AH-Ha! Here's a hybrid idea. Do the refurb first and then make it temporarily dockable to a trailer. To see this idea in action look up this tiny house builder in Australia (Build Tiny) that makes tiny houses and trailers that detatch from the trailer so when you want to move it, you load it, lock it (al-la shipping container points) and you're off. Do something similar. When you get to the next location you detach it and it sits on built-in stilts or just keep it loaded if you're touring. You could also keep the wings and tail around for mocking it up to look like a complete jet for long-term locations.
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy...I am heartbroken that you tore that jet apart. Would have loved to have seen it visually restored and used as part of an AirBnB in some way.
If it can't be flown out, which it can't, cutting it up into pieces that can be moved by truck is the only option. As odd as it sounds, a lot of aircraft are preserved this way. As an example, the Qantas Founders Museum has a Super Constellation that they got from the Philippines several years ago - the aircraft was so poorly corroded that there was no chance it would ever fly again, so it was dismantled and loaded onto a ship and shipped to Townsville, after which the pieces were moved the rest of the way to Longreach via truck and then reassembled, since its been opened to visitors you'd never know it was dismantled. The process looks terrible but its a far better fate than being turned into Coke cans.
@@BMcD79959 As Jimmy said, they have to remove it from the airfield somehow, its sadly never able to fly again, its too big to move on a truck in one piece, hence at some point it was going to be coming apart anyway, at least this way it'll still be preserved.
That's not even the first time this plane has been 'sold'. It was in an auction five years ago, and the deal fell through. Nobody Google anymore? No mention of this earlier sale that went kaput.
Rare how? Elvis' Name is only 1 (One) of several names on the Chain of Ownership. Elvis NEVER Took Flight on the Aircraft. That Aircraft could never be made Airworthy again after sitting for a couple Decades.
@@curtekstrom9531 he owned it last I read he did fly in it and I didn't care about it flying again I just wish it was on display somewhere and not cut up to make a buck.
@@daryl3723 The Aircraft had no less than 2 owners after Elvis. Unlike a Car, everytime an Aircraft is Bought, Sold Flown, or Maintenance done on it. It is recorded permanently with the FAA.
@@curtekstrom9531 I had gotten wrong information I have a feeling the other two owners bought it to make money off Elvis name it looks like how Elvis left it it doesn't matter now it's destroyed. But thanks for the information.
I am astounded by amount of cash thrown at the original purchase and then taking an iconic item of an intact aircraft and turning into something unrecognizable. The whole effort makes no sense in my humble opinion.
If you can't make it to fly, then maybe it's a good idea to just restore it visually for people to come and see how Elvis's plane looked back in the day in it's almost full glory. I mean even just restoring it visually would be cool, to visit, go inside, sit down on the chairs where Elvis himself sat etc
Should've reached out to your fan base for experienced USAF (ret) R&R specialists that could've disassembled the jet - preserving structural integrity for the future.
First of all, it has to be disassembled to transport on the Hwy. And he plans on putting it back together for viewing, weather it be a Bed and Breakfast, or a treehouse, it will be rebuilt somewhere.
I know...i didn't buy it. Jimmy never seems to disappoint. But seeing this history go like this? I feel like there would have been some group or org out there that would have wasted to restore this for nostalgia
@@marco21falcon It was purchased one year before his death and at the time he owned two other planes, including another jetstar. Why do you think some group or organization would have wanted it? It sat at the Roswell airport for 45 years before Jimmy bought it - plenty of time for somebody to speak up. I swear, you people are seriously braindead.
I was waiting for an arm, leg, or an eye to be ripped off! Glad the crew is all about safety. Can't beat the eye protection and steel toed boots! Hold my beer!😅
I'm trying to remember if you have an ongoing "project" that even has my interest still. You had abandoned RV, electric car, and multiple planes, Save the 310 that became scrap the 310 and buy a different one and then this fiasco came along and totally derailed my attention.
@@mtoutflying3926 Yes. Dead and abandoned. It served it's time well, and flew allot before the Elvis estate bought it just before Elvis died. People panning over it's destruction is rather bizarre.
I totally understand why this plane met this fate, but it was still sad to watch it being cut into pieces... my heart ached when I saw the rudder move one last time when the tail was pulled off, probably because the rudder control wire was still attached... sigh!
what do you expect? its at least 6 million just to even get anywhere near having it flightworthy, but as he said, its impossible to get legally worthy to fly. Thats also minimum 6 milion he will never get back either, its a loose loose case. and it wouldve been impossible to move with everything attached also. Looking at the bright side he took the effort to remove it from its probable deathbed
@@eriksimca9409 FAA rules and regs crush another dream. I would have thought they'd make exceptions for historically important aircraft, maybe recertified as something like experimental. Then at least it could possibly be re-engined. It would be nice to get around the FAA in these cases by maybe moving and registering the aircraft in Mexico and going through their probably easier (and bribable) process of certification.
