October 3, 2025 • 31 mins
Gary and Shannon are at Huntington Beach for the pacific airshow. Mark Foster Talks about the Lyon Air Museum.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Like, we had to break
into this event, you guys. They were like, uh, you're
not on the list, but you can't park here, but
we can. We're like, we have a live broadcaster, like yeah,
(00:22):
we don't care, you're.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Not not that live. So that so.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
We've got friends with with with you know that are armed,
and we broke into this b is what we did.
You know why, because that's what we do. We're gorilla Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's an interesting way to put it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, we didn't get it okay to be here apparently,
so you know, Hi, how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
There?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You go?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Nice to see you. Hello, Welcome, Welcome. We are at
the Pacific Air Show here in Huntington Beach on the sand.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I don't know why anybody didn't know that today.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
But I don't know what. Your hat says something about
Lion Air music a museum. Very cool? Do you want
to come on and talk to us about the air museum? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Sure, I love it?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Pull up bye, here you go, sir. This man's name
is Mark Mark Foster.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
How are you good morning?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
How are you good morning? Thanks for walking by. Welcome to
our Gorilla Radio event.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yeah, so what are you guys up to this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What are you up to?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We are live on the radio on KF five and
an on the iHeartRadio app. Okay, and what tell us
about the Lion Air Museum?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Well Line Air Museum located John Wayne Airport, and we
are an aviation museum that focuses mainly on what we
call the Greatest Generation, which is the greatest generation of
World War Two. The people who you know prepared all
these planes and flew these airplanes and did all those
missions during that time period, and we'd like to focus
on that. So we're a big part of the show
(01:47):
because we provide a couple of things. We provide an
airplane for the show, which is the Beat twenty five,
right twenty five Mitchell Bomber. And then we also provide
the location for the civilian acts to base out of
because being here at a beach, there's no unfortunately, there's
no runway out here.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Except come on, there's sand out except for the sand.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
For a couple of airplanes it will be landing on
the sand, but for the faster moving airplanes that can't
do that.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
One landed on the water out there, of course, Albatross.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
But anyway, so all those guys based out of our facility,
guys and galson and we've been doing that since the beginning,
since nine years or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, how long has the air Museum been there?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We opened in nine Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I remember covering the World War Two Memorial when it
was finally erected in DC in two thousand and four
and wondering why it had been sixty years to honor
the greatest generation. It was a travesty really that they
couldn't get that together quicker. But how rewarding is that work?
To honor that generation each and every day with what
you do?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It really is.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You know, when I started, it was you know, about
high performance airplanes. You know, it was about you know,
P fifty one Mustangs and all that. I was a
kid in high school. I want to go fast and
fly need airplanes. And then I got to meet the
people who flew them. You know at that time, they
were you know, in their fifties and sixties, and and
I got to hear all their stories and start learning
more about you know, the aviation history of World War
two history and uh. And so I got into the
(03:07):
museum business, so to speak. I was around aircraft restoration
and then you know, and then the museum itself. And
then General William Lyon, who was a big home building
here in Orange County. He had approached me through a
mutual friend about the museum he was building, and I
was located a different museum and got to know him,
and next thing I know, it was helping him, you know,
(03:29):
get that air museum up and going. So I was
there from the from day one, which was wonderful. And
and we were co located with Martin Aviation, which is
also a sponsor of the show here, the Pacific Air Show,
and so I got to become part of that. And
so now I get to run Martin Aviation, anline air
museum and be a part of the whole big package here.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
And it's it's such an honor to be.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Able to This is your full time gig. I was
gonna see what you do for a day job, but
that's it your full.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, yeah, we are.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
You know, we've got a lot of customers at Martin Aviation.
We were as what's called a part one forty five
repair station, which is as an FA certified station, and
we repair airplanes modern airplanes, and then right next door.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
We have the old airplanes.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
And you know, the guys are cross trained, some of
them to maintain both. And I get to wander back
and forth between both facilities all day long, every day,
and it's it's just a ball.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Do I have a favorite?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
A favorite airplane? You know, that's that's a tough one.
In the in the museum, you know, I want to say, like,
you know, we have a B seventeen Flying Fortress, which
is one of the most famous, you know, heavy bombers
of World War Two, really the definitive bomber of all times.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
We have one of those.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
And we have the B twenty five Mitchell that will
be flying on the show today. And and you know
T six Texan and a C forty seven, which was
really the workhourse of World War Two.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
So we have all these.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Great airplanes, but then it comes down to sometimes it's
just the one that's close to your heart, and there's
one in there for me that just happens to be
it's it's my airplane, but it's a it's a forward
air control aircraft called a one bird dog, and so
that has become my favorite airplane today.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
When it comes to some of those you mentioned the
B seventeen and the V twenty five, there were thousands
and thousands of those produced for the war effort, but
now there are only a handful of them that are
still flying. Yeah, is it hard to keep it, to
maintain it and keep it in the air.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
You know, while there are a lot of surplus parts
out there still floating around. You know, there's there's warehouses
full of stuff here and there, but you know, for
the most part, a lot of it has to be
you know, you know, custom done. You know, we have
to manufacture parts and pieces, and you know, like air
frame parts are pretty basic. So if there's a you know,
some kind of sheet metal part and some kind of
rib and former, we can make all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
So that's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
And I say we not only just like our facility,
but the whole industry of the you know, vintage aircraft movement,
they can make all that stuff. So we you know, yeah,
we can maintain that. You know, engines, there's still shops
that do overhauls. It's getting harder and harder and more
and more expensive, you know, like a P fifty one
Mustang engine overhaul.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You know, you could spend four.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Hundred thousand dollars on an engine overhaul for a P
fifty one, So you know that's not cheap. You know,
that's just the engine part of it. And then you've
got the airframe. So you're talking millions of dollars basically
to to you know, get involved in something like that.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The Sessna O one bird Dog first flu December fourteenth,
nineteen forty nine, entrant service in nineteen fifty is the
L nineteen in the Korean War.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Yeah, yeah, and so you know you asked, So I
have to be honest about and say, the reason that's
one of my favorites is because those guys were, you know,
low and slow over the jungles and you know, I
can Korea in Vietnam and.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Fifty caliber machine guns plus six air to ground rockets
of four target marking smoke bombs on underwing pylons. How
bad ass's selling like it's.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
A car commercial.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
There you go, that's really funny.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
You know, it's kind of interesting because yesterday there's there's
a guy you look him up on Instagram called Combat
lyric Jet and he's really popular.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
He's got like one point seven million followers or something.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
And he came by the museum and I was showing
around a few things and showing around the bird Dog.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And one thing I have in the bird Dog.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Is I've got a it's kind of like a mason jar,
low glass jar.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Inside that jar is a hand grenade.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
And it sounds kind of kind of odd, right, But
when you're flying around with these airplanes and you're at
a thousand feet above the jungle canopies, and we don't
want to glorify the war, of course, but you know,
it's bad guys and good guys, and the bad guys
are surrounding the good guys on the ground, and there's
these guys are up here and they're helpless because basically
they're just calling in air strikes and they're just communicating.
