#1982 - Blue Angels: Augusta Air Show

And we do welcome you to the CNC Auto Show. And this is a special CNC Auto Show. It is. I'm sitting here. With Jamie Bridges, Charles Davis, David Clark, and Trip Clark.

Trip's the youngest one of our bunch here. And plus a special guest, Chris Dorado. And we are here at Augusta. Regional Airport for Let's say it together, the Blue Angels.

Well, it's the Augusta Air Show. The Augusta Air Show. But along with the Blue Angels, there's a lot of other things happening, and we'll all talk about that a little bit in the next few minutes. But it's going to be amazing. It is an amazing show.

We had the opportunity to see the Blue Angels fly just a little bit. I think that was on Thursday. Beautiful, beautiful airplanes. And I think what happens so many times. is these aircrafts perform so many things in other countries we don't get a chance to see what they do.

And so the Blue Angels is a way and air shows like this are ways to bring some of that equipment to us so that we can see what it does.

So, David, are we ready? Oh, man, I'm so excited. Glad to be back this week. It's been a while. Trip keeps me on the road with baseball.

You did miss one. Please stay running. And, Trip, you've been playing some baseball? Yeah, I hear you've been doing good, too. Fantastic.

Jamie, the truck industry. How is that? We'll see how everything turns out: price increases and whatnot. And then we have Charles Davis, and he's in the collision trucking industry, and he'll be updating us on that as time goes on. But what we want to do right now, Chris, welcome to the show again.

Thank you. Glad to be here. Yeah. And we plan to interrogate you. We're going to ask you.

Yeah, we're going to ask you a lot of questions. Yeah. What is going on today?

Well, we're back for the third annual Augusta Air Show, which is part of the Air Dot Show tour that we put on, eight shows that we put on over a period of the end of April into the end of October.

So we're glad to be back here. You know, it's always fun to be back in the. The Heart of the Masters tournament. You know, having just completed that, what, a couple weeks ago, I guess. Yeah.

And we're back here and we're. Hoping to Infuse some more money into the economy here in Augusta with this terrific air show that we have today and tomorrow. Yeah, infuse money and create a lot of excitement because we love it being here. And we want to say thank you in the beginning for being a part of bringing this event. To Augusta.

Well, we're we're you know, it's we're excited to be here. You know, it's a concerted effort between uh the airport and the city and uh air.show tour.

So uh you know everybody's got to work together. You know, there's a lot of moving parts putting these things together, no pun intended, given it's an auto show.

So uh but uh you know we we do a lot of work behind the scenes on this thing, it's and but we we're glad to bring it to the fans here of of Augusta and also the the region because they come from far and wide to see the show. Oh, they do. I've talked to people that's uh Plans to drive a long distance or some that is already here because they drove a long distance last night to be here for today's show.

Well, we're glad that happens. You know, you mentioned the U.S. Navy Blue Angels are here and they're always a fan favorite, obviously. World renowned, and uh but we have a lot of other acts, both civilian and uh military related.

So uh you know be a be a jam-packed schedule. Uh The show starts at noon here, both days, noon and will last till about 3.30-ish or so. Of course, the Blue Angels will be the headliner at the tail end of the show. Wow. And there'll be a lot of things going on on the ground also.

Yeah, we have static displays, the touchy-feely type of things that you can get up and close and personal with some of the static display planes. One of them is an A-10 Thunderbolt, the old tank killer, as they call it.

So that'll be one of the planes on display that people, I'm sure, will gravitate to. The Warthog. The Warthog, another nickname for the A-10. That is an amazing aircraft. Brown support.

Slow, but it is a flying tank. The Warhogs. That's like Arkansas, right? Yeah. Not quite.

Not quite. But no, that's fun. And of course, you know, we have a great fan experience. There's a stage that's set up just about at Show Center, and fans can go over there and hear interviews with the pilots and get autographs and some swag that they'll hand out.

So we encourage folks that are coming to the show to make sure they get to the stage area and hear some of these interviews and learn a little bit about some of these pilots. You're going to have some helicopter. Yeah. Well, we'll have the uh the Army aviation folks from uh over in Hampton, Virginia uh Hampton, Virginia, Hampton, Georgia.

Okay. There is a Hampton, Virginia. Um so they're uh they're gonna come over they're here and they'll be given rides too for a cost, obviously. But uh they'll put on a Vietnam era demo, uh attack demo.

So it's pretty it's pretty cool.

So uh that's another uh Another part of the show. Is the parachutists here this year too? Yeah, the SOCOM Paracommandos at a MacDill. in Tampa.

So uh they're they're here and you know I I always call it this uh it's a goosebump moment when they bring in the American flag to open the show. I mean uh you know if you're you know air shows inherently are patriotic in nature.

So to see that happen to set the stage for the show is just incredible. And they're and they're they're Incredibly talented parachutists, I guess, parachute team.

So they come in, they're a mix of different military branches.

So Unbelievable talents. That's probably the biggest rush if you've ever jumped out of an airplane. Oh, yeah. I've done it one time, but I would do it as many times as I could if I got the opportunity.

So I wish I haven't done it, but people have been threatening to do a tandem, you know, bring me on a tandem jump, which I guess is better than nothing. But I think I'm getting too old for that. Oh, you can do it. You're not getting too old. I don't know.

I think David and I had different experiences. Once was clearly enough for me, buddy. Oh, no, man. The best thing I ever did. It better be on fire falling out of the sky.

There better be a good reason to have to get out.

Now, Chris, I will tell you that we interviewed, you were here. We interviewed the gentleman. Last year, that had held the flag as he jumped out first. That's right. That was one sharp person.

I mean, enjoyable person to talk to. I mean, you could talk, boom, he was. Right on point, direct, and just amazing. Those guys, they jump everywhere. I mean, they jump into football stadiums, you know, you name it, and they've done it.

So they're incredibly talented. And, you know, again, bringing in those flags. I get choked up just thinking about it because I've seen it multiple times and it never ceases to amaze me how I feel about it.

Well, when I talked to him, I thought I was talking to an AI machine because, I mean, boom, he was really good. And you could tell, I mean, he was just so thankful to be doing what he was doing, so humble, but just so sharp. It was amazing to me. That was a great time. And I look forward to seeing them again.

Yeah, also. They'll be here and hopefully we can get somebody. You know, as you know, they have to go, everybody's got to go through a mandatory pilot's briefing before the show days begin.

So hopefully we'll grab some of the folks here and we'll get them on the air with you. We'll be sitting here. We're going to put a net out there to catch them when they're coming out. We're going to bring them right over this way.

So what time does this start today? Noon. Noon. Yeah. The pre-show ceremonies will start just before and then we'll kick it off.

What do you think for people, what's the best time to try and get here? Do they need to be about an hour early? Yeah, I mean, well. Oh, they're starting to come in now. That might be pushing it.

You know, the gates open at 9.

Okay, gates open at 9.

So actually, yeah, another 45 minutes. Oh, yeah. So, you know. Traffic could be a little bit of a bear getting in here. But you get here and and move around the show footprint a little bit and there'll be a DJ playing music.

There's an Army Air Force Army Air Force. That's an old branch. Air Force rock band that'll be up on the stage.

Okay. And there'll be. Playing some tunes to entertain you, and actually, they're very good, by the way. But there's entertainment to enjoy before the flying begins at noon. And one thing I want to remind everybody to do is make sure you bring those sunglasses when you come.

