Have you tried VIP membership yet? That's the best way to enjoy your favorite music with higher quality sound and no commercial interruptions. Hey, free mobile apps included. Learn more at live365.com slash VIP. Live 365. I had a dream the other night that, well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught. according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep and dead. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? And good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the first hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Cornke. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, east, and north. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on... LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com. We're on Indiana Freedom Talk Radio.com. We're on AM and FM Micro stations, CB, base stations, and Ultra Net Technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're on the Hallmark Network from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico. Headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the 3rd, 5th, Pitt and our friends in the recall state of Colorado. Waving to the left coast, we have a great state of Jefferson out there doing its part, bringing a shining light to an otherwise dark and desperate landscape. Turning back to the east, we sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi, and land in the Smokies slash the Blue Ridge. Where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, okay teams, and the Ma Bell Grandma Consortium of retired telecommunications workers bring us the Golden Spike. Many hands make for light work a million petticoat junction operators. The ability to continue to function when everything else is offline. Well, it's a beautiful Friday. It has been breezy. We've had rain squalls on and off over the last 6 to 8 hours, not a surprise there. It happens. For everybody out there, it is a beautiful day otherwise. It looks like we're going to have a good weekend to get out there and get some work done. So if you're anticipating an event weekend with a family, go for it. The worst that's going to happen is take an awning along with you. You might have to cover up a little bit if it gets over any big deal. Not a problem. You'll be able to deal with it. I guarantee it. How's that sound? Guarantee. Life occasion, chef. Anyway, before we go any farther, do we have Don with us? He might have to unmute. Well, okay, and a one and a two and a... Okay, we'll continue on. And the date today is... It is Friday the 13th of June! No way! Yes way! It means absolutely nothing to us. Anyway, it is the 13th of June, the sixth year of open Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K, 2014 Old Earth Calendar. Or, Mayan Crazy Town Calendar. But, as we know, it's the change of the season and with it comes the change of doom propaganda. So, don't forget, it's Notre Dame-us Day, man! There's gonna be no Notre Dame-us season soon. You mean football? Football's coming around already? No, not Notre Dame-us, man. And no, not Notre Dame-us. I mean, no-sra-dom-us. No-sra-dom-us! Yes, the mystic. The guy that made sure everything that he said. was so flowery and mixed up you could apply it like it would stick to any wall. It made it with color, it made it with texture. If you threw it at the wall, it would stick. Notre Dame-ous, man. Notre Dame-ous. No spadama-ous. Well, either that's going to be Chautu Bing-bing. Anyway, it is Quartermaster Friday. Couple things real quick. Why, the Iranians have come across the border to help the Iraqis. to deal with the problem. Anybody catch that one? Wow, right off the bat, that's unique. No, no it's not. That's what we told you so in the long run guys. Guess what? Wow, what a surprise. Hold on here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Social engineering continues in the Middle East and in Asia Minor and that's what the scam was all about from the get go. What a surprise. And they keep having to dig up the ghost of Saddam, because Tikrit is the place where they're fighting right now. It's like, it was Saddam's birth, why do you care about that? Why do you bring that up? You killed him! You got rid of Saddam Hussein! He was an ally! Remember originally he was an ally and a friend and you know we got him to kill Iranians for 10 years and his people were Christian and you know Sunni and Shi'ite and they actually all were forced to kind of get along there and of course all the propaganda to make him you know, that is a devil! Don't worry, you got worse. A lot worse! And well the other worst that you said was really worser than worse. And so the BS continues doesn't it people? Yeah, tells you something right there. Now a little farther north some interesting stuff again watch some of the videos about what's going on in Ukraine. Hey the east-west Ukraine thing all you got to worry about is watching to see how soon when they start the advertisements on national television for The starving or the hungry people the cold people of the Ukraine We need to send food money food money fuel which means we'll send spend money Food will spend money about one dollar will be spent on getting food room. Ninety-nine dollars would be stolen by the shysters overseas operating out of Versailles and Tel Aviv Yeah, yeah, we've seen this all before Liars and you're gonna get lied to again, so I'm prepping you for it. So you won't go man Because you see they've got everything go on to create all kinds of problems. They're not even talking about yet They're already in motion. So it's too late. It's just you know, it's kind of a given thing now So I don't know what do you wait for the coin for? Uh, so we could put a pool up September October by November What do you think? Oh, you need to send money before Christmas so that they can have a bowl of gruel. Christmas gruel would be nice, man. Of course, now the guys that you send the money to, they'll be eating steak while they send in grade C meat pablum to all the people in Ukraine. Oh, our allies and the people that supposedly we don't like. Don't you know? Yeah, told you so. That's coming. Anyway, so. overseas, pretty much mucked up like it always is to the point where I have very little interest in it. I'll look at it and it's like, the other thing I would note about the Iraq campaign, who the hell sold them the Blue Marine, the Blue Digital? I know where it comes from, it's from communist China. Who bought them into the idea that in the middle of the desert, the navy blue water camouflage pattern was going to be the best choice? Excuse me? Well, somebody got bought and paid for on that one. But anyway, yes, something I noticed there. Now in Ukraine, pay