Runway 23

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

Hoffers and Brady discuss passenger plane landings, inverted selfies in military planes, barrel rolls, and the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401.Support our new project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Runway23Korean fighter jets collide: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjwz8we1zzo

1983 Negev mid-air collision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collisionBoeing 707 barrel roll by Tex Johnston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlEDenzel Washington flies upside down in Flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQDKufQdkusNTSB report on the Eastern Air Lines 401 crash: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7314.pdfWikipedia article on the Eastern Air Lines crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401