They're not really a weapons platform. So the guys got
(07:25):
you know, they had some ingenuity involved, and they got
these glass jars and got these grenades and they stuck
them in these jars with the pin poll Can you
imagine you pull the pin stick them in the jar,
and the jar holds.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
The handle closed.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
But now it's in a glass jar and you're on
a thousand feet and then you know, drop it and
two of course really bad enemy people, and they drop it,
and then you know it's going to fall, and you
know it's a thousand feet. So if you just dropped
it without it being the jar, about four hundred feet
within with the flues, it's going to go off right,
But with a jar, it hits it all the way
across the ground and the brakes. So we put that
(07:57):
out there, and all these people are sitting here watching us,
going what the heck is he talking about? But it's
those stories of all this stuff that we, you know,
the three of us would never think of, right, you know, on.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Our day to day. But then you know, you get
you get.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Involved, and you start talking to a guy who you know,
now Vietnam airwar guys or you know, they're like in
their eighties, right, you know, and you start talking.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
They just want to share these stories.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
And so that's why I kind of threw back to
like that airplane, because it has so many of those stories,
and the guys are just starting to kind of come
out of their shell of where they used to not
talk about it, and now they're talking about it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
When can people go to the museum?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
So museums open seven days a week generally, you know,
there's a few days few holidays. It's always good to
follow like on Instagram line Air Museum and get the schedule.
We do close for private parties occasionally. We do a
lot of little private events there, mostly in the evenings
of us who we're open during the day, but it's
ten to four daily.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Mark Foster, Yeah, Mark Foster, thank you for stopping by.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Appreciate it. Nice to beat Yeah to beat twenty five
start Away is going to be in the air at
about noon today is when your beat twenty five twice roomy,
thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We appreciate We are live at the air show. More
coming up.
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Speaker 1 (09:50):
Would you believe me if I told you the pilot
of the smallest jet in the world is six' Three he.
Is his name Is Tory ward and he jo us,
now pilot of The subsonic micro, jet of, course based
off the B d Five jay From James. Bond tory
joins us. Now and we talked to you last, year
(10:11):
but great to see you.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Again good to see you. Again good and click that it's.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
On it's just.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
There you go there it is.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Now last year we weren't so blessed with skies opening,
up but it looks like the skies are opening up
for you to take to the skies and we'll all
see the beauty of that subsonic.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Microjet, finally some beautiful weather here. Today it's our icee
blue sky coming. Out the weather forecasters, said we're looking
pretty good. Today not to worry about the, weather the,
fog or anything else that was impactful to. Fly so
we will be flying. Today we're on the schedule in
just a couple of, hours twelve thirty. One if you
(10:51):
want to see our flight, performance.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Describe for us a little bit the camping cot that
is this subsonics. Microjet it is tiny compared to the
other planes that we're going to.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
See, yeah it's a fraction of the. Size most of
the airplanes flying here weigh in the thousands of. Pounds
this airplane is so tiny it'll fit in your two
car garage with space left over for your other. Car
it only weighs in at four hundred and ninety pounds
without the pilot in it and. Fuel but it's got
(11:21):
a wingspan of about eighteen feet and it's sixteen feet,
long so you weigh almost half airplane. Thirty WHEN i bought,
IT i was about two hundred and fifty five, pounds
SO i easily weighed more than half and realized THAT
i was going to have to make some sacrifices really
quick IF i wanted to.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Stay i'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
JUDGING i work in, football So i'm used to like.
Ballparking dude's. Weight so your story is you were in
an air, show you were ten years, old and you
were captivated like so many of us.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Are, yes, ABSOLUTELY i started going to air shows at
a very young age and got a chance to see
the microjet fly of the nineteen, seventies a little slightly different,
design THE bd, five AND i was just. INSPIRED i
loved watching The Blue angels and The, thunderbirds but something
grabbed my attention with the small little, jet and it
(12:13):
took something like four decades later for me to get
into this with a new and improved, design which is
what's currently out there right, now The SUBSONICS jsx two
That i'm.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
On one hundred and sixty five plus different airplanes that you've, Flown.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Yeah i've just been fortunate to be in the right
spot and have good exposure to these different. AIRPLANES i
studied to learn how to fly these different. Airplanes so
pretty much anything single and multi, Engine i've probably been
in it and have flown extensively in those.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Aircraft are people turned away from being pilots of aircraft
like this when they are six?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Three, yeah it definitely is a, turnaway for. Sure it's
a distraction for some. People when you look at this,
airplane you see how tiny it, is you realize there's
no way to get into. It it's really made for
somebody that's no taller than five foot nine That i'm,
not and a shoe size no larger than size. Nine
and UNFORTUNATELY i had to get special shoes made to
(13:10):
fly in the airplanes that were size.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Fourteen oh my, gosh you had to like bind your.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Feet, yeah otherwise they'll get caught up inside the, airplane
in the controls and, everything and that's. Bad we don't want.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That we do not.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Know but the size of the airplane, itself what comes with?
THAT i, mean do you have to change the? Way
is it everything just smaller or does that mean that
there are some specific aeronautical qualities that.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Change, yeah they're everything has been really minimized to be
the smallest that it could possibly be for a pilot
to get. Inside a lot of people notice that the
airplane without anybody in, it it's balanced to sit on
the tail and WHEN i get into the pilot's, SEAT
i bring the airplane into the center of balance. There
(13:53):
so there are some sacrifices to some of the size
of the. Equipment the avion have been. Miniaturized they're very
small but extremely, reliable much smaller than that of the
previous avionics packages and. Airplanes the engine very. Unique most
engines and airplanes weigh, hundreds if not thousands of. Pounds
(14:15):
our power plant is so. Small it weighs forty four
pounds and propels this airplane to three hundred miles an.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hour can you stick around Because i'd love to ask
you some questions about the day of an air, show
like the preparation that you go through and all that
sort of. Stuff, yeah we're talking With Tory, ward who
you will see flying about twelve thirty today in THE
jsx two microjet that he will strap onto his back
basically and wear it like a tight fitting glove as
he flies over The Pacific Air show On Huntington. Beach
(14:42):
if you want, tickets there's still tickets available and there's
more information when you go To Pacific AIRSHOW usa dot com.
Online you'll find all of the information about tickets and
parking and where we are and all that sort of.
Stuff if you want to know where we, are by the,
way look for the. Bathrooms, yeah we're just west of
the bathrooms between the dole whip guy and the family.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Area, yes find the porta potties and you find.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Us, yes let's hope that the onshore breeze stays on.