@@eriksimca9409 Appreciate you trying to defend Jimmy, but i gotta wonder, what did he really know about the aircraft before spending quarter of a mil on it?! I mean, beyond the soap opera that this is now and his playing the fool routine, did he not even know that JT12 engines are pretty much impossible to find, fit and fly on this now! Not even that basic research before hand! As a real Jetstar fan (and owner) i saddens me to see this nonsense now. We'll never know, but if unsold, maybe the previous owner would have finally donated it to a museum, to be kept intact, as it should be. Not this farce that we see now. Thankfully the ONLY real Elvis Jetstar is fully intact and preserved.
honestly, I feel what you're doing to it is a crime. Its a piece of history to a legend. Instead of destroying it and turning it into an RV, I'd say cut the wings off temporarily (too late now), restore it back to its best non flying condition and put it on a lot for an airBnB and put some elvis memorabilia in there. Maybe find some pictures of elvis in the plane.
elvis never rode in it is my understanding. It's more theme-park Elvis than museum Elvis, imo. I respect our Jimmy thinking big with his marketing. I wonder if he expected millions of views from the auction vid 🤣he's such an unspoilt boy!
It's my understanding Elvis acquired it as a project he could work on with his father Vernon. I doubt Vernon was interested & Elvis probably sold it shortly thereafter. Sold to a Saudi Arabian company. This jet last owner wasn't Elvis, it was a U.S. businessman by the name of Jim Gagliardi who probably purchased it as a speculative investment for $498,000.00 in 2017.
G'day, Well, Ya gits that, there, then...; In rinky-dinky penny-ante 3rd-World Failed-State Shit-hole Countries where Life is Cheap And Jobs are Scarce And there are buggar-all Regulations to ensure a Safe Workplace. See, Bannana Republic(an). The Video was made in 'MurriKa(!). Why would you expect there to be Safety Equipment or Protocols ? Shit, dude..., next thing you'll be expecting functional Brakes on the oversized Trainloads of Toxic Chemicals, or Drinking-Water with no Lead in it to stupify the Proletariat ! Hush you Mouf..., D' y' hear me ? Say NUFFINK ! lol Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
Yeah I know if nothing else he could have disassembled it so parts could have been available to keep flying aircraft up in the air this is all kinds of wrong.
There’s been older Jetstars like this retrofitted with the newer noise reduction Jetstar engines… but I imagine this thing was far too gone to make any financial sense.
The fact that there was no protective gear with the team astonishes me... hate to think the dangers with all that dust/etc in the plane as well as cutting the plane up. Perhaps there was pressure to load it up. Hope you do something great with it now that its worth absolutely nothing
Maybe if the plane was a rarity, a museum curator would have reached out. Elvis owned it a relatively short time, so that would be more of a trivia fact than a reason for landing it in an aviation museum.
A couple months back I tried to convince a friend to go in on it with me and turn it it into a roadside chili stand. I think Elvis would have approved.
What are you talking about…it’s already destroyed. You heard him say it was never going to fly again. So what else would he do with it besides try to recoup some money out of the deal?
@@HashiAkitaPuppy This was the best jet of them all. By far the fanciest. This was Elvis' favorite jet and the last one he bought and the most intact. Not sure where u came up with that information.
That guy taking a cinder block to it in the beginning! I'd be like you're a professional??? What's up with that??? I'd have followed him into the plane to see what else he was banging around. My heart bleeds for you. I wish you the best and hope that you can have success in all of this.
I had a roofer like that here in France. Being a pro myself I can tell from the sound if someone knows what they are doing! Also, I have a no-nail rule here, if it's not an oak peg, it had better be a stainless screw!!! I couldn't bare the noise anymore, so I went up on the roof and he said "these are hard to bang in". He was Trying to secure a 1" batten to a 500 year old Oak beam with six-INCH nails!!!!! Also, because he didn't know what a pilot-hole was, (I asked him) he had split the battens all the way along their length! I told him that if he didn't leave immediately I would demonstrate what a 'Viiking Blood Eagle was!" He left..... I finished the roof myself, without a single nail!!! Best wishes to you 🇬🇧⚒️🇺🇲
Would have rather seen the plane restored for static display than hacked apart into some silly RV monstrosity. Can't honestly say it's a better fate than scrapping it.
Spent $234K to destroy a piece of history. Now that everyone knows what it is couldn’t you have at least offered it back up on auction with full disclosure and sold it to someone who would restore it for display? I understand you own it and you can set it on fire if you wish, but as an Elvis fan (I have been to Graceland 3 times, cried the first two) this just seems so clickbaitish of a stunt. Sad…. I hope you understand how heartbreaking this is.😢😢
@@DatBlueHusky Most people want to be paid to do UA-cam videos. Is that a bad thing? There’s a lot of vintage aircraft wings etc that people and or museums make keychains or memorabilia out of so people can own a piece of that aircraft. Same concept here. I’m sure there’s a lot of fans of Elvis that would throw $20 or so at something they can use and have history behind it. I’m sure it will help fund his videos or help reimburse him for the jet purchase.