attention to the mishmash of equipment and material that's going in there. The Rent-A-Revolution companies are already hitting the market big time. And you can pretty well pick out who the company or the primary company is. It's really raking in the dough off of, you know, again, selling munitions and equipment into the area. We're going to see a whole bunch of stuff dry up. simply because like I said they don't need to send here they can drive it there they don't have to put it on a ship, they don't have to put it on a container. They don't have to put it on a container. It will be a container truck headed east. It won't have to go west, it won't have to get on a boat, it won't have to dink around with US customs. It will just go right over where it's supposed to go and minimal time and maximum profit. So that's one of the problems with being, you know again, thinking ahead to some of the other stuff that's going to hit the industry here in a couple of different areas. Now, This weekend, actually for the weekend, parts kits, flat rate shipping, $9.99. I'll see on parts kits and accessories, firearms and ammo excluded. However, parts kits, now why do we bring that up? Well guys, do a quick jump over to CenterFireSystems.com, CenterFireSystems.com. CenterFireSystems.com Now this is the second company I've seen carrying these but they put a big special on. This is actually a very good price. Go to CenterFireSystems.com on the front page. All new US made parts. All parts pictured on barrel are pressed and pinned on. Rivets included. Receiver not included. introductory offer $399.00. Well I'll say $300.00. No, $300.00. No, it's $299.00. Forgive me, $299.99. Did I say $399? Oh slap me in the microphone. It's $299.99 with text license and dealer preparation that will come too. Well actually add the $10.00 for shipping. Throw the penny on there. Eh, looking pretty good. $310 for a complete US made AK kit, guys. RPK type stock. Hogue type lower pistol grip. Well, actually not hogue. It's more like a damask. It's got the thumb. It's got a index finger. Oh no, forgive me. Middle finger rest and a knock. But it's got a straight wall back. So it's not quite like the hogs, which have more of a contour all the way around to include filling out the palm. It has a picatinny rail front guard lower. Also looks like on the upper too maybe, but everything's there except for the receiver blank. Everything, top to bottom, everything you need. Buy a receiver, slap them together, congratulations, you got yourself an AK. So, for $310 guys, that's a pretty good price. Man, there's a whole bunch of places where you can get, you know, again, 80% finished AK blanks. and do the difference yourself so again uh... center fire systems dot com center fire systems dot com center fire systems dot com and that'll probably be through the weekend i don't see the limit limiting on this uh... usually has it like you'll go through till monday well apparently if they don't have that listed though i'm sure okay hold on let's do it this way we'll go over the kit this is a pretty good this a good price for this kit by the way Again, nope, they don't give us a countdown, but I am sure that it's, and by the way, this AK kit is 7.62x39. Now it does not come with a magazine, but it comes with everything else top to bottom to put your own AK online and ready to roll. So might want to take a look at it, see if it fits your, you know, float your boat, fits your niche. And if you like it, wrong with that puppy. I would point out that at the very least this is a nice way to have the most complete spare parts kit for your rifle if you got an AK that you could possibly have. Just an idea there. But again, all brand new parts, all US made parts, and $300 for the basic rifle. Now this is going to kind of rattle the system a little bit, but in reality what these are are mercenary guns that have been made under a contract in a number of different directions and somebody's just gone to all the different points where all the different parts are made and said hey I want that one, that one, that one, that one. I want that one and by the way that one over there and I'll take the barrels with this and this feature and alright well done. Now the one thing I would do this has got the slash type compensator the front compensator which is cool don't throw it away put it on for now but I would buy one of the Polish basket type They look more like the M14 or the M60 machine gun. They are longer and have more of an SVD type look to them. The other thing is most assuredly if it's not in the kit, and I don't see, that's the one thing I don't see, I don't see the scope rail in the kit. So definitely that's something you'd have to buy. Go to dealextreme.com or wherever you want to. You can even buy them from Centerfire Systems. I definitely would get a rail and then I'd be looking at a rail system for the scope of your choice. The other consideration here certainly is that they're obviously implying that you can mount a number of different things with the Picatinny rail on the front guard. I'm not super excited about lasers or flashlights, but if that floats your boat then congratulations. On the other hand, flashlight with IR capability to enhance your night vision and create a little more energy down range because you can do that in a high lumen LED light with all the ones that are out there today. Then that might be a consideration. It's not necessarily your first choice, but it is a solution. Again, this is not a bad package. For $300, everything's done. The most important thing, all the parts are pressed and fitted for the weapon. All the parts are pressed and fitted for the weapon. Now if you are going to commit to 7.62x39, oh you buy the hell out of the ammo. In fact, even if I'm talking to you right now and you haven't bought the weapons yet, buy the ammo now. Buy lots of the ammo. No, by the way, buy lots more of the ammo now. Did I get that right? Yeah, yeah, lots. Lots more. Lots and lots more. Okay. So again, Centerfiresystems.com, Centerfiresystems.com, that's Centerfiresystems.com. Wanted to make sure we get that out. That kit just came into play here in the last hour or two because it was not posted earlier, so that's the special for the weekend for Centerfiresystems.com. A couple other things, I know the guys in the chat room have brought it up more than a couple of times. Well, we're short one less Rockerfeller out there. Apparently David Rockefeller's oldest son, which I think is rather interesting considering how many of them are out there that nobody talks about if you haven't noticed this guy. Well, as it turns out, apparently he had dinner with Mr. Rockerfeller who