Valdez STOL 2019 Alaska, In Loving Memory of DRACO, Episode 3
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Crave Life Episode 35
Episode 3 was difficult due to the news of loosing Draco. This airplane has a special spot in my heart for many reasons demonstrated in its design, engineering and performance. The biggest reason is the mastermind behind it, Mike Patey!
At the end fo the day, machinery can be rebuilt, humans can't! Lets celebrate that the force behind Draco is swinging in full force and will be back bigger and better than ever before!
Enjoy a demonstration of the GREATEST bush plane ever known to man!
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Nice video !!🤠🤠👍👍
Thanks Jason!
So sad ..but knowing Mike with his unbelievable energy will be back..GET BACK TO WORK
@@sherzaiasim Lot closer to Draco-X now than a year ago. Woohoo!
I haven't heard anybody commend Mike for having built Draco so well that when he crashed, they had no injuries and all survived! Great Job, Mike. Well done, sir.
Absolutely👏
Mike and Draco will always be an inspiration to everyone who has ever looked up and thought "Why can't I be up there...?" Thanks, Mike, for inspiring so many of us; and great video, Dmitri!
Well said Steve! Thank you
Stunning edit Dimitri. Aviators everywhere that know of Mike and his creation Draco, will surely appreciate this tribute. I sure do!
Thanks Steve, Draco is very special to me and many many others. Glad Mike shared Draco with us up here in Alaska!
Whats so heart breaking is the time and effort along with his knowledge of aeronautics that went into the Draco project.
💔 indeed
@Allan Sneddon One of the best out there!
ya feel Deeb sadness to the crash of DRACO, thank GOD they are all ok, now to fastrack "SCRAPPY" , what I like about mike that he is alway energized, always has a positive attitude
Yes, love the positivity Mike has!
Only when he is on Video.
Man I just became a bush plane enthusiast. Draco made me really confident that I finally found my true love in life! Mikes words are perfect!! "This Sucks!" Im just glad everybody is ok and yeah man!! I hope he out does himself on the next Draco II!! Im sure he will.
Thanks for sharing Tony! Agreed! Mike defines the love for aviation!
Wonderful Homage to Mike, his Draco and the bush pilot life. What an investment in time watching the Draco build such a talent. I will be happy to watch her rebuild Cheers.
Can't wait to see build 2!
Draco will live again. Kinda like the 6 million dollar man" We can rebuild him , Better, Stronger, Faster, We have the technology " Great video man. Have a blessed day and thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Hero = Mike Patey. Not too many blokes around I can say that about.
Absolutely agree!
Definitely the coolest bush plane ever. I got to see it at Reno but I was not able to see it fly before it bit the dust. Rip Draco. Mike patey will come back with something even better, he doesn’t quit.
All I can say is...AGREED! Mike is the best! Draco will live again! Thank you for the tribute!
Thanks for watching!
I only saw DRACO, at RENO, but was NOT FLYING BLANCORILIO, JUAN BROWNE had said it was only static,,something to do with insurance, I just had NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE,
It's a great luck that after such an accident nobody is hurt! People's lives are the most precious thing we have!
What a wonderful tribute to this fantastic piece of beautiful machinery! Bravo Crafe Life, Bravo!
Thanks Edward, glad you enjoyed it!
I just knew that You would not let Draco be laid to rest....I Just Knew it! Good on you! I look forward to the "New" Draco! Keep up the Great Work!
Thanks a lot!👍
Mike I love you... You are safe Draco can be produced at any time. Love from Hyderabad India.
😎👍👍
I never get tired of seeing draco perform, we need to see another one just like it.!!!!!
Indeed, Draco-X
Excellent. Very well done. Mike is such a great aviator and builder...I'm sure he will be back to Alaska with Scrappy and then some!
We look forward to seeing Mike again in the spring!
Miss Mike and Draco! Thanks for the memory!
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Crave Life, ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW!!! AND THANK GOD ALL IS SAFE. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE " NEW" ONE, THANKS, JACK
You are abolutely right!
Great tribute and great timing. 👍 I was so happy to see Mike's video last night that he's resurrecting it.
Yes, great news! 👏
I saw the airplane in pieces in Mike's hanger last year. That's when he told me about Draco X.... at least I have some really cool memorabilia (stickers, temporary tattoos, etc) from Draco. Mike is such an amazing guy. Love him!
