Where are we today Chad? We're in Nampa Idaho
about a 20-minute drive from Boise at the Warhawk Air Museum.
You can see directly behind us which is this fascinating cool place. It has
old warplanes all kinds of memorabilia not just planes.
Out of all the museums that we've visited in Idaho... This is the coolest.
Is this your favorite? This is my favorite and it's true this is my fourth
visit here and I'm still finding new stuff I haven't seen before
and I finally found a hat I could wear. Yeah as soon as we got here we put our
equipment down on a World War II grenade.
Probably not the smartest thing but that is the kind of stuff you get to see
at the Warhawk Museum. There's tons of kids here, there's tons of people here.
This place is a, this is a hopping museum. Yeah as you watch this episode
the fun thing is wandering. You get lost in the history. This museum came to
fruition through many many many people
who expressed an interest and a desire to have their
families memories preserved, their veterans, especially their veterans and
their families memories preserved, and so John and I
in 1989 realized how significantly important that was
and so we founded the Warhawk Air Museum as a non-profit
501c3 entity so that folks could have a place to
bring their collections and know that they would be respected and honored
for all time and that other Americans, other visitors would be able to learn
from their histories. For 30 years we have
watched this museum grow as more and more people
want to know about either their own families or they want to know about
Americans who have served our country. It's our mantra really that people come
to the museum to see the airplanes, they stay for hours
for the stories. One of the things that's really cool
about this museum that I like is I've been to a lot of
museums what's that one thing you always see at a museum?
It's that do not touch sign and that's not the case here.
This museum has a bunch of these stickers around
the feel free to touch sticker and that's just something that's so cool
that's so unique if only there was a please
feel free to fly on some of the jets that are in here.
One of the really fun things about the museum is the visiting
aircraft because we can't possibly have all of these airplanes
belonging to the museum they're worth millions of dollars.
But these are two currently visiting airplanes and they're going to
be in our warbird roundup in two weeks. Miss Virginia is a p51a
model. It was the first mustang that went into battle
and it went in about 1943. The H model right here
and that's the only a model flying in the world so that's the only one in the world,
The H model the same thing. This was the
last p-51 ever built.
The other thing I'm finding so fascinating about this place and this
museum is you know not everything is on the
internet. A lot of these crazy photographs these treasures
that we have this history about our military about
world war II are literally in people's attics
people's basements, and this place has families that have fished those out
and they've brought them here to be displayed.
There are some photos in this one. This is about the liberation
of... I'm going to try to say it the Buchenwald concentration camp.
There's nazi memorabilia here swords that's collected there's also
photographs that this officer took.
This is not stuff you'll find on the internet this is
this is the real deal from this soldier who was there.
All right Chad I give, this place is really cool. Pretty cool.
You know what I noticed is they have these huge
incredible planes and when you look at this place at first glance you're like
okay that's cool I want to go I want to see the planes.
Madeline and I put the cameras down for a second,
walked past one of these booths and got stuck
for at least 10 minutes... At one of like hundreds of booths. Right.
Before I finally was like oh we should probably
start shooting whatever we're doing because we spent
at least 10 minutes at that booth just immersed in it. The fact that makes
this place special and not just a museum is the community. We met
my buddy Mark here today that was here with his Dad and his Uncle has a booth here.
You know it's like this community of people.
But here one of the cool things is like it's interactive.
You're looking at stuff, they have scavenger hunts. Next time I come I'm doing a scavenger hunt.
Yeah they have the interactive like you're talking about.
You could come, you can listen to real veterans stories and I think you touched
on it too. This isn't Boise but we're very close.
We're 20 minutes away. Okay so now that we have
seen these planes on the ground we're gonna actually
go get up in a plane right? Something like that. We've seen planes on
the ground. We're going to get up in a plane into the air... That sounds good.
...and then exit the plane that's still in the air.
Huh? Well while we try to figure out what we're going to do next.
It involves planes people. So we're doing something with planes so stick with us
we'll be right back we're just going to take this
take this quick break and we're going to go on to our next activity
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Okay so that was what you want to do if you want to stay on the ground but now
this big field behind us is a landing zone Chad because we're gonna actually
take a plane up and jump out of it here in beautiful Star
Idaho which is a real close drive from Boise.
Right it's a suburb of Boise, it's close. You know when I planned this thing
I was thinking it'll be so cool to do the Warhawk Museum be around those
cool planes all those cool war stories and then go jump out of a plane and like
kind of envision you were a soldier in World War II
going into the battle you know and I'm not so sure that was a good idea.
I was honestly expecting like a full-blown airport this is not a
full-blown airport. No there's a dirt road over there we're
going to take off on. It's a bit windy today.
Yeah. I have wore my fast drying pants today just in case something
happens in the air hopefully i'll be dry by the time I
get down. I went full blown adult diaper for the day. Got your depends.
Yeah and this is the ginormous landing zone so
I hope we hit it at a reasonable speed. We'll be back here in a little while.
Okay well let's start this let's go talk to our tandem skydive instructors
and uh hopefully they reassure me that my life is in good hands. I feel pale.
I feel sick. Why am I jumping out of a damn
plane? Why should I do this? Because we can.
Because we can? That's not enough incentive for me.
So what does our jump today look like, it looks a little cloudy, it
looks a little windy. So the clouds are up high so we're going to
be underneath them so we're good to go as far as that goes.
A little bit of wind like this is actually perfect it's going to make the landings
nice and slow, soft, beautiful. Talk to me about maximum velocity,
120 miles per hour right is how fast you approximately go? 120 for
terminal velocity for a tandem jump. We're going to do that today?
That's what you're doing it's going to be about 18 minutes up to altitude in
the aircraft and once you leave you're going to free
fall for approximately 40-45 seconds then open up your parachute
and then it'll be about a five to seven minute parachute right down.
All right let's go have some fun. Haha, fun.
This is the smallest ****ing plane I've ever seen!
Definitely go skydiving. I mean, you only live once!
I think we got to give it up to Rio and Cody because those guys know how to get
it done. Because you get up there and you're like stepping out of the
plane and I'm like hey this strap feels a little loose and he's like
It's fine put your foot down and he took my head like this
He did that with you? Yeah. I didn't have any of that I was a perfect
model skydiver. Seriously the part where I got most nervous was where he
turned to land. I know that's what I told him up there. Are we above
the parachute right now? I just noticed you still have your
goggles on. Oh yeah. All right well did you know that
actually uh wraps up this series. We we decided this not on purpose but we
saved that for the last thing we did. I think it was because we were nervous. It was subconscious.
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