Possibly some suntan lotion. It may or may not need suntan lotion, but it's better to bring it and knead it. And anything else that you think you might need, just because it is. Once you get out there, you're so amazed, next thing you know, you might get burnt or you're wishing you would have had some sunglasses.

Well, I would encourage people, or to that end, Aaron, I would encourage people if they have questions to go online, dust theairshow.com, and there's a frequently asked questions tab that you can go on there. And also, there's the latest ticket information, what's available today and tomorrow. You have to buy online, by the way. Chris, thank you for being here with us. We hope you're going to be here with us off and on during the show.

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There's not much time left today. Yeah, life is a highway. I wanna ride it all night long. If you're going my way, I wanna drive. And we do welcome you to the CNC Auto Show.

We are here live at the Augusta Regional Airport. In Augusta, Georgia, for the Air Dot Tour Air Show, and it's going to be a wonderful event today. The Blue Angels will be here. Oh, yeah. All right.

Excited about that, man. There's all kinds of good stuff out here for families to be part of. Yes, it is. And we have David Clark, Trip Clark, and we have Jamie Bridges and Charles Davis. And we have a special guest here with us.

And that is one of the aerobatic pilots here, Buck Rupman. How's it going, guys? Going very well. How are you doing today? Fantastic.

All right. We appreciate you joining us this morning. We want to ask you a few questions, if we could. Anything you want to know. And the reason we say that is Buck has been flying for over 42 years.

Is that right? At least. Yeah, I'm kind of old. And you've flown how many different types of airplanes? Last count, last week I added another one: 172 different types.

Goodness gracious. That's a lot. Takes me a while to catch on, you know. And you've flown everything from Cubs to corporate jets. My everyday job is flying a corporate jet for some individuals in Atlanta.

Oh, I got the best jobs in the world. I bet that is awesome.

So you're just ready if they want to go somewhere, boom. Yep. Yep. Which aircraft do you like flying the best, the aerobatic, the corporate jets, or just little fun ones like a cub or something? You know, and this is going to sound like a canned answer, but it's whatever I'm in at the time.

I love them all. They're all got different challenges and different things to do and to make the good trip. And, you know, and it's so kind of whatever you're in at the time. Wow. So is it an adrenaline rush every time you get in here for one of these shows?

Do you get amped up? I get amped up every time I get in an airplane. I'm one of the lucky people.

Well, you know, as a matter of fact, you guys, you know, would be a good example. You don't do this for the money or do this because it's a job. You do it because this is your passion. And flying airplanes has always been something I always wanted to do. And I don't ever remember not wanting to fly airplanes.

So it's always fun. No matter what I'm in, everything's a challenge. It's awesome. Yeah, that's a great answer, too. For the young generation, what's the encouragement there?

Give these guys flying planes. Find your passion. I mean, if being in aviation, everything from working on them, air traffic control is a very, very good gig right now, flying them. Find out what your passion is and do it. And do it well.

That's awesome. But you put on a great show last year. The things that that little biplane can do, it's just incredible. I really enjoyed it last year.

Well, thank you. If you can think it up, it'll do it. Yeah, that was just neat. And then to get close enough to see the plane, and then, you know, it's wooden canvas, you know, the wings, it just isn't, it's really incredible. Thank you.

It's a lot of fun.

Well I have a question.

Okay. What kind of performance can we expect this year? Because I've never been, this is my first time here. Oh, this is your first is this your first air show? Oh, you're gonna absolutely you're addicted now.

You're in trouble. It's uh we're gonna take the airplanes and believe it or not, we'll do this you know, the standard which you think of barnstormer loops and rolls, but we'll also tumble the airplane end over end. Um we'll I'll do some flat spins. And you know, it pretty much like I say, anything you can dream up. And pretty much everything you're not supposed to do with an airplane.

Yeah, yeah. You try some of this stuff, and even like that kinger out there, you'll break it. That's crazy. That's incredible. It was so good last year.

One canvas can do it. Yeah, it's amazing.

Well, people don't understand about wood. Wood has no fatigue life. Wood is nature's composite and wood has no fatigue life, so So the wood, as long as you're not exceeding what it's designed for, will last forever.

Well sure, it It flexes on. It flexes. I've never thought of that. I never have. My propeller is actually wood.

Yeah. And you see what it goes through. Where he's about to. Buck, do you have a favorite maneuver that you make? Any good landing where I can reuse the airplane?

If you can reuse the airplane, you're in good shape. Yeah. So that part's good. Yep. But I know that the ones that you the maneuvers that you make are are beautiful.

A couple of the tumbles are a lot of fun to do. Uh-huh.

So.

So do you ever scare yourself when you're up there? Or you're just so focused that Yeah, it's been a while since I've been s truly scared in an airplane. You get focused and even no matter what it is, whether it's the corporate airplane I get to fly or this airplane or even like a Piper Cub, there's always a little bit of nerves getting in any airplane and there should be. It's like we should drive our cars that way. We should be a little apprehensive when we get in and maybe there wouldn't be as much stupidity in the world.

Well, I mean, listen, everything with respect. That's the, you know, that's. Hey, we need that in the collision business now. Don't tell her to be careful. Let him see her.

Yeah, David loves a collision business. Yeah, so you don't want him to be too attentive. Nobody hurt, but a little dip every now and then. Don't forget, I mean, these cars do have a lot of systems. They'll take care of you.

Just let these go.

Well, so you're going to be flying today and tomorrow? Yes, sir.

Okay. I guess we're flying about 1.30, I think, from the schedule I saw. And I think things start at noon. Yeah. You'll be going in a briefing shortly.

We'll be going in a briefing.

Some of the things that they cover during the briefings. We'll start out with covering the weather and what to expect. If the ceilings are low or visibility is low, we'll change our routines. and change our acts uh especially uh teams like the blues you know with what they use for altitude and and uh visibility requirements. And so we'll go through that.

We'll go through any changes in the schedule, safety aspects, whether we're starting some folks will start from the ground, a surface start.

Some people will start in the air. We'll go through all of that stuff and any questions anybody's got. We try to cover it all. We try to leave there with no questions on what's going on for the rest of the day. And so everybody just goes in, they get a safety briefing, and then boom, everybody's on the same page.

They come out and ready to roll. Yes, sir.

Yeah, absolutely amazing. It is. It's awesome. Yeah, it is. Love it.

Oh, we do too. It hurts too much not to love it. Yeah. What uh so uh roughly what amount of G's do you pull that shoe from? We'll hit about plus seven and a minus five.

Whoa. You don't have one of those fancy suits like the fighter jacket. That's pretty much what you see. Those suits are neat, but it's it's even more amazing that you can you can maintain yourself without the well the su the the big thing you've got to realize about the fighter jets is I can I can pull 10 Gs in my airplane without any trouble, but it's just a momentary thing and stuff. They can sustain it with the amount of power they've got.

They can sustain 10 Gs or whatever they're pulling stuff, and that's a lot, lot more work. Yeah. That is amazing. But we really appreciate you being here talking with us. Very much invited.

Thanks, guys. Thank you very much. I'm excited to see you. Yeah, you'll have fun. Oh, yeah.

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Man's wet on the wheel. There's a voice in my head that dries my ear. It's my baby calling since I need you here And it's a half past four and I'm shifting When she is lonely and the longing is too much, she never came or come. And we are here with you at the CNC Auto Show. We're at the Gustavo Regional Airport for the AirDock Tour.

Remote. We're live on remote here. At the airport. Airport. A regional airport, thank you.