Indeed, he is a legend!
...most impressive speech at the end of video. Draco is gone. But I'm glad that Mike is not. And I can hardly wait to see by how far his new masterpiece will excel the old. Great work, guys!
I know Mike will do something bigger and more capable on Draco-X!
@@CraveLife Hey Dmitri, I too hope that Mike will build another great plane. But most of all, I really enjoyed your videos as they show my three passions: planes, Alaska & film making.
продовжуй ніколи не здавайся!
Osman Memisevic Thank you so much!
Great video to remember that great bird. The most important thing Mike and his family are safe to live, create and inspire us all.
Well said!
Very nicely said. Draco is and was and will be again a great aircraft. However there is scrappy coming up from behind. Can’t wait to see how it turns out...
Amen Brother!
👍
Well Done! Long Live Draco in our Hearts and Minds! Come on with it Scrappy!
Can't wait to see Draco-X come to life!
A Great Tribute to Draco!!! look forward to see what mike dose next.
Thank you, I'm sure it will be great!
1000% agree with you, its like loosing a member of your family
Draco-X will be awesome!
I was proud to have my picture taken standing under it's wing, with my son, at Oshkosh this summer!
Surreal moment!
I think that the best celebration about this good man, is dreaming for is return with a new brand DRACO... soon!
MDGA - Make Draco Great Again!
@@CraveLife he already bought a new one. LOL
Greg Plaka, that’s great news!
Great footage and info, just wait and see what Mike does next, as it will be jaw dropping!!!
It will be something absolutely amazing!
Very well edited and put together, capturing the spectacular performance of Draco, Mike's irrepressible enthusiasm, and his sheer genius. Like most fans, I was shocked at the loss of Draco shortly after, though relieved all walked away. After a brief time to grieve & compose his thoughts, he unsurprisingly decided to rebuild Draco, bigger, badder, and better. Mike our best wishes are with you.
Thank you for the comment! Looking forward to Draco-X!
did he make it again?
Simple frozen water took down the Titanic. Simple gust of wind took down Draco. Mother Nature will always win.
She only lets us use her elements to play with, but we must use common sense, skill, caution, and humility while doing so. If not we lose.
Waiting for Draco. ! Mikey a hard-working individual. So inspiring.
I also can't wait to see Draco rebuilt!
What a shame to lose such a beautiful aircraft but thankful Mike & everyone onboard stayed safe & well.
Thank you for the video - was a sad day when I heard Draco had been lost. I should have driven up to see it at the Oshkosh this year. Maybe I'll see Draco 2 up there next time. Take care be safe.
You will definitely have an oppotrunity to see the new Draco-X one day! I think, every aviation fan needs to see this plane in the sky at least once.
No worries. He is going to build another!
Yes, that's amazing! Can't wait to see the result😀
A worthy tribute. Well done
Mike JW Thank you!
Wonderful video, thanks for producing it. I really enjoyed watching and like you look forward to Draco II.
Thank you for the feedback!
Great tribute, Great Job....
VIVA VALDEZ!
Thank you!
Draco wil be back, stronger and lighter then ever before.
Surely, we will see Draco many times in the sky again! I love the lighter comment 😎
Best Draco/Mike Patey video ever. Great work, Thank You.
Thanks Buck! 🍻
I’ve never seen him before and his enthusiasm is awesome.
Very contagious!
Very interesting video thank you so much for sharing enjoyed it so much i would love to learn to do this glad your ok
Thanks for posting. That is the way I'll remember Draco and Mike pumped up.
Thank you for watching, love it!
Happy neither Mike nor anybody else was hurt.
Mike's going to rebuild it🙏
Great news, isn't it?😀
I must take a ride in DRACaO!!!
Seriously.
Hope that one day it is real!
sweet edit man, still heart broken over DRACO, ): Mike is a class act .
Jerry, thank you! Agreed! 💔
Mike and Mark are LEGEND! (as is Draco)
ABSOLUTELY!
Love this video a lot , thanks for sharing. What a beautiful story.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely!!! Very well said and very well done. Thank you.
Thank you Frank!
Really hope he rebirths draco. Always loved that plane
I hope so!
@@CraveLife he's working on it
James Ringler can’t wait to see it!
