Good morning everybody It is Friday morning To some of you it's the end of the week. I don't think my week ever ends. I don't want it to end right? I don't want my week ending, but it is the end of the regular work week and maybe it's the beginning of your You know Entrepreneurial week. I'll put it that way James, thank you so much. He reminded me guys. Please do me a favor. Please hit that like button Please subscribe. There's a button down there if it's red when you click it It will turn gray and then you know you're subscribed, but that doesn't in there. No, no, no You have to what ring the bell turn on all bell notifications So you're notified every single time I go live who we got in here today. What merchant account do you use for drop shipping? Do you mean? Where I'm drop shipping for other people and if so I use authorized net That's the one I use and we have some big payments come through there I mean, you know some some people will send us 10 20 30 thousand dollars So it's big amounts normally if I have a bigger amount Paul like that Let's say let's a wholesaler and you know like I had a guy from China the other than he spent 43 thousand dollars We just have a bank transfer because the fees. Oh my gosh the fees when you calculate that out Or so darn high so we don't do that But Paul did remind me we're talking about drop shipping today and is it dead is drop shipping dead Is it too late for you to even get into drop shipping? I want to discuss that with you today Give you the pros and cons tell you what's going on tell you what's changed because things have changed since I started out many years ago And you know we talk about drop shipping. There's a huge interruption Since Tuesday in drop shipping. Does anybody know what that is? Does anybody know what that huge interruption since Tuesday is because it's a big one right now? It's costing about four hundred million dollars an hour Four hundred million dollars an hour. There's one interruption if you know what it is put it in a chat section Okay, I've been I've been watching it pretty closely Some of you may have some of you may have not but it is one of the biggest Interruptions in commerce that I've probably have seen in my lifetime. It's crazy It affects the entire world and if you know what that is and know it's not the illness that has nothing to do with it But it is pretty interesting Let's see loud and clear partly sunny and 77 and Savannah, you know James. It is a little chilly here today What do we got today? What do we got in San Diego? We got and I'm checking now. I checked this morning I think it's in the yeah, it's it's 50 right and it looks like it's gonna get up to a whopping 62 So that's not exactly warm and you know people have a misconception Of San Diego that it's warm year-round And it is warmer than almost, you know most cities however The the time that it's the coldest Is in May and June we have may gray and June bloom and it stays overcast And it is chilly chilly chilly when you guys are experiencing the beginning of summer We're experiencing this cold overcast type weather every day clouds every day So, yeah, so we're moving to Austin now Austin Austin Georgetown And if I pull that up right now, where are we at in Georgetown? What's going on in Georgetown? So it's 50 here. Oh, look at this 70 and 82 Uh, right it's 70 right now, but it's gonna get up to 82 degrees. So I'm looking forward to that That's pretty cool. Got a bunch of pictures from the house construction, which is kind of cool But I do want to talk about drop shipping before I get into it If you do have any questions guys understand that I'm here to help you out On these live coaching calls in the morning So, you know any question you want to ask me about making money online? I'm here to help you I really am we I don't charge you anything for this. I'm not selling you anything You know, I have courses and all that stuff. That's not what this is about This is about helping you in your business So if you're looking to start running growing online business And you would ask me questions you can I will not answer any questions that I don't have knowledge on So I'm not going to make up anything But if I know, you know, and I've done what you're asking me I am going to answer you, uh, and honestly so you can get any of your questions answered If you're working on your business, um, just know that there's a resource you can pop in here You know, ask a question to get back to what you're doing, uh, Monday through Friday I do this at 9 a.m. Pacific time When I get to Austin that will be probably two hours earlier I think it's two hours difference. I think it is Um, but anyhow, whatever adjusted time it is to where it's 9 o'clock there I will not be able to do when I'm traveling. I am going to be traveling to, uh, Georgetown and, uh, when I travel there, of course I won't be able to go live. Well, maybe I could go live. Yeah, I could do it when I was driving or something or pull over I don't know. Maybe there's a way to do it Uh, let's see some of the questions here is fulfillment company considered part of dropshipping Or is using a fulfillment company its own animal Well, it depends on what you're labeling a fulfillment company There are and let me explain to you how dropshipping works You sell a product and you collect money, but you don't have the product Somebody else in turn Ships out that product for you. Boom. That's dropshipping. It's really that simple We do dropshipping every single day of the week. Uh, we have retailers So they will list our products on their sites And uh, they will sell them and then they send us the order and pay their wholesale cost for it And then we ship it out to the customer. So that's our level of dropshipping Now there are other levels of dropshipping if you go to something like aliexpress And did anybody figure out what that interruption is and e-commerce? I still don't nobody guessed on that Uh, nobody guessed on what that I mean, it's 400 million dollars an hour guys You guys don't know what that interruption is. There is a huge interruption You got to put a comment in there and just at least guess what's going on right now It's been going on since tuesday. I'm giving you a lot of clues So anyhow, um When we're doing dropshipping, let's say through aliexpress. They've changed it to where, um You can't use uh She what's it called e-packet, which is a subsidized form of shipping which kept shipping from You know aliexpress extremely low when trump went into office He did away with that so we don't have that and it was a it was a u.s Assistance for shipping cost, uh, and it got stuff here pretty quick and it cost you a little bit of nothing to ship something That's not there anymore. So you're going to either experience a pretty long shipping time like five six seven weeks or You're going to have to pay a high fee. So that kind of hurt you using aliexpress Let me answer some of these questions here. Then I'll get back to what I'm talking about Uh, let's see here So, uh to answer the rest of your question paul A fulfillment company may be that intermediary So like when aliexpress, there are a lot of distributors who don't manufacture the product itself But they facilitate getting it to you So maybe they they buy a hundred of them and they have them in their warehouse and they ship them out Or maybe they you know charge a fee and they get the manufacturer to ship it out.  