recently President Trump mentioned that he was going to use the Boeing dream lifter
to transport medical supplies as a Boeing dream lifter pilot I'm going to
react to what he says coming up hey 74 crew welcome back if you
don't know me my name is Kelsey I'm a 747 pilot and I'm also a Boeing dream
lifter pilot my channel 74 gear is all about aviation today this is a view
from my hotel room and I'm letting you guys guess in the comments section where
I'm at it later in this video I'll tell you exactly where I'm at after President
Trump mentioned that they were gonna use the Boeing dream lifter in to transport
medical supplies I got a lot of comments from people asking about what he said
and what was true I got tagged in a lot of Instagram posts in this video we're
gonna go over exactly what he said and I'm gonna give you my opinion on it
let's get into it if you've been on my channel for a while you know one of the
things I never talk about is politics but it's not very common that you have
the President of the United States talking about a plane that you fly
especially when there's only 4 in the world but again this channel is about
aviation and this is gonna be strictly about the aviation side of what he said
before I get into what he said there's some things that you should understand
what most people don't know is that in the belly of your typical passenger
aircraft there's Freight that's being transported the airlines make additional
money by transporting Freight along with your bags so with the virus going on
right now you obviously you have a lot of your commercial aircraft that are
transporting passengers not flying everybody's at home quarantine and doing
their job as a part of that though that belly freight that they're normally
transporting is no longer getting moved because it's not getting moved it's
coming to get moved by typical freight carriers like myself but just because
they want it moved they're still aircraft that have to move it so it's
not as easy as you might think I think it's very cool what Boeing is doing here
they're lending their aircraft because it's not that easy right now to find
pilots and aircraft to transport cargo materials I'm very honored to be part of
flying right now I think it's crazy what's going on in the world and I'm
happy that I'm able to do my small part of transporting medical supplies and
trying to keep the commerce of the world continuing to move and I want to thank
all of you that are staying at home and being self quarantined the truth is is
that I'm having to fly because it's my job and I'm getting on a lot of these
commercial aircraft and there are not a lot of people on there
and that's probably one of the reasons that I'm not sick because I'm one of the
few people who are not quarantined and I'm out and I'm traveling around the
world I met hotels and everywhere we're going
there disinfecting our plane and they're disinfecting our hotel rooms and they're
doing everything they can to keep us safe but the reality is is that because
a lot of you are staying home you're contributing to allow me to do my job
which is to get medical supplies and keep the Commerce of the world moving so
I want to thank all of you guys for contributing in that way but I've been
doing a lot of post and Instagram because I know a lot of you are locked
up inside and feeling desperate and you would do anything to trade positions
with me or to come and fly with me so I'm trying to post up pictures and
Instagram stories as much or more that I normally do to help you guys not feel
trapped up inside all right so let's play what President Trump said bowing is
also offering us the use of their what they call the dream lifter cargo plane
it's a largest plane in the world and this is sort of a picture of it they
called up just a little while ago and that can sort of take anything that's
the biggest in the world and they're letting us use that for the distribution
of product all over the country especially the heavy product or large
quantities of product all right so biggest in the world that's
one of the comments that people have been asking me about biggest in the
world I guess it depends on how you want to say it obviously the Boeing dream
lifter designed in kind of a weird shape and that's because on the inside of it
were transporting the wings and the fuselage of a Boeing 787 and the wings
are coming out of Nagoya Japan and the fuselage ins are coming out of Toronto
Italy so a lot of the videos that you saw last year are in a lot of those two
cities or an Anchorage or Seattle or Charleston and those are the places that
the Boeing dream left's are generally flying and that's why the last year you
saw me in those cities all the time and now I traded basis so you're gonna see a
variety of the different places that we fly so biggest in the world it does have
a large volume but again it's designed more for the weird shaped sizes and
typically when you're moving Freight it's not a weird size the freight like
medical supplies and things like that are going to be in a container on your
typical cargo freighter and so the Boeing dream lifter is useful but it's
weird shape and size is not going to be as applicable to your typical needs
of your typical person and if you haven't heard of the bone dream lifter
before don't worry about it I have airline pilots when I'm flying around in
the dream left ER I've had airline pilots go hey what kind of plane is that
because it's not very common and it's very weird shaped and it's massive so
it's again it's not a big deal if you never heard about it but typically what
would actually be better to move the volume afraid it would be a 747 - eight
freighter but the truth is there are not a lot of those that are available and a
lot of those planes are committed to other Freight so in reality there may be
better aircraft but they may not be available to move the freight that you
need to get moved so here's the main deck of the dream lifter which I found
online because I would never take a picture of the inside of one of these
