So the April Fools wasn't a joke. We actually bought a jet.
>> What started as a meme on WAN Show when
I discovered that a jet propelled
aircraft is not as expensive as I initially thought. I'm serious.
>> Okay. >> Even Luke was shocked. So I started
exploring various options. And my uncle's in aviation and has been for
many years on the pilot side, mechanical
side, and operations side. Okay. So when
I started to explore that one aircraft that I was like this is shockingly
affordable, he did a bunch of the due diligence for me and ultimately brought
me two sales brochures and he went don't do this.
But if you're going to do this, these are the two best ways you can do it.
>> Okay. >> And I picked a do Falcon 900B.
>> I have so many questions. >> You and everyone. When you say it's not
that much, how much is that? >> So, because of the non-disclosure
agreement that we signed in order to purchase it, this whole world is very
closed door. >> I can't actually tell you how much I paid.
>> But what I can tell you is that if you Google it, it's less than that. And the
second thing that I can tell you is that with a little bit of uh girl math, $0. I
would have been crazy not to buy it. >> There's no way it's $0.
>> Well, let me put it this way. The engines were all on a service program
from the previous owner that entitles you to completely refurbish them to
effectively zero hours brand new once they reach end of life. All three of
those were done right before we purchased it. It's effectively brand new
from an engine standpoint. Each of those refurbishments is worth anywhere from
1.1 to $1.2 million each. And there's
three of them. The jet was also in for a
12year service. And because my uncle's a shrewd negotiator, he put together a
purchase contract for us where it was guaranteed that once it came out of that
12-ear service, it was at do specification. That 12ear service
effectively cost as much or more than
the rest of our purchase price. >> So what you're saying is got the plane
for free. So, when I'm done with it, with the condition that it's in, with
some of the special features that it has, for example, it is one of the few
900Bs on Earth that has a medevac kit.
When it's time to divest of this thing, I should be able to get back what I paid
and maybe even the bulk of what I spent operating it.
>> That's pretty cool. >> See, you didn't know all this.
>> I didn't. >> And I know that you were very opposed to the jet in the leadup to this.
>> I was very I I was very vocal against it. But the way that the math works,
it's a little bit of cash flow tied up, but we're not actually spending any
money, which is so cool. Do you want to see it? >> I want to see the whole thing.
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Give me the quick specs. How far can I go and how fast can it go?
>> It's a 1990, so it doesn't have the same
kind of range as some of the longer range Falcon 900's that are, you know,
newer, >> but completely out of my price range.
>> Okay. >> But it'll still do about 4,000 nautical miles on a full fill up. So what that
means is that from Vancouver, we can go effectively anywhere in the North
American continent. And if we were on the east coast of North America, we
could hop across the Atlantic in one go without having to like stop and refuel
at a little island airport. On the subject of little island airports, one
of the coolest things about the Falcon is that it's designed to land and take
off from relatively small airports. Got it? So, you only need a landing strip
that is somewhere in the neighborhood of around 4,500 ft long,
>> okay, >> in order to land and take off. Of course, that's all subject to weather
conditions, atmospheric pressure, >> uh, wind,
>> other planes. >> I've definitely learned a lot, and it's
way more complex than you would even begin to think it is. I
>> I I already thought it was pretty complex to be very, I'm like scared to
touch this thing. No, you can totally touch it. You can fit so much fuel in
here. Did you know that's where the fuel is stored in an aircraft? >> It's in the wings.
>> Yeah. Cool, right? >> I guess I don't know where else it would be. That makes sense. People are in
there. So, it would be >> I assumed that jet fuel would be
inordinately expensive. It turns out that it's actually really similar to
kerosene. >> Okay. >> And doesn't really cost that much more
than regular fuel. >> How much does it store though? >> Just the sheer volume of it that you go
through. >> Okay. With that said, I'm starting a
family vlog that'll be coming soon. And the first episode is going to be a trip
to Cabo where I treated mine and Ivon's families. When we factor in that the
fuel coming back from Mexico was half as
much as we paid to go down. >> Oh, wo. It actually cost less than
buying like a first class ticket for everyone, which was kind of mind-blowing
to me. >> I mean, first class like like let's be
let's bring it down to earth here. >> Yes. or not, but
>> Okay. >> But it wasn't much more than even business class for everyone. Got it.