Shore oh.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Apropos gary And shannon will continue live at The Huntington
Beach Pacific Air show this.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Year you're listening To gary And shannon on demand FROM
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Speaker 2 (15:24):
Live On Huntington beach for Today's Pacific Air, show going
on all. Weekend before we get back to, that a
couple of quick stories, locally that big fire that broke
out at The chevron refinery down and, else OR i
should say up In El segundo last. Night they're still
working on that cruise From La County fire assisted With
(15:45):
Al Sagundo, fire and The California Governor's office Of Emergency
services is going to be coordinating with state and local.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Officials, also the visiting rams lost to the forty nine
ers practice squad last. Night it's so.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Far they made a point of that in the broadcast
On amazon to point out that the every time THE
pa announcer would yell out whose house? House that was.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Like who works for The? Rams who should be fired?
Today who kept saying whose? House when it is red
out in that? Place what do you think is gonna?
Happen you're just creating more of an. Embarrassment but, anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
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hamas to respond to his guys a peace plan By
sunday or he, says all hell like no one has
ever seen, before we'll break. Out of, COURSE Kfi news
is on all of those stories all.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Weekend the sun has come out here In Huntington beach
for The Pacific Air. Show this is night and day
from last year when it was sucked in the whole
day long that we were out.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Here this is.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Beautiful it's gonna be a great. Time, yes because the
government shutdown is still in, effect we will not HAVE
us military, aircraft but it will still be a great
show here today with civilian. Pilots we've got THE uk
involved the course Of canadian and, snowbirds so tons of
fire works here. Today Tory ward is with us right
now the pilot of The Subsonic MICROJET jsx. TWO i
(17:09):
don't know If i'm saying any of this, Correctly, tory
but always a pleasure to have you here with. Us,
so Like gary was, saying, yeah walk us through a
typical flight show air show, day what does that look
like for?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Pilots, yeah behind the, scenes things start pretty. Early we
have to get together as the pilots and attend a
briefing that starts really, early around seven o'clock in the.
Morning we sit down and talk about every aspect of
safety and the dynamics of the, show just so everyone's
(17:43):
on the same. Page it can be frequencies and altitudes
and airspace and things to watch for the helicopters that
are coming and landing and bringing the spectators here From Long.
Beach we've gotten to be able to deconflict with all
that real time that we can get in get out
of the show and not run into. Anybody we're also
(18:04):
being very conscious with the noise and the places that
we're not supposed to go to and not fly, over fly.
Near so we're trying to be very conscious of the
nature and the preserves and still have a safe.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Show so you're in the air at about twelve, thirty
what time do you start up the?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Airplane so the preparation of that is going to be
very close to my actual performance. Time i'm probably going
to be starting at around twelve fifteen and within a
minute going to get, clearance taxi out and get in the.
Queue and WHAT i mean by that is that we're
departing From John Wayne Santa. Anna it's a very dynamic
(18:41):
airport with commercial airline service that they're not going to
hold for, us but they're going to put us in,
line and we want to be conscious of. That and
our timeline here is to not do delay to the.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Show do you have and you could tell me if
it's private and, secret.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's just, Us it's just, us, Okay but do.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
You have like a pregame RITUAL i do behind the.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Scenes there's a pregame ritual THAT i do at every air.
SHOW i go into my little safe space where nobody
can see. Me i'm not going to be in anybody's visual,
area AND i put my head, DOWN i, focus AND
i walk and pretend to fly my. Routine before every,
ROUTINE i go out AND i do this religiously just
(19:24):
to kind of get into the zone and prepare. MYSELF
i block out my, phone people talking to, me anything
that you, know has to do with interaction with spectators or.
ANYTHING i just kind of put that all, down go
into my corner and get my game face, on and
then come back to the.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Airplane the specifics of flying an air. Show, here you're
doing it over water and from for the people who
can have been here or are coming, here there's big
white inflatable boois markers that are out. There what are?
Those and you that's something that you have to pay.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Attention, yeah there's a series of booys here that all
the pilots will have to line up. With it basically
tells the pilot where the air show line, is where
the center line, is where the, markers the corner. Markers
and you have this sort of imaginary, box a rectangular
box that you're doing your performance in and there are
no let's, say aerobatic maneuvers where you're flying upside down
(20:20):
outside of that. Box so the booys help us in
a site picture as to where the line is going
to be as we come into that era aerobatic box
and line up with those.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Boobies and then what can people expect Today, again you're
up in the air right after noon today about twelve
thirty is when you're going to what can people look?
For specific specific stunts that you're going to do that
that plane is the only plane that can do.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
It, WELL i won't, say you, know it's the only.
Airplane it can do. It it's the only airplanet weighs
four hundred and ninety pounds that it can.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Fly and it's a.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Jet we're going to see a high energy, show a
little bit quicker than most of the propeller. Airplanes it
is a jet. Aircraft it's a very miniaturized jet, engine
but it's going to propel the airplane to some pretty good.
Speeds we're gonna come into the air show box to
start our sequence at three hundred miles per hour and
(21:11):
most of the speeds are pretty, high so you'll see
a lot of. Energy WHEN i go into my first vertical,
maneuver you're going to see altitudes up to three thousand
feet above the air show line over the.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Water this is incredible and you can't ask for better.
Weather this is postcard, Weather chamber Of commerce. Weather it
has improved. Significantly just.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
THERE i need my. Sunglasses the sun's out there.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Is like a, clouds the perfect amount of clouds to
where you can get.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
A little, perspective beautiful balance of. Clouds does that actually?
Help if there are a few, clouds.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
We can have a few.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Clouds if it's a little more than, this if it's
overcast or, broken we're going to need to fly a different.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Routine but today we're looking for the Big we're looking
for the high.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Show, today we're going to have a lot of LIKE i,
said a lot of, energy a lot of.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Speed and it's a. Jet it's.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Noisy you're gonna hear. Loud uh you know jet sounds
out of the smallest jet.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Here, fine do you have.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
A walk up?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Song?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Like do you have a? Song you get.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Ready with a?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yeah, Well i've got a few SONGS i like all
the top gun.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Theme, YEAH i love.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That that's WHAT i. Had that's like my fantasy in my.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Mind that starts right from my walk As i'm, approaching
just like the.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Moment my, gosh that's.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Amazing and then, yeah the announcer is going to do
a fantastic job. Here and they actually have a copy
of our, music so we'll have ten minutes of you know, music,
uh and narration to my, performance which, well LIKE i,
said start off with a giant three thousand foot three
hundred mile an hour loop and then it'll just carry
on from. There so you expect to see what we,
(22:45):
call you, know simple aerobatics, loops, rolls point, rolls inverted
pass and you know maneuvers that keep things pretty. Simple
you're not going to see any gyroscopy spins out of a.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Jet right six? Jees how the planes do you?
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Pull, yeah we're going to to pull just south of six.
Cheese our routine is plus five g's and minus one
so my weight upside, down uh, negative pulling me out
hanging out of THE uic.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Pelpt you will See Tory ward in The subsonics microjet
just after twelve thirty. Today we're here watching all of
it so because it should be a wave at. Us all, Right,
tory turn and. Burn, tory thank you for. That, hey
thanks for having. Me you've bet. Again Tory ward from
The subsonics Micro. Jet you'll see him a little bit
later here as part of The Pacific Air show In Huntington.