had, by the way, is 99 years old this year. I guess the spice does work, doesn't it? See, you did all that opium trade, you know, dying for the opium trade in Afghanistan to make sure that the spice flowed. And Mr. Rockefeller, between the virgin child blood that he mixes with the raw opium and then in jess, look what it's done for him. He looks like a hundred year old Skexy from the Dark Crystal. Hahaha! Know what I mean? Yeah, kind of scary, isn't it? Well, then again, doesn't look like he's all that great of shape, so unless he's going to shed his husk, and turn into something else here. Not a happy camper situation for him at all, but again, apparently he had dinner, jumped in the plane, and apparently, well, of course, there's pictures of the wreckage already, so apparently he had aircraft or engine trouble, or maybe there's a clan war going on between the different elements. Who knows? But as it stands, apparently the plane's scutted in and that's all she wrote kids. That's pretty well the finish. So, if you get a chance, check out the article. Otherwise, until we see more information, one of the convenient things about the Kennedy plane is that it kind of busted in two and fell into the water so they could lie about it any way they want. The only thing that's good about what happened here, we had a bad incident. I mean, it's bad for the people on the ground because he fell on them. Again, the wreckage is all someplace where somebody can actually see it in access and it doesn't sink beneath the waves and disappear into obscurity. Oh, they find it later. Well, at their discretion, they find whatever they want to tell you later. But it should be pointed out again that with this plane crash, apparently again, I don't know, maybe eight to much, 64 years old, so it's not that old. Let's see. They ate dinner the night before with his father, David Rockefeller, to celebrate the Skians. I love that. Skians! 99th birthday. Said family spokesman, Fraser Seitel, who confirmed the death. The family's estate is in... Pocantico Hills, New York along the Hudson River. Well, that's one of several. I guess maybe that's considered House Royale for the moment, but I don't think about four or five other locations that have been considered central for David Rock of color for the year so I guess whatever reason that's the official top of the list as far as well if you're looking for me I might be at this mansion but yeah I could be at the other one or at the other one I could be at the other one too and the yacht and the foreign islands I own and that country I bought yeah a couple of them anyway I'm not sure anyway also anyway it's a terrible tragedy cycle said the family is in shock Richard was a wonderful and cherished member of the family He was an experienced pilot, he was a medical doctor and it's horribly sad. The plane, a Piper Meridian single-engine turbo prop registered to Richard Rockefeller, left the White Plains, New York airport at about 8 a.m. Eastern time and was reported down within 10 minutes in a residential area less than 3 miles away in purchase. Well, that means obvious, significant lift issues and the most common is flaps as we know. If the problem with flaps and ore, well, the old story when you lose thrust, that's just as bad because then you lose your lift bubble. So whatever it was, well of course we may never know anyway, it's not like it's a 777, right? About 30 miles north of New York City said Peter Scharrer, airport operations administrator of the weather at the time of takeoff was foggy and rainy. So again, the plane was scheduled to fly to Portland, Maine and the flight was expected to last an hour and 14 minutes. Richard Rockefeller had flown this area Thursday according to FlightAware flight tracking service, leaving Portland International Jetport at 2.22 p.m. and arriving at Westchester County Airport at 3.41 p.m. I don't know why, granted I know it's because he's got money. If you don't know when you're flying a single-engine aircraft, one of the reasons a lot of small planes don't fiddle-fart around big hubs is because of the fees. So you've got to have a lot of money to slosh around because your landing fees, kind of like docking fees with ships, gets to be pretty stupid in some locations. And it's interesting, Portland International Jet Port, not airport, Jet Port. That's a bad sign because that usually means dollars. Of course, these are rocket problems. They don't really care anyway, but of course it's paid for by family accounts, etc. We'll find out more. Not that I'm really all that concerned. Well, I don't know. One of the other things about the planes is that we were having this discussion by the way up north looking at our little air fleet, one of the airways, runways that our people have. Around here, for instance, this used to be a major air hub. I mean, guys, if I were to go outside, you'd hear the constant drone of planes. Every minute. Not like, oh, we mean every 10 minutes? No, constant. I mean, number one on a Willow Run airport, we'd have the parts runs going from parts aircraft transports, going from Ypsilanti, Michigan, flying right over the area here and heading to Lansing, Michigan, or headed onto one of the other industrial hubs and delivering parts and material and prioritizing stuff. That's gone. Long gone. C-37s were flown, the modified C-37 with a long nose. Very nice little aircraft. Those things have all been divvied up between museums or been grabbed by companies down south that are using them for the same thing they used them for up here. In addition to that, we had DC-5 fleets, which by the way, those are all gone. Out of, again, those real drug cartel companies slash, oh, cargo aircraft out of Willow Run, running with the CIA. In addition to that, though, we have a dozen airports in all directions and virtually thousands of private airplanes. And twin engine, single engine, tail draggers, trike gear, high wing, low wing, you name it. In fact, we have Yankee Air Force over at Willow Run Airport where I just mentioned. Actually, they fly more now than anybody else and they barely fly. They barely get aircraft off the ground. But the other day we had their B-17 flyby, obviously went to one of the air shows out west, and it was making its rounds through the area here. Usually it's really obvious when you've got a quad engine, a prop driven airplane going through. But guys, there's nothing. It's like right now, I'm listening to what's going on outside. Nothing. So, you know, the fact that one of the things that we have that's going on is because the air fleets have been parked, well, you know, entropy is a terrible thing, but it's even zipping the rank and file of the