aircraft as you can see that floor is very smooth there so that smooth floor
that's designed there that is designed because Boeing what they do is they load
up the wings and they load up the fuselage and they have a special
apparatus which locks into place there this is what a typical floor looks like
on a typical freighter you can see there's tires to help move things
there's tracks to keep things moving and then it's able to get locked down and
bolted in place so that's what the typical floor looks like now I haven't
seen if they've modified that floor of the Boeing dream lifter and even if I do
see it I don't know if I could share it because like I said I don't take
pictures of the inside of a typical aircraft but that is what's gonna be
something that's very unique about the Boeing Dreamliner that makes it not
ideal to transport large volume weight-wise of cargo but still is very
cool what Boeing is doing there are four of the dream lifters I'm happy to have
flown all four but they're donating three of those four so part of what's
going on is obviously boeing has reduced the volume of the manufacturing and
that's to keep people at home and self-quarantine so they don't get sick
so it's the responsible thing to do but that's going to limit their production
that's going on on the assembly line and essentially the dream lifter is part of
the assembly line it's moving parts of the planes together and so it's a part
of that assembly line that is slowed down so what they're doing is instead of
those planes sitting around and doing nothing they're using them to help
people get better which i think is a really cool thing that boeing is doing
there are other planes that would be better
but it's not like these freighters are normally just sitting around doing
nothing they all have either commitments and
that belly freight from the past planes are not getting moved so that's
also having to get moved so by Boeing lending their planes lending three of
those four planes to help them move the freight they're getting planes and
pilots that they can use to move Freight anywhere that they need to move it now
I've had a lot of requests from people to talk about the dream lifter in
specifics and in the future I'm going to actually do that I'll make a dream lift
or only video but since this is something that just came up in the news
I wanted to talk about it real quick and answer some of the questions that people
were tagging me or asking me about all right let's see the second half of this
video of what President Trump says and Boeing will dedicate up to three planes
to the mission of flying medical supplies anywhere we need it each plane
can carry 63,000 pounds of cargo per flight that's a lot of cargo that was
actually the second question I got asked about a lot 63,000 pounds that's not a
lot well it is a lot of cargo but I don't know the specifics as far as where
that cargo is gonna go the dream lifter can take more than that obviously it's a
747 and even though it's modified it can take more than 63,000 pounds of cargo
and for those of you that are Freight pilots that are saying he maybe meant
kilos well actually in the Boeing dream lifter it's a little bit strange we use
our fuel and our weight we do everything on that plane specifically on pounds and
our other freighters we do it in kilos so again it keeps us on our toes because
things are changing when we're moving between those aircraft so the boundary
mister can take more than 62,000 pounds and I don't know if I'm allowed to
discuss what the limitations are of that aircraft and so I'm not gonna do it
because I don't want to get fired you're fired
I don't know if they're gonna use that main deck of the dream lifter so this
may be that they're using just the belly space because the 747 has the main deck
but there's also belly space that they can move Freight on so they may be
moving it just in that section because it's not really easy to change a deck
like you saw then that picture I showed you up the dream lifter it's not really
easy to change that deck really quickly and then change it back when Boeing
needed to move their other supplies so they may be using just the belly portion
of the 747 to move those supplies which is set up for a normal freighter and I
almost forgot but this is the view of Los Angeles California so again they're
taking 63,000 pounds and I think that's the number I don't know I'm just talking
about what he I'll find out whenever I go pick one of
those up and I'll let you know if I can but there's sixty-three thousand pounds
of what they're moving that's gonna allow them a huge range claims to have a
max weight that we need for taking off at a max weight we need for landing
so for you're only moving sixty three thousand pounds you can fly that plane a
long ways because you could take all the fuel that you want and be under your max
takeoff weight and then again when you land as long as you're flying a long
distance you're gonna have put be under that max landing weight so that may be a
possibility of what's going on to all the critics that are saying oh we said
this wrong or you said that wrong I don't think you know because I don't
even know and I fly that aircraft so the reality is is if I find out and I can
share about that information with you I will again later I'm gonna make a video
talking specifically about the dream lifter I just want to talk about this
because like I said I was kind of excited to see one of the planes that I
fly and be able to talk about one of the planes that I fly a lot of you don't
know that I fly the dream lifter if you don't follow me on Instagram you maybe
haven't seen all the different pictures that I posted on there with me in the
dream lifter or seen some of the live stories I did when we were on a sit
somewhere so it's cool to be able to share some insight with you guys on that
now speaking about presidents and Boeing 747s if you haven't seen the Hollywood
versus reality that I did on Air Force One I'll put a link to it right here I
look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up