Stig, NO!!!!! 🤦‍♂😂 Tinker AFB is in Oklahoma City on it's own field. The F-16's you saw are a Oklahoma Air National Guard wing at Tulsa International. I work at Tinker AFB on the KC-46(aka 767-2C) BTW. I was there at the AA facility a few years ago to see their operation as at the time we had not gotten our first 46 for C checks. Side note on the 777. Subaru Corp (former Fuji Heavy Industries) makes the center wing box for it.

Please don’t apologize for touching things! If we can’t touch it, we can’t fix it! And, clearly there are many of us aviation enthusiasts that would love to be right there with you! Appreciate you!

It’s fun to let “the kid” come out! I know that feeling!🧍🏻‍♂️🎉

MD-80 was a pilots airplane too... You could feel the engines through the throttles. It was a handful to fly, but very fun!

Stumbled across your KZfaq videos last Month. I retired from AA in 2020 out of PHX . Spent 37 years with America West/ US Airways/AA . Really enjoyed seeing the Tulsa over haul facility, awesome. Really enjoy watching your videos, great to see a tech so dedicated and loving his job. Best to you and your crew with maintenance compensation. Keep up the good work.

Thanks Stig for taking us on your adventure to Tulsa. The museum is aswesome.

Go for it Stig, do what you do best = being you. Thanks Mate. Mike.

Thanks Stig! I'm a retired UAL line AMT. Now and then I miss my old job, it was a big part of my life that I loved. Watching your vlogs remind me of what I used to see and do for a living. I worked DCA, ORD BWI FINALLY IAD. keep up the good work and stay safe and proficient and current. Oh keep the videos coming! IAD TECH.

Wow what an experience. Thanks for showing us Stig. 😊

I could watch Stig all-day long!

Fantastic tour of the museum! That F14 is one impressive ship. Imagine the stress on those "turkey feathers" during afterburner. Insane engineering man.

Stig upload = good day

Stig ohhhhhhh man, when you touch any part of the aircraft or zoom in your camera to see the details of any thing inside cockpit of the plane i feel like i think you know what i really feels i can't explain how much I love this. you are the best one who can feed my passion . Thx alot Sting for your daily effort to make us happy and near from what we are loving The Aviation ❤ God bless you all the time 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thanks for another museum visit. Love all your videos.

I JUST SAW THE THUMBNAIL AND I SWEAR TO GOD IM GOING TO BE OVER THE MOON IF THATS A MD-80 I LOVE MD-80 THEYRE CLASSIC

Yup! I remember sitting at the window seat staring at the noisy humming engine of the American MD80. Made your teeth rattle.😬Think reason we sat in the back was the smoking section. My dad was a smoker and I remember ticket agents at the airport baggage check in would ask "Smoking or Non-Smoking?" Ahhh! the good ol days of flying commercial.😊😉

Stig, You are the man! I love watching your content!!😎

Thank you Stig. This tour was like a hit for an addict! 👊😁👊

We Enjoyed Stig. Until the next one. Happy training and safe travels.

VERY VERY INTERESTING VIDEO ONES AGAIN. TY SIR

Excellent.... Can't say no more. Loved everything I saw.

Even when Stig is on vacation he is always learning! I love it

That 737 you walked through on Dock 5C is my airplane! 3AP… I’m one of the 4 dock schedulers on that check. If I knew you were there I would’ve invited into the production control office. It’s neat to see all of the work cards that are assigned to checks like that one. 😉👍 Glad you stopped by the world’s largest airline owned maintenance base! It’s a cool place to work.

I was amazed too when the CR Smith DC-3 came to TULE to be reconfirmed from a mosquito sprayer back to what it was, when it was delivered to American Airlines flying passengers. I was blown away how similar cables pulleys cockpit was of the DC-3 next to our MD-80’s in C Check….. man I haven’t forgot the smell of that acft when it came and when we worked on it. Great Video

I have only been subbed to your channel for a few weeks, I think you do a great job running everyone through the ins and outs of Air vehicles

Stig you rock man, i watch you every night, thank you!

Welcome to Oklahoma stig!! As a native to the area we have a lot of aviation history including our AA maintenance facility which is the largest commercial aviation maintenance base in the entire world. We also love our museum and visit quite often I also volunteer there sometimes thank you so much for showing off our town and I can't wait to watch more of your videos in the future thank you and have a good day!

Stig I just have one question…… HOW THE HECK DO YOU ONLY HAVE 56.6K SUBSCRIBERS YOU SHOULD BE IN THE MILLIONS ALREADY YOURE THE BEST KZfaqR ON THE PLATFORM

Stig, I just want to tell you that you are awesome on what you do, I love your positive attitude, American must be proud to have you as one of our greatest AMT, hoping to meet you one day in the future. Take care.