Beach we will.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Continue you're listening To gary And shannon on demand FROM
KFI am six.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Forty today we're live In Huntington beach at The Pacific Air,
show looking at everybody from from what school IS?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
O my, Goodness Twila, Reed Twila reid Ram rams TEAM
i can get. Behind, yeah there you, Go Mighty ducks
fan Or Anaheim Ducks Hot wheels. Fan she's got a Hot.
Hi what's? Happening what a fun field? Trip?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah how? Cool? HI i love children that aren't.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Mine are there any that?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Are?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
No that's WHY i love the world's.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Children.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Giver we're at we're along the, beach by the. Way
if you are out, here you're headed out. Here we're
next to the dole whip guy and the we're.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Going to talk to the dole whip. Guys we, wait we. Will,
yeah that's gonna have to happen for, you. Sir and
then on the side of us or do you live
in that? Truck? SOMETIMES i love that. Story can't wait
to get.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It this isn't one of those things that.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Were it might, be it might. Be, yeah you, guys
if you don't know the, story it's worth it listening. Again,
well we were at brewery up In Santa clarita and
there was a food truck that was at our news
and bruise and we're, like, oh let's interview the food truck.
Guys and they come over and there's there's three of,
(25:06):
them it's two dudes and a. Girl and we, started,
so how do you guys get? Started are you guys?
Friends and it turns out there in a thruple. Yeah
and that was the first. Time this was like eight years.
Ago it was the first time we had heard the.
Word and of course, Me i'm, like, no what does that?
Mean and they're, like, well we all have sex with each.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Other blah blah.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Blah gary stopped, talking he went. Nonverbal he turned, why
he had no idea what to, Do like for four
and a half, minutes he, said no. WORDS i had
to go to the news on my. Own like it
was a whole. Thing he shut. DOWN i could not
wrap his head around.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
IT i didn't know who to look. AT i know you.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Didn't you didn't know who the alpha. Was you didn't
know if you should talk to the. Girl you didn't
know if you should save. Her it was a whole
THING i saw playing out in your. Mind BUT i
remember to this, DAY i don't know who to look.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
At in that. Trio you can look at all of.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Them they're all. Equals gary in the. Throuttle that's the whole. Idea,
again that doesn't make sense to.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Me but, hey everybody can live their, life do their.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Thing wouldn't it be nice to have Another, well never,
Mind i'll go down that road another. Wife, no you
think my wife needs a? Wife sometimes women are hard to,
handle and it's.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
A you, know wow from your lips To god's, EARS.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I didn't mean your. WIFE i meant, NO i know
exactly what you.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Meant.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yep, hey there is a bounce house behind. Us, yes,
also AND i really want to get into that bounce.
House Unfortunately, bert because he's, malnourished and there's no steak
here For. Bert at our events Usually bert has had
a steak and a half by. Now because it's not,
yes it's about ten. O'clock we may lose. Him we
may lose here, today.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
He declared at eight thirty this. Morning all, right equipment set?
Up where's the? Food?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Right and when you when you say food About, bert
it's not like a burger or you, know, uh you,
know a milkshake or. Something the man needs a?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Steak is it a ribbi that you go for is it'll.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
He won't touch a ribbi in the mouth any part
of the cow is what you'll, take really? Right, yeah
he likes all the. Cuts he celebrates the whole. Cow
And bert doesn't have any steak. Today so we're at
a disadvantage as it.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Is get the.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Vapors He's that's WHY i said we may lose, him
so be nice to, him you know WHAT i. Mean
it may be nice last, day but because, he'snourished we
don't have a wireless, mic and SO i can't take
the show to the bounce house the way THAT i had.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Planned we might have to bring that bounce house to the.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Show, yeah but, ANYWAY i, mean it is an alluring bounce,
house is it.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Not it's, beautiful it's. Huge we are live today in h.
Honey if you even look at the bounce, house for
the same REASON i couldn't look at the, THROTTLE i.
Don't i'm. Afraid i'm afraid about what's about to, happen
because who's going to pull you out of that. Thing
you're gonna get in, there and you're gonna be so
enthralled by, it you might even get lost in.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
THERE i.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Might, yeah he's aggressively. Waving isn't?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
NO i like? It the big fire body has important
stuff going. On oh we, do, no we do. Not clearly,
WAITY i just did five minutes on the bounce.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
House if you're interested In Pacific Air show you can
go To Pacific AIRSHOW usa dot com for all of the. Information,
obviously with the government, shutdown THE us military assets that
are supposed to be out here will not. Be we
will not be seeing The Air force, thunderbirds but still
some incredible civilian and other kinds of aircraft that are
(28:29):
going to be out here all. Weekend as a matter
of are.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
We going to PLAY O canada or? Something, no, no, no, no,
no let's not be. Crazy we're not going to do. That,
well we should salute The, canadians.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
We thank, them we thank them for being so. Nice,
yes and we thank The brits for sending their.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Falcons it's gonna be a, cute acute air.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Show. Cute we don't have THE f thirty.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Five everything else is kind of.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Cuse it's still violently.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Loud kind of losing the. Sex aren't you.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
With the thirty? Five, yeah okay a little. Bit and the.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Raptor, Hey, like if you don't have the Rep, hi
how are? You what's your? Name. Felix. Welcome it's a
beautiful day we got out. Here, FELIX.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I know us.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Too, yeah how about Them. Dodgers felix is wearing A dodger. Hat, Yeah,
saturday that's.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Tomorrow you better be ready For dodgers in. Three, no
it's gonna be. Tough, yeah it's gonna be. Tough dodgers in.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
THREE i don't, know By. Felix.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Felix that's the kind of that's the kind of camaraderie
you're looking for out here. Today people out.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Here have been. Lovely people have been nothing but hospitable and, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And only a Few Tiva's, Tiva's.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
OH i haven't seen. Any IF i see tevas on,
somebody the day is going to go.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
South rank them for, Me tiva's, crocs bare.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Feet, well if someone's In tiva's and they're not seventy,
plus there's a. Problem like if you you, know, like
if you're if your heyday was nineteen ninety one and
you're In, tiva's, cool, Cool, Like i'm okay with.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
That if you remember a bet twenty five when it
was rolling off the assembly, line, right.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
YEAH i, mean veterans can wear whatever the hell they
want to, wear you, Know but you're now you're waving
to pretty girls with, guns and we've reached that area
that chapter of the.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Day this Is. AMERICA i have not.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Seen you wave to anyone in a very long. TIME
a pretty girl with a gun walks by and you're, Like,
hi she Was gary Law.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
ENFORCEMENT i was thanking her for Her oh.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Were you thanking her for her? Service? Okay we will
thank more people for their. Service coming up, next we
are live at The Pacific Air show In Huntington. Beach
you are. Ridiculous more coming up, On.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Gary AND i have a gift for you later as.