Which blew my mind. >> So, the big savings are going to be when
we're maybe doing a big company trip. >> Mhm. Uh I mean, can I show you around?
>> Let's Today's yours. Let's do it. >> Yeah. >> Where where we What does this hold?
>> Do you want to walk on the wing of a plane?
>> Can we both be up here? Like, how much weight? Yeah. Okay. Okay. We can both
come up here. Okay. Okay. This
This feels so wrong. I don't like this at all. Oh my gosh. You like it a
little? It's not as slippery as I would have
thought.
I guess we would come up here for fueling. There's I never really thought
about where the gas tank, you know, is
on a jet, but if the fuel is in the wing, obviously the fuel port would be
on the wing. >> Does that mean there's another one on the other side? >> I would assume so. Yeah.
>> You have to fill them both separately >> and both the same so that the plane will
be balanced. In fact, on one of our recent flights, Luke was talking to the
pilots while they were flying, and they were explaining to him that because in
the grand scheme of things, the plane is so light, in order to optimize its
ability to carry passengers and cargo, um even small differences in weight
distribution have to be accounted for. So, they were telling Luke that him
hanging around with them up in the cabin was actually negatively impacting fuel
economy. And if he went all the way to the back
and sat in the very back, they would actually have to make adjustments to the
throttle in order to alter the pitch of the aircraft just a little bit.
>> I assume that scale is different if you have a bigger jet versus smaller planes,
right? >> Yes. But even then, >> Got it. >> These are finely balanced machines. You
change one bit of furniture inside and
you've got to submit that. You've got to get that certified >> like potentially recalibrate.
>> You got to account for that. >> Got it. Okay. Wow. That's kind of cool. Yeah. So, here's the emergency exit from
the outside, which I've never seen. >> I've never looked in the outside of a
plane. This feels so weird. >> I had a lot of people ask me like safety
>> was one of the big questions. And I was like, look, >> Lance would not allow me and my entire
family and Ivonne and her entire family
to get on something that's not safe. >> Sure, >> we are doing everything as scrappy as we
can. We got a great deal on this hanger. Like, seriously, shout out these guys.
We'll link to their business in the video description. So, we're doing it scrappy, but we are not compromising at
all on safety. Now that we've made a safe landing,
>> okay, >> I feel it's a good time to talk about this. >> Wo. Another major maintenance cost
center on aircraft is the landing gear. So, rough landings, total landings, and
time all contribute to how often this stuff needs to be overhauled and
checked. Well, guess what? as part of my
girl math zero dollar plane. All three
were completely redone months ago as
part of a 12-year check. I'm talking the whole plane goes up on struts or on
donor landing gear. They completely take apart the whole thing. New seals, new
everything, new anti-skid, make sure everything's working perfectly and they
throw it back on. So once again, when we
go to divevest of this asset,
business term for flip this Someone is basically buying a turnkey
ready to go 900. Ever looked up inside
of the landing gear? >> No. No. Believe it or not, I've never had the opportunity to do that. It
smells exactly like I would expect it to. It smells mechanical.
>> It's also like less complicated and as
complicated as I expect. >> Hey, want to see the first thing that I broke on it?
>> Yeah. The good news is it wasn't this
that'd be it was like the second night after it
arrived and we hadn't shown the kids or any of my family members yet. So I was
like, "Oh, you know, do you want to come see it?" And they were like, "Um, heck
yeah." And as part of just kind of poking around at it, I was like, "Okay,
I don't know. Do you want to like do you want to like check out the baggage compartment?" Except there was only one
small problem. The plane wasn't powered. So, after I opened this, which it turns
out to close needs like a powered winch,
there was no way to close it. And in the baggage compartment was all the
documents and paperwork for the plane. Now, that might not sound like that big
of a deal. Let me put it this way. >> It's about a pallet of banker's boxes
this high. And the way my uncle explained it to me is, see that pallet?