well-to-do because Even they're not necessarily, you know, piddling around as much. Part of that is because they can, you know, access a number of different, you know, transport methods. But the other part of this is the aircraft themselves that they're flying are getting up there or along on the tooth. Now it doesn't mean they're going to just fall out of the sky. But as the air fleet gets older and because nobody is investing in the new, you know, in like a new aircraft, they really can't fly them. There's fewer and fewer that are actually being built. The existing air fleet is parked. Entropy is a bad thing. This is one of the reasons if you're going to take a plane off the ground that's been sitting for a while and you recommend something, you actually do a real flight inspection, opening hatchways. Also, before you even take it out of the hangar, you get somebody in the pilot's seat and somebody in the copilot station and you manually work all controls for about five minutes in every direction, literally. I'm not exaggerating. One of the reasons. These are mechanical mechanisms. The longer they sit, the more they take a set. Why? Well, because they've already been used and they have flexing points. They have material that's been rubbed raw. They have material, when I say raw, in other words, in many cases it has an original finish. Well, in the lifespan of cables and connectors and wheels and pulleys and all kinds of fun stuff you don't see, including servo motors and all kinds of stuff that's in the wings that operates everything. The problem is when it sets There is adhesion, there's oxidation that takes place because of, you know, again, raw surface exposure. You don't go in there and detail, repaint or detail resurface or re-anodize or re-parkerize things. Now, I'm not talking about to the point where you're talking grooves and cuts and stuff. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about just bearing surfaces, making contact and sitting long enough. They start to mechanically weld together through oxidation. Now you can break that free, but let me ask you something and again, this is why I said you want to experiment You want to put when you're feeling a stick when you're feeling your controls on aircraft You'll feel when there's a tick like that you would leave it something's not quite operating or you know quite responding the way it should One of our friends has a tail dragger that they were you're working on here in fact a couple weeks ago and they took it out with a problem is that the throttle control again this is a nice plane beautiful plane played a great price for it if i got it for a really great price problem is every time they would you know push the throttle uh... there was about a one two or three second delay in other words instead of it doing what it's supposed to do that as you move the throttle you get thrust Instead, there was a surging that would take place. Well, this is because the connectors, the cables, and the rods, and all the way until the, you know, again, the fuel, you know, manipulator, the fuel control, there's a hesitation point. It's in the machine. So what was happening is that less experienced pilots that were experimenting on the runway where we were, were having a problem with that. Okay, and because they you know again well they were just trying to get some time on the thing trying to you least taxi it up and down the runway This of course in the long run became an issue because someone had a little oopsie, okay Most everybody had tried to run the aircraft with the condition that they had with it We're not able to you know orient their mind to being prepared for that hesitation The one person that could eventually had other issue with the aircraft and it needs repair now So there's an example of where when something's sitting, and in fact, armors, everything you run, all the machinery you run, even cars, it's why you need to go out and you need to have a regiment where you start the vehicle up and again you turn it, you move it, ideally you pull it out, you drive it around a little bit, you get all the juices flowing, you get all the lubricants where they need to be, and you don't just start the engine up and just pull out of the box. I don't care what it is. Let it idle, let it run, let it lubricate itself. If the vehicle or the machine or the generator or whatever has been sitting for any period of time, I would even recommend with generators, for instance, that you actually manually turn the engine a little bit if you can. If it's possible to do that, if it's a crank system or if you have a pulley system with a cord, If you do that a few times without expecting to start it, what you're doing is circulating a certain amount of the oil and it'll start to work through all and in between all of the bearing surfaces. This is a big plus with regard to reducing wear and tear. On military aircraft and on tanks, for instance, they used to actually have a procedure, guys, where they would do that. Part of the startup system would be actually they had motors that were like drills. and they would literally, the guy had a big old crossbar attached to the drill and he would stick it right on the side of that, you know, a fixture that was like a block, a wrench fixture, and he would pull the trigger on that high torque motor and he would actually, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, In one variant or another, basically it's to get all the components moving, all the lubricants and everything in sync, and then we go through the startup motion where we actually apply energy and we want to get it to go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr And again, the publication of the pilot is also to mechanically and physically inspect the aircraft. The pilot is responsible for the aircraft. We have a lot of attack aircraft that we've built over the years. The stuff is on standby. We already know this from experience and by talking to a lot of the people that have worked with the mothball air fleet, people that have done this for decades, guys. So we take and listen to the experts that actually have done the job. I'm just passing out what we found to be the case that everything that they've talked about, well, I guess they actually did do the job because they knew what they were talking about. Now, another thing here again, well, Of course, now with Mr. Rockefeller, I doubt this was the case. But one of the other problems in working with private small airplane airlines is that they like to load the capacity. I kind of doubt that was the case with Mr. Rockefeller's plane. But that's a side bar. You know you're in a bad situation when they ask you how much