First? If not it’s fine. Maybe the last time for Draco? Following what happened at Stead earlier this week. We are so glad nobody was hurt or worse! 👍🏻✅. Sorry for the crash Mike Patey life has its challenges. Hang in there, it will get better. 🤠
Mike is a winner! No doubt about that.
Yes he is a hero for aviation and humanity. Being humble about the crash fills volumes of respect for him. I had near brush with death years ago, everyday is a special one!
All Hail the Draco 💪🇺🇸 Great video Great Plane Great Man behind the Plane 💯
Glad to you enjoyed it
Would have loved to hear the turbine spin up much more than the annoying generic rock soundtrack
I'm with you, the PT6 firing up is like a live band in full force. I love the process, the click click click then knowing the NG is climbing with a quick flip of the fuel on, and the mini explosion inside the turbine then watching the temp gauge to make sure things don't get to hot. Love it my friend!
@@CraveLife You always want to wait for maximum engine rotation speed by the starter prior to engaging the condition lever to Run...this gives you a "cooler" engine start which is less stressful to the turbine blades on the engine. Great video...thanks for standing in the rain so this Florida resident can watch the video. I'm also an ex Alaska resident.
Hello Larry, welcome to the channel! More great stuff to come!
Yeah, gotta agree, it would have been so much better of an experience without the music...
Wow, great tribute video. I was lucky to see him at KLVK after this event in Alaska. Sad to see his ground loop though. =(
Glad you were able to see it in person
Was it a gust of wind that caused the demise of draco. The pilot said he use poor judgment?
Frequently, when you modify an aircraft to have a super high lift to weight ratio, the craft becomes susceptible to wind gusts. Could this have been the reason for the accident?
Love the tilt shift!
😉👍
I have a theory . Mike just got to familiar with Draco and what comes with familiarity is "taken for granted" carelessness . He knew the fundamentals of the plane backwards and as all humans do we forget what we know when we have seen it a thousand times . He had paid attention to those hundred little things intensely when he first finished Draco and his mind had blanked them out as totally familiar and understood as time when on but they still mattered and he thought that he could operate Draco in any situation but Draco showed him that even the great plane had limits . The solution . Mike should generate a study course on Draco , the do's and don't s etc and he should take this course every 2 months or so to remind him of Draco's limits . To bring those limits to the front of his mind again where they should be .
Mike, I've written to you before she this is the first time I've seen this video. Oh, that area, Valdez, is so gorgeous. As a young boy dad was stationed at Ft. Richardson, from 1963-65. Yes, I rode the 1964 Alaskan Earthquake. I was 4 years old.
I'm still heartbroken, like you, and thousands others, about the loss of Draco. I must say that I'm hoping that she will rise like the Phoenix.
Another thing I'd love to say that is I didn't have to earn a living, and if I had more to give, I'd love to work for you, with you driving me, do I could learn your work ethic. As a young boy I left hundreds of project on the table, unfinished, due to laziness, loss of concentration, etc. Watching you makes me wonder what would have happened had I developed the attributes you lovingly share with us. That being said, I've made it a point to work on my concentration, my ethics, my drive. It's hard for this 60 year old geezer to do so, but I know it can be done. Thanks for the lessons, teach!!!! Get back to work! Tim
Thanks for sharing that Tim!
Most awesome airplane I have seen.
Absolutely agree!
Mike you are simply genius
One of a kind type of dudes
im amazed none of the other cowboys have vloged or commented on the draco cash maybe you can prove me wrong mr big man crave life
Haven't seen anything from Trent or Gimpy, maybe they're happy that the Show Stealer is in storage currently. Draco is coming back For Sure!!!
Most excellent.
Thank you, miss it dearly
Mike if there's any chance you'll read this, DRACO was my favourite aircraft ever and I'm 52
please tell us your plan for DRACO X
Your aircraft changed my life and I'm sure other people's
so please are you going to build her ?
Draco was the greatest. I watched it land in Ak and Reno, and it always seemed ground loopy. Might be something about the design. Hard to tell with tail draggers. RIP Draco!
It does look like a handful, the squatting of the suspension has to get some getting used to.
"Dracos" - Out new word for PERSONAL MINIMUMS.
The red line we set for ourselves, I like it
Great video! Thanks
Hello James! Thank you too!
