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/Runway23Best Pilot I Ever Saw clip from The Right Stuff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqPkIgBqMCYThe Right Stuff (book) - https://amzn.to/4w67wf5

The Right Stuff (movie) - https://amzn.to/4uW5wVWEpisode 1 including our discussion of water salutes - https://www.runway23.fm/episodes/001Water Cannon mishap - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gs62siHe0XAThe Pope in the jumpseat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWREXpXY8XYThe Pope’s plane won’t fly - https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/12/europe/pope-leo-plane-grounded-spain-rome-intlHoffers pictures with celebrity passengers (Patreon) - https://www.patreon.com/Runway23/posts/162145907Neil Armstrong ejects from the flying bedstead - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJDbj9Vp5wList of lunar modules (including Snoopy for Apollo 10) - https://historicspacecraft.com/Lunar_Module.htmlENGAGE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBoY1SQA5ABrady in the Space Shuttle 747 carrier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI45Vdyth8gHoffers chosen Lego sets (Amazon affiliate links where possible)
Lunar Module - https://amzn.to/4gHd1fQEnterprise - https://amzn.to/4oP7ohyShuttle and 747 - https://amzn.to/4aGXb1dSpace Shuttle - https://amzn.to/3QlbUIcConcorde - https://amzn.to/4be151xHoffers Lego video will be on Patreon shortly - https://www.patreon.com/cw/Runway23Air 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