All right. And of course, we're here with Jamie Bridges, and she's helping me out. Letting me know where we're at. And we also have Charles Davis. We also have David Clark, and we also have Trip Clark here with us.

And we are discussing things to do with the air show and all types of other things. Yeah, I'm gonna put Charles on the spot just a little bit. Uh Charles. There's a book that come out. Yeah.

And you mentioned that that may uh help you a little bit in some of the things that y'all have been doing as far as uh working in in a in an automotive in a or a trucking environment. Yes, we have. Especially with Our process is, I use that term loosely. Quality control. Quality control.

hyper important with what we do. Um We have started Is that At different stages, right?

So we have. Tear down, we're making sure that we're going back through We are. Accounting for the parts that we do have. Making accurate lists and bold counts of what we do need.

so that we can get all that done before We're trying to put the truck back together. Yeah. You know? Also. Making sure that Everything's cleaned properly and It it We've been using that system for Six years now, and it has really helped us tremendously.

It kind of helps you to do a better job. And that's what it's all about. Things like that. That book's what the book's about. It's some of the things that we do here.

Is we all want to try to do things that are making it a better experience for the consumer, the person that's driving their vehicle, whether it has to do with collision repair, which David has a strong part of, and also making sure that their insurance experience is good, navigating the insurance company stuff to trucks that Jamie works with.

So, I will say. When you start doing it, what and you What you had in your head is Probably doesn't need it, but we'll try it anyway. Uh-huh.

Eye-opening when you really get in there.

So it's check, check, and cross-check. And there's a reason for it. I mean, just things you wouldn't have thought of, things you thought were okay, things you thought everybody was doing, and Wouldn't need to be changed. Common sense are doing it. It's eye-opening.

Yeah. Well, this book calm. A lot of it come from the aviation industry. And I got I have that in the book. If you work it on a car and you're doing something by, let's say a timing belt, you're putting on a timing belt and you have the cover off and you line the timing marks up.

You say everything's good. You put the plastic cover back on, boom, it's gone.

Well, that's if you're working on a car. If that would have been an aircraft, you would have taken a panel off. And let's say that you were working on a hydraulic pump or an actuator inside a wing and you took panel 101 off. You'd have to write down that you took 101 panel off. And then before that panel goes back on, somebody has to look under that panel.

Yep, everything's good.

Now you're cleared to put the panel back on. And it's not quite that you don't go quite that far in the automotive world. But let's say you're doing a timing belt. You would have another person come over and check the timing belt and say, yep, it's good. Boom.

Ready to roll.

So.

That's where the book comes from: is things that happened when I worked on aircraft, when I flew aircraft, when I was also even when I was very young working with my father. And all that's in the book. And my main goal is hopefully that will help somebody, somebody, their processes they go through, whether it's an automotive shop. Whether it's somebody that's got OCD and has to check all the locks five times. This helps you to put a period on that.

You can go through this process and put a period on it. And I just feel like it'll help people. I do. implemented correctly? I mean it should be used.

I mean These trucks I mean, look how big these things are. Don't you want to know that when you've picked it up from being repairs that it's been. Properly checked, and we're not sending out a 30,000-pound vehicle on the road that's not unsafe or something. Exactly. And this is a method of doing that.

You ready to go to college?

Well, hey, we got to say what this book is. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, if we're going to talk about the book, we're going to talk about it. Let me pick it up. The cross-check methods, right?

So we're going to, you know, Aaron just came out with this book a couple weeks ago. If you are listening from Barnes and Noble right now in Augusta. I have gone there and I went to seek out for us to do a remote at Barnes and Noble because I think it would be just a great experience for us to be there and then for you to do some book science. That would be enjoyable. Wouldn't it be awesome?

So I did ask the person, I showed them the book at the counter at Barnes and Noble, and they said, oh, yeah, we're going to have this in May.

So it's right around the corner. This book's going to be available for anybody in Augusta and anybody across the country to get their access to.

So super excited. Or anywhere you get your digital media. There you go. And you can go to CrossCheck. That's cross-check.

Dot us cross dash check dot US. Oh, we have a guest over here with us. Oh, this is going to be amazing. I'm seeing where he's from and that's what I was hoping for. Timothy Groves.

Good morning, sir. How are you? Doing very well. And you with the SOCOM Paracommandos. That is correct.

I am the team leader for the SOCOM Paracommandos. We represent the over 70,000 men and women of Special Operations that are currently deployed to 70 countries around the world. Oh, amazing. And see, that's what I was mentioning on the aircraft out there. We get to see all the things that we're not able to see all the things that happen in these other countries and some of the things that you do and bringing a little bit of that, just a glimpse of that back to see.

Some of the things that we do in order to keep our freedom. And that's what it's all about. I mean, you're deployed in different places, you do different things in other countries in order for us to be able to keep our freedom here. And that's amazing.

So, first, I want to say you're. You're uh What branch of service? I am retired Army. I am now a GS civilian, but my background was: I was a Green Beret. for sixteen years and then the four years prior to that I was a paratrooper in the eighty second Airborne Division.

Number one thing I want to say, thank you for your service. Thank you, sir. Much appreciated.

Well, thanks for it. We still appreciate that.

Now, I'm going to go in a different direction. He makes a living jumping out of airplanes. I mean, that's going to be a dream.

Some people could call it a nightmare. I mean, Anybody would be a fool to complain about getting paid to do what I do for a job. Obviously we're A large recruitment mechanism for special operations in the special operations community. public outreach.

So any time we can get out and tell our stories, that's that's what it's about. It's about getting special operators. Everybody on our team is from a special operations background and we get them on the ground after the jump. That's the attention getter and then we can have one-on-one conversations with the audience. Question and answer time, we get a lot of great questions because, you know, they don't broadcast on Mainstream media, exactly what special operations are doing every day, but each individual on this team has their own background, their own stories, and experiences.

influential factors on what brought them to where they are today. I imagine there's some amazing stories, too.

Some aren't fit for public consumption, unfortunately.

Some classification levels, but others are, you know. Stressful in the moment, but looking back, you you find a lot of comedy in it because you you have to military Certain things compound and you have bad moments while they're transpiring, but when you look back ten, fifteen years later, you're having a beer with your buddies that were there, it's it's all hilarious at that point because you're not enduring the misery of it anymore. And you're looking on, you said, I can't believe we're still here. Yeah, i in some cases. Then obviously what we do with the the military free fall application and and Allowing the crowd to experience one of our special operations infiltration mechanisms is a passion of mine.

I was a military freefall halo instructor down in Yuma, Arizona for four years. And toward the end of that 10 year, I had the good fortune to be an advanced tactical infiltration instructor.

So what that entails, that's the meat and potatoes of what we really do if we're going to apply that into a real world situation. Um we're jumping Country X, denied territory most likely, or trained to when I was. Instructor training people to. Um You're getting off of a a C one thirty or Comparable aircraft at 25,000 feet after pre-breathing on pure aviators, oxygen, you know, get the nitrogen out of your blood. You're about 20 to 30 kilometers from your intended landing point and the aircraft flies perpendicular.

All the jumpers come out to the back, deploy their parachutes immediately at 25,000 feet, which I can tell you is not very warm up there. I can go back to the bottom. With 150 pounds of gear, you know, specified weapons to that mission or that individual. and night vision goggles because we do everything under the cover of darkness. Can't just show up in the daytime and be surprised.

Could could any of you imagine? Yeah. At night, getting ready to jump.