We did some manufacturing in it plus I had employees So the nut just to run that warehouse every month was probably about 23 24 thousand a month And that was a lot of money. I can go to three pl or three pl and um use theirs And only have to pay for the shipments that go out. So I did that uh, let's see here So I think that answer is fulfillment because I do have a fulfillment house Is there a price point you shoot for to make it worth your time? No, not really.  Matter of fact, you can google drop dollar drop shippers. They'll do it for a dollar Um So now I don't I don't really think so I don't physically ship out anything out of our office in san Diego with the exception of our book My book that I wrote the great american food shortage does come out of here But everything else is shipped through the warehouse and that's in utah And the reason and guys think about this when you're running a business Where your warehouse is has a dramatic effect on shipping cost and what I mean by that is If you are in the middle of the united states and your orders come from both coast, okay Then your costs are going to be lowered because you're in the middle of the united states, which utah kind of is If my warehouse, which it was was in san diego And I was shipping things out of san diego across the united states So I made my meets in ohio They got shipped to san diego and then I would have to ship them back to virginia or new york or florida That got really expensive So using a third party logistics in the middle of the united states really helped a lot And that kept my costs down and it's also less money for the purchasers to buy my products, which is cool Share your interview with sarah chris the young drop shipping expert from new zealand Yeah, I did an interview with her Sarah's a friend of mine. She's a really nice person sweet girl She's made millions of dollars At the ripe age. I think I met her when she was 25 or 26 something like that And she invited me to dinner one night She was in san diego and I went to dinner with her and she says would you do an interview with me? I said sure And I did the interview and then we promoted through my webinar one of my courses, which was digital cash academy at the time And I think we did probably a couple hundred thousand dollars on one webinar, which was nice, you know, one man So we did really well at that What else can I tell you? Let's move on with the drop shipping thing. I mean you guys have some really good questions. I do appreciate this Let me see here You're in I did that the increase in fees from china now. I'm going to tell you what it is You guys have heard about this. What's interrupting our Our supply chain. What is it? It is a big ship in the suez canal Which is one of the main transports for to go to asia and back. Okay, it's the main transport canal There's a ship that's wedged there This ship is about the size if you took the empire state building and laid it on its side They're about equivalent Okay, so no other ships can get through because it's blocking the suez canal and they're trying to dig it out But it takes time and time is money in the suez canal because that is the main channel to get stuff from asia to the rest of the World or to get into asia And if you google that you're going to find, you know ship blocking suez canal and you'll see it But it it's a huge problem literally four hundred million dollars an hour. It's costing them right now So it's big money Let's see when you rebox products like you did with your dehydrated products Do you need to get food department inspections like your meat place has an inspector to come in? No, it's it's under a different branch of government Meets and dehydrated products fall under different stipulations So no, that's really not a problem And we are actually coming out with some more freeze dry dehydrated foods We're working with a manufacturer on that now we'll be coming out shortly to just to let you guys know Because we haven't had that available since the beginning of the pandemic that kind of crushed that market There was no supply of anything. So we're trying to get that supply chain back up and running right now Heard there is also a container shortage. You know, I don't doubt it. I didn't know about that But I don't doubt it. There's a lot of different shortages People don't realize how fragile Our shipping system is I mean just minor interruptions like this is just one canal That's 700 feet wide and it's slowing down e-commerce for the entire world. Think about that a 700 foot wide spot Slows down shipping for the entire world. It's craziness, right? That's how fragile we are It's got to be Mercent container ship, you know, I don't I don't think it is that's a big line though James you can you can google it. You can find the ship. I don't know what the name of the ship is But it's an issue. I've been looking at some of the pictures and some of the videos There we go. So let's get back into this drop shipping thing Drop shipping is an interesting animal and people don't realize that they're involved in drop shipping every single day If you go to amazon And and only about 50 of the products does amazon ship out the rest of them are shipped out by individuals people like me It's about products there. So, you know amazon if you buy there you are buying from a drop shipper Okay, if you buy from Walmart, you're probably buying from a drop shipper. We drop ship from walmart if you're buying from home depot You're probably buying from a drop shipper Um, so when you're going to all these places guys and you're buying all these products You are involved in this drop shipping thing now I will tell you it's really good idea to be diversified So if I was only selling from aliexpress, okay, if I was only selling aliexpress products And e-commerce changed because of e-packet I'd be screwed, right? Because that's that would be the only place I have it But I don't okay. I have several different things. I drop shipped for other people I drop shipped stuff in the united states people drop shipped stuff for us I drop shipped, you know on some of these sites I like amazon and stuff So I have a whole bunch of different areas and I do want to do a training on multiple streams of income So you guys understand how that levels out your income Super important not to rely on one product and I see that happen a lot where people will get a product I did it in the beginning I had survival food and that was it and I I didn't realize the cyclical effect of survival food in the summertime It dies off in the winter time it comes up again. So in the summertime we had very little income It was very scary. Um, so it's a good idea to have this, you know, um Multiple streams of income. So for drop shipping, you see, do you think it's better drop ship from american manufacturers versus overseas China, vietnam, I think it just depends on the product It depends on the manufacturer depends on your setup. It depends on your profit There's so many different factors. There is no right answer to that one. Um, you know, we do both Um, and you know some products I would never drop ship from china Like i'm not going to ever sell any food from china I won't you know, they they can tell me that it's clean and good and all this But there's been too many problems with food from china, you know, and I don't I mean even pet food Pet food's really dangerous from china. So I would never ever ever do that Pet toys I would never do from china anything that has to do with my hygiene, you know, a toothbrush or hairspray or soap Lotion whatever if it came from china, I'm not doing it I'm not doing it. It's been proven too many times that they have tainted products So I wouldn't do it But if it's a survival tool or a knife or a compass or something like that.  