That's half the value of the plane. You don't have that. There's no history for
this bird. Oh, >> nobody's going to want to touch it with a 10 ft pole
>> cuz if they can't see all the service history or any of the maintenance, any of that stuff.
>> So, they were all in here. So, leaving this open in a shared hanger, not really
an option. Had to call my uncle who was doing flight training for this plane.
So, you can have all the experience in the world. You still have to get certified for weeks on an individual
airframe. >> Okay. >> He's in the middle class. I'm like, "Hey, so the thing's open." He goes, "Oh
my god, how could you?" Okay, so here's what you have to do. We had to hook up
like the emergency power battery or something like that in the butt of the
plane. It was a whole ordeal. Anyway, the point is, want to go in the cargo hole?
>> It's not the first time a millionaire's asked someone that. Sorry, I should I
don't include that joke. >> That's a billionaire thing.
>> Okay, that doesn't make it in. Uh, go to Floatplane.com. Subscribe for the
extras. >> Oh, >> I mean, he can go on it, right?
>> Yeah. >> Yeah, you're good. Maximum weight 220 lb.
Go ahead, S. I'll go on it. >> Yeah, you go in.
>> This wide angle lens makes it look a lot bigger than it is. I can't even stand in
here. And I can touch both ends with my arms. >> So, it's about a 3T by 3T by 3 ft.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for that. >> So, how do we close this thing now?
Well, >> okay. >> Does not just have like a fob like a car. >> Oh, baggage door closing.
When we were there that night and I had to close it, it made an awful noise.
>> Okay. >> And I was probably pretty sure I broke it. Hey, Lance, when I opened it when
you were in training, did it did I damage it?
>> Yeah, I had to replace the whole >> No,
>> that's not true. Okay. Okay. So, I didn't I didn't
>> So, did you do you know the nickname for the plane? >> No.
>> It's the Millennial Falcon.
>> Did we actually tell people what the name of the jet was, though?
>> No, the public one of like >> Oh, you mean the company? >> Yeah. Are we allowed to disclose that?
>> Okay. It's called Influence Air. >> No, it's pronounced Influence Air.
>> Now, I know what you're probably thinking. Hey, kid. She looks nice from
the outside, but what you got under the hood of that thing? Is she a Hemi?
No, she's not. Whoa.
Hold on. I'm going to try and do it.
It's stuck. Lance, help me. How can you
make something so simple, so complicated? Okay.
Whoa.
What the hell am I looking at? Okay, so this is our weather radar. Uh, what this
is our navigation computer, all of our communications.
Um, what you're hearing is a cooling fan.
>> Okay. >> In 1990, the rudimentary compute that
was in here was uh a pretty big deal.
And while you can retrofit this with
more modern computer systems,
it's one of those things like um
bedazzling your jacket. You're never going to get your investment back on it.
Got it. Okay. Can we swap those fans out
for Noctu ones, though? >> No. Uh-huh. All right. And ho
Cool. Hey,
>> welcome sir to influence air. >> Thank you. Oh, wow.
Dude, this is dumb in the best way
possible. >> Right. >> So, are you ready for a bomb?
>> Well, not in a plane. You can't say that. >> A truth bomb. Oh, would you like to know
who the original owner of this plane is? Who is responsible for the goldplated
ashtrays and goldplated sinks? >> Uh, hold on. I'll let you see it first.
>> Okay, there it is. >> That's so
Oh my goodness. >> 24 karat on that baby. >> Is it actually?
>> Yeah. Played it. >> Oh, I thought Oh, I I thought you were kind Okay. I thought you were joking.
No. >> Is this like Trump's plane? >> This plane has had a few owners, but
originally it was owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates,
allegedly. So, this is what I've heard. This is what I've heard.
>> May or may not be true, but that is my understanding of the origin of this
aircraft. So, they asked for some special modifications to be made as part
of its production. >> Like gold sinks. >> Like a gold sink. Okay. So, that's uh
that's that. Do you want do you want to sit in the cockpit? I was waiting to
ask. I just didn't want to interrupt. I'm going into the cockpit. Holy cow.