you weigh when they want you to get on a plane? What? Oh, well, I'll tell you what. Why don't we just wait? It sounds like you're a little overloaded. I'll take the next, you know, the next puddle jumper to wherever we need to go. How's that sound? Yeah, okay. Mark. Anyway, we got George here. What do you got, George? You know the thing is, I sit there reading and somebody who works the Hurricane Hunter planes, you know, and the thing is, they get the hand-me-downs from the Air Force and they try to, I would just say, reinforce it. Well, yeah, that's actually logical because most all of these aircraft, if you've noticed over the years, I mentioned the DC-5. The DC-5 is a fine airplane. It really isn't outdated by any standards. It's just a standard prop aircraft, four engine. And it did a lot of service, you know, World War II all the way through to the 70s and 80s. Most of the Dopor air fleet, as we call it, you know, the guys that have all these strange, they have access to the entire military air fleet command, you know, reserve, but they run private companies. And they seem to have a lot of paint job changes, you know. Well, those planes, of course, have been sitting for a while. And there is, by the way, an entire program if you bring planes like that out of inventory, before they can hand them over to like the air sea rescue or to firefighting units or to, for instance, the hurricane hunters, they have to go through a whole procedure of startup themselves because they do have to verify all the parts are there. It goes way back through guidelines that probably are hundreds of pages long, just on policy and procedure for transfer of property. It's not so much liability, it's responsibility. and expect people to perform their jobs. The high mileage aircraft, this has been a very common issue with the reserve and national guard. The reserve and national guard typically get the hand-me-downs from the Air Force or the Army Aviation. used to be army air corps and uh... they can be in any condition you can imagine now the only thing that they don't usually grumble about it instead what they did figure is hey it's something to do for drill weekend and usually within no more than two months any aircraft that the air guard of the air reserve get are in better shape than any frontline air force aircraft presently in service even when they get him from the air force And the same should be true again with the Hurricane Hunter crews. They have fallen a lot of older P3 Orion's. They've done DC5's. I was just talking about those. The P3 Orion and the DC5 have pretty much a sister complex. If you lay the two side by side with the same paint job and had them running around on a runway, the average American wouldn't know the difference between the planes. Seriously. And in fact, when we had the spring that was going on here in Michigan, around Flint, Michigan, of those 40 aircraft, at least six of those aircraft in the air were DC-5s, the rest were P-3 Orion's that were spraying. And the average person thought they were all the same plane. But there are significant structural and avionics differences because of the mission, the P-3s, what they do. So, there's an example right there. Then you've got, again, a lot of equipment that the weather hunter crews use that have more unique requirements. So they'll pull some of the oddball aircraft out, which gives you a chance to see things otherwise you wouldn't. especially when it comes to some of their speed surveillance aircraft. There's stuff that they've chosen to experiment with. A lot of it's not there anymore. Mostly the fast attack night fighter aircraft. They pulled a bunch of those out years ago and one of the things you hardly ever saw was the Black Widow. and I wish God had had a camera nowadays would be no problem but you know I didn't have a 35 millimeter with me but years ago we had a black widow that was being modified here by Bendix which eventually became United Technologies and they flew a black widow here in Ann Arbor Airport Nobody could figure out what it was. It's like they're eating no way in hell. We're going to see something like that here. And then everybody jumped on it. Everybody was getting over there and taking pictures. I was on my way and just happened to catch them when they rolled by and did a fast attack sweep on the runway. And after they did the fast attack sweep down the length of the runway at about seven to 10 feet off the ground, they banked up, did a steep climb. They banked left, swung around, did a fast landing, like you're on a carrier deck. and everybody got a chance to go ooh and ahh. And again, that came from wherever that came from back in the day out of the fleet out of there in, out near Tucson. They had some at the time. A20s, A26s, those are used for firefighting and those are out there, those are World War II attack aircraft. So yeah, there's some unique stuff that's out there that's used. But the thing is that I'm kind of wondering where it's gone. I bought a couple of liers. Years ago I bought one lier from that shady company for $1000 and what it needed was a door. I've got the door. You know the thing is too, hurricane season starts June 1st here and you know the thing you're bragging about that's going to replace the hurricane hunters which I think are going to fall out of the sky if there's a hurricane. And that's the drones, Mark. Oh boy. Well, all that is is basically to try and desperately put a smiley face, a garbage smiley face on a bad situation. They're trying to push the drones. That's all that's about. You still have that leer, Mark? Yeah, well, I do, but I don't. It's not here. What happened with that, what it was, is every year they would have one plane they were taking out of the fleet. What they wanted it for was beer money for the end of the year party. This particular plane, what had happened is they had a gantry that they were moving across the tarmac and they rammed the door with it. What they did, it was a second generation Lear. and they were able to write it off for the door damage. Well, guess where they make the doors? Right here in Michigan. At the time, I got a door that was a BLEM door that came off of one of their fleet aircraft for a whopping $120. But was it a LIR-24, a small one or a hot one? It was a small. It was their counterpart to the Cessna 600. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's just like a little fighter aircraft. In fact, remember, they were using the LIRS and the Cessnas as op-4 aircraft. That's why I kind of got it originally. What happened, the guys called over and said, they need bear money. It's like if you can round up this. So what we did is I had to go over, we had to disassemble the wings, take the wing fixtures off, the whole wing assembly off. We had to jack stand that. We had to take the landing gear. There was also a dink in the landing gear. I got the landing gear from another swap meet down in near-right Patterson Air Force Base and I got it for like $60. The plane is sitting on standby. I've got two or three planes like this. I used to hunt stuff like this, guys. In fact, the only two versions that Yankee Air Force has of the B-24, they don't have a B-24 for the Will run airport. But the two PB4YB torpedo bombers that they have there, I found. Well that would be a fun project to get that lyrical on. Oh no, the lyrical goes. Oh no, we've been very patient. The lyrical goes. It does right now. There are several runways here that when they drove all these companies out during the Mexican Stampede South, They used to run 6, 7 and 8 jets out of. Guess what? Company's gone. All these companies are gone. We've got runways all over the place here. The farmers own now. I've got mile and a half long runways I can use for free. You have to do a little, you have to do a little dance. No, no, no. This is on standby. So when the day of the time comes, we have it. It's like a lot of the stuff I've picked up. I just said, here, take this over here, make it go away, and as we keep finding parts, we've got a lot of retired mechanics in this area, all through Michigan, okay, that are aviation mechanics. The biggest thing we had to do with the door, it came off of the same model. What it was is, you know how they are when people have too much money, apparently they didn't like the wood grain on the door. So, they got pissy and kicked it or something because they know they damaged it. But because Lear wanted to keep the customer happy, they took the door off and I got the door for nothing. Because they didn't want to turn on another plane, they didn't want to bother with it because they didn't want to recertify it. Literally, you can see the boot marker in the wood. I don't care. I know exactly what the guy did. It'll match the performance of a MiG-23. That's why they were using it as an aggressor plane. It matches the performance of a MiG-23. The little Cessna, the 600, will do the same thing. You got wing tanks? Wing tanks? You got wing tanks? This aircraft was completely set up for distance. It was a parts delivery aircraft. What they do, see when they get these planes, Unfortunately we had a Polish crew here that was cutting them up as quick as they could find out about them. Because if you could get over there first you could have them for five, six hundred dollars. I paid a thousand dollars for this LIR. That's one of the sexiest airplanes on the market I think. My dad, it's funny because you know my dad years ago my father got his pilot's license in the early 50s, a multi-engine. He kept his pilot license up through the 1950s and into the early 1960s. When Lear came out with his jet, my dad, because he was going around the country to build, he specked out the fire engines for the department. He would go to all the different companies, American LaFrance and all of that, and they would have to take all of the engine courses and everything. He was flown out by Mac. They flew him out in a lier. He started talking to the pilots. The pilots said, you've got a license. They let him sit behind the stick. They let him get behind the stick and actually fly the plane. They offered him a job. My mom didn't want him to have it because it was the early days of jet. They were still thinking, where it takes weeks, days to get where you want to go. And what it turned out is had he taken the job, of course it would be a different world for me, but had he taken the job, every flight out was the same day back. In other words, it was like going to work, okay, get in the plane, take off, go where you go, come straight back, and you're home at night for dinner. Because he didn't want him to take the job because he figured, you know, you're not going to be home. I understand why, you know, because he had a good job as it is, but they say, you know, it's going to get bigger. He was offered twice. Lear found out that he was in the right place at the right time. Lear offered him a job twice. I remember that like yesterday and I was little. I remember that like it was yesterday. Only because there was much consternation. No, no, something could happen. Something could happen. But originally, Lear's was what they wanted to fly. I've got some image, some 16 millimeter film of him doing, you know, belly runs from across Ann Arbor Airport. They would authorize that. You could do it if you got permission from the tower. Well, Mark, you know another thing, another occupation right now in aviation that's really taking off? You know what it is? Airplane Repo Man. Because a lot of these executives, even Goldman Sachs and Bank of America and Wells Fargo, or get their leader jets reposted? Well, yeah. But then the problem with that is what do you do with them, though? This is where we get down to the, once you take them back, where do they go? Because the problem you've got with the industry is it's really, it's a soft market. Let me give you an example of this, guys. We were doing this on the air. Think about this, guys. If right now you go to the plane brokers, I've already told you for $100,000, we could buy 10 fighter aircraft right now. Fully functional, already certified, or almost certified and I wouldn't care. All with hard points, all of them with all the manuals, all the information available, and they're a trainer fighter aircraft. Now if you don't think so, go to the different traders. The guys in the evening were doing this about what, about six months ago and a year back. And we started going through the trader there and it's like hell, you can buy a jet fighter. The guys got one for, well, not one. There's half a dozen of them for sale down in Florida for between $6,000 and $8,000 a piece with everything there. Everything there to go. We tracked down that MIG for the guys out Arizona way and that is out the Arizona and Nevada area where that went to. I'm not exactly sure but the guys bought it. They brought it over here. Yeah. Mark, can I buy an OH-58? Yeah, they're all over the place. Yeah, but they're too expensive. Everybody wants those. I'll tell you what, I really screwed up. There are things where it's like buying weapons. Man, I should have bought a dozen of those. The Helix helicopters came in in the 90s for about, actually they were buying from the Russians for about $3,000 apiece flying. Now the Helix is actually an infantry or air ambulance. It is the counter rotating, it doesn't have a push