WELL i totally forgot about. THAT i have a gift for.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You, Okay? Yeah is it a staccato twenty?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
ELEVEN i don't know what that?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Is you don't know what that?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Is is that a? Drink all? Right hit the? Thing
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Speaker 3 (31:05):
App
This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Like, we had to break
into this event, you guys. They were like, uh, you're
not on the list, but you can't park here, but
we can. We're like, we have a live broadcaster, like yeah,
(00:22):
we don't care, you're.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Not not that live. So that so.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
We've got friends with with with you know that are armed,
and we broke into this b is what we did.
You know why, because that's what we do. We're gorilla Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's an interesting way to put it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, we didn't get it okay to be here apparently,
so you know, Hi, how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
There?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You go?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Nice to see you. Hello, Welcome, Welcome. We are at
the Pacific Air Show here in Huntington Beach on the sand.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I don't know why anybody didn't know that today.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
But I don't know what. Your hat says something about
Lion Air music a museum. Very cool? Do you want
to come on and talk to us about the air museum? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Sure, I love it?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Pull up bye, here you go, sir. This man's name
is Mark Mark Foster.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
How are you good morning?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
How are you good morning? Thanks for walking by. Welcome to
our Gorilla Radio event.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yeah, so what are you guys up to this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What are you up to?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We are live on the radio on KF five and
an on the iHeartRadio app. Okay, and what tell us
about the Lion Air Museum?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Well Line Air Museum located John Wayne Airport, and we
are an aviation museum that focuses mainly on what we
call the Greatest Generation, which is the greatest generation of
World War Two. The people who you know prepared all
these planes and flew these airplanes and did all those
missions during that time period, and we'd like to focus
on that. So we're a big part of the show
(01:47):
because we provide a couple of things. We provide an
airplane for the show, which is the Beat twenty five,
right twenty five Mitchell Bomber. And then we also provide
the location for the civilian acts to base out of
because being here at a beach, there's no unfortunately, there's
no runway out here.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Except come on, there's sand out except for the sand.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
For a couple of airplanes it will be landing on
the sand, but for the faster moving airplanes that can't
do that.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
One landed on the water out there, of course, Albatross.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
But anyway, so all those guys based out of our facility,
guys and galson and we've been doing that since the beginning,
since nine years or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, how long has the air Museum been there?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We opened in nine Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I remember covering the World War Two Memorial when it
was finally erected in DC in two thousand and four
and wondering why it had been sixty years to honor
the greatest generation. It was a travesty really that they
couldn't get that together quicker. But how rewarding is that work?
To honor that generation each and every day with what
you do?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It really is.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You know, when I started, it was you know, about
high performance airplanes. You know, it was about you know,
P fifty one Mustangs and all that. I was a
kid in high school. I want to go fast and
fly need airplanes. And then I got to meet the
people who flew them. You know at that time, they
were you know, in their fifties and sixties, and and
I got to hear all their stories and start learning
more about you know, the aviation history of World War
two history and uh. And so I got into the
(03:07):
museum business, so to speak. I was around aircraft restoration
and then you know, and then the museum itself. And
then General William Lyon, who was a big home building
here in Orange County. He had approached me through a
mutual friend about the museum he was building, and I
was located a different museum and got to know him,
and next thing I know, it was helping him, you know,
(03:29):
get that air museum up and going. So I was
there from the from day one, which was wonderful. And
and we were co located with Martin Aviation, which is
also a sponsor of the show here, the Pacific Air Show,
and so I got to become part of that. And
so now I get to run Martin Aviation, anline air
museum and be a part of the whole big package here.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
And it's it's such an honor to be.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Able to This is your full time gig. I was
gonna see what you do for a day job, but
that's it your full.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, yeah, we are.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
You know, we've got a lot of customers at Martin Aviation.
We were as what's called a part one forty five
repair station, which is as an FA certified station, and
we repair airplanes modern airplanes, and then right next door.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
We have the old airplanes.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
And you know, the guys are cross trained, some of
them to maintain both. And I get to wander back
and forth between both facilities all day long, every day,
and it's it's just a ball.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Do I have a favorite?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
A favorite airplane? You know, that's that's a tough one.
In the in the museum, you know, I want to say, like,
you know, we have a B seventeen Flying Fortress, which
is one of the most famous, you know, heavy bombers
of World War Two, really the definitive bomber of all times.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
We have one of those.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
And we have the B twenty five Mitchell that will
be flying on the show today. And and you know
T six Texan and a C forty seven, which was
really the workhourse of World War Two.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
So we have all these.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Great airplanes, but then it comes down to sometimes it's
just the one that's close to your heart, and there's
one in there for me that just happens to be
it's it's my airplane, but it's a it's a forward
air control aircraft called a one bird dog, and so
that has become my favorite airplane today.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
When it comes to some of those you mentioned the
B seventeen and the V twenty five, there were thousands
and thousands of those produced for the war effort, but
now there are only a handful of them that are
still flying. Yeah, is it hard to keep it, to
maintain it and keep it in the air.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
You know, while there are a lot of surplus parts
out there still floating around. You know, there's there's warehouses
full of stuff here and there, but you know, for
the most part, a lot of it has to be
you know, you know, custom done. You know, we have
to manufacture parts and pieces, and you know, like air
frame parts are pretty basic. So if there's a you know,
some kind of sheet metal part and some kind of
rib and former, we can make all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
So that's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
And I say we not only just like our facility,
but the whole industry of the you know, vintage aircraft movement,
they can make all that stuff. So we you know, yeah,
we can maintain that. You know, engines, there's still shops
that do overhauls. It's getting harder and harder and more
and more expensive, you know, like a P fifty one
Mustang engine overhaul.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You know, you could spend four.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Hundred thousand dollars on an engine overhaul for a P
fifty one, So you know that's not cheap. You know,
that's just the engine part of it. And then you've
got the airframe. So you're talking millions of dollars basically
to to you know, get involved in something like that.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
The Sessna O one bird Dog first flu December fourteenth,
nineteen forty nine, entrant service in nineteen fifty is the
L nineteen in the Korean War.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Yeah, yeah, and so you know you asked, So I
have to be honest about and say, the reason that's
one of my favorites is because those guys were, you know,
low and slow over the jungles and you know, I
can Korea in Vietnam and.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Fifty caliber machine guns plus six air to ground rockets
of four target marking smoke bombs on underwing pylons. How
bad ass's selling like it's.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
A car commercial.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
There you go, that's really funny.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
You know, it's kind of interesting because yesterday there's there's
a guy you look him up on Instagram called Combat
lyric Jet and he's really popular.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
He's got like one point seven million followers or something.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
And he came by the museum and I was showing
around a few things and showing around the bird Dog.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And one thing I have in the bird Dog.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Is I've got a it's kind of like a mason jar,
low glass jar.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Inside that jar is a hand grenade.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
And it sounds kind of kind of odd, right, But
when you're flying around with these airplanes and you're at
a thousand feet above the jungle canopies, and we don't
want to glorify the war, of course, but you know,
it's bad guys and good guys, and the bad guys
are surrounding the good guys on the ground, and there's
these guys are up here and they're helpless because basically
they're just calling in air strikes and they're just communicating.