Jimmy, auctions are not a competitive sport. The winner aint allways the last hand in the air. Your an inspiration and provide positive content. Great job!
I’m gutted what you’ve done. I personally would have rather it stay where it was as that was the last time it was used. Kind of like a famous landmark.
Damn man! I had a friend that was in a comma for 6 months and almost died from accidentally touching a small pile of bird crap. Yall were all up in it! No gloves, no mask, no nothing. Hope all of yall stay healthy after playing in all that bird mess.
Such a shame it was left to this condition for decades . It could've been the last completed jet of elvis Presleys fleet if it was taken care of and not pulled to pieces before jimmy even got it. I hope you can reborn it into something great Jimmy keep up the good work.
It only sat on our runway for few years had covered it when it first arrived but our winds and sun made it hard to keep it upcleaned. My father was in it with his coworkers when it first arrived got a few picture of the inside with him in it. But it was in bad shape when it arrived.
You should contact planetags about all the parts you're not using. They make great keytags from old aircraft skin. I would buy several. Being Elvis's plane they would probably bring a premium.
Yep agreed. $50 a tag, sell 5000 of them, which honestly doesn't seem impossible for such a plane, and you're at least even. Sell a bunch of what's left in there, like the instruments or whatever for a few bucks and at least there's a bit of profit to be made. Low effort, kinda high reward and the risk is minimal, compared to a massive RV project.
In one of the earlier videos it was explained that no matter how much money was thrown at it it could never be returned to airworthy condition due to FAA regulations.
@@sparrenvoy Look up the history on Doc, the B- 29, the whole rebuild pricing video was a parody. This could have been re-powered with 731’s, which have current STC’d hush kits.
No one was going to invest the cash to put this thing back into the air. None of the museums even wanted. If something wouldn’t had been done with it, it would had perished right where it sat and turned to dust, just like everything else on earth does if left unattended for long enough, and it was definitely on the rapid decline. Everybody wants to tell somebody else what to do with it, when no body was even giving it any attention to begin with.
@@airadaimagery692 So why buying it? At least whole, it was getting visitors. Now it's destroyed. But, it's not my plane, he can do whatever he wants with it.
Sad that it couldn't be turned experimental and rebuilt using donations,etc.... or at least just pulling the tail and wings and store just for a while to see what options are out there.
Why didn't those people come forward in the 45 years that the airplane sat outside? Lots of braindead takes in this comment section, including yours, Eric.
ua-cam.com/video/BwClF1MqTmc/v-deo.html check out the trip back! Cops and all!! @gentryandsons
AH-Ha! Here's a hybrid idea. Do the refurb first and then make it temporarily dockable to a trailer. To see this idea in action look up this tiny house builder in Australia (Build Tiny) that makes tiny houses and trailers that detatch from the trailer so when you want to move it, you load it, lock it (al-la shipping container points) and you're off. Do something similar. When you get to the next location you detach it and it sits on built-in stilts or just keep it loaded if you're touring. You could also keep the wings and tail around for mocking it up to look like a complete jet for long-term locations.
I've been following this series with internet so was very surprised to hear about it on my local radio stations news today over in the UK!
Apparently Jimmy has more money than sense! Just sayin!
@@senecabrave515 This Seems to be the case. It is entertaining watching him spend.
They do have chain saws with metal cutting blades .. much easier
Normally I like watching things get destroyed, but this one was hard to watch!
I agree I didn’t want to put this video out… but it’s the surgery video…
Agreed this one sucks😔
You got that right
@@therealjimmysworldshould have turn it into a submarine.
@@therealjimmysworld we have seen you take planes apart before. Have you ever actually put one back together?
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy...I am heartbroken that you tore that jet apart. Would have loved to have seen it visually restored and used as part of an AirBnB in some way.
I would have loved to see it used in an Elvis-themed adult video. Orgy at 30,000 feet? I would definitely be able to climax to that.
If it can't be flown out, which it can't, cutting it up into pieces that can be moved by truck is the only option. As odd as it sounds, a lot of aircraft are preserved this way. As an example, the Qantas Founders Museum has a Super Constellation that they got from the Philippines several years ago - the aircraft was so poorly corroded that there was no chance it would ever fly again, so it was dismantled and loaded onto a ship and shipped to Townsville, after which the pieces were moved the rest of the way to Longreach via truck and then reassembled, since its been opened to visitors you'd never know it was dismantled. The process looks terrible but its a far better fate than being turned into Coke cans.
It has to be transported somehow...
All I can say is what a shame to see something so well engineered and built be so brutally torn apart. No respect for what she once was?
