Bombardier Lear Jets Presents

Bombardier Business Jets Presents

Have you ever been inside a Lear Jet? While we were down in Southern California for the Legends of Aviation event, we were commissioned by Bombardier Lear Jet Business Jets to make two short videos. One video was about the terrific VIP Private Party that was held in some hangars near Clay Lacy Aviation in Van Nuys. The party was awesome. The hangars were full of incredible array of Lear Jets and lots of interesting people. I was totally amazed at the great library of cool photos of celebrities who have owned Lear Jets. Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra. Some of the most cool people of all time!

Here is the link so you can watch the Bombardier Presents Clay Lacy PARTY VIDEO.

The second video Bombardier asked us to make was about the Legends of Aviation event itself.

Here you can see the Bombardier Presents Legends of Aviation EVENT RED CARPET VIDEO.

Thanks to Bombardier Business Jets and Clay Lacy Aviation for the opportunity to make these videos.

Clay Lacy - Interview for "The Flying Man" documentary

Clay Lacy with director RJ McHatton

I drove down to Southern California to do several interviews for my documentary, "The Flying Man: Life and Times of Johnny Myers." I first met Clay Lacy last December when I interviewed him for a short video we made for the "Legends of Aviation" celebration. That time Clay was very kind to me, driving me around his hangars and showing me some of his collection of very cool airplanes.

This time I was dedicated to getting an interview with Clay Lacy, asking him to talk about his good friend Johnny Myers for my new documentary, "The Flying Man."

Clay Lacy is considered as one of the greatest aviators of all time. I have been told several times by several people that Clay has the most hours as a pilot among living aviators. Some say he has over 50,000 hours, some say its over 70,o00. Everyone agrees that Clay Lacy is a nice guy.

During our interview, Clay told some wonderful tales about his longtime friendship with Johnny Myers. He talked about how Johnny Myers saved Charles Lindbergh's life. He told me about the days when Johnny Myers was the courageous test pilot of the P-61 Black Widow Night Fighter and the innovative but super dangerous Flying Wing.

The best stories from Clay Lacy came when he talked about how much Johnny Myers meant to him as a good friend. Over the years they had so many wonderful times together. Clay talked about the qualities of character and integrity that came natural to Johnny Myers.

In the end, I am so grateful for having been able to meet and interview Clay Lacy. He is the man who worked with Bill Lear and the aviator who did a lot of the aerial photography for big movies like "Top Gun" and "The Right Stuff." Clay talked about how pilots are honest people. The more pilots I meet and interview, the more I begin to understand what he means. Men like Clay Lacy are the type of man we look up to and the type of man we need more of. Heroic, courageous, living life to the fullest.