I'm a pilot. Well, not really. I shouldn't claim that. Is that >> Yeah, definitely not really. So, above
you is a bunch of fuses and stuff >> and also a panel that has caused what
was probably the most expensive issue that we've had so far with this plane.
>> Okay. >> See, one of these screws was a little
bit too tight and was shorting out.
>> Oh. So that caused the illumination behind all these gauges to go out. So we
were able to fly, but only in daytime.
We were like replacing power supplies and doing all this stuff until we
finally found, well, hold on. What if we back one of these out an eighth of a turn, and that was it.
>> That was what saved it. >> That's the kind of stuff that from
talking to Lance, you run into after a 12-ear check. This thing was taken down
to studs would be the building equivalent. Every bolt removed, cleaned,
checked for corrosion. So when you put it all back together,
>> you might have some mishaps like that. >> Couple little things like that. Yeah. Got it.
>> Any idea where you'd even begin to use any of this stuff?
>> I'm assuming this is go forward. >> That is go forward. Yes. >> Heck yeah. I assume this is a steering
wheel. >> Sure. >> Or are
you say that like >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a steering wheel. >> Okay. >> Up here is all of your relevant flight
gauges. This would be our weather radar. Then these screens right in front are
the actual flight displays. Also up here
is our parking brake and our super high-tech compass.
Getting out of here, guys. The next time you see like a 6'5 pilot, you just like
I don't know, give them a thumbs up or something because I don't know how they get in and out of these seats. These are
the best seats in the house. This was another one of the things that made this
a much better deal than it otherwise would have been. Remember I said the deal is that we get it in factory
approved condition, right? Sure. >> Well, part of that was the mechanisms
for these chairs. >> These go forward,
>> backward, side, side, and turn
so that you can face the people in these chairs over here.
How much you want to guess uh that mechanism under the chair is worth?
Don't forget that it is aviation certified which uh
>> uh more than 10,000 >> 5,000 per chair.
>> Okay. >> It was two or three of them were broken. >> Okay. So I was right about 10 grand.
>> And we found so many little things like that. >> Sure.
>> That again, you know, girl math. When someone comes and looks at this thing,
they're going to look at and go, "Wow, okay. This is like babyed. Like
everything is in working condition." Cuz we were like on it. >> And this fix was still part of that
original. You better believe it, bud. They found one seal that was like a
fraction of 0.1 mm out of spec. My uncle
pulled up the documentation. He said, "No, it's not."
>> You signed to fix it. So, >> so we got it fixed.
>> Okay. >> Safe. >> The costs add up for these things, which is why I was so hesitant on it because,
you know, there's a saying, right? If it flies, floats, or you're supposed to
rent it. >> Yeah. These are fun. Almost every seat
has a little uh table.
which is kind of nice. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Pull out the laptop, get a little bit of work done. Sammy, I think, got
like almost a whole Floatplane video edited on this at one point. I have a
question about that. >> Yes. >> Wi-Fi. >> We have Wi-Fi.
>> Okay. How does it work? >> Well,
you take a whole bunch of money. >> Okay. >> And you give it to someone.
>> Okay. >> And then you gettastic
Wi-Fi. >> How much is a whole bunch of money? And
howasticastic >> thousands of dollars a month andastic is
like kilobytes per second and it's
spotty. So aviation Wi-Fi is moving from
landbased towers that you just fly over
and then get out of range and grab the next one.
>> I see. >> And like I said, the speeds and
everything is spotty to obviously low
Earth orbit satellites. >> Got it. However,
whether you're talking Starlink or whether you're talking about Go's
Galileo, it has to be certified for your particular airframe. And then to even
get the hardware installed is probably going to be in the neighborhood of 200
to $400,000. And then the monthly is not going to be
any cheaper. >> So, we're not going to do that.
>> I am leaning away pretty heavily. What else is there to show you? This is fun.
These four seats convert into a bed. >> Oh, what?