@@BMcD79959 As Jimmy said, they have to remove it from the airfield somehow, its sadly never able to fly again, its too big to move on a truck in one piece, hence at some point it was going to be coming apart anyway, at least this way it'll still be preserved.
Whoever received the 234K was laughing all the way to the bank.
These guerrillas Jimmy hired to disassemble it are laughing all the way to the bank.
@@Nord3202 Beavis and Butthead aircraft moving service...
That's not even the first time this plane has been 'sold'. It was in an auction five years ago, and the deal fell through. Nobody Google anymore? No mention of this earlier sale that went kaput.
And it was ab auction. Multiple people were bidding on this thing. I mean, make a few phone calls. A Jetstar is just too old to restore.
Not really!! Whoever sold it paid over 400k
There was a time where I couldn’t imagine spending over 200k on something this rare only for it to be destroyed, but today I bear witness.
Rare how? Elvis' Name is only 1 (One) of several names on the Chain of Ownership. Elvis NEVER Took Flight on the Aircraft. That Aircraft could never be made Airworthy again after sitting for a couple Decades.
@@curtekstrom9531 he owned it last I read he did fly in it and I didn't care about it flying again I just wish it was on display somewhere and not cut up to make a buck.
@@daryl3723 The Aircraft had no less than 2 owners after Elvis. Unlike a Car, everytime an Aircraft is Bought, Sold Flown, or Maintenance done on it. It is recorded permanently with the FAA.
@@curtekstrom9531 I had gotten wrong information I have a feeling the other two owners bought it to make money off Elvis name it looks like how Elvis left it it doesn't matter now it's destroyed. But thanks for the information.
No eye protection, no dust masks, no PPE at all. Rookies!😆
I am astounded by amount of cash thrown at the original purchase and then taking an iconic item of an intact aircraft and turning into something unrecognizable. The whole effort makes no sense in my humble opinion.
Probably thought he'd get way more views and make a profit on that alone.
@Mindy Janis You are sooo right Mindy. Thank you for reminding me. You have been a great help.
I seen an auction they did not even want it near Graceland have you ever been to an auction
Wow. Crazy dismantling that. Not to mention the lack of Safety Shoes, Hearing Aid, Safety Glass, proper Harnessing. Real Cowboy style.
So much for rescue. Jimmy the destroyer
What else was he supposed to do? He spent 200 grand on it he’s not gonna let it rot in that spot in AZ
Elvis is either singing the blues or laughing! ❤️
That 85 cabover was the real hero of this video. God I miss those old cabovers.
Edit: and Jason. Thank you Jason.
If you can't make it to fly, then maybe it's a good idea to just restore it visually for people to come and see how Elvis's plane looked back in the day in it's almost full glory. I mean even just restoring it visually would be cool, to visit, go inside, sit down on the chairs where Elvis himself sat etc
That's the same I think. If it doesn't look an airplane anymore, don't worth it. Spending so much money for that looks like a waste.
Fair chance he never flew on this jet, it may have been for this entourage, he had another (bigger i think) one.
@@dunxy 2 Jetstar (This is the second one) and one mid-size airliner. The other planes are in display in Graceland for people to visit them.
exactly! To late now.
Too late.
There was nothing remotely safe about that disassembly....😳😂
Should've reached out to your fan base for experienced USAF (ret) R&R specialists that could've disassembled the jet - preserving structural integrity for the future.
Yup. This is hard to watch..
Asked for ideas on the last video knowing he had already done this .
This plain will never fly so it does not matter
it had so much corrosion it would never pass inspection , and like 90 % the parts for this jet are unavailable
@@ray-vf6ux I assume you mean, plane.
Safety glasses were doing a lot of good up on buddy's head lol
Guy with the saw is scaring the crap outta me lol
Wait, did I just hear that right, "Florida man turns Elvis Presley's Jet into an RV." Yep, that checks out.
Im all shook up, uh huh huh....
Thank you, thank you very much.
What I don't understand is why not just fix up the plane and make it non flying and have it set up somewhere for people to pay to take a tour of it.
First of all, it has to be disassembled to transport on the Hwy. And he plans on putting it back together for viewing, weather it be a Bed and Breakfast, or a treehouse, it will be rebuilt somewhere.
@@airadaimagery692 In all the videos I watched, I didn't hear him say he was going to reassemble the whole plane again.
@@kjpphotography4764 he's apparently turning it into an RV..
@@EpicJake07 That is what I seem to remember him saying.
Got to admit... this is upsetting
I know...i didn't buy it. Jimmy never seems to disappoint. But seeing this history go like this? I feel like there would have been some group or org out there that would have wasted to restore this for nostalgia
Wanted*
@@marco21falcon Elvis never set foot on this plane and still better than letting it to rot in the desert for 20 more years.