So, I just can't imagine the adrenaline that's going in your blood at that point. Like, you're probably so pumped up. It'll get your heart rate up a little bit. Oh, absolutely. Timothy, it has sure been great you being here.

Thank you for the time. Thanks for having us. I appreciate it. We appreciate it. And we look forward to seeing you.

Timothy Groves, where are you from? What state? I grew up in Ohio. Oh, Buckeyes fan through and through. Oh my goodness.

Come on, you're in the country. Yeah, sometimes you've got to visit enemy territory, right? Again, thanks for having us. Truly appreciate being here. And if you get the chance, come out and watch our demonstration.

We'll be getting out at 12:18. You can count. Precisely. Unless we get delayed due to weather or something. Give me a thought for us.

We appreciate you coming out. I will do. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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Yeah, I gotta go make it happen. Take the world in a love embrace. Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space like smoke and lightning. Welcome back to the CNC Auto Show. We're here at Augusta Regional Airport.

Come out to the air show today. Yes. It is going to be a blast. We just had a Green Beret parachuter here with us. Oh my gosh.

I've been looking forward to this since they set the date for this. Me and Aaron were just talking about. I could just imagine that guy in the middle of the night jumping out with like a knife in his mouth, ready to go out with somebody. I'm thinking this guy is probably one of the baddest men I probably sat beside. Yeah, it's just absolutely incredible the things that our military does for us and for the rest of the world.

It's just, these people are so incredible. This is always a good time to be able to meet these people. Imagine that guy with like green paint, black paint all over his face. You know, we just put the crosses on Trip's face for baseball, but this guy's all like full edged out. Talk about his night vision goggles.

Like, can you just imagine the adrenaline running through his body as he's thinking about going into that? In a foreign country at night and out of the back of an airplane. It is absolutely amazing. You know, we get to talk about driving cars and the adrenaline that comes with driving cars, right? Here's 150 pounds of guns.

I feel like when you're about to topple a dictator, that's got to be a good thing. Exactly. He's like, I got 150 pounds of gear. I'm jumping out of this airplane as soon as I go out. And I'm like.

It's just it's mind-blowing. It makes what we do seem like nothing else. I definitely want so hard. I promise you there's one thing they probably do every time. Especially as a parachuter, is the cross-check method.

Oh, no doubt. You're checking those parachutes, making sure they're right. Oh, so well, I mean, hey man, if you can't trust the person packing it, what are you doing here? Hey, I was going to mention we uh we we do have the phones up and running again. Uh, they uh they were down.

Uh, phone calls uh 800-224-9090. And I will go ahead and lay a tech tip quiz out there. William had a touch of OCD. He was constantly checking locks, lights, and other items several times. A friend told him about a book that might help.

He purchased a book, which made a massive difference in his life. It allowed him to walk away knowing that the task was completed. What was the name of the book? And if someone can answer that, give us a call, 800-224-9090. Let me guess.

Jimmy's got the answer already. Tripp's got the answer. That's a hard time. He said he's ready. Trip, you know the answer.

He wants his bug in Sensi Rules. I'm pretty sure it was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. That sounds like a wooden airplane guy. Oh my gosh, that plane is so neat. I walked out to it last year.

And I was like, well, I'm looking at it and I was like, can I touch it? And he's like, yeah, sure, go ahead.

So I'm touching the wing. And I mean, it's canvas. The whole thing flexes. And I mean, it's just. You know, You know, comparison he made to the composite, the natural composite with wood, right?

And I mean, you think about everything you deal with, you guys deal with in the truck industry, is a lot of composite, right? Yeah, in those hoods and flares and all that material. Got to be able to flex some.

So imagine if you started building the hoods out of wood. It's always an extra extra substitution in there. We're all car people here. You've heard of a Morgan, right? A what?

A Morgan? A Morgan? Yeah. Those are still built, those are still coached, built out of wood. Oh, yes.

I know someone that went to see those, how they, the plant that they made them in many years ago. Really? Yeah. Yeah, over in England. Yeah.

By the way, I mentioned Judge Dudley Bowen, he went there to see. those cars being built and then he come back and he bought one of the little mgs That was uh very similar. You know, that's the car he's rebuilding now. Yes. He brought me some players for that car.

We got to paint them.

So, yeah, he's super enthusiastic about that car. He is amazing. Oh, yeah. He borrowed this tool from me, this little small tool. And the tool had been in a cabinet for a long time.

It was all nasty and dirty and stuff like that. And I said, yeah, you're welcome to use it.

So he used the tool. He brought it back. It was about a week later. That thing, he even painted the box. The box that it went in was sanded and perfectly painted.

I mean, it was beautiful. And then the tool did not have a spot on it. I mean, he really does things like that. I would feel very safe flying in an aircraft that he built. And he has built a few aircraft.

Well, that's what it takes: the attention to detail. Perfection. Yeah. And that's what he did. Oh, we got a call.

Let's go over here to the caller. And we will see. And welcome to the CNC Auto Show. And what can we help you with? Hello, Aaron.

Am I one of the first 10 callers that gets a copy of your new book?

Well, you haven't answered the question yet. I have faith in Ron. It sounds like you're going to answer our tech tip quiz today. I didn't get to hear it. I was too busy.

Well, I was uh too busy dialing your number when I heard your phones were back on. Uhhuh. Uh, so I didn't hear the tech tip. Oh, well.

So the reason I'm calling The reason I'm calling is I don't know if you guys last Saturday morning I heard the the loud shot that went off. 250 years ago. At Lexington on the green, that these things started. And you're talking about our Patriots, and our Patriots go back over 250 years. And I wanted to bring about this one one other little, I don't know, I guess it's a little do antidote to the love generation, which I was a part of.

My biggest fan, my biggest hero back then was Jimi Hendrix. And he joined the Air Force. When he got out of school and he joined the Screaming Eagles, the Paratrooper outfit. Uh-huh.

He got the notion of his guitar playing. From the noise that was coming from around his head when he was jumping out of those big planes. Oh, wow. He said, That's what. That's what.

Yeah, that's what gave the birth to his sound. when he got on stage and all the loud, you know I mean, he was a genius in what he'd done, but That's where it came from, was from his service in the Air Force from the Screaming Eagles. Oh, that's really neat. But, yeah, that. Yeah, I I you know, the we've got so much uh to be thankful for.

And for the brave men and women that's out there defending this country, I want to give a great big shout out and a big hug to all of them. That's a great time for us to do that because we're winding down the second hour. And I think a lot of the things that we remember, we're seeing the aircraft flying. We're seeing all the beautiful air shows, the static displays, the ATIN be here. But I think now is a great time to tell all of those that serve in the military or have served in the military, thank you for what you do and what.

what you have done. And we appreciate it very much. And this is a great weekend to be thankful for all of that. Oh, yeah, definitely.

So Ron, you called it a perfect time to say that. We can never repay them enough, guys. And look, y'all have a great, safe weekend out there. Thanks, you too. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Richard.

Okay, we're starting to wind down the first hour. I want to mention everyone, you want to go ahead and start getting ready. One thing I didn't mention when I was talking about sunscreen and sunglasses and all that, ear protection would be a good idea. Oh, yeah, it's allowed. Especially with the kids.

I've worked on airplanes and when I did, I didn't wear the ear protection that I should have. And it played its toll.

Well, that's like working in the shop. You think for so long, just hearing that impact go off, that you don't need any ear protection. As you get older, that's kind of a good idea. It's a cumulative effect, yeah, definitely. Thank you to all that tuned in.