I'm not going to say they're all good There's some crappy ones. There's a lot of us manufacturers that try to sell survival food and their food is crap It's just not good. Okay, because they're buying inferior Ingredients that go into that food. So when we talk about drop shipping There's so many factors that come into this guys and it's not dead to answer the question of the beginning It's not dead at all matter of fact. It's growing, but it has changed it has evolved You're not going to be able to run an ad On facebook for some, you know, aliexpress product to make a lot of money right now because the shipping times are too long And if you try to make them too short, then you're going to have to pay this huge fee So that doesn't work right now. It just doesn't work Um, so that's something you have to consider. Do any of you guys drop ship? Have you drop shipped? You know, put that in the that chat section there from you above the set Um, I kind of want to see if you have or not And if you have it you should You really should And there's a and if you don't know where to find products I would recommend share a sale share a sales really good. I'm listed at share a sale You can actually sell my products and share a sale Um, and uh, that can be very profitable for you. So, you know, consider that let me fix my My screen is kind of dark here There we go a little too dark for me um, so Drop shipping is very profitable And it's it's just really a matter of finding a product That has a lower cost that you can ship it for that leaves you some profit margin after shipping costs That's it really is all there is to it And if you can find a good drop shipper, I consider myself a good drop shipper We ship products in three to five days for all of my retailers And a lot of them make a living off my products, you know, just shipping out my meats my canned meats and keep in mind When I say one product, you know, we were really kind of Hit by the coronavirus in two two ways one good way one really bad way The good way was that we had a tremendous amount of business which sounds great But then we couldn't get supplies for a freeze-dried food.  It's a good thing. We had meats right originally I just had freeze-dried food, but I had meats and then The packaging cost of packaging the small cans we had was exorbitant So we had to cut out the small cans. Thank god we had big cans, right? And then the packaging cost for certain meats was more expensive ground beef took a long time to do versus Beef or chicken or turkey or pork. We had to cut out ground beef So for the past year we've been doing beef chicken turkey and pork No small cans no freeze-dried and still making a really good living because we're diversified It's not just one thing we sell now On top of that when you're doing drop shipping, it's not a bad idea to have a lot of different products You can drop ship I'm having our new site built and I'm going to have a section that is all kinds of survival products And in that particular section, I'm going to have a whole bunch of affiliate links to other products that we can sell And make money off those products. So um think about those things when you're doing your site What other associated products can you have that you can sell with your site? All right, let's see. We'll get some questions here more ad what's going on. Hello, buddy. Good to see you James says wouldn't it be better to sell expensive with a higher dollar profit? Selling less and earning more dollars it sounds that way on the surface It does sound that way on the surface But I'd say do both and the reason I'd say do both is because a more expensive product Is going to sell at a slower rate than maybe some small product more people are going to buy a $20 product from you Then they're going to buy a $200 product from you, right? I mean they just are generally Percent wise your profit margin on a more expensive product is going to be lower. Okay So let's say for instance Somebody sells a $200 pace of meat from us and their profit margin on that is say 60 or 70 dollars. Okay Which is you know 35 percent That's good But what if they sold a $20 item and they're cost or it was a dollar or two You know, so you got to look at that too You got to look at labor. How much effort does it take to put it on those orders? Now I had somebody complained to me a few years back who wasn't a very good marketer online I'll tell you they were in e-commerce never selling our products and they were saying, you know, we normally have a 50% margin You know, we sell a a $50 product we make 25 But we can't get 50% on your products jr Because, you know, we'll sell $400 worth of meat and we'll only make like 130 dollars And it's nowhere near that 50% profit. So it's not Advantages for us to do that. So I said, well, let me ask you this question Those products you sell for $50 and you make 25 on you make 50 percent, right? Person was like, yeah, we make 50 percent I said, but you you sell an item of ours for $400 and you make 120 or 130 dollars, correct? Yeah, the guy says, yeah, I said, well, isn't that five times the amount of profits did you make on that one item You sold for 50 and don't you do the same amount of work? You take the order you take in the money you send me the order and I ship it out And they were just thinking percentage. I said, you make more money on my product than you do on those little cheap products You can't always look at percentages percentages don't always dictate how much money you're making So once I explain to him that you are making the same Excuse me, you are doing the same amount of effort to make five times the amount of money All you're doing is taking in a sale collecting the money sending me the order That's all you're doing doing the same thing with a $50 product But you're worried about percentages percentages don't matter as long as in the black Right as long as you're making money then it just doesn't matter. Uh, let's see here Why did it cost more for ground beef? Just curious It costs more for ground beef Because it's a difficult plot. We we hand