>> Yeah. I'm not going to show it to you because the mechanism involves this
table lowering down on this like
accordion thing here. >> That was really loud.
>> Oops. >> Anyway, this is cool.
>> Oh, wa. >> There we go. Then you just put in the
leaf. And if you give it a little shove. >> Oh, okay.
>> We've had as many as like half a dozen people playing cards around here. Now,
this is interesting. In here you will find high-tech 3 and 12 mm jacks and
now in practice in flight um there's a
lot of like background noise so it
doesn't sound amazing. You're way better off just putting in your headphones. But
one of the things that Lance said was, "Hey, while it was in for that 12-ear check, we should look at getting it
sound treated cuz that is something that carries some value and is something that
makes a big difference to the experience." And then he looked into it. It turns out it already had like
state-of-the-art sound treatment. So, it's it's actually quite comfortable to
be in. >> I guess I have one more question. >> Oh, yeah. >> If you're talking about like a whole
cabin sound treatment, can we wrap the plane?
>> No. >> Sorry. I'm I knew the answer. It was just like the number one Reddit comment
when people found the jet. >> I'd love to. It'd be so cool. You'd be
adding so much weight. >> Got it. >> In vinyl that it would affect the fuel
economy and also the heating and cooling cycles,
the expansion and contraction of the airframe. It's not worth it. Naturally,
this is the best place to have a meeting if you were to do it here.
>> There you go. And it's magnetic. >> Oh. >> So, this is probably the most
comfortable place to sleep. You got the privacy curtain and you've got the
ability to boop
there. >> Okay. >> So, if you were going to have a nice
little sleep, this would be the place to do it. And then I think there's some
kind of like there's like a thing in here. Yeah. Ah,
that you can pull out. >> Oh, wo. >> And I think this like can go in the
middle and then you can have a little mattress thing or something. You can
turn this whole thing to like a giant bed. >> Oh wow. >> I don't know. I don't care about that.
>> Okay. >> I don't need to have an RG in the back of the plane.
>> That's for the front of the plane. >> That's for the ones with a B, not an M.
>> Okay. This is something I actually want to fix. So, see how there's a little
kind of crack at the top? >> Yeah. >> That's for good reason. Because if you
were to open this >> Oh, >> it would wing here. So, this piece Wh
has to slide up and down depending on whether it's open. It doesn't open all
the way. And I feel like that's the kind of thing that one of our very smart
people like, you know, Justin or Sebastian could probably help fix. It's
actually really loud in flight. >> Oh, >> because
this is open to the
We've come full circle. >> Oh, that's the cargo hole >> baggage.
>> Okay, >> you can go in there now. It's not that big. Hey, >> you're you're very right. It's actually
quite small. Man, you made this look huge though with
your height. >> Oh my god. >> Wait, so is this another bathroom back
here? >> Yeah. >> Oh, that Okay, that's another toilet there. >> Yeah. >> Cool.
>> What about second goldplated sink?
>> Why? What is this? What is this Canadian
curling boop? >> Okay, I can explain that,
>> please. >> We've had some issues with this little plunger here. See, normally it's sealed.
>> Yeah. >> And you push it down to drain it.
>> And there's suction. So, on the last flight, I forgot whether it was push or
pull, and they had glued the little thing on the top, and they had used a
pretty crappy glue. Honestly, I don't think that's entirely on me.
>> Okay. >> So, I forgot if it was push or pull, and I pulled it, and the thing came off.
>> So, now this is >> So, now there's a label and a boop.
>> Is two bathrooms really needed on a jet this big? >> Cuz you can have up to um including
crew, like 17 people on here. Two people may need to use the pooper at the same
time. >> Got it. Well, if you guys ever need to do a trip again and you just need to,
you know, you're at 15, you need 17 or whatever. My wife and I would love to
join you. >> Okay. All right. I'll keep that in mind. But of course, we'd have to have a meeting when we get there, though.
>> Absolutely. And a meeting on the plane if we really need to >> about important things.
>> Yeah. Sh. Come on. Give us some privacy here. We're trying to have a meeting.
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