Stig, you are not alone. There are many like-minded aficionados! That’s why museums that are a little more comprehensive are AWESOME - eg Air & Space Museum next to Dulles KIAD airport. Given the sheer number of “specimens” of engines, wings, props, … you can literally SEE the improvements in the lineage of each, slowly transitioning from basic concept to today’s massively-refined versions. For a tech evolution/strategy aviation junkie guy, this is nirvana.

That is a cool museum. Love your videos, keep it up.

You are a inspiration to the young and upcoming in your field of career!

Mmmm….so nice to get back home, do my previous-to-going-to-bed stuff, grab the iPad and boom! a new Stig video. A big smile appears. I love that crazy but beautiful MD-80 cockpit. I’m not a pilot but isn’t too hard to imagine how close and tight could be the relationship between the man and the machine, especially with that particular aircraft. Simply amazing. Thanks for the video, Stig. See you in the next one. Have a nice weekend!

I would like to see you spend a day or two in the MRO watching the technicians repairing engines, teardowns, anything! I really enjoy your videos. Thanks so much!

Hell yeah you in my home town. welcome stig! I wish I would of known you were gonna be here lol. thank you for the video. I enjoyed this one.

I came across these Stig videos by mistake because I love aviation. That is one mistake I'm glad I made. Stig does a great job with the cinematography and background audio. Thank you sir for the hard work.

To finish your training - to look at old warbirds, they should send you to Duxford Museum here in UK all expenses and Pizza paid for. 👍 thank you for another great video Stig

@Stig and his Team, as a Ramp Handler and aviation geek I wish you all the best in the competition and that you may win👍🙏💪

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you.

Stig thank for this oportunity learn with you !!

Excellent trip. Thanks for sharing. 🤙

Thanks Stig! I haven't seen inside TULE since I transferred to AFW in '99. Cool seeing the turbine bldg and hangars again.

Pretty sure when he showed the MD 80 cockpit, reminisced on his early career, the music, and the pause in talking, may have had a tear.

Love the museum tour, thank you!

WOW seeing the CJ-805-23 display was so cool! as a teen i took a few X-country trips in AAL 990's Never knew there was a tricycle gear Spartan, thats cool too! great tour, thanks

Sting great video! Watched Air France a350 takeoff and blue smoke out of breather was crazy!

Another value of seeing older technology is being able to appreciate that everything is evolution of previous. You often hear comments on how mind boggling it is that there is so much complexity in a modern aircraft, and hard to grasp how people can invent something like that. Well, it's all an evolution and it doesn't just appear, but it's constant incremental improvements to previous things over many years and thousands of people involved. Seeing the pieces from early wooden biplanes to current aircraft, you can trace this evolution and appreciate and understand it over time, which is what I love about museums. It's mostly a marathon of countless small steps and failed experiments, rather than spontaneous eureka moments of genius. We tend to overvalue the latter and underappreciate the former.

Thanks for this Stig. Fascinating insight. It almost feels like I owe you the entrance fee. Much love 👍

Man of man…..I’m glad you got to tour around the Maint Base. I’m totally bummed you missed the most interesting coolest shop there and that’s the Valve Shop. Test Cells, precise amps-voltages making them wrk. You can talk to us and maybe we could learn something….nxt time maybe 😊😊😊

Thanks for the video .. I enjoy watching the progression of aviation technology .. Hats off to the our War Vets! Remarkable indeed!

Fantastic tour…..Thankyou

If your anything like me brother, your putting hands on that equipment because of the enormity and power of it. It is the awe of it as well as it’s given respect to the creators! The several times I have been on a plane I made sure to put my hand and touch the plane just by the door opening! There is just something about massive machinery that men love and want to do the Tim the tool time Taylor grunt lol

What a wonderful tour of the museum, the facility and your guidance. It was fantastic! I have built hundreds of scale model airliners and it is great to see the paint layout on the wings of the Mad Dog. I can FINALLY get it right! Thanks again Stig. Take care man.

Thanks for the video Stig! Another factor to take into consideration regarding airplanes not being bare metal anymore like the old AA livery used to be is that with newer planes being made more and more using composites, there's no more metal to make it shiny!

On seeing that American MD-82 on display, I can't help but feel/think "nothing like seeing an airplane that, only a few years ago, you were flying on being on display to make you feel nice and fossilized. "😂

So pleased that American maintains its aircraft in the USA. Supporting American families and communities.

I work right across from that MRO. Drive by it every day. Industrial Maintenance Mechanic here. Thanks for supporting our Museum. It is small and underfunded but it is well kept and has some unique aviation pieces. Been there several times.