They're not really a weapons platform. So the guys got
(07:25):
you know, they had some ingenuity involved, and they got
these glass jars and got these grenades and they stuck
them in these jars with the pin poll Can you
imagine you pull the pin stick them in the jar,
and the jar holds.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
The handle closed.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
But now it's in a glass jar and you're on
a thousand feet and then you know, drop it and
two of course really bad enemy people, and they drop it,
and then you know it's going to fall, and you
know it's a thousand feet. So if you just dropped
it without it being the jar, about four hundred feet
within with the flues, it's going to go off right,
But with a jar, it hits it all the way
across the ground and the brakes. So we put that
(07:57):
out there, and all these people are sitting here watching us,
going what the heck is he talking about? But it's
those stories of all this stuff that we, you know,
the three of us would never think of, right, you know, on.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Our day to day. But then you know, you get
you get.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Involved, and you start talking to a guy who you know,
now Vietnam airwar guys or you know, they're like in
their eighties, right, you know, and you start talking.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
They just want to share these stories.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
And so that's why I kind of threw back to
like that airplane, because it has so many of those stories,
and the guys are just starting to kind of come
out of their shell of where they used to not
talk about it, and now they're talking about it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
When can people go to the museum?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
So museums open seven days a week generally, you know,
there's a few days few holidays. It's always good to
follow like on Instagram line Air Museum and get the schedule.
We do close for private parties occasionally. We do a
lot of little private events there, mostly in the evenings
of us who we're open during the day, but it's
ten to four daily.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Mark Foster, Yeah, Mark Foster, thank you for stopping by.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Appreciate it. Nice to beat Yeah to beat twenty five
start Away is going to be in the air at
about noon today is when your beat twenty five twice roomy,
thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We appreciate We are live at the air show. More
coming up.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
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Speaker 1 (09:50):
Would you believe me if I told you the pilot
of the smallest jet in the world is six' Three he.
Is his name Is Tory ward and he jo us,
now pilot of The subsonic micro, jet of, course based
off the B d Five jay From James. Bond tory
joins us. Now and we talked to you last, year
(10:11):
but great to see you.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Again good to see you. Again good and click that it's.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
On it's just.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
There you go there it is.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Now last year we weren't so blessed with skies opening,
up but it looks like the skies are opening up
for you to take to the skies and we'll all
see the beauty of that subsonic.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Microjet, finally some beautiful weather here. Today it's our icee
blue sky coming. Out the weather forecasters, said we're looking
pretty good. Today not to worry about the, weather the,
fog or anything else that was impactful to. Fly so
we will be flying. Today we're on the schedule in
just a couple of, hours twelve thirty. One if you
(10:51):
want to see our flight, performance.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Describe for us a little bit the camping cot that
is this subsonics. Microjet it is tiny compared to the
other planes that we're going to.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
See, yeah it's a fraction of the. Size most of
the airplanes flying here weigh in the thousands of. Pounds
this airplane is so tiny it'll fit in your two
car garage with space left over for your other. Car
it only weighs in at four hundred and ninety pounds
without the pilot in it and. Fuel but it's got
(11:21):
a wingspan of about eighteen feet and it's sixteen feet,
long so you weigh almost half airplane. Thirty WHEN i bought,
IT i was about two hundred and fifty five, pounds
SO i easily weighed more than half and realized THAT
i was going to have to make some sacrifices really
quick IF i wanted to.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Stay i'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
JUDGING i work in, football So i'm used to like.
Ballparking dude's. Weight so your story is you were in
an air, show you were ten years, old and you
were captivated like so many of us.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Are, yes, ABSOLUTELY i started going to air shows at
a very young age and got a chance to see
the microjet fly of the nineteen, seventies a little slightly different,
design THE bd, five AND i was just. INSPIRED i
loved watching The Blue angels and The, thunderbirds but something
grabbed my attention with the small little, jet and it
(12:13):
took something like four decades later for me to get
into this with a new and improved, design which is
what's currently out there right, now The SUBSONICS jsx two
That i'm.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
On one hundred and sixty five plus different airplanes that you've, Flown.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Yeah i've just been fortunate to be in the right
spot and have good exposure to these different. AIRPLANES i
studied to learn how to fly these different. Airplanes so
pretty much anything single and multi, Engine i've probably been
in it and have flown extensively in those.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Aircraft are people turned away from being pilots of aircraft
like this when they are six?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Three, yeah it definitely is a, turnaway for. Sure it's
a distraction for some. People when you look at this,
airplane you see how tiny it, is you realize there's
no way to get into. It it's really made for
somebody that's no taller than five foot nine That i'm,
not and a shoe size no larger than size. Nine
and UNFORTUNATELY i had to get special shoes made to
(13:10):
fly in the airplanes that were size.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Fourteen oh my, gosh you had to like bind your.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Feet, yeah otherwise they'll get caught up inside the, airplane
in the controls and, everything and that's. Bad we don't want.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
That we do not.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Know but the size of the airplane, itself what comes with?
THAT i, mean do you have to change the? Way
is it everything just smaller or does that mean that
there are some specific aeronautical qualities that.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Change, yeah they're everything has been really minimized to be
the smallest that it could possibly be for a pilot
to get. Inside a lot of people notice that the
airplane without anybody in, it it's balanced to sit on
the tail and WHEN i get into the pilot's, SEAT
i bring the airplane into the center of balance. There
(13:53):
so there are some sacrifices to some of the size
of the. Equipment the avion have been. Miniaturized they're very
small but extremely, reliable much smaller than that of the
previous avionics packages and. Airplanes the engine very. Unique most
engines and airplanes weigh, hundreds if not thousands of. Pounds
(14:15):
our power plant is so. Small it weighs forty four
pounds and propels this airplane to three hundred miles an.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hour can you stick around Because i'd love to ask
you some questions about the day of an air, show
like the preparation that you go through and all that
sort of. Stuff, yeah we're talking With Tory, ward who
you will see flying about twelve thirty today in THE
jsx two microjet that he will strap onto his back
basically and wear it like a tight fitting glove as
he flies over The Pacific Air show On Huntington. Beach
(14:42):
if you want, tickets there's still tickets available and there's
more information when you go To Pacific AIRSHOW usa dot com.
Online you'll find all of the information about tickets and
parking and where we are and all that sort of.
Stuff if you want to know where we, are by the,
way look for the. Bathrooms, yeah we're just west of
the bathrooms between the dole whip guy and the family.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Area, yes find the porta potties and you find.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Us, yes let's hope that the onshore breeze stays on.
Shore oh.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Apropos gary And shannon will continue live at The Huntington
Beach Pacific Air show this.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Year you're listening To gary And shannon on demand FROM
KFI am six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Live On Huntington beach for Today's Pacific Air, show going
on all. Weekend before we get back to, that a
couple of quick stories, locally that big fire that broke
out at The chevron refinery down and, else OR i
should say up In El segundo last. Night they're still
working on that cruise From La County fire assisted With
(15:45):
Al Sagundo, fire and The California Governor's office Of Emergency
services is going to be coordinating with state and local.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Officials, also the visiting rams lost to the forty nine
ers practice squad last. Night it's so.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Far they made a point of that in the broadcast
On amazon to point out that the every time THE
pa announcer would yell out whose house? House that was.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Like who works for The? Rams who should be fired?
