2: Pope on a Plane and the Gimli Glider

Hoffers and Brady discuss checking pilots, water salutes. celebrity passengers (including the Pope), Lego sets, and the famous Gimli Glider incident. Support our new project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Runway23 Best Pilot I Ever Saw clip from The Right Stuff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqPkIgBqMCY The Right Stuff (book) - https://amzn.to/4w67wf5

The Right Stuff (movie) - https://amzn.to/4uW5wVW Episode 1 including our discussion of water salutes - https://www.runway23.fm/episodes/001 Water Cannon mishap - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gs62siHe0XA The Pope in the jumpseat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWREXpXY8XY The Pope’s plane won’t fly - https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/12/europe/pope-leo-plane-grounded-spain-rome-intl Hoffers pictures with celebrity passengers (Patreon) - https://www.patreon.com/Runway23/posts/162145907 Neil Armstrong ejects from the flying bedstead - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJDbj9Vp5w List of lunar modules (including Snoopy for Apollo 10) - https://historicspacecraft.com/Lunar_Module.html ENGAGE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBoY1SQA5A Brady in the Space Shuttle 747 carrier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI45Vdyth8g Hoffers chosen Lego sets (Amazon affiliate links where possible)
 Lunar Module - https://amzn.to/4gHd1fQ
 Enterprise - https://amzn.to/4oP7ohy Shuttle and 747 - https://amzn.to/4aGXb1d Space Shuttle - https://amzn.to/3QlbUIc Concorde - https://amzn.to/4be151x Hoffers Lego video will be on Patreon shortly - https://www.patreon.com/cw/Runway23 Air Crash episode about the Gimli Glider - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216433/ (have also seen it uploaded to YouTube) Wikipedia about Gimli Glider - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider