National Air Force Museum Video on African Queen Halftrack

[mkoloc]

Here's the link ... Enjoy 

https://youtu.be/1pe90EKEglI

[brit plumber]

She sounds sweet as a nut and looks right at home.

[spillmk1]

Great video!!

Thanks!!
Keith

[8683jb]

Very well done Mark! Thank you.

[Ma Deuce]

Doesn’t get much better than that, admire your passion for this old girl.

[Tapper02]

Very well done vid...I like the combination of video and still shots, along with your interview and voiceover.
Six months huh?  Great timing though having it there over the winter...hope you don’t miss her too much!  ?

-Tom

[yd328]

Great video, I like the stills at the end of the video. Excellent work.

Gary

[mkoloc]

Yes the interview .. I was not expecting that when I showed up to unload and drive to the museum from the Restoration Hanger where she was parked for the night.  Of course I was dressed for work with jeans and a HD t-shirt and not for an interview.  I had my German Army rain coat on (traded my US rain jacket with a German officer my last trip to Graf) to keep the wind chill off and standing there in the restoration hanger is the museum PAO with his camera on a tripod.  So we conducted an impromptu interview before the unload.  Ken only asked two questions: 1.  Give me a rundown on the track, its history and info about your nonprofit;  2.  How does she handle?  That was it.  Ken had mounted gopro cameras in the driver's compartment and on a 50 in the turret, all of that before 7 AM LOL.

Ken shot lots of footage of the move and the setup in the museum and thru the magic of editing and his obvious talent, made a great video.  The staff at the museum has been fantastic and share the attention to detail trait that I so admire in others!

[Dan Boland]

Great video, I love the original patina!

[Smadge]

Mark,  you had to bring up Graf...........got busted down to an E-3 back in '82.  Had some good times and bad!! Oh memories!!

[mkoloc]

Smudge, LOL ... Where you doing gunnery tables there?  Found lots of great stuff tucked into a motor pool that I tried to get control of to ship back to the states .. post commander said no!  Probably landed up getting dragged out to a range for targets ... bummer.

[mkoloc]

Thanks Dan, that was the mission set ... leave it original!

[Thundercat97]

Super Video.   Nice to see how she looks today from when you used to send me photos way back.   Hope all is well.

Rob

[mkoloc]

Rob, how have you been?  Sorry we lost touch, that's totally on me with all the moving, school etc, I kinda dropped out far a bit!  How is your track?  Are you still working in NYC, same job?

Been busy this past year and a half promoting the Queen and the nonprofit.  Great start with the Hagerty article and now the NMUSAF in Dayton.  We are working on sourcing a truck and trailer as our next project and then a couple of restorations down the line.

Glad to see you on here, I pretty much stick to posting here but also check in on the G and SS now and then.

Mark