Thank you, David Clark, Clark, and Jamie Bridges, Charles Davis. I want to say thank you to our show producers, Mason Rogers and Ana Lopez. We'll be back with more of the CNC Auto Show. Regular battery testing and maintenance will help ensure you have a battery that's ready to start your vehicle in any condition. And you can find a wealth of information at autobatteries.com.

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With Jamie Bridges, Charles Davis, David Clark, and Trip Clark. And we want to say thank you to our show producers over there, Mason Rogers and Ana Lopez. And we have a special guest here with us. He was with us a little bit during the first hour of the CNC Auto Show, but he's here with us again. And that is Chris Dorado.

And Chris is here to tell us a little bit about what's going on. And I think he wants to make a special invitation to you. from him to come visit They Augusta Avi or Augusta Airport 2025 Air Show. Yeah, the Augusta Air Show. The Augusta Air Show.

Let's shorten that just a little bit. At Augusta Regional Airport. But no, it's, thank you for having me back for an encore, by the way. Yes. But no, we're expecting big crowds here.

You know, hopefully, it's a little cloudy out there right now, which might not be a bad thing considering we won't get sunburned if it's cloudy. Yeah, but you know, it's the weather looks like it's going to be good for both days. And absolutely, we encourage folks to go online, AugustaAirShow.com, and see the latest and greatest ticket information. It's real-time information and what's available, but come on out and enjoy All these great aviators. You talked to Buck Ropman.

We have a variety of aircraft that'll be in the sky and a variety of pilots. Doing so many different things. And, you know, coming out to see the Blue Angels, you know, that's always a special thing. You know, watching them fly 18 inches apart, which is incredible. Phenomenal.

Phenomenal. They're unbelievable talents.

So we have a lot to offer here. Oh, yeah. And don't wait till the last minute to try and get here either because that line will go all the way out to the highway to get in. Yeah, that's right. We would encourage you, if you do have tickets and you're planning on coming today, yeah, make sure the gates are open at nine.

Well, they're open now, I should say.

So come on out and get yourself a good parking space. There's plenty to do on the grounds, there's a lot of food and beverage. opportunities there and Uh various t uh various uh Recruiting booths for the military, if you're so inclined. And a lot of activities that'll be going on between music and stage activities with pilots and pilot interviews. And, Chris, if I'm not mistaken, it's been at least 20 years, maybe more, since the Blue Angels was in the Augusta area.

Yeah, actually, yeah, I think it was 2002, to be specific. Wow. So, you know, over a couple of decades.

So they, you know, like they said during the week, it was time to get back into this market, and hopefully it won't be the last time.

So I'm sure they'll want to come back. But we're here, the Air Dodge Show Tour is here for the. Third year, and uh we're we're happy, you know, to be back. And we're happy that you're here. Yeah, and we love it.

And it's you know, that's another thing that, you know, for folks that may be from the region that may be looking for another show to go to that we do, not to sound self-serving here, but we do uh eight different shows, including Augusta. Um, so go on air.show uh.com. Bind out the uh Latest destinations that we have out there on the schedule on the Air Dodge Show tour. You know, there's no rest for the weary next weekend. We go right to Fort Lauderdale.

For the Air Dot Show, Fort Lauderdale Show.

So, in fact, the Blue Angels will be right on our tail going down there next weekend again. But we go to different locales, if I may be so bold to Noah, I appreciate you mentioning that.

So, with your online address, that's the word dot.

So air the word dot and then a dot. Yeah. Yeah, air.show.com.

So can someone get tickets at that site? Yes, yes. You'll click on the destination that you want to You want to go to and then there'll be a ticket. options tab that you can go to. But you know, just to give you the locales again, Fort Lauderdale next weekend.

I don't remember the dates off the top of my head, but we go Fort Lauderdale, then we go Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Ocean City, Maryland.

So you're all up and down the East Coast? Pretty much. Yeah. And then then Cocoa Beach, Florida. Then we go to Orange County, New York at the end of August.

That's a whole lot of back and forth up and down though. We'd love to do remotes. Yeah. So, and I think we're on 100 different radio stations across the country.

So, I mean, I think we should just do like a tour with these guys. Like, why aren't we including all this? It would. Hey, Aaron. We will be back in Georgia, by the way, just as a point of reference.

I don't again remember the dates, but the middle of October, I believe it is, we we'll be out at uh wa it's the Atlanta market, so we're in Peachtree City at the uh the Atlanta Regional Airport. better known as Falcon Field. And then we finish up in Orlando at the Orlando Sanford airport.

So it's a variety. What's kind of cool is we do a variety of beach shows and airport shows. And the beach shows are really I mean, people come out, they put their chairs out for hours on end, get a suntan, jump in the ocean, you know. bring their their coolers and and just watch some great talent. This is definitely sounding like we need to get on a remote beach show somewhere.

I think we need to do one of one of each. I really like air shows now. They sound great. It's a needless to say, it keeps me busy for a for a block of time, even though I I have other clients in the PR Agency that I work for, Bitner Group.

So, but it keeps me busy for. that tour time that we're Balved with something.

Well, I do look forward to seeing a lot of the aircraft, including the Blue Angels. But another aircraft that I look forward to seeing so much is the A-10. Oh, it's incredible. Yeah, that is, they named it right. It's like a flying tank, or they call it the tank killer a lot of times, but it's just.

It's just such an awesome airplane. And it's been around a long time and it's still a very vital part of the service. It is. And they'll be putting on what's called a Close, I think it's called the close air support. Uh demo.

Where they come in and they're primarily to help support our ground troops in a time of conflict.

So they're gonna fly basically like they were gonna provide Support with the 30 millimeter, yes.

So, yeah, and you wouldn't want to be in front of one of those rotaries. No, I don't. No way. I've had the privilege of seeing them in action in 4,000 rounds a minute. It's unbelievable.

4,000 rounds a minute. Is that amazing? That's unbelievable. Yeah. It's a gun they built an airframe around.

Yeah. It's a cannon, pretty much cannon. A rotary cannon, 30 millimeter. Of course, I'm jaded, but you know, I wouldn't want to be on the. The front end of a uh of any of our military technology that's out there.

Uh the best and greatest military force in the world.

Well, I think if you were on the receiving end of that thing, you wouldn't have to worry about it at law. No. I was going to say probably it actually wouldn't have even known it. You better eat your lunch quick. Yes.

Because you're not going to finish it. It's a very safe airplane for the pilots, too, because they're completely protected inside the. almost like a capsule uh around them that uh prevent uh Gunfire from getting inside. In fact, they can take a lot of, shall we say, beating. And not really feel anything about it, you know, feel the effects of it.

So, but one of the things that you should, I want to make sure that the four. four A tens that are here. Uh one of them's on Be a static display, which everybody should go see if you're coming out to the show. But the three that are that both four of them are from the Maryland. Air National Guard, 175th Wing.

So uh they came down here to support this show, which were static about. Yeah, yeah. They're beautiful. They're not a fast airplane as far as the aircraft goes, but like four or five hundred miles an hour or something like that, I think. And that's still moving along pretty good, but they provide such ground support for the troops here.

It's amazing. It really is. And again, that's only a small portion of what we have out here at the show this weekend. There will be a Georgia National Guard helicopter, if I'm not mistaken. Georgia State Patrol.

State Patrol. Georgia State Patrol. State Police. They'll have a helicopter. Jamie's normally the one that corrects me on stuff like that.

Sorry. You can have it. I'll let you have it. You can have it. Yeah.

No, we have, again, what I always say is we have a little bit of everything for everybody.