Today who kept saying whose? House when it is red
out in that? Place what do you think is gonna?
Happen you're just creating more of an. Embarrassment but, anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
There was another. Story President trump offered an ultimatum To
hamas to respond to his guys a peace plan By
sunday or he, says all hell like no one has
ever seen, before we'll break. Out of, COURSE Kfi news
is on all of those stories all.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Weekend the sun has come out here In Huntington beach
for The Pacific Air. Show this is night and day
from last year when it was sucked in the whole
day long that we were out.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Here this is.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Beautiful it's gonna be a great. Time, yes because the
government shutdown is still in, effect we will not HAVE
us military, aircraft but it will still be a great
show here today with civilian. Pilots we've got THE uk
involved the course Of canadian and, snowbirds so tons of
fire works here. Today Tory ward is with us right
now the pilot of The Subsonic MICROJET jsx. TWO i
(17:09):
don't know If i'm saying any of this, Correctly, tory
but always a pleasure to have you here with. Us,
so Like gary was, saying, yeah walk us through a
typical flight show air show, day what does that look
like for?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Pilots, yeah behind the, scenes things start pretty. Early we
have to get together as the pilots and attend a
briefing that starts really, early around seven o'clock in the.
Morning we sit down and talk about every aspect of
safety and the dynamics of the, show just so everyone's
(17:43):
on the same. Page it can be frequencies and altitudes
and airspace and things to watch for the helicopters that
are coming and landing and bringing the spectators here From Long.
Beach we've gotten to be able to deconflict with all
that real time that we can get in get out
of the show and not run into. Anybody we're also
(18:04):
being very conscious with the noise and the places that
we're not supposed to go to and not fly, over fly.
Near so we're trying to be very conscious of the
nature and the preserves and still have a safe.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Show so you're in the air at about twelve, thirty
what time do you start up the?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Airplane so the preparation of that is going to be
very close to my actual performance. Time i'm probably going
to be starting at around twelve fifteen and within a
minute going to get, clearance taxi out and get in the.
Queue and WHAT i mean by that is that we're
departing From John Wayne Santa. Anna it's a very dynamic
(18:41):
airport with commercial airline service that they're not going to
hold for, us but they're going to put us in,
line and we want to be conscious of. That and
our timeline here is to not do delay to the.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Show do you have and you could tell me if
it's private and, secret.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's just, Us it's just, us, Okay but do.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
You have like a pregame RITUAL i do behind the.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Scenes there's a pregame ritual THAT i do at every air.
SHOW i go into my little safe space where nobody
can see. Me i'm not going to be in anybody's visual,
area AND i put my head, DOWN i, focus AND
i walk and pretend to fly my. Routine before every,
ROUTINE i go out AND i do this religiously just
(19:24):
to kind of get into the zone and prepare. MYSELF
i block out my, phone people talking to, me anything
that you, know has to do with interaction with spectators or.
ANYTHING i just kind of put that all, down go
into my corner and get my game face, on and
then come back to the.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Airplane the specifics of flying an air. Show, here you're
doing it over water and from for the people who
can have been here or are coming, here there's big
white inflatable boois markers that are out. There what are?
Those and you that's something that you have to pay.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Attention, yeah there's a series of booys here that all
the pilots will have to line up. With it basically
tells the pilot where the air show line, is where
the center line, is where the, markers the corner. Markers
and you have this sort of imaginary, box a rectangular
box that you're doing your performance in and there are
no let's, say aerobatic maneuvers where you're flying upside down
(20:20):
outside of that. Box so the booys help us in
a site picture as to where the line is going
to be as we come into that era aerobatic box
and line up with those.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Boobies and then what can people expect Today, again you're
up in the air right after noon today about twelve
thirty is when you're going to what can people look?
For specific specific stunts that you're going to do that
that plane is the only plane that can do.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
It, WELL i won't, say you, know it's the only.
Airplane it can do. It it's the only airplanet weighs
four hundred and ninety pounds that it can.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Fly and it's a.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Jet we're going to see a high energy, show a
little bit quicker than most of the propeller. Airplanes it
is a jet. Aircraft it's a very miniaturized jet, engine
but it's going to propel the airplane to some pretty good.
Speeds we're gonna come into the air show box to
start our sequence at three hundred miles per hour and
(21:11):
most of the speeds are pretty, high so you'll see
a lot of. Energy WHEN i go into my first vertical,
maneuver you're going to see altitudes up to three thousand
feet above the air show line over the.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Water this is incredible and you can't ask for better.
Weather this is postcard, Weather chamber Of commerce. Weather it
has improved. Significantly just.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
THERE i need my. Sunglasses the sun's out there.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Is like a, clouds the perfect amount of clouds to
where you can get.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
A little, perspective beautiful balance of. Clouds does that actually?
Help if there are a few, clouds.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
We can have a few.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Clouds if it's a little more than, this if it's
overcast or, broken we're going to need to fly a different.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Routine but today we're looking for the Big we're looking
for the high.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Show, today we're going to have a lot of LIKE i,
said a lot of, energy a lot of.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Speed and it's a. Jet it's.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Noisy you're gonna hear. Loud uh you know jet sounds
out of the smallest jet.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Here, fine do you have.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
A walk up?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Song?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Like do you have a? Song you get.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Ready with a?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Yeah, Well i've got a few SONGS i like all
the top gun.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Theme, YEAH i love.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That that's WHAT i. Had that's like my fantasy in my.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Mind that starts right from my walk As i'm, approaching
just like the.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Moment my, gosh that's.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Amazing and then, yeah the announcer is going to do
a fantastic job. Here and they actually have a copy
of our, music so we'll have ten minutes of you know, music,
uh and narration to my, performance which, well LIKE i,
said start off with a giant three thousand foot three
hundred mile an hour loop and then it'll just carry
on from. There so you expect to see what we,
(22:45):
call you, know simple aerobatics, loops, rolls point, rolls inverted
pass and you know maneuvers that keep things pretty. Simple
you're not going to see any gyroscopy spins out of a.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Jet right six? Jees how the planes do you?
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Pull, yeah we're going to to pull just south of six.
Cheese our routine is plus five g's and minus one
so my weight upside, down uh, negative pulling me out
hanging out of THE uic.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Pelpt you will See Tory ward in The subsonics microjet
just after twelve thirty. Today we're here watching all of
it so because it should be a wave at. Us all, Right,
tory turn and. Burn, tory thank you for. That, hey
thanks for having. Me you've bet. Again Tory ward from
The subsonics Micro. Jet you'll see him a little bit
later here as part of The Pacific Air show In Huntington.