DRACO in real life is Polish PZL Wilga. Wilga was famous for winning precision world flying competitions.
Sad to see that they stopped producing the aircraft. Perhaps someone can bring back a PZL-Draco for mass production?
The footage of this gorgeous bush plane looked Incredible !!! Does anyone know what it sounded like ? I couldn't hear it at all . What a waist ...........
Anyone?
I have building and flying model planes since 1959. In '76 got my first radio, been designing, building, and flying ever since. First question....Mike how are you?
In looking at the crash damage, my biggest question.. Is Draco rebuildable? Wing broke at the fuse, both sides, main spar failure, LG is really bad. The fuse doesn't look like it's in to bad of shape. It is my experience, that rebuilding a proven design deserves to be rebuilt.
Hello Keith, I am sure Mike will build even greater plane soon!
Add a video about how the structure the welding and other safety designs
you have built into Draco.
Draco-X will be fun when Mike finishes up Scrappy and Ballistic
Very nicely done... very nice.
Thx Tim 👍
Excellent video
Amen brother
🍻👍
I have no doubt Draco II will be a thing. Mike is busy with Scrappy now, but I have a feeling something even more insane will happen. The expensive bits are probably salvageable.
Yes, I can't wait! MDGA 🇺🇸
Mike. Rebuild it!!!!!
👍👍
Crash it harder next time.
He just announced he is going to rebuild! And it is going to be even better. Check put Mike Pateys UA-cam channel.
@@cf6282 Draco-X!
@@flyingdog1498 Hard enough wasn't it?
Bravo Mr.Drako
Draco-X coming soon
As cool as Draco is, it doesn’t hold a candle to Mr. Patey. That dude is someone special.
A very very rare man indeed 🤠
Almost made me cry.
😥
almost made me vomit! is there a special prayer we can say to worship DRACO?
Very nice editing. Good job.
Jean-François Laporte, Thank you!
Well Done my friend, wonderful video.
Thanks Art, glad you enjoyed it!
Good Job capitan! 😎
Any news on your missing friend?
I'm going to do an update video in a couple weeks taking a trip out there
I hope that Draco will love again. I know that Mike is busy with Scrappy but surely Draco is rebuildable?
Mike will do his best to rebuild Draco!
Nice comments Cheer
Thanks for watching!
R.I.P. Draco. ✝️
♥️♥️
I thought Frank Knapps wife held the Short Take and Landing record here in Alaska. (Butte, Alaska)
R.I.P Draco
View from the road 😢
who cares; as you said as long as no one was injured. mike is a warrior and a survivor, he'll probably build a better version.
Draco X is going to be an improved version of Draco
Neil Henderson, I really hope he will
Big Red Airplane , So cute . I love it .
Thank you 🤗
does anybody know what caused the crash ?
Actually, because of the weather conditions. To be more precise becaus of strong wind! There is no pilot fault.
Make draco great again......cheers from France
Avoiding Trees, thanks 😎
One correction Mike, Draco did not participate in the STOL races at Reno. Mike just had her on display. There was a foul up with insurance that prevented him from the competition.
Would have been awesome to see her one last time. 🍻
I believe that once all the issues with the insurance are finally cleared up, Mike will rebuild Draco. I could be wrong, and he is doing an amazing job with Scrappy, but I sure hope he does resurrect Draco.
I know there are issues with automobiles that have been "Totaled" by insurance, so there are probably more with an airplane. I can't believe it is a technical issue for Mike. I've seen too much of his fabricating and pure genius when it comes to designing and modifying parts to ever believe he isn't capable of the rebuild.
Therefore, if Draco does not get rebuilt, I believe it will be for some legal issue. That would be sad too, because Draco is a marvel of aviation.
@@davide.burden2043 MDGA 👍
@Crave Life
*MDGA Indeed.*
i have a feeling that a DRACO MK2 will rise form the ashes and take flight again.
Agreed! Make Draco Great Again!
Do a better job crashing it next time, Darwin Award in your future.
@@flyingdog1498 why so negative?
First time coming across this channel and the hands on the planes at beginning really confused me lol
Just a little effect for fun :)
Wow what a camera. What do you use. It looks so crisp
GoPro for the mounted cams
Well done!
Thank you!