So, you know, whatever your tastes are. But, of course, everybody. ultimately funnels and points towards the U.S. Navy Blue Age. Oh, yeah.

And by the way, again, I'd be remiss in not saying that. Not only do the the uh super hornets go up and put on a demo, but The uh the C one thirty, they're they're Plane that brings in the equipment and the support staff, better known as Fat Albert, also does a demo, which is kind of neat. Obviously, there are no flips and turns, but it's pretty cool. Wow, I look forward to that too. Hey, we will be right back with more of the CNC Auto Show.

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Come on a trip. And we do welcome you back to the CNC Auto Show. We are live on remote at the Augusta Regional Airport for the Augusta Air Show. And we have Chris Dorado here with us as a special guest, and he's been answering all the air show questions.

So if you got a question there, give us a call, 800-224-9090. We're here with David Clark, and we have Trip Clark over here, and we have Jamie Bridges and Charles Davis, and we are having a fantastic time. We were just looking at some of the things that will be going on today, and one of the things that we didn't mention had to do with the P-51 Mustangs. Yeah, how about that? It's uh Wor of course World War II.

That was an awesome plane in World War II. That was, I would say, one of the. Deciding factors of winning the war had to do with the P-51. It really was. And the guy who pilots it here for the air shows, his name's Scott Scooter Yoke.

Scooter, yeah. We talked to him last year, didn't we? You sure did. Yes, he did. He's a great pilot, and he puts that plane through the paces.

And you'll see a great demo of the P-51, and then it'll come back. And Interesting. a race down the runway between a The cyber beast. And the Mustang.

So uh you know, usually uh it's Yeah. 50-50 chance on who's going to win because a Cyber Beast has some speed. That's a Cyber Truck, right? Yes, it is. That's JMH's favorite truck.

Yeah, so you'll see that racing down the runway. It's kind of an interesting twist to the air show. Hear that, Jamie? Yeah, yeah. Beat a P51 must say it's pretty cool, right?

Yeah, we have debates sometimes about the cyber truck. Hideous, it's not, it's hideous. That's objective. I mean, it is, it's starting to grow on me a little bit. I'm starting to like it a little bit more.

Yeah, no, it goes, it goes around to the different shows that we have.

Well, I mean, it's pretty cool, it catches interest, it does do that, yeah. But to look at it for long term, my eyes start watering, so not in a good way. If you look back through history, there's a lot of cars that when they came out, people were like, I don't know about all that, and then now they're Considered beautiful and collectible. Yeah, that's not one of them, though. It will be.

It's just not now.

So we know who Jamie will be pulling for when they race. I think it'll be the Mustang. Yeah, no doubt it's going to be the Mustang. She's going to be after that. And so we have that.

We talked about the Georgia State Patrol helicopter. The attack helicopters. I think David had mentioned that a little earlier on something to do with some of the helicopters. That's terrifying. That's not GSP attack helicopter, is it?

No, no. All right. I know GSP ain't nothing to mess with, but I don't think they need an attack helicopter. That'd be wild.

Sounds like Apaches. He's got 76 into 50. What's kind of cool, though, is, you know, if I may, that, you know. If you want to go up in it, it's really cool to go up in these. Oh, yeah, I bet.

I had the pleasure going up. My wife just about fell out of the helicopter. She was so scared. But no, yeah. But it's an open environment when you go up and it's, I guess it's a cobra.

But they go up and they give you a pretty good ride. Uh and they kind of simulate what they do in a in a demo. Yeah. But certainly to give you a good ride. For your money.

Oh, that, yeah.

Well, that would be really neat. You know, that's. 'Cause I mean, how often do you get to to get in a helicopter and here's your opportunity? Yeah, courtesy of the Army Aviation folks from Army Aviation Foundation, I guess that. Amta Virginia.

Again, I said it again, Hampton, Virginia. Hampton, Georgia.

So right by Atlanta motor speed.

So uh yeah, and then you know you have it up on your screen here, Aaron, that You know, we also have a T T 45 A Go Shock and a C twelve E urine. Euron, is how you say it, on display, static display. Along with the A10 Thunderbolt.

So, again, these are the kind of planes you can get up touchy-feely. Yeah. Usually they have a pilot. that will be there to explain some you know the elements of the plane. And in some cases uh if it's If it's feasible to go up inside the plane.

Obviously these are smaller aircraft, but you know, when we have when we had C seventeen's At shows, they'll open up the back so you can walk in the middle of the which is kind of cool. But we don't have that here, unfortunately.

Well, that T45 looks a little bit like a T28. It does. It does. I guess like a trainer, if you will. And of course, the fighter version of that would be a F5 if it was a T28.

I'm not sure what the fighter version of that would be. But it's cool. You know, like I said, that's part of the overall entertainment package, the fan-friendly event that we have here that you can go and. Go around and get your picture taken. You know, the pilots are there, you can get your picture taken with the pilots and and the aircraft in the background.

So it's something to bring home to Yeah, there you go. Keep up with the aircraft that much or the military aircraft that much. The T-45 would be the trainer version, and the F would be the fighter version. Oh, and on the P-51, the P came. From that, at one time, it was to a pursuit aircraft.

Right. That's correct. That's correct. Yeah, no, you hit it right on the head.

So, um, but you know, it's it's interesting getting back to the P-51 when. He's in the skies. It has that distinct sound. when he's coming down as if, you know, in attack mode, if you will. And uh it has that like a Whistle sound to it, which is really kind of cool to hear.

And of course, you know, that scared the dickens out of our. Our enemies in World War II. Yeah, and I think they were used a great deal for escorting the bombers to make their mission, and they would keep everybody off of them. Uh it so that they could do their job. And then they would escort them back.

And they were perfect for that because they were could fly a fairly long period of time. Yeah, they could. And again, you know, the. I would no. Scooter is uh is one of the best of the best.

So he uh He'll put on a great demo. Guarantee you that. But they were not an automatic airplane like you have now. You had to fly, though. You had to work at it, as they say.

You had to break a sweat. And in fact, when Scooter gets out of the plane, you can tell he's been, you know, put himself through quite the workout in the docker. Wow. So it's a heavy airplane, too. I was watching it be it's one of the only planes that has to be tugged back into the hangar.

In fact, it is the only one. The other the other aerobatic guys uh merely push their plane. Uh-huh.

He has to be tugged back, so it's gotta be a brief. Wow. Okay, we are out of time on this segment, but we will be back with more of the CNC Auto Show. Problems with the road ahead? Maybe it's your vehicle's headlights.

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And we do welcome you back to the CNC Auto Show. I am Eric Clemens here with David Clark, Trip Clark. We got a couple of people that's missing over here to the right, but they are on the way. And that is We do have Charles Davis and we do have Jamie Bridges. And we got a special guest here with us.

We got Brittany Podges here with us. I am here and I'm excited. Yes, we're excited you're here with us. I hear you are a very. Motivated MC person of the show.

That's right. My job and responsibility is to really engage the crowd, give them the information, work with our air show announcer. And we do interviews here at Air.show Destination Augusta.

So you get to actually meet the pilots, the performers, autograph sessions, ask QA.

So it's really a great, energizing engagement opportunity at the show. Oh, you got a great job there. I do. I have the best job. Do you get to do the t-shirt launcher too?

Oh, that's my arm. Yes. Usually by the end, my arm is sore. But we do, it's like a concert entertainment piece that is really innovative for the air show industry.