pack our meats In case you guys don't know this we literally hand weigh each can So there's a group of older women around this big circular thing and all these cans come in and they hand pack all these cans So ground beef takes more time to put in a can than chunks of beef or chunks of chicken And it's not a whole lot more time, but it's enough to where it's significant And when we couldn't keep up with orders It didn't make sense to be packing something to take a whole lot more time to pack Versus other items that we had people standing in line to buy So we went with the other items. That's why that's a good question though. Have you Cindy selling fish? Have you Cindy selling fish James? I'm not quite sure what that means. Maybe there's a misspelling in there Um, not sure Um, if it has anything to do with us canning fish, it doesn't last long And we are long-term food storage So we don't do anything like that When you drop ship, do you also redirect emails and also redirect to stores and other products? Um Yeah, I'm not sure what you mean here. Um, so let me explain to you how the drop shipping works Let's say you're one of our retailers. Okay, and you have a case of beef on your website And you sell it as soon as you sell it You're going to send that order to us. You're either going to manually enter it or you send us an excel spreadsheet. We uploaded whatever Once we get the order You pay for it. You're going to pay for it at that point. You've already collected the money from the customer Um, and generally, um, our retailers will just put in their credit card and they'll purchase it We'll ship it out But um, once they do that Then we will ship it out to the customer with the address information provided to us We don't put our name. We don't put any invoice inside the box We don't do any of that. We just ship it to the customer in the customer's eyes All they saw was they bought it from abc survival and they got their product at their door They rarely look at what what address it comes from. They don't know what address abc survival is at They don't know what address our warehouse is at so that doesn't matter and that's all it shows is our warehouse So for all intents and purposes they bought from abc survival Now i'll tell you the scary thing about this is since people have become accustomed to buying online from retailers And buying our product not directly from us. They're getting ripped off. Let me tell you why within the past week I've had two customers call me and say I bought your product, but it never showed up You never supplied it to me. I said, well, who'd you buy it from and they would tell me national survival Whatever, okay, and that's not a real site.  They go. I bought I had a lady yesterday I talked to and she was in texas and she bought two cases of chicken. She paid 80 dollars We don't sell chicken for 80 dollars. None of our retailers sell for 80 dollars But scammers set up sites and they put my products on their sites And they sell it to people for half the price or quarter of the price And they rip them off and that's happened twice in the past week I mean, it's crazy and they they put up these fake sites And they get money out of people and then they never deliver any product And it happens all the time and a lot of these sites are in china or they're in some You know foreign country and there's no way to get to these people So they come to me and they go, oh my gosh, you got to stop them from doing that How do I stop that?  I had no control over that and they're like, well, can't you sue them or something?  So, you know, if you want to be safe Buy from a manufacturer I will tell you that buy from a manufacturer And the other thing I'll tell you is if the deal seems too good to be true It probably is and in every one of these cases where I've talked to people You know, they're they're buying it for a quarter of what it really sells for I mean, you know, wake up wake up man. Nobody can do that Nobody can sell you something for a quarter of the price that I sell it to you for Doesn't even make sense. You got you got to raise your eyebrow a little bit Or you know, maybe you want to call them or talk to them or whatever And the lady says, well, they had an email and they had a website I'm like anybody can have an email on their website. I can go to google right now and I can get me an email It's that simple. So you got to be really careful in some dropshipping Especially if it's a big brand like ours and especially if the price is super low You're probably going to get ripped off if it's way lower than me There's something wrong. There's something wrong with that picture. Let's see. What is When you drop ship, do you also okay, I did that one Correction, have you thought of selling fish on survival paper? Yeah, I think I answered that James it just it doesn't last I've looked at it for years and years and years There's no way because of the oils and fish It won't last long. I mean you'll get you know, maybe 18 to 24 months And our people want like 10 12 15 years. So it just it doesn't fit in with our brand If we sell fish, unfortunately Do you suggest setting up a store on Shopify? I like Shopify a lot I would not set up anything until you tested the product first Setting up a store on Shopify is going to take you time. I have a course that tells you how to do that It's called ecom road e-c-o-m-r-o-a-d and it will walk you through setting up an entire profitable store on Shopify However, you don't want to do that until you test a product through a source like cartra In other words get cartra. I've set up a sales page and if it sells then go ahead and build your store But why build an entire store of products that don't sell? Okay, you know, maybe you don't have it dialed in yet Maybe you need to you know dial in your advertising or you know get more products or whatever I like Shopify a lot. It is one of the best e-commerce platforms for a beginner to get started at I'm not currently running a Shopify store because I have wordpress And I also have magento magento is my big e-commerce store. So I don't use it for that reason Um, great questions though guys you I mean James, you got to be educated because you ask a lot of questions Same thing with you paul.  