My first fleet command in the Navy was SH-3D’s helicopters. We deployed on the USS SARATOGA CV-60. I was an aviation hydraulics mechanic. We had two F-14A squadrons VF-74 BeDevilers and VF -103 Sluggers. Boy did you have to pay attention when they turned those bad boys on the flight deck of the carrier. I then reenlisted and changed commands to VFA-106 the F-18 RAG(replacement air group) training command for new F-18 pilots. These were the legacy Hornets, not the current Super Hornets. Love you VLOGS brother, keep them coming. 22:23

I just subscribed. Thank you for making these videos to show the work that gets done to keep these things in the air. The hours, the weather, nothing stops the continuous maintenance of these machines. I flew for your outfit for 36 years and found the engineers and technicians thru out the system to be the best. I got to fly test out of Tulsa on the DC-10 and Alliance on the 76/75. Overhaul is an amazing thing to see. My dad was a mechanic for United from the early 1950's and his dad built wooden wings for Curtiss aircraft. Keep the tradition of exemplary workmanship alive young man. Love your videos. P.S. I notice the chine tires and spray deflector are missing off the nose gear on the -80. Must be so they could mount it on the pedestal.

I worked at a Accessory Repair Station for 12 years as a Repairman working on valves, switches and exciters for a bunch of different 121 carriers. You have to be proud of your work when everything you work on is going to be relied on to get people where they need to go on a scheduled airline flight.

I love seeing the smaller museums, they sometimes have a rare airplane or two that the bigger ones like Evergreen Air and Space, Udvar-Hazy, Smithsonian, etc.., might not have. I'm looking forward to the reopening of the Sullenberger Aviation Museum this summer here in Charlotte. I went there not long after they opened the 1549 display, was pretty cool to see.

I remember at 3-4 years old, being on a DC-8 from Georgia to Calif. in 1961. First passenger plane to exceed Mach 1, in a STEEP dive by a test pilot. On August 21, 1961, a Douglas DC-8-43 (registration N9604Z) exceeded Mach 1 in a controlled dive during a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base. The crew were William Magruder (pilot), Paul Patten (copilot), Joseph Tomich (flight engineer), and Richard H. Edwards (flight test engineer).

Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to visit The Strategic Air Command Museum in Lincoln Nebraska. My all time favorite aircraft is the SR-71 Blackbird. You mentioned touching the aircraft; oh my, yes! There were ‘do not touch’ signs up, but I had to touch the Blackbird. It was electric. I saw it preform at an air show at Edwards AFB in 1999. I touched a B-1B and a B-29. I wanted to feel the history of those aircraft. And this museum you’re at - beyond fantastic. Thank you for this awesome adventure. 🙂

Tulsa museum - great video! Well done

My wife worked for Hughes Aircraft Company's Radar Systems Group in El Segundo. She wrote software used in the 8-bit computer at the heart of the AWG-9 weapons system of the F-14. Her two areas of focus were the communication between the radar system and the AIM-54 Phoenix missile during command guidance mode, and "situational awareness," that is, the display of information to the Radar Intercept Officer. Hughes borrowed some of her display software for use on the F-15 Eagle. Compare this tiny memory and slow processor to computers today. That 8080 microprocessor provided the Tomcat with the world's first track while scan and long-range intercept capability. The F-14's 1970s capability was not equaled by the Navy until 2016, when the F/A-18E Super Hornet received the extended range AIM-120D AMRAAM, made by Raytheon.

Hi Stig. Watching your videos has made me even more appreciative of the incredible complexity of airplanes. Thanks for sharing.

@Stig you have a dream job! :)

I hered about your amazing channel from Jerry , Big Jet TV here in the UK . I’m hooked

Love your videos bro waited all week for this genuinely appreciate the content and you as a person you’ve answered one of my questions and its given me the path to become a aircraft maintenance engineer and I appreciate you for it

I enjoyed it very much, especially the helicopter.I was a crew member on one in vietnam

Loved this video. Went to college in tulsa for being a aircraft mechanic and actually didn't know that that was the biggest mro for AA. Love the information

Awesome video thank you

Awesome video, definitely a must-visit for any aviation enthusiast. Quick note on the B717-200 - pretty certain it was the MD-95 initially before MD's merger with Boeing. Thanks for sharing!

And the camera made the compass move! Seen before! Love the videos!!!! Keep them coming!!!!!

Always good to see the man, the myth, the legend

Great video-thx! You are doing a real service for anyone interested in aviation!

Stig you are the man!!

Stig, I am right there with you when it comes to aviation museums. Last year, I hit up 6 museums (Royal Singapore Air Force Museum in Singapore, USS Intrepid in NYC, Museum of Flight in Seattle, USS Midway & the San Diego Air & Space Museum in SAN, and the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in Hawaii) between April-October. I used a bunch of points/miles with UA/AA, but it was worth it. I always become a museum member & make a donation to help out. I made a serious upgrade to my camera gear recently, so I'm headed back to several of the same museums in April & May (make use of the free admission with membership) in addition to making my first trip to the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, which is a known difficult facility to get good photos in.