pan guys, it's counter rotating. It has two rotors up above that counter each other. It has the double boom in the back and it has the clam shells in the rear. The overall length of the aircraft, the fuselage is half the length, the boom makes of course the other half. and the aircraft is $8,000 to get you a fully functional helix off the showroom floor out in Montana. Several of the militia units have four or five of those. They're on standby. Guys, we don't run them into the ground. The idea is you keep them operational. Everything is turned over. Everything is on standby. Time comes. This all comes out of the woodwork. That's the whole point. It's like ferrets. I was talking with a person and said, I just made a deal. I just went and surveyed two armored vehicles last weekend. I used to buy ferrets for $1,300 apiece. That's $1,300. That was a Ferret Mark II, virtually brand new rebuilt from Rolls Royce, guys. American dollars. $1,300 American. Now, I can get two of those from somebody right now. I just surveyed them. I considered them low grade A for the one and grade B for the other. Why? Because whoever bought them, while they still run, they didn't take care of them where they should have. In other words, they played with them, plus they bought these as a little more of a used vehicle than the average bear. The one I can get for $5,000. Now, I'm not buying it, but somebody asked me to look at it and rate it, so I did. The other one, they want about $7,500 for. We are looking at two more ferrets going into the fleet and it is not $1,300 like it used to be but it is not $20,000 which is what they are asking for the same stupid vehicle in other parts of the country right now or $27,000 or $28,000. These have some rust that needs to be fixed because the outer carrier tanks, the bins have been sitting, it was sitting I don't know where outside, typically when they park them on gravel this happens. Those are going to have to be fixed, but that's not a big deal because that's all heavy sheet steel. If we rebuilt them, we always triple the thickness of the walls and the replacement parts so they aren't ever going to be a problem again. Plus, we'll go stainless with a lot of parts. These are two vehicles that are quite affordable. They're very quiet. They're small. They get into places nobody else can. That means they can also get out of places because nobody else can follow. Which is another thing about little rat pack vehicles, which is why I like them a rat pack You know again, what does the rat pack care if you lose one vehicle? Abandon it and jump to the next one but the whole rat pack could offer a whole lot of firepower real quick. The other thing about these jets like we're talking about, in fact being able to buy a fleet like that, is the idea that you'd be training pilots guys. It's not that you'd be, you know, you'd have the option to use them for coin attack aircraft because the hard points on the aircraft are designed, it's the military standard trainer. They are all double-seaters, they are all in line. What the pilot does, the co-pilot can do. There is virtual duplicity of all the controls. Take a look at this stuff. Right now, like I said, the market is soft. All these guys have bought like this stuff from Romania, Bulgaria, and to a degree from Poland. Poland has been pricey for a while, but Romania and Bulgaria are bargain basements still like Russia used to be. When the wall first came down, we were buying BTRs for $4-$6 a piece. Remember we talked about this? A lot of our units here have Russian armor. They bought it because the guy brought it in because he got it so cheap he couldn't afford not to. He was buying, for instance, their snow cat tracked armored vehicles for like $3,000 a piece. He was turning them around at five, which was very reasonable. He wasn't doubling the price. In fact, if you got nice with him and bought a lot of paint from the same guy, you could get him for pretty much cost as long as you kept showing up with the money. Does that Lyrt 24 have the original power mark? No, one engine was complete, the other one was questionable. The mechanics rebuilt. Actually, what they did is we found another We got two power packs from a location on the east coast. I scrounged them up and started talking to my contacts. Some of the guys were with the different collector groups and said, you're looking for Lear engines? I know there's a pile of them. So they hooked us up. It's like years ago I needed tank engines, M48 tank engines. I used to know all the drivers of Tank Automotive Command. The guys who move all the armor around the country for research. Guys, we have a small fleet of main battle tanks. They're on standby. Well, we had an engine pack that went bad. So I'm sitting on the back porch with one of our guys and one of the truck drivers shows up and we start talking about what's going on. They say, well, you know, I need an M48 power pack. The driver says, oh, I know where there's two oil fields of them down in Georgia. How many do you need? and it's like, oh you gotta be kidding. And he goes, oh no, no, how many do you want? You can have them for free, nobody wants them. And it's like, well yeah, but we're gonna have to pay some weight or something for you. He goes, nah, nah, I'm gonna take a vehicle down there, I'll throw them on the flatbed, bring them back up and you can have a couple. So the engines we put in had like about 120th the running time of the engine we pulled out We don't throw the other engine out guys now You got time to take the other engine the power pack the whole time power tank on him for packing an m48 m16 m1 Abrams It all lifts out like a like an outhouse like a dog house a big cut you know steel dog house and you set that off to the side everything's right there to run and test and The cool thing is that with the M48, it'll take either the gas engine or the diesel. Now, one of the things we got was a couple of free gas engines because the driver also knew where their fields are those because nobody wanted them. And I said, well, hell yes, I want them. Why? Because they're free. Why? Because they got no miles on them. Why? Because I can put them in a building somewhere and when the time comes, at least I've got something to move that 43 tons or 48 tons of iron. when the time comes. Or 52 of it is the upgraded turret and everything. So again the idea is that it is not hard if you are just patient and look around. Of course now we are on the other end of that because the scrapping and the destruction and the Chinese grabbing everything it is a different world and our dollar is worth less. During that balance point guys, although right now it's the reverse It's