He sells a lot of my products millions of dollars of my products But he wrote a book on running an online business. It's a really good book It's on amazon. I highly recommend it to you matter of fact Let me see if I could find it real quick And share it with you guys because I think it's it's well worth your read I think you would enjoy it. And if you're trying to run a business This is a good book for you to do. Let me see here Byron Walker Byron Walker I'm just going to search it by his name Yeah, here it is small business turnaround plan So I'm going to put this in here Small business turnaround plan by Byron Walker And he's a he's a friend of mine guys, um, this is the book if you want to look at it That's what the book cover looks like Uh, he's already got 25 five star reviews. I bought it and I read it. It's really good But that's the book right there. I highly recommend it And my plug's gone. Hang on one second here My plug's in now About to lose the connection I was about to lose because I looked up there and the battery thing had gone to almost zero So I had to fix that up. Um guys, do you have any more questions on drop shipping? Does it make sense to you? Do you see what's going on with drop shipping? You know, you can use a distributor You can use the manufacturer. We're the manufacturer. But here's the funny thing A retailer who drop ships my product So they sell it from their site and we ship it to the customer They're they're using a drop shipper and a manufacturer, which is me And they're also using a fulfillment house because that's what I have to do my drop shipping So they're using all three levels by selling one product. It's interesting, isn't it? Now I only charge them putting five dollars to drop ship a product Uh and understand that this product I've got to put in a box I've got to put packing around it foam I've got to tape it up. I've got to put a label on it and then I got to ship it out That costs some money to do. It's way more than five dollars But I absorb it with some of the profit from them selling my products I have a little bit of profit margin there and I absorb it there So they're using all those different levels Small business turnaround plan by Byron Walker. Yes, that is the book guys that you would really like it I think you would he writes it in a very interesting fashion. He talks about my colors bugging me It looks like it's all curled under here When you see yourself on the camera in front of you, you start to notice all these imperfections But he talks about how he went from nine million dollars and crashed And now he's down to three million dollars. He went from 40 or excuse me 27 employees down to five Because he didn't have his eye on his business and there was a downturn in survival You know when trump went into office people felt secure They didn't worry about their guns and food and all that stuff. They felt secure Whether you or on one side or another of this, I'm just telling you how the the public reacts When there's a republican in office, they stop buying guns. They stop buying survival food They stop buying survival products. They feel secure When there's a democrat in office, they worry they worry that you know, the government's going to take their guns going to take their rights going to take their food going to take their all this stuff from them their freedoms And I mean we see it happen, you know, so Our business is affected by who is in office You know, I'm not going to get into my political views. You probably know it if you listen to me long enough But I don't I don't ever espouse my political views and here's why I don't do it guys Because if you have a difficult or a different political view than me and I try to convince you to have my political view It has been proven it has been proven that if you try to convince somebody of your political view They will go more in their direction They're seeing it now with vaccines The people who don't want to get a vaccine when they try to convince them to get the vaccine those people go Oh my god, you're trying to get me to do something. I know I shouldn't do it now So it's it does just the opposite So here's the deal.  I have mine. You have yours. Hey, let's let's you know coexist That's about it. Uh, you may have the same as mine. You may have different than mine But I know one thing I'm not going to waste my breath convincing anybody to think the way I do There's just no point. I'm going to think the way I think you think the way you think And let's just I'll get along that's kind of how I think How long did it take you to get into manufacturing? Did you buy an existing business and convert? Or what you need to go and build it from scratch? Uh, that's a really that's a long video That's the whoo. That's a long one I will get into that one day, but that's a super long one poll Is it better to start with a bunch of products or start with one product to see what sells? I like to test about eight to ten products You know and if I can test eight to ten products on a drop shipping type scale Then all the better because I mean you can start with a hundred products if you want it But the point is you want to figure out which ones are going to work And then you can focus on those and then find another eight to ten But I always like to start with eight to ten It is eight to ten thing I use for a lot of different Ways of marketing like when I go to sell a product Let's say I picked a survival knife Okay I may do eight to ten pictures of that survival knife And run an ad on facebook and run it to india and pakistan and the philippines and run it as an engagement Add in other words click on it like on it whatever type thing to figure out which picture works the best too So eight to ten products eight to ten images of each product to see which ones work Now you say well that could be very expensive to run ads like that Now it runs me five dollars a day Uh and because of the way I do it it's likes and if you run it to india pakistan and the philippines It's like point zero zero zero zero zero one cent per click Okay, so it doesn't cost me hardly anything You know the whole campaign I may spend twenty dollars and I'll figure out two or three of those pictures Do do a whole lot better than the other pictures. So that eight to ten thing I use a lot Same thing with running ad campaigns on youtube, you know, I may have eight to ten different videos I may have eight to ten different sales pages You've got a test in this and you know, you say well, you're you're an expert, you know what to do I know I don't I really don't I try eight to ten different things I know to try different things. That's what I know And then the the market is going to tell me which ones are going to work better So that's what I do, you know, I did a bunch of ads On youtube and in the beginning of the ads I rang this bell And then I did the same exact ad without ringing the bell Some audiences love the bell. Some audiences didn't like the bell So I would take the videos out that had the bell that didn't work And then the ones that didn't have the bell that worked I would leave those in It's just all testing. I don't know and try different things and see what happens. Try not to do the same thing Uh, let's see here Your video on testing pictures was great. Love that. Thank you paul. I appreciate that Yeah, that that's our method for doing that and I think everybody should use that method I really do it'll save you a ton of money as opposed to just going I'm going to run an ad And I'm going to spend $50 a day. What if that picture doesn't work? What if that ad doesn't work? Why not spend, you know, $5 a day and figure out the picture's work first? You know, if they don't work, you don't want to run an ad I just want to run an engagement first. Now what I do is I run it as a post Then I turn that post into an ad and that gets a little more complicated But I teach all that in my facebook ads course Um, so guys we're at 935 and guess what? I got to take my car over to get some repairs done today Um, I happen to have a front wheel. Well, no, it's an all-wheel drive vehicle Uh, it's a Honda pilot and I've got a clicking noise in the right front and since I'm from the car business I know exactly what that is.  