Beach we will.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Continue you're listening To gary And shannon on demand FROM
KFI am six.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Forty today we're live In Huntington beach at The Pacific Air,
show looking at everybody from from what school IS?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
O my, Goodness Twila, Reed Twila reid Ram rams TEAM
i can get. Behind, yeah there you, Go Mighty ducks
fan Or Anaheim Ducks Hot wheels. Fan she's got a Hot.
Hi what's? Happening what a fun field? Trip?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah how? Cool? HI i love children that aren't.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Mine are there any that?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Are?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
No that's WHY i love the world's.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Children.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Giver we're at we're along the, beach by the. Way
if you are out, here you're headed out. Here we're
next to the dole whip guy and the we're.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Going to talk to the dole whip. Guys we, wait we. Will,
yeah that's gonna have to happen for, you. Sir and
then on the side of us or do you live
in that? Truck? SOMETIMES i love that. Story can't wait
to get.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It this isn't one of those things that.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Were it might, be it might. Be, yeah you, guys
if you don't know the, story it's worth it listening. Again,
well we were at brewery up In Santa clarita and
there was a food truck that was at our news
and bruise and we're, like, oh let's interview the food truck.
Guys and they come over and there's there's three of,
(25:06):
them it's two dudes and a. Girl and we, started,
so how do you guys get? Started are you guys?
Friends and it turns out there in a thruple. Yeah
and that was the first. Time this was like eight years.
Ago it was the first time we had heard the.
Word and of course, Me i'm, like, no what does that?
Mean and they're, like, well we all have sex with each.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Other blah blah.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Blah gary stopped, talking he went. Nonverbal he turned, why
he had no idea what to, Do like for four
and a half, minutes he, said no. WORDS i had
to go to the news on my. Own like it
was a whole. Thing he shut. DOWN i could not
wrap his head around.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
IT i didn't know who to look. AT i know you.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Didn't you didn't know who the alpha. Was you didn't
know if you should talk to the. Girl you didn't
know if you should save. Her it was a whole
THING i saw playing out in your. Mind BUT i
remember to this, DAY i don't know who to look.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
At in that. Trio you can look at all of.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Them they're all. Equals gary in the. Throuttle that's the whole. Idea,
again that doesn't make sense to.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Me but, hey everybody can live their, life do their.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Thing wouldn't it be nice to have Another, well never,
Mind i'll go down that road another. Wife, no you
think my wife needs a? Wife sometimes women are hard to,
handle and it's.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
A you, know wow from your lips To god's, EARS.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I didn't mean your. WIFE i meant, NO i know
exactly what you.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Meant.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yep, hey there is a bounce house behind. Us, yes,
also AND i really want to get into that bounce.
House Unfortunately, bert because he's, malnourished and there's no steak
here For. Bert at our events Usually bert has had
a steak and a half by. Now because it's not,
yes it's about ten. O'clock we may lose. Him we
may lose here, today.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
He declared at eight thirty this. Morning all, right equipment set?
Up where's the? Food?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Right and when you when you say food About, bert
it's not like a burger or you, know, uh you,
know a milkshake or. Something the man needs a?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Steak is it a ribbi that you go for is it'll.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
He won't touch a ribbi in the mouth any part
of the cow is what you'll, take really? Right, yeah
he likes all the. Cuts he celebrates the whole. Cow
And bert doesn't have any steak. Today so we're at
a disadvantage as it.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Is get the.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Vapors He's that's WHY i said we may lose, him
so be nice to, him you know WHAT i. Mean
it may be nice last, day but because, he'snourished we
don't have a wireless, mic and SO i can't take
the show to the bounce house the way THAT i had.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Planned we might have to bring that bounce house to the.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Show, yeah but, ANYWAY i, mean it is an alluring bounce,
house is it.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Not it's, beautiful it's. Huge we are live today in h.
Honey if you even look at the bounce, house for
the same REASON i couldn't look at the, THROTTLE i.
Don't i'm. Afraid i'm afraid about what's about to, happen
because who's going to pull you out of that. Thing
you're gonna get in, there and you're gonna be so
enthralled by, it you might even get lost in.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
THERE i.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Might, yeah he's aggressively. Waving isn't?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
NO i like? It the big fire body has important
stuff going. On oh we, do, no we do. Not clearly,
WAITY i just did five minutes on the bounce.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
House if you're interested In Pacific Air show you can
go To Pacific AIRSHOW usa dot com for all of the. Information,
obviously with the government, shutdown THE us military assets that
are supposed to be out here will not. Be we
will not be seeing The Air force, thunderbirds but still
some incredible civilian and other kinds of aircraft that are
(28:29):
going to be out here all. Weekend as a matter
of are.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
We going to PLAY O canada or? Something, no, no, no, no,
no let's not be. Crazy we're not going to do. That,
well we should salute The, canadians.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
We thank, them we thank them for being so. Nice,
yes and we thank The brits for sending their.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Falcons it's gonna be a, cute acute air.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Show. Cute we don't have THE f thirty.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Five everything else is kind of.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Cuse it's still violently.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Loud kind of losing the. Sex aren't you.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
With the thirty? Five, yeah okay a little. Bit and the.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Raptor, Hey, like if you don't have the Rep, hi
how are? You what's your? Name. Felix. Welcome it's a
beautiful day we got out. Here, FELIX.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I know us.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Too, yeah how about Them. Dodgers felix is wearing A dodger. Hat, Yeah,
saturday that's.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Tomorrow you better be ready For dodgers in. Three, no
it's gonna be. Tough, yeah it's gonna be. Tough dodgers in.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
THREE i don't, know By. Felix.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Felix that's the kind of that's the kind of camaraderie
you're looking for out here. Today people out.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Here have been. Lovely people have been nothing but hospitable and, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
And only a Few Tiva's, Tiva's.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
OH i haven't seen. Any IF i see tevas on,
somebody the day is going to go.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
South rank them for, Me tiva's, crocs bare.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Feet, well if someone's In tiva's and they're not seventy,
plus there's a. Problem like if you you, know, like
if you're if your heyday was nineteen ninety one and
you're In, tiva's, cool, Cool, Like i'm okay with.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
That if you remember a bet twenty five when it
was rolling off the assembly, line, right.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
YEAH i, mean veterans can wear whatever the hell they
want to, wear you, Know but you're now you're waving
to pretty girls with, guns and we've reached that area
that chapter of the.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Day this Is. AMERICA i have not.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Seen you wave to anyone in a very long. TIME
a pretty girl with a gun walks by and you're, Like,
hi she Was gary Law.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
ENFORCEMENT i was thanking her for Her oh.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Were you thanking her for her? Service? Okay we will
thank more people for their. Service coming up, next we
are live at The Pacific Air show In Huntington. Beach
you are. Ridiculous more coming up, On.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Gary AND i have a gift for you later as.
WELL i totally forgot about. THAT i have a gift for.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You, Okay? Yeah is it a staccato twenty?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
ELEVEN i don't know what that?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Is you don't know what that?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Is is that a? Drink all? Right hit the? Thing
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