So we have a ton of fun. Yeah, that's what we were talking about last year. Is it you know in in between acts? You know, it stayed upbeat and it kept moving and it was really good. You guys did great last year.

Thank you. Really entertaining. And the fun thing, if you're going to an air show for the first time, you get to see the incredible aerobotics in the sky. But oftentimes we don't get the close-up view of who's doing that. Yeah.

And we want to meet these professionals and they want to meet all the... the audience and the fans and answer a lot of questions.

So it just brings them back to the ground so that you can walk away with those memories forever. Yeah, that's the most exciting thing about doing the radio show and then going to see that is talking to everybody beforehand. And it's just, oh, you guys are so interesting. All the things that everybody does and gets to see. And it's just, it's really great.

Yeah, you look up. I talk to him or her. Exactly. Or they have pictures or they're selfies and then they can capture them in the sky. And it's so great to see across social media and the website and Air.show, the tours, the destinations.

They take us across the country. And we have a ton of fun. Yeah, it's an amazing job. And Jamie's right about that. You don't have, you don't, you have very little downtime.

Yeah. I mean, you're always while they're setting up for another aircraft to start doing its performance, boom, they're doing something else over here or over there. We're able to watch that. And then the next thing you know, boom, the next performer is out there running. It's good.

The whole thing, it stays moving. It's entertainment the whole time, which is great. We often have dance-offs on the stage.

So we'll get the crowd engaged, get you moving. I mean, this is what an air show is all about. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, to dr drive interest and, you know, that's uh How often do you like you said, do you ever get to see people?

get to do this. The airplanes this close and it's just it's it's really cool. And I like the opportunity to hear questions. I learned something new. I've been doing this for 10 years, and I still have questions that I get to ask our pilots, our maintainers, our mechanics, and the audience does too.

So it's really great when they can hear firsthand from one of the Blue Angels or our P-51 pilot or our other civilian pilots. And they can walk away with just that engagement piece and that experience that you don't often get. No, I mean and and especially for the youth, our kids, to come out and to see this and you know to So When you're a kid, you know You don't know what you want to do.

So, you kind of look at the world and everything around you, and then you kind of pick something and you go for it. But, you know, this is a good opportunity for them to be around planes and say, you know, decide if this is something that they would want to get into, the military or. As a private pilot or commercial pilot or whatever, whatever. And aviation can be addicting, though. Yeah, I mean, oh, yeah.

There's a chance you might look at it and boom, you're hooked. That happened to me many years ago. It's expensive hobby, too, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. But it is worth it.

It's worth it. Every bit. But that is, it's a very fun thing to do. And some of these kids that's coming out here now, there's a high probability that some of them that watch this will go through the same thing. They'll fall in love with it.

They'll like it. It'll be something that they'll enjoy for many, many years and possibly even make a living doing that. And there's so many aspects of the air show industry beyond flying.

So that's one of the things we talk about too. We have a full team of people who help produce the air show, who do the safety and emergency side of it, our air boss.

So the coordination. and the safety aspect of a tower. And controlling an air show, you have your announcers similar to me.

So, when you come to an air show, there are some that say, I don't know about flying. I'm not quite sure. And we said, There's so much more.

So, they may have the opportunity to see. the hospitality side, the marketing and social media side. Look at what we're doing with communications.

So it's really great to engage many diverse opportunities for careers and engagement. And this is my hobby. This is what I do for fun.

So it's really exciting to be able to talk to people, young and old, about what we do.

Well, I worked on aircraft many, many years ago on F-4s, and it was, and they were an older airplane then.

So they were retiring those aircraft then. I didn't get to work on a lot of the later models, but I enjoyed it very much. And even to this day, I still keep track of all the latest aircraft, F-22, F-35, just all of these. newer aircraft, the new weapon systems that they use. I just love reading about all that still.

And it's a beautiful industry. It really is. And then you have the opportunity to see. Our legacies. We'll have the P-51 Mustang here, right?

The Merlin engine, the sound you just. Ants? capture any other way. And then of course the A tens. Yeah.

Maybe one of the last opportunities to see a demonstration of the A-10, and it's happening right here this weekend. Yeah, that is. You can't say that that's a beautiful airplane until you really see what it does. And then after you see it perform. Then you can say it's a beautiful airplane.

I mean, they call it the Warthog for a reason. It's not like a beautiful, beautiful aircraft, but all you have to do is watch it one time perform, and then you can't help but say it's a beautiful aircraft. It's just a great piece of equipment. I love it. Yeah, taking the engineering behind it.

You see the big gun right out the front, and they build an airplane around it. Yeah. Yeah. 4,000 rounds a minute. I still can't get over that.

Everything's fit for purpose on that aircraft. It's not aesthetics. It's. It's a what now? I said everything's fit for purpose.

Yeah, nothing's aesthetic. I mean, everything is to support the mission. That's right. That's what we do. Yeah.

And it does that. And we were talking a little earlier that I think that's a great thing because so many times you, and you might as well say, this is our tax dollars at work. You're seeing. Everyone pays taxes, and when you pay these taxes, they go to something. And to me, Being the leader of the of the World and dominance with equipment like this means a lot.

It's what keeps us free. I mean, if we didn't have some of the best equipment like this, like the F-18s and the F-35s, F-22s, and just f-15s and f-16s and all of these beautiful pieces of equipment We would not be able to do that. No, I mean, this is a good way to showcase. Part of where our tax dollars are going into all the training that goes into these pilots. I mean, it's just the whole thing is incredible.

It's not just the cost of the aircraft. No, it's horribly expensive to train a pilot to fly one. Yes. And then maintain that plane. And all the support crew and everything else that goes with it.

And they are so awesome to talk to. When you talk to these pilots, we had an opportunity on Thursday to talk to some, and they were just so awesome to talk to.

So I encourage anybody, if they have an opportunity to talk to not only the Blue Angel pilots, but any of the pilots of these aircrafts or even the crew chiefs, we don't want to discount what their team does. I mean, because some of those have instrument people there. They have ejection seat people that work just with that and helmets and all of the other things that they work with. They got a whole team around them.

So we don't want to discount that. But if you get an opportunity to talk to one of those, you Will find it very worthwhile because I still remember some I even talked to two or three years ago here at one of these shows. The conversation that I had is just a wonderful chance to talk to people. You learn something new every time. Brittany, you've been great being here with us.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

So on the intercom, we'll be hearing you talk a good bit during the course of the day. Is that right? You most definitely will. And if you are joining us, you'll see me dancing on the stage as well. Oh, fantastic.

We energize the crowd. It's going to be fun and exciting. That's what we like.

Well, thank you for all you do. And we will be back with more of the CNC Auto Show. Two hands on the wheel I can't replace the way it made me feel and I would fresh that clutch and I Keep it right, he said. Little source son, you're doing just fine. Yesterday.

Road. With trash on each side. I was married when dreaded when Daddy let me drive. And we're back with you with the CNC Auto Show. We got the team here with us: David Clark, Trip Clark, we got Jamie Bridges.

Charles Davis, and we also have another guest here with us. That's Michael Goolean. Michael. Good morning, you guys. We get a chance to see you on the ground.

Right, exactly. I try not to be on the ground that much, but you know, you have to rest in between flights, I guess, right? Everybody normally sees you up in the air doing some wild stuff. Exactly. Yeah.

What kind of airplane is that?

So I fly an extra 330 SC, it's called. And if you're not familiar with it, you can just think about it. It's like a Formula One car with wings, right? It has one seat. It's all carbon fiber.