I can pretty much listen to my car and know what it needs from me Which is a good thing kind of like jessica can listen to the animals and she knows what the animals need because she's attuned to that So i'm attuned to a car. She's attuned to human things Uh, any other questions guys anything else you'd like to know? Put it in that chat section. I'll get a sip real quick I want you to do this today Okay, can you do that today? I can't say that because I'll get demonetized and I like I like having money on this channel There it is Can you do that today? Is that something you can do if you can do that today? Put that in the chat section and you could put whatever you want the chat section, okay? They don't really demonetize me for that Um, so that's my plan for the day. I'm gonna go do that probably come back and do a little bit more work I'm gonna have a great friday I'm just gonna have a great friday. Are you guys gonna have a great friday? If you're gonna have a great friday put it in the chat section Remember the more you put in that chat the more it helps me out So if you want to help me put stuff in the chat section If you don't want to help me sit back and never say anything never like anything never subscribe, but I've heard This may not be true.  I really don't Uh, and that's totally true. Totally true. Uh post lunch today. I'm gonna paul We're gonna have an awesome lunch today. I think you're gonna enjoy it We're gonna have some good stuff good stuff Not necessarily fancy because we don't be fancy all the time, but we are doing our friday lunch So guys if you're not friends with me on facebook come over to facebook bring me on facebook I'll be posting pictures of our lunch What we're gonna be scarfing down today if you care about that stuff. I like watching stuff about food I'm into that. You know, I just I watched a video before I started this morning on a guy eating at the Four best birdie of taco places in san diego and one of them I want to go to now I've been to the other three. Well, go figure, right? I've been to every place. Um, so That's it for today. If you got something out of this put it in the chat section Say I understand drop shipping a little bit more, you know So you liked it. Tell me what you want to see more videos on any of that stuff Uh, I have a great day every day, which is present You know what james? You are the man. It's so true peace and blessings always everyone He has such a good attitude guys. You can learn from that really you can And if if you say well jr, you can't be happy all the time. Why not? What is what is What is the advantage of being negative if you can figure out the advantage of being negative? Put that in the chat section because we all need to be educated I have not been able to figure out the advantage of being negative and I am not always positive But I try to catch myself. I'm not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. My wife will tell you that But I will tell you this I do try And if you try every day and you try to be positive every day, um, then you know what you're making yourself a better person That's what you got to do. Uh, love everyone. Uh, I really appreciate me for this in here Love each and every one of you. Thank you so much for being here today period Don't forget to subscribe like and share this video and give me a thumbs up Let's see here. What else you get to say here. It used to be a 9 4 1 10 in the army. What is that james? I don't know what a 9 4 1 10 is 9 41 10 Hmm Says here. Thanks for sharing the wisdom with us today brother. Hey brother paul. Appreciate having you here too, buddy You know, I do uh, we got to get back to some of those conventions. I'm ready to do it Maybe I'll hold one in uh, austin. Uh, if you're interested in going to austin put that in the chat section Hey, maybe we'll we'll all get together in austin. I'll get to meet each other And just really enjoy our lives get to meet people we care about get to meet people who have the same interest as us Um, I think that would be pretty awesome if we did that Maybe that's something I should put on my agenda for agenda for 2021 I know moving is a big one in 2021 Uh, because I have to do that in a few months probably the end of june or july something like that Anyhow, thanks guys. That's all I can say.  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This house comes with four bedrooms a library A dining room and a game room Not to mention all the other, you know rooms in the house. So it's it's it's a lot It's way too much than what we need but we look at it for resale on the other room too So hope you guys have a great day. I'm gonna go get my car fixed. Love you. Talk to you later. Bye


Hello students, I am Bhangesh Deshmukh from Valchin Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering. This session is on design of a cotter joint, which is from the course of machine design 1. At the end of this session, the learner will be able to design a cotter joint. More specifically, will be able to derive the equations to design a cotter joint. Cotter joint is used to connect two coaxial rods, which are subjected to either axial tensile force or axial compressive force. It is not used to connect shafts or the components that rotate and transmit torque. It is only to transmit axial forces. Typical applications are piston rod crosshead of a steam engine, spindle and fork of the wall mechanism, piston rod and the tail or pump rod, foundation bolts. It has one socket in and another is the spigot in. We can see that there is a slot on the socket in and the spigot in. Cotter is used, spigot is put in the socket and from the top the cotter is inserted and hammered. This cotter is waist shaped piece made of a steel plate. It provides a wedge action, cotter is tapered, its one side is tapered, another side is straight. It causes wedge action in the slot and provides a fitting force. We can see that this red line corresponds to the cotter. It is also represented in the top view and similarly it is represented in the side view. Second component we can see that this is the spigot in the front view. That is also represented in the top view. It is hidden as it is inside the socket. The slot which accommodates the cotter, here we can see that slot. Next line in the side view we can see where is the spigot and one line for cotter, another line for cotter. When this starts the socket we can see that the socket is represented in the front view by the green line. Similarly its inner portion it has a slot. Socket is represented in the top view, it has a slot for cotter, its slot and the slot of the spigot shall match. Socket is represented in the side view, slot for the cotter. This is the notation P is the force, D is the diameter of rod, D1, D2, D3, D4 are the dimensions for