And before getting out to us
here at the airfield about the
charity and the charitable givi,
talk to me about the the charities that
the Oregon International Air Show gives
too and and how important that .
Well, that's,
that's the that's why this airshow exists,
right, To support our charitable
mission out here this weekend te
will be numerous charitable gros
performing different tasks and earning.
Their their revenue.
So we have a a local soccer club that
picks up all the garbage and sos
out all the recyclables and they
make a ton of money just cleanig
up and keeping the field clean.
We have folks that work in the parking lots.
They work the gates.
I think we have a Rotary Club helping
sell beer, Elks club selling be.
So it's that's one side of it.
Then we have our our scholarships and the
school that's in the building over here was.
Founded by our air show with a grant that
was given to our charitable foundation.
So we have kids that are attendg
school here at the airport becae
of the work of this air show,
tonight it kicks off 6:00.
O'clock, the gates open,
and then 6:30 is the roughly
6:30 we'll start flying.
Yes. What is a night show
compared to a day show? So
the 6:30 flying is still daytim.
We will go right up to twilightd
then we'll have an act that is flying
at night with some pyrotechnics on it
and then we'll go into our fireworks.
So it is takes us into the evening and
then we close it out with firew.
All right. So if people want
more information, where's the
the website they should add to
yeahoregonairshow.com and get gt
their tickets before they come .
It'll make it a little bit quicr
to get under the field tonight,
tomorrow and Sunday, and then an
if if you want to catch another.
Iteration of the Oregon
International Air Show.
They can catch the the
Mcminnville one in September.
That's correct. Later this yearn
September, we'll have the United
States Navy Blue Angels joining.
Awesome. Out in Mcminnville.
All right. Thank you, Bill, very much.
Anyways, let's get this going.
Hey, let's, let's walk back.
Eric, walk with me.
We're going to walk back to thi,
this little glider right here.
That the sail plane I guess
is what we're calling it.
This is Bob Carlton,
the pilot of this this plane.
Tell me about this plane.
What? What can you do in it?
Because it looks small,
but it does a lot, right?
That's right.
This is the Super salto jet sail plane.
A lot of people know about sail
planes in the soaring flight.
This one's a little different because
it's got the jet engine on top.
So that allows me to to launch
myself and just do a lot of
maneuvers that you wouldn't
normally see a sail plane doing.
You have a flight tonight
as part of the night show.
I think you were saying
about 9:00 o'clock tonight.
That that you take off kind of
how is your night show different
than than a day show?
Well, it's dark and yeah,
we have pyrotechnics.
And yeah, so while I'm doing
all the crazy stuff at at night,
all the pyrotechnics are going .
It's a, it's a really amazing s.
OK. So if you're looking at
the cockpit of this plane,
you wouldn't think that a grown
man of our size could fit in th.
You were saying your feet go
right to about there, right?
Yeah. When I'm sitting
in the in the the sail plane.
I'm sort of sitting like in an
easy chair with my feet out andy
feet go all the way up to the n.
But there's actually more room
in there than you would think
once you get inside. It's pretty
come how is easy to get in.
You want to do it?
Too bad you want to do it.
It takes some time. I didn't.
I didn't actually prep it.
Oh, it didn't.
OK, I've got stuff in the cockpt
that tell me about this engine
because this is right above your head.
This gets you going.
But I mean,
it's it's no small engine.
Now this is the PBST J100 engine
built in the Czech Republic.
This engine spinning 60,000 RPM at full
throttle and this allows me to e
off climb about 1000 feet a min.
The red line of the aircraft
is 175 miles an hour.
The engine would easily push
it faster than that.
So my big problem isn't that
you know can I get faster.
My big problem is not going too fast.
You're from the Albuquerque are.
You were telling me that the
elevation there is about 6000 f,
5006 thousand feet here.
We're a couple 100 feet
depending on where we're at.
How is flying down here different or up here?
I guess you should say different
than flying up there in Albuque.
The well, the engine makes more thrust.
So and as all of the pilots will
tell you that once you're down t
lower elevation, you just get a
lot more power out of the engin.
So I'll be able to climb faster.
Run faster and and the maneuvers
a little easier here than they e
up at the elevation where I liv.
Are we doing flips? Are we doin,
you know, doing, doing a little
bit of everything? Yeah, yeah.
Where can you start in this?
My mom says when I was three,
she caught me on top of the
refrigerator with my arms out ad
thought I was going to fly off.
And it's just gotten worse ever since.
Did you jump? I I don't
recall they could because
it knocked me out and I don't remember. All
right, if you want to come
see Bob and flying his plane,
plus everything else that's hert
the Oregon International Show ks
off today, tomorrow and Sunday.
We have all the information thee
on your your screen as well.