made the entire.. my experience over there
something to remember. I liked it a lot.
I guess one of the best things I like about the air show that...not just watching the P-51
Mustangs flying
over my head but also like to sit in the actual
F-14 Tomcat that Tom Cruise sat in. When he filmed that movie "Top Gun."
Now... I guess I am showing my age but
I thought that was really awesome!
So, really when I make these videos and make
my model kits, it's all about
you. I'm trying to encourage you to go to build your own model kits.
So, please do.
It's all about you. It's about you
enjoying your your free time building some model kits
if you actually want to build one. I'm QDV
thanks for watching and always, please,
have a great day!