the socket and spigot. We can see what is ABC, then T is the thickness of the cotter and L is the cotter length. Let us see the first failure, rod in tension, this is the area under tension. For this rod diameter is D and force is P, we can very easily write the equation tensile force P equals area multiplied by the stress P equals area pi by 4D square into sigma T. Next is spigot end under tension, this spigot is under tension you can see that section xx is the weak section. The rod of diameter D2 is subjected to tensile force P, this rod is of diameter D2. Let us write the equation for the failure by the classical equation force equals area pi by 4D2 square is the total area minus I need to do this vertical zone because there is no material D2T multiplied by the stress. This I need to do minus second part, I can get the total area. We can use T equals 0.31 times D which is the empirical relation. Think upon why the failure will not happen at this section, then design of socket, socket is under tension, this zone, this is section yy, we can see that outer diameter, inner diameter, outer dia, inner dia and I need to reduce this, this from the total ring area. I can write this equation outer diameter is D4, this diameter is D2 D1 force P is given as pi by 4D1 square minus D2 square D1 is outside diameter D2 is inside diameter minus D1 minus D2. I can get this equation further the quarter under shear, you can see that this upper zone, lower zone, spigot will pull it out and there will be a failure of quarter, shear failure, area multiplied by stress, force is P, this is the zone of shear. I need to use 2 times Bt, B is the width, T is the thickness of the quarter, multiplied by tau is the shear stress, with B we can obtain from this equation, spigot end in shear, for the spigot this slice will come out, I need to establish the area for this slice and need to equate it to the force, length is A, this height is D2, I need to find out the equation for the shear force P, area multiplied by stress, in this case area is given as A into D2, but there is one more area behind this zone, it is double shear to AD2, we can calculate the length A, socket we can have the same failure for the socket, however the area is different D4 multiplied by C minus this D2C, only that bracket of shear failure area will change and this red zone we need to reduce from the total area, 2 times D4 minus D2 into C, we can calculate C from this equation, spigot under crushing, there is a compressive force at this zone of width T, because quarter is continuously having compressive force on that zone, I need to establish the crushing force equation, crushing force P equals the area resisting the crushing failure, which is T into D2 multiplied by the corresponding shear crushing stress, induced compressive stress can be checked from this equation, socket under crushing, I can establish similar equation, this zone is under compression, I need to establish the area, the only change is in the area, outer diameter is D4, inner diameter is D2, D4 minus D2 into T is the area that is resisting the crushing failure multiplied by sigma C, we can here check the compressive stress which is induced in the socket, final failure is quarter in bending, where this quarter is considered as a beam, this is the central line, vertical line, force P by 2 is acting at a distance at, resisting force P by 2 is acting at a distance, this is D2, therefore from center it is D2 by 2 plus this x distance, we need to calculate these two distances, for this distribution, triangular distribution the force is acting at one-third of the distance y, therefore it is one-third of D4 minus D2 by 2, which is D4 minus D2 by 6, the bending moment is given by bending moment equals P by 2, the force P by 2, which is acting at distance x plus D2 by 2, this minus P by 2 multiplied by z, effectively we can calculate P by 2 into D2 by 4 plus D4 minus D2 by 6, this is the final equation for bending of the quarter, we need to find out how the quarter behaves in bending, the Mi about the axis of bending I is given as Tb cube by 12, Tb cube by 12, the bending stress sigma B is classically given as Mby by I or we can write the equation sigma B equals this bending moment divided by the value of I Tb cube by 12, thank you.


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Tom Cruise, and I'm here to show you the G.I. Joe jet that was based on the plane that was popularized by my movie Top Gun. Fooled you, it's really hooded Cobra Commander 788. I know, I look exactly like Tom Cruise. You're not seeing double here, it's really me. But this week I am reviewing the 1983 G.I. Joe Sky Striker, which was based on the F-14 Tomcat. So let's kick the tires and light the fires and look at the 1983 Sky Striker. This is the combat jet XP-14F, the Sky Striker. It was first introduced in 1983 and it was sold all the way through 1985. It was discontinued for the year 1986, it was available for three years and most G.I. Joe vehicles were only available for two years. Why was it available for the extra year? Probably because the USS flag was introduced in 1985 and kids needed Sky Strikers for their aircraft carrier. There was a replacement for the Sky Striker in 1986, the Conquest X-30, which was a smaller and more futuristic looking jet. In 1983 there was no Cobra rival in the sky. The Cobra Air Force consisted of a glider and the Fang helicopter, neither of which was a match for the Sky Striker. In 1984 the Cobra Rattler was introduced and the Rattler was still smaller than the Sky Striker and it was more of a ground attack jet. But at least you had a Cobra aircraft that you could send up against the Sky Striker for great aerial dogfights. In 1986 there was the Cobra Night Raven, which was roughly the same size as the Sky Striker and had similar features. The Sky Striker is based on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which was used by the US Navy and was in service from 1974 all the way to 2006. The wing sweep design on the F-14, where the wings sweep back, is designed to maintain optimal lift to drag ratio for the speed. The F-14 originally had a maximum speed of Mach 2.34. The F-14 was of course popularized by the 1986 movie Top Gun. The movie Top Gun came out in 1986, but the Sky Striker came out in 1983. So by 1986 there were a lot of Sky Strikers in the toy boxes of kids all across America. So I'm not saying that Top Gun ripped off the Sky Striker, but I'm implying it. We have something a little special with this review. We have the box that the Sky Striker originally came in. I don't normally get boxes, so whenever I have one to show you that's kind of a bonus. The front of the box has this beautiful full color illustration of the Sky Striker and this looks great. You get a great view of it there. You can see the underside of it there with all the missiles. You can see the characters inside the cockpit as firing a missile off there. It has that wonderful GI Joe logo on the front. This really makes you want to buy this jet. The front of the box lets you know that the Sky Striker comes with an action