@@user-iw2mo7yu4d i just love the old planes. Dont like seeing them cut up and scrapped. How do we know elvis never flew on it? Genuinely want to know
@@marco21falcon It was purchased one year before his death and at the time he owned two other planes, including another jetstar. Why do you think some group or organization would have wanted it? It sat at the Roswell airport for 45 years before Jimmy bought it - plenty of time for somebody to speak up. I swear, you people are seriously braindead.
I was waiting for an arm, leg, or an eye to be ripped off! Glad the crew is all about safety. Can't beat the eye protection and steel toed boots! Hold my beer!😅
Is there a CVR still in the plane? If so, would be very cool to try to recover audio.
not a requirement back then and there only would be a 30 minutes loop
I'm trying to remember if you have an ongoing "project" that even has my interest still. You had abandoned RV, electric car, and multiple planes, Save the 310 that became scrap the 310 and buy a different one and then this fiasco came along and totally derailed my attention.
Your losing fans for this one Jimbo!!🤣🤣🤣
I want to buy a piece of the plane for a wall hanger! TCB
You will have keychains!
Makes your purchases look normal.
Me too!
HOOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now there is an Idea.
Just don't blow the prices too high - I belong to the Poor Pilots association
OSHA would have had a field day with this operation. Wow!
Whenever I see a saw going through any part of any aircraft, my heart just aches. It's as if someone or something is just dying before my eyes.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
I 2nd your emotion
Stupid is as stupid dose. And this plane is stupid.
It was dead a long time ago lol
@@mtoutflying3926 Yes. Dead and abandoned. It served it's time well, and flew allot before the Elvis estate bought it just before Elvis died. People panning over it's destruction is rather bizarre.
I wish I had that much money to throw away
I wish someone else would have bought it
True I wish someone else could have bought it so they could renovate it and make it up to code with modern day standards
They had 40 years to buy it
There's no way this plane could have flown again
@@Jesse-sk1xn facts, and he did say that in the video that they don’t even have the part anywhere for it. I feel he could have got it for cheap..
Elvis only owned it for a year, and he was the 3rd owner. No one knows if he ever flew in it.
Conspiracy Theory: This was the planned outcome all along 🎉🤘
Cant wait to see how this project turns out! Who else thought Heavy D was flying in when they spotted that Blackhawk?
Can't believe it!
I totally understand why this plane met this fate, but it was still sad to watch it being cut into pieces... my heart ached when I saw the rudder move one last time when the tail was pulled off, probably because the rudder control wire was still attached... sigh!
Yeah I thought the same 😞
Would have been amazing to see it have modern engines retrofit to it
It’s sad to see the kings plane dismantled But it has to be done
Is this the Lisa Marie or is that a different plane
@@melvinalbert6172 this is some random plane that he bought his dad sight unseen and was never on it himself and his dad barely was on it
Jimmy was known for rescuing planes........ 😢
Indeed this sucks
what do you expect? its at least 6 million just to even get anywhere near having it flightworthy, but as he said, its impossible to get legally worthy to fly. Thats also minimum 6 milion he will never get back either, its a loose loose case. and it wouldve been impossible to move with everything attached also. Looking at the bright side he took the effort to remove it from its probable deathbed
@@eriksimca9409 FAA rules and regs crush another dream. I would have thought they'd make exceptions for historically important aircraft, maybe recertified as something like experimental. Then at least it could possibly be re-engined. It would be nice to get around the FAA in these cases by maybe moving and registering the aircraft in Mexico and going through their probably easier (and bribable) process of certification.
@@eriksimca9409 Appreciate you trying to defend Jimmy, but i gotta wonder, what did he really know about the aircraft before spending quarter of a mil on it?! I mean, beyond the soap opera that this is now and his playing the fool routine, did he not even know that JT12 engines are pretty much impossible to find, fit and fly on this now! Not even that basic research before hand! As a real Jetstar fan (and owner) i saddens me to see this nonsense now. We'll never know, but if unsold, maybe the previous owner would have finally donated it to a museum, to be kept intact, as it should be. Not this farce that we see now. Thankfully the ONLY real Elvis Jetstar is fully intact and preserved.
Until now.
This was a real Ouch vid to watch, any aircraft getting cut up - brings tears to my eyes.
Cutting it apart is a shame.
honestly, I feel what you're doing to it is a crime. Its a piece of history to a legend. Instead of destroying it and turning it into an RV, I'd say cut the wings off temporarily (too late now), restore it back to its best non flying condition and put it on a lot for an airBnB and put some elvis memorabilia in there. Maybe find some pictures of elvis in the plane.
elvis never rode in it is my understanding. It's more theme-park Elvis than museum Elvis, imo. I respect our Jimmy thinking big with his marketing. I wonder if he expected millions of views from the auction vid 🤣he's such an unspoilt boy!