not that we don't have as many dollars to spend But people don't want to get stuck because they don't have any play they the toys they bought when they came in and they bought it for 20,000 apiece They'll take 8,000 for that or maybe they bought it for eight and they figured they were gonna profit on it But now they just want to move it because they they can't see storing it That's where the Jets were the fighters on the on the Lear the other thing is that it wasn't pretty on the inside. It was a working Lear It had been an executive aircraft and all the doodads, all of the hard points, everything that needed to be done to it, the various auxiliary fuel, all of the backup avionics. In fact, it had been upgraded with third generation avionics back two years before we got it. That probably came off some other fleet airplane that had either been cracked up or wrecked. The thing is, if you're just patient, you'll find the parts here, find the parts there. The way to build an OH-58 is to find a frame that somebody doesn't want and then start collecting all these military parts laying around. We've done that with Hueys. If you're just patient, you can build a Huey from scratch. I can show you a picture of a Cobra. That Cobra doesn't look like it did when we got it back in, what, 1993? That Cobra helicopter is a very complete aircraft now. But I can show you a picture of where we got the airframe from, where it was bare bones, nothing but just the frame itself. No, nothing attached to it. Every part that could be wheeled off that came off with a wrench was off it. Today, well, with patience, you find a part here, you find an envelope there, you find brand new parts still in the envelope over at another swap meet or all through the surplus industry. Hell, there are piles of those parts. Vietnam went on for 10 years. Not that the Israelis didn't steal a lot of it, but they didn't steal all of it. We're not worried about the latest and the greatest. Let's say you just want to make up a B model. Well, if you're patient, you're willing to go look for all the B model parts. There's plenty of that junk laying around because everybody thinks they need the latest and the greatest. Well, if you just want to get it off the ground and make it work right, well, then be satisfied with a little less. But you get a pretty decent piece of equipment, and it's all just simply patient parts and pieces. So this is an idea. I mean, I've been doing this for decades. I've been doing this for a long time. The biggest thing is just routing. In other words, if I've got a person that's got a project, if everybody does this, just like we're talking about building up the militia, guys. But when I tell you about something, it's like if everybody goes out and does what we're talking about, Like every- we need parts for a Huey. Everybody's watching. Wherever you're going, if you're eyeballing, you see a wreck somewhere. You see a piece of equipment laying behind somebody's barn. You know we found three Hueys that way here in Michigan? We have those now. I'm driving along, it's like, man, there's a UE behind that barn up beyond Lansing, Michigan. It was over on the west side of Lansing. It's like, what are you talking about? Oh yeah, there's a UE over there. It's parked back there, so we well-rein-checked it out. Not only was there a UE behind the barn, I don't know where the guy got the other one from, he had a Huey sitting in the middle of the back fields. We got the one for $400, got the other one sitting in the back fields, because he said, oh, come on, look at the thing. Okay, give me a couple hundred dollars. So we took both of them and they got carried off to the quiet place. And the one that was in the field was quite complete. I mean, other than the fact, I don't know, again, it had been bought as surplus and he'd been piddling with it and the guy, you know, he got ill, he didn't want to mess with them. That's how you'll find most of your kits and unique equipment where somebody, you know, started collecting and, you know, doing the right thing, they're having a great time, but they just never followed through on it. There's a lot of stuff out there like that in barns and basements and in concrete buildings and steel buildings that can't be seen through so easily. That's how you protect your armor is steel buildings because the magnometers show up as steel. The building steel, the register is really big, the signature is really big. There's all kinds of cool stuff and there's all kinds of cool stuff on standby. My God, during the 60s and 70s, guys, there's so much of that stuff. I bought a semi truck. I saw an ad in the paper here to the north of us. It was for, it said Willie's Jeeps. $150, come and get them. Well, even with Willie's Jeep, there was a whole pile of them, I was gonna come and get them. Well, I'll tell you what, we filled up a flatbed, but it wasn't with Willie's Jeeps. They were M151 Ford Mutt, you know, Ford Jeeps. They were much newer than the Willys and in fact there were brand new parts in the cardboard fenders, extra tubs, drivetrains, all kinds of stuff. We filled up a flatbed semi trailer that one of our guys was driving. We were able to take his over there. We loaded it up once and loaded it up three quarters of the way again for $150. So don't say it can't be done. I've already done it. It's just now it costs more for the stuff there, but he's saying it's a collector You know that isn't gonna last for a whole lot longer either in certain ways because you know what they're trying to do is promote the industry You see all these specials on television this tank is a hundred thousand dollars. Let me tell you something You just be able to buy tiger tanks. I'm sure the catalog I could buy from century now I'm not gonna buy tiger but panzer threes are pretty reasonable at about again twelve hundred dollars You like panzer three operational This is all stuff. And then during the late 80s and during the 80s when we were building up the militia, guys, you could buy a T-54 55. I've mentioned this many times on the air with American cash. You could buy a fully operational with a main gun, all the ordnance on board, everything you need including the night vision, first gen night. and laser range finding for a whopping all between four and six thousand dollars depending on what you want to put on the vehicle in terms of rating. Think about that a full main battle tank for under six thousand dollars with all the bells and whistles ready to roll and put around in. Boom! She goes. Now that would be deactivated but in order to get in the country. But on the other hand APC's from China, sixteen hundred dollars apiece fully operational. America