Thank you Stig, what a great video👏👏👏👏👏👏 you are the best ❤

i started my career in the mid 90s as a young co pilot on the dc9's for northwest airlines. We had the 30s - 50s series in the fleet at the time along with a few md82 as well

MAGIC.😁

Great video stig as always really enjoyed it

I probably worked on those former Emery DC-8's at 8:26. The DC-9/MD-80 part I disliked the most was the BUTE door, I'm sure you've had your share of experiences with those doors Stig... Love the museum, great video Stig!

Great stuff, Stig. Super interesting! Thanks for another video.

First plane I worked on for AA was DC-10 hangar 5F Aug.87. I think it was N163AA in for C check. There was like 15K employees in TULE at the time. First plane I worked on in DFW...MD-80. Loved that plane. BTW, still at DFW at AA, 2024, and still love my job.

Such a cool video. That museum looked like a great place to see. Air New Zealand had 737-200's and also a Quick Change(QC) that were powered by the JT8D engine. I can remember that around 1993 they were re-fitted with Nordam hushkits. Miss that distinctive sound they made especially when powering up for take off and the reverse thrust on landing.

First I do Like your video presentations.Thank You for visiting Tulsa and doing a video presentation. I spent almost 40 years as an AMT at Tulsa M&E [now MRO] and worked many different fleet types in Light C and Heavy C Checks as well as Back Support Shops. Many great things happen there every day to support and keep the airline running. The Tulsa facility at its peak in 2000-2001 had over 10,000 Employees . After 2003 Concessions we started watching our work getting slowing OUTSOURCED to 3rd Party Vendors and as a result Tulsa has HALF of the Workforce it had at its peak. The facility still is the same physical size but some of the hangars are now used for storage that once had operating Light and Heavy C Check Maintenance Docks and Crews. Tulsa has a long and storied history with American Airlines. Back in the day Bob Crandall would drop in unannounced and visit with the troops on the shop floor and in the hangars. He came to Tulsa on a weekend in May of 1995 and personally thanked us for working OVERTIME to get the damaged aircraft back in service. A major hail storm went thru DFW in late April - Early May 1995 and we received about 40 Hail damaged aircraft at Tulsa. A lot of AA folks never got to see this side of Robert Crandall and I'm very glad that I got to experience it first hand. With all the B.S. that the Airline Business has went thru in the last 40 years I'm still very glad to have worked a career at AA.

I have flown on AA MD-80 way back in march of 2012 from phoenix to Dallas. It is such a beautiful plane.

Great video.

Thank you Stig for giving some wonderful airtime to my fav engine the JT8D think the only thing louder is a b-1 in afterburner Will be flying on the 717 before delta retires em and an end if the dc9 era gone forever Would be fun to watch you hit up the dayton museum the udvar hazzy and the boeing MOF

Md80 amazing

👍👍 Beautiful museum - envy .. P,S, Little trivia - at 16:54 - when you are climbing to F-14 cockpit - see that tiny line - right - in the very pointy start of wing - just above inlet - those are "high speed glove vanes" . Those were meant to deploy on high speeds - to help with CG shift - but were actually welded latter .. I was "original Top Gun " generation - spent all my allowances to see movie in theater back in 80's .. And at the very end of my career - before retirement - was extremely lucky and proud - touched the beauty with my bare hands - and no other than famous "Jolly Roger" one .. We were visited for some cooperative exercise - and I couldn't miss the opportunity of lifetime - and "top gun" of my whole career .. Beauty is sadly also retired now - so I think I can speak - TV camera was IMPRESIVE .. (one could count feathers on real gull wing - faar faar away ..) 😉

Love your content 🇦🇺👍

It was sooo Awesome to listen to your video while driving home Stig!! Great video as always! Going to have to make a list of museums to visit since I work in one!! Thank you for taking us along!! 😊

Absolute enjoying all your videos lately. I've only recently discovered your channel and I've been absolutely glued to my seat watching your videos.

Amazing stuff! Best of luck on the upcoming competition!

Cmon stig nonrevving in the last three rows was awesome. So many sweet memories.

That was awesome thanks Stig 🤙🏿

You're right next to me Stig! I'm stationed there at the Tulsa Air National Guard Base. We share that runway with Tulsa International.

Stig you got highlighted in a new blancolirio video clip who was talking about the UAL35 777 wheel incident yesterday. "Excellent video by stig aviation" referenced your 777 wheel assembly replacement vid.