It's my understanding Elvis acquired it as a project he could work on with his father Vernon. I doubt Vernon was interested & Elvis probably sold it shortly thereafter. Sold to a Saudi Arabian company. This jet last owner wasn't Elvis, it was a U.S. businessman by the name of Jim Gagliardi who probably purchased it as a speculative investment for $498,000.00 in 2017.
It’s not too late, anything can be reassembled and made to look original. Especially if it’s not going to ever fly again.
Loled at all the "protective equipment" worn by those guys 😅
Plenty of safety helmets, eye protection and respirators, OSHA and FAA approved!
G'day,
Well,
Ya gits that, there, then...;
In rinky-dinky penny-ante
3rd-World
Failed-State
Shit-hole Countries where
Life is
Cheap
And Jobs are
Scarce
And there are buggar-all
Regulations to ensure a
Safe
Workplace.
See,
Bannana Republic(an).
The Video was made in 'MurriKa(!).
Why would you expect there to be Safety Equipment or Protocols ?
Shit, dude..., next thing you'll be expecting functional Brakes on the oversized Trainloads of Toxic Chemicals, or Drinking-Water with no Lead in it to stupify the Proletariat !
Hush you
Mouf...,
D' y' hear me ?
Say
NUFFINK !
lol
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
What do you mean? They all had safety squints.
Gods waiting room .. sometimes you need to jump the queue
From $234,000.00 to $0.00... 😳
Any airplane can be made flight worthy again with reverse engineering, total restoration, more $$ than brains
In the immortal words of Rod Stewart…..🎼 First cut ✂️🎶🎵is the deepest🎵🎶”
😪😪😪
Cat Stevens said it first.
I would have cautioned anyone venturing into that space to treat it as a hazmat area; don goggles and respirators before entering.
ONE OF THESE was flown until 2019!! THERE ARE NEW version of the Engines used for this plane! There is a video of it flying on Ft Lauderdale!!!
I knew it. Some idiot tried to clown me for thinking this.
Yeah I know if nothing else he could have disassembled it so parts could have been available to keep flying aircraft up in the air this is all kinds of wrong.
Too late now, ruined
There’s been older Jetstars like this retrofitted with the newer noise reduction Jetstar engines… but I imagine this thing was far too gone to make any financial sense.
@@MikeJones-do1xv previous video indicated over $5 plus million as a starting point.
He's starting to figure out he screwed up
I'd love to see this bird over the road from Gracelands with his other aircraft
Almost the perfect (what NOT to do) OSHA video! Haha
Thank God for Jimmy’s World! It validates the bad decisions I make with my airplane!
🤣😂🤣 AMEN to this comment! LOL
🙈 😂 😂 😂 😂 🙈
shut up loser you aint got no plane
My airplane is bigger than yours.
Along with my Harley😂
I heard Elvis owned the plane but never actually flew in the plane.
Never went near it. It was the backing singers and dancers plane. A lot of money to buy a piece of junk.
@@stevensvideos5918 Elvis never used this plane. The Presley estate had had zero interest in this pile of rust.
For a minute there thought Diesel Dave was coming in his Blackhawk to load it on the trailer for you.Heck of a guy.
You and me both.
Imagine it being sling loaded from Roswell to FLA?
The fact that there was no protective gear with the team astonishes me... hate to think the dangers with all that dust/etc in the plane as well as cutting the plane up. Perhaps there was pressure to load it up. Hope you do something great with it now that its worth absolutely nothing
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂, real men are working on it.
$234,000 Museum display shot 🙀. Then Jimmy hires 3 Stooges Aviation to dismantle the plane with chainsaws.
Can't believe you cut it up!
In Jimmy’s World, aviation museums don’t exist apparently
Museums aren't in his repertoire because he can't make a buck from it...Jimmy's all about making money, that's how he is wired 🤔
@@53glowe I mean he does have to recoup the 1/4 mill he spent on it.
If aviation museums had wanted it, it would have already been in one.
The engine nacelles are in a museum. They must not have wanted the rest of it.
Maybe if the plane was a rarity, a museum curator would have reached out. Elvis owned it a relatively short time, so that would be more of a trivia fact than a reason for landing it in an aviation museum.
Did not expect that! 😧
Should have kept the plane intact and found a spot to put it for the airBNB. This broke my heart.
You should of bought it then Brian...get a grip its sat in the desert for 40 years
A couple months back I tried to convince a friend to go in on it with me and turn it it into a roadside chili stand. I think Elvis would have approved.
How the guy with the cutter didn't lose at least one limb I'll never know
Practice
@@beejay5186 luck.
Both lol
Well he damaged his hearing instead 🙂
All the safety measures were taken, well maybe none of them
I can’t believe you destroyed the plane like that.
I just watched the video. I can believe it.
It's his to do with what he wants. I can believe it.
Who cares. He owns it and Elvis died decades ago.
It’s called life.
@ralphreuben1386 No joke its his einstein!