It weighs about 1,300 pounds only. Oh, my gosh. And but it is about five times stronger than any airliner that you would get in, right? It's an indestructible machine, and it's meant to do nothing but fly and really impress the fans like you're going to see here this weekend in Augusta. Yep, absolutely.

Now we have a person here, part of our team, that wants to ask a question. And this is Trip. Trip is the youngest member of our team.

Okay. And Trip. You were going to ask Michael a question about his extra. Or about flying in general.

So, I mean, he is, you know, he got to watch the Top Gun movies.

So, the latest Maverick movie, you know, and even the first one, those guys, when they flip them and they invert them on top of each other, he has been dying for me to ask one of these pilots, is that actually possible? Could you do that and take a picture of another pilot?

So, the pilots can all, obviously, can all do that. It's whether the airplanes can do it, right? And if you watch the Blue Angels here this weekend, they will do a maneuver where the. Two. Pilots on the inside will be inverted.

And then the two pilots on the outside will be upright.

So they're both upside down, and the pilot on top is looking at the belly of the other guy. It's called the Fortis. If you just took that where the lead pilot was right side up and the other guy was upside down, you could definitely do that. Not a problem at all. Oh my gosh.

Guys that are as good as the Blue Angels that they can get about 18 inches from each other with lots of practice. It's even within cell phone camera range, I think. You don't even need a big one.

So the Polaroid camera back in the old days with Top Gun, that's probably a little contact. Don't believe everything you see in the movies, I guess. But yeah, they can certainly do it.

So the movie was juiced up a little bit. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. How disorienting is it to be inverted? Y you know, for all of us that are aerobatic pilots, it it sounds weird, but um We've spent so much of our lives upside down that I like it almost doesn't it it's the same to me right side up or upside down it it it feels the same so the controls the way you manipulate the controls and all of those things it just has become so natural yeah that it just doesn't feel any Any different to us.

The airplanes are meant to do it, right?

So the wing on my aerobatic airplane is designed in such a way that it doesn't know whether it's right side up or upside down. And then the engine, it also doesn't know.

So it can run inverted. A normal airplane can't run upside down and things. But our airplanes have these systems that allow it to do all of that.

So it's happy to fly inverted. The pilot's pretty happy to fly inverted. But the maneuvers themselves take so much practice and discipline and conditioning for, as everybody's heard the term g-forces, right? Yeah. When I'm flying, it's about plus 10 G, so trying to rip you through the bottom of the airplane or negative G, where it's trying to push you out of the top of the airplane, about minus 6 G's doing that.

So it's a good workout for about 12 minutes. Yeah, I bet so. But is it I've been watching the practice flights through the week, and you know, it's just so neat. The whole thing is really neat. I've been so excited, but.

I don't know. I'm imagining the upside down thing, like being on a roller coaster. It's just such a weird feeling. Yeah, y you know, like when you go on a roller coaster It's a little bit of a rough ride, right?

Well, when you're in these airplanes, I try to say to people, it's like it's flying through water, right? The airplane is just so beautiful, and when you pull on it, it's super smooth. Yes, it's violent in the g-forces that you're feeling, but the airplane is so solid and smooth through all of that. And the controls are so sensitive that essentially we say it just becomes an extension of your hands and your mind, right? Everything is so smooth and so quick and so rapid that It's just such a joy to be able to fly a plane like that.

Well, you get to the point where you're not even thinking. It's just, you know, you see and you do, and there's no thought required. Exactly. A lot of people say, oh, what's the most challenging maneuver? And you're like, oh, you know, the reality of it is if there was something that was really challenging, you wouldn't put it in your air show.

Yeah. So it's something that you can do a thousand out of a thousand times. And so that, and the flying and training that we've done, so the actual moving of the control stick and flying the plane. You don't even think about that. It's just like us tying our sneakers.

It's what we do.

So what I think about when I'm at an air show is where's the wind? Where are the people? How do I make the most beautiful performance?

So we call it positioning, right?

So we want the airplane to be in a certain location in front of the crowd to do certain maneuvers.

So I'm always thinking about where's the wind? Is it blowing me towards the crowd, away from the crowd, show left, show right? Because what we're trying to do is make this perfect presentation in the sky for the people to see. And so that's the thing that makes flying so cool is every day is a different day, right? It's not the same.

It's hotter, it's colder.

Some days it might be a little rainy. And then we have the wind to deal with as pilots. And that's what makes our job so fun is that no two shows, even on the same day, are the same.

So how does with the temperature variation, how much does that really factor in with the hotter or the colder? A lot.

So airplanes love cold weather, whether it's an airliner or it's an aerobatic airplane like myselves. If you think about when it's cold, The air is thicker, and the airplane loves thick air. The engine likes it, the propeller likes it, the wind likes it, and as it gets hotter, the air becomes thinner.

So it's harder for the wing to make lift, the engine to make power, all of those things.

So when we fly here in April, it's a little cooler. The airplane's happy. If we were to be here in July, it would be much different, right?

So we have to be a little bit more careful with the airplane. You can't pull as many Gs and all of those kinds of things that you do to compensate for the air that's not as good. Doesn't that just humidity factor in at all? Yep, all of it comes together. Ah, well, that's interesting because it's pretty humid here.

Yeah, for sure. For sure. How much train is it involved? Let's say that you go without a show for a few weeks. Do you do training during that time that you're not actually in a show?

It's a great question. Yeah, so my last air show was actually two weekends ago, and we were in Beaufort, South Carolina. And we actually flew the airplane. I live in Boston, but we flew the airplane to basically Warrington, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C., left the plane there. I came back on Monday.

We practiced Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and arrived here Wednesday evening.

So even just seven or eight days out of the cockpit, You just You feel like you need to get back in the game, right? Because it is as much mental as it is physical.

So it's just feeling great in the airplane. I'm guessing it's like a tennis player, right? They go four days without hitting a tennis ball, and they're not game-prepared anymore, right?

So it's the same thing for us.

So you want to feel that adrenaline, and you need the confidence in the airplane to know you're going to do all of these complex maneuvers very low to the ground, and you just have to give it 110%. You can't be tentative in any way. Do you have certain foods that you try to hate? You know, it's funny. I've never gotten sick in an airplane.

I have gotten sick on a boat. And I hate riding in the back of a car, which is all kinds of weird. Right in an airplane, you're in control, you know it's coming, it's okay. It honestly doesn't matter what I eat. People are like, but if I'm going to give somebody a ride, they'll say, oh, I didn't eat this morning.

I'm like, that's the worst thing.

So we make them go get a bagel with some peanut butter on it. And you have to eat something to do it. And I'm in mainly to keep you mentally fit.

So when we come here, you know, I was in bed at 9.15 last night and woke up at 6.30 this morning.

So seven and a half hours worth of sleep. I'm monitoring my sleep with a ring, a watch, and a whoop. All of them, you know, you're watching all of the things and trying to keep yourself going. And then the type of food that you're eating to try to keep your blood sugar straight and all of those things all comes into it. Michael, I can't believe it.

We're running out of time. Want to say thank you to everyone that tuned in to the CNC Art of Show. I want to encourage you to come on out to Augusta Regional Airport for the Augusta Air Show Today, Air Dot Tour. Putting it on. They have other shows around the country.

So go to Air Show. AirdotShow.com. Thank you, James. And the Air Dot is the actual show. Forward.

And David Clark, Trip Clark, Jamie Bridges, and Charles Davis, and Michael Gilleon. We thank you all for being here and enjoy the air show. See you next week.