Late 1970's 8MM video tour of Walter Soplata's place...

[Warbirdnerd]

Dont think I have seen this before.
If you want to see what Walter's farm and airplanes looked like in the late 70s, here you go...

[Courier Sportster]

neato! the soplata legend looms large! I thought the southern ohio misdirection was sort of prescient.

[Kyleb]

I wish they had prowled around/over the B-36.

[Clifford Bossie]

What became of the TO-1 (F-80) in the opening shot?

[Dan Jones]

And what became of his Skyraider prototype?

[Warbirdnerd]

What became of the TO-1 (F-80) in the opening shot?

Goodall has it at NMNA but it’s not on display or their website.

[CoastieJohn]

Start at 6:06....is this also it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq--BUg-aUs&feature=emb_rel_end

I guess I'm new to alot of these airplane "graveyard" vids. I haven't seen them before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkVM9L4PK-Y

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[lucky52]

What happened to the B-36 ?

[Chris Brame]

Cut up into souvenir key fobs, sadly. Not sure if the cockpit has been saved by the outfit that bought it.

[DoraNineFan]

Cut up into souvenir key fobs, sadly. Not sure if the cockpit has been saved by the outfit that bought it.

I had no idea that is what had happened to the Soplata YB-36, very unfortunate. Bought by keychain peddlers.

https://planetags.com/collections/vintage-aircraft

[JohnB]

Too bad the photographer didn't take an introduction to cinematography course.
Constant pans and zooms looks like bad home movies...and makes me seasick.
I appreciated the limitations of "editing in the can"...i.e. Not editing...but a few moments of thought would have been helpful.