What are you talking about…it’s already destroyed. You heard him say it was never going to fly again. So what else would he do with it besides try to recoup some money out of the deal?
I think I'm going to buy Elvis's 60 year old jet that hasn't flown for 40 years. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm a life long Elvis fan and watching this breaks my heart. I hope what you have planned works out.
There's 2 jests at graceland that Elvis actually used, this one has no significance at all.
@@HashiAkitaPuppy This was the best jet of them all. By far the fanciest. This was Elvis' favorite jet and the last one he bought and the most intact. Not sure where u came up with that information.
That guy taking a cinder block to it in the beginning! I'd be like you're a professional??? What's up with that??? I'd have followed him into the plane to see what else he was banging around. My heart bleeds for you. I wish you the best and hope that you can have success in all of this.
How about placing PILLOWS on the forklift? That won't destabilize your load, at all....
I had a roofer like that here in France. Being a pro myself I can tell from the sound if someone knows what they are doing! Also, I have a no-nail rule here, if it's not an oak peg, it had better be a stainless screw!!!
I couldn't bare the noise anymore, so I went up on the roof and he said "these are hard to bang in". He was Trying to secure a 1" batten to a 500 year old Oak beam with six-INCH nails!!!!!
Also, because he didn't know what a pilot-hole was, (I asked him) he had split the battens all the way along their length!
I told him that if he didn't leave immediately I would demonstrate what a 'Viiking Blood Eagle was!"
He left..... I finished the roof myself, without a single nail!!!
Best wishes to you 🇬🇧⚒️🇺🇲
The guy running the power cutter with no face shield has balls that clank!
I'm surprised he has any appendages left let alone balls
clanking much like that of metal shards pinging into a MRI machine at high speed after evacuation from the eye socket region
That's not balls, it's foolishness.
Too Much Money And Not Enough Brains Is About The Size Of This Situation
Would have rather seen the plane restored for static display than hacked apart into some silly RV monstrosity. Can't honestly say it's a better fate than scrapping it.
Elvis has left the building
Again like I've said twice before , rebuild rescue wanted to save this bird. Should've contacted him first.
it’s all about youtube views
@@RDC_Autosports you can tell he only cares about the views and not the nostalgia.
How would RR save this?
@M Mayes he's already restoring a plane that he was told wouldn't fly again. He knows what he's doing
@@StalloneSiciliano Jimmy is a little bit crazy (in a good way), but knows a lot more about planes (and I like both channels)...
Spent $234K to destroy a piece of history. Now that everyone knows what it is couldn’t you have at least offered it back up on auction with full disclosure and sold it to someone who would restore it for display? I understand you own it and you can set it on fire if you wish, but as an Elvis fan (I have been to Graceland 3 times, cried the first two) this just seems so clickbaitish of a stunt. Sad…. I hope you understand how heartbreaking this is.😢😢
You guys didn't think to bring face masks?
The pieces you aren’t going to use, you can make souvenirs, like key chains etc. own a piece of Elvis’s jet.
thats what hes going to do and want stupid people to buy it. its all to make a quick buck out of few videos and peices. Its a buisness now on here
Maybe even scoop up all that bird poo and sell it in little baggies as Elvis Jet fertilizer for potted plants.
@@DatBlueHusky Most people want to be paid to do UA-cam videos. Is that a bad thing? There’s a lot of vintage aircraft wings etc that people and or museums make keychains or memorabilia out of so people can own a piece of that aircraft. Same concept here. I’m sure there’s a lot of fans of Elvis that would throw $20 or so at something they can use and have history behind it. I’m sure it will help fund his videos or help reimburse him for the jet purchase.
Guitar picks. ELVIS guitar picks. That’s what he should make.
@@johnregan3732 yes!!!!
It would be a good time to take it to the scrap yard, might be able to get some of your money back. 🤣🤣🤣
Like Indiana Jones said, "It belongs in a museum!" 😁
Then why did it sit outside for 45 years?
No masks no gloves no eye protection
No idea ,,, bunch of amateurs
Air cowboys lol
It Almost Makes Me Want To UnSubscribe Sickening
I did.
Why...why...why...this was history...you destroyed it 🫣🤐🤨
Exactly. Could have made it into a prop-plane
What was historical about it?
@@dabneyoffermein595 good luck getting the approval from the FAA for that..
Better than it degrading in the desert
Jimmy, auctions are not a competitive sport. The winner aint allways the last hand in the air. Your an inspiration and provide positive content. Great job!
He should have turned it into an Airbnb in Las Vegas.
A rare view of what holds in the cabin pressure.
Sometimes I wonder if you actually know what you are doing and just goof around or not
This is just heartbreaking to watch.
So appropriate to sing Surfin Bird by the Trashmen. Lmao.
Many Elvis fans would pay decent money for an actual authentic piece of Elvis' private jet.
Maybe some "fanatics", but not this one. I'm not a total idiot, yet!
Except most of the Elvis fans that ever lived are dead now.
Well if that was the case it wouldn’t have ended up in this condition 😂
@@MA_808 No they're not.
Nah they all dead
I’m speechless…..I think you played us like a fiddle.
He always does 🤔
How so ?
Dang better cancel your paid subscription lmao
he already said, the cost too high & even he has all the money to fix it there was no part available
Jimmy
You're crazy .
If you really think about it, it is sad to see the demise of the belongings of Elvis Presley! It goes to show you how really lonely of a man he was.
No it doesn't. Also, he wasn't God. Every mere mortal's belongings wind up belonging to someone else.
@@historyiwitness5915 No it doesn't. Also, not if your belongings end up in the trash. I think you missed his point, completely.
@@historyiwitness5915 another delusional idiot….
Oh no! What you did man.? I can not believe you destroyed this beautiful airplane, such an iconic jet....
Sad, sad, sad 😔
I’m gutted what you’ve done. I personally would have rather it stay where it was as that was the last time it was used. Kind of like a famous landmark.
What good would that had done? It would had just perished into dust just like everything else on earth that is left unattended and unpreserved.
Damn man! I had a friend that was in a comma for 6 months and almost died from accidentally touching a small pile of bird crap. Yall were all up in it! No gloves, no mask, no nothing. Hope all of yall stay healthy after playing in all that bird mess.
I thought the same thing.
Wonder if it's full of zinc chromate? (Yellow primer)
🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱
Such a shame it was left to this condition for decades . It could've been the last completed jet of elvis Presleys fleet if it was taken care of and not pulled to pieces before jimmy even got it.
I hope you can reborn it into something great Jimmy keep up the good work.
It was owned by other owners After Elvis Sold it.
It only sat on our runway for few years had covered it when it first arrived but our winds and sun made it hard to keep it upcleaned. My father was in it with his coworkers when it first arrived got a few picture of the inside with him in it. But it was in bad shape when it arrived.
How much did Elvis actually use this airplane?
@@gordonwelcher9598 Zero, he bought it and was in process of getting it Airworthy, but he died before it was ready.
May God bless you guys in the name of Jesus Christ Amen
LOL - I think it's funny and ironic to have an antique cabover with a stretched frame. . . love it.
Can’t help but think 🤔 this is soooo brutal !!!!
You should contact planetags about all the parts you're not using. They make great keytags from old aircraft skin. I would buy several. Being Elvis's plane they would probably bring a premium.
Yip me too.
metoo
Yep agreed. $50 a tag, sell 5000 of them, which honestly doesn't seem impossible for such a plane, and you're at least even. Sell a bunch of what's left in there, like the instruments or whatever for a few bucks and at least there's a bit of profit to be made. Low effort, kinda high reward and the risk is minimal, compared to a massive RV project.
Oh boy RIP Elvis Jet.
You picked the right semi to pull it!!!!!!!!!!!
the pilot that flew elvis said this was never an elvis plane......opps
I love that you're just cranking out these elvis jet videos lol 😁😁😁
Gotta pay for it somehow
@@robblake8578 oh i get it, i do this for a living myself.
He can polish this turd only so long, gotta strike while the iron's hot!
You should've had rebuild rescue help since they're experts since removing bird nests from airplanes
Can't believe you're not putting it back in the air and practically destroyed it...
In one of the earlier videos it was explained that no matter how much money was thrown at it it could never be returned to airworthy condition due to FAA regulations.
@@sparrenvoy Sure? I've seen P-38's flying again after literally spending 6 decades in a pantano.
@@sparrenvoy Look up the history on Doc, the B- 29, the whole rebuild pricing video was a parody. This could have been re-powered with 731’s, which have current STC’d hush kits.
No one was going to invest the cash to put this thing back into the air. None of the museums even wanted. If something wouldn’t had been done with it, it would had perished right where it sat and turned to dust, just like everything else on earth does if left unattended for long enough, and it was definitely on the rapid decline. Everybody wants to tell somebody else what to do with it, when no body was even giving it any attention to begin with.
@@airadaimagery692 So why buying it? At least whole, it was getting visitors. Now it's destroyed. But, it's not my plane, he can do whatever he wants with it.
A hotdog & hamburger truck? Cafe kitchen? The wings could be an undercover eatery
I think we’re watching a “how to go bankrupt” channel.
Pretty sure there is a engine conversion for that plane.
The engines were just a small part of the 6 million dollars needed to make it airworthy
@Murph's Models he said that they took the wings off because the parts don't exist and not because of the money directly.
Sad that it couldn't be turned experimental and rebuilt using donations,etc.... or at least just pulling the tail and wings and store just for a while to see what options are out there.
People aren't going to donate $5-$6 million to make that happen
Why didn't those people come forward in the 45 years that the airplane sat outside? Lots of braindead takes in this comment section, including yours, Eric.