figure. It has a photograph of Ace here and an illustration of the parachute. Now this did change. Earlier Sky Strikers came with two parachutes. Later Sky Strikers came with only one parachute. And the text on the box did change to reflect that. The front of the box, the sides, and the bottom of the box are all full color printing. And the bottom of the box has these really nice photographs of the Sky Striker. Note the black tail fins. The Sky Striker was originally supposed to come with black tail fins, but we never got the black fins in the vintage line. We only got the Sky Striker with white tail fins. The top of the box and the back have two color printing. And this just has some of the features, the missiles, the parachute, the landing gear, and the sweep wings. The back of the box was printed in two colors and it has more of a description of the features. It has those black tail fins. It talks about the canopy and the missiles and the parachute with the removable seats. It has a little illustration of Ace over here. Now the Sky Striker was worth five flag points. And the flag points are cut out on my box, but they didn't cut the hole all the way through the box. So that's nice. The Sky Striker did come with a pilot codename Ace. And we are going to take a close look at Ace and his file card a little later in this video. But I'm going to set them aside so we can take a close look at the parts and the features of the Sky Striker. Let's start at the front. The Sky Striker has a soft rubbery nose and it has these stickers that run along the side. And I really like these stickers. I just love the way they're arranged on here. To me, this seems to have a really authentic look to it. I just really like that a lot.  On this side of the nose, we have this nose gun here. And the blueprints call this a Portside E41A1 Vulcan 50mm Cannon. That's a very large caliber machine gun. And this is probably based on the real world M61 Vulcan Cannon. Now the M61 Vulcan is a 20mm gun instead of a 50mm gun. But it's the same basic idea. There is a problem with the placement of this cannon. The body of the gun would be inside the nose of the jet and it would run right through the pilot's instrument panel, which of course would not work. On a real jet, that would be down here on the underside. I'm not sure exactly why they moved it up here to the top, but it wouldn't really work that way. There is a variant on this nose cannon. Earlier versions of the Skystriker had less detail on this cannon. Later versions of the Skystriker, the mold was changed to add a little bit more detail and this grille panel here. The Skystriker has a clear opening canopy and that canopy can be somewhat fragile and can break at the hinge. And that can be a very frustrating part to replace if it breaks, so be very careful with that. This Skystriker has the often missing name stickers. These stickers are often missing even on Skystrikers that are otherwise in great shape and complete. This front sticker, Captain J. Brad Armbruster, is ace. According to his file card, his real name is Brad J. Armbruster. Now the file card has J as his middle initial, but the sticker on the canopy has J as his first initial. This second name, Lieutenant Wayne Rutherl, is a bit of a mystery. That name does not match any GI Joe character, but there is an answer to that mystery. The designer of the Skystriker for Hasbro was Wayne Luther and Rutherl is an anagram for Luther. So this is the name of the designer of this toy. The Skystriker is a two-seater. As it should be, the Jetta was based on was a two-seater. The front seat is for the pilot and the back seat is for the radar intercept operator, or Rio. Ace is the pilot of the Skystriker, but who should be Ace's Rio? The box for the Skystriker shows Airborne, but I don't really like Airborne for that position. He's a helicopter assault trooper. I really prefer to pair him with the Dragonfly helicopter. In the comic book, we saw Ribchord in that position briefly. And in one famous issue, Lady J took that position, but I also like to display these figures in other places. I don't really like to put them in the Skystriker. So usually I just have Ace in the Skystriker and I leave that back seat empty. I put the question to the viewers, who do you have in the second seat of the Skystriker? These two seats are removable and they don't peg in. The shape of the seat actually just wedges in between these tabs. It does not hold in very well. These seats are plain black with a back peg, not much detail there. And attached to this seat is a parachute. If you got an early release of the Skystriker, you got two parachutes. If you got later release of the Skystriker, you only got one. The parachute has to be tightly wound to fit on here. And it's held on with a rubber band that stretches between two hooks. One on the top and one on the bottom. This is not the original rubber band. I do have the original rubber band. This is what's left of it. Yeah, 30 year old rubber bands don't tend to hold up very well. However, this is not a modern rubber band. This is a 30 plus year old rubber band that I have on here. I got this rubber band from the Cobra Battle Game, which had extra rubber bands that looked very close to the size that came with the Skystriker. These rubber bands have held up remarkably well for their age. With the rubber band off, let's open up the parachutes so you can see what it looks like. These parachutes are made of a thin sheet of plastic in a circle with this beautifully rendered eagle and skystriker logo. I really think this looks great. I love the blue. I think this is just a really nice image. You have to fold the parachute very tightly indeed in order to get it back on the seat. And it is attached to the seat with these white strings that are just kind of tied off in the back there. Now when I got this Skystriker, this parachute was folded up on the seat and it had been there for the last 30 plus years. It had never been removed. That's why the original rubber band was on there. Of course, it was dried out and disintegrated. With the two seats removed, the cockpit is essentially empty on the inside. Really no detail. There is an instrument panel there with really minimal detail and not much going on there on the inside of the cockpit. Let me demonstrate how to put the action figure inside the Skystriker. You have the seat with the back peg.  Wedge that in really good. Make sure he's on there as securely as he can be. And he has to sit straight legged. There's not enough room in the cockpit to bend the figure's knees which I think is unfortunate. He has to sit in there like a Star Wars action figure. Then you line the seat up with the tabs on the inside and you just kind of wedge it in. And again, that does not stay very firmly, but it will hold in there. We have jet engine intakes, one on each side of the cockpit. On the top, we have two removable engine covers and these do fit in very firmly. They don't always come out very easily. You can take both of them off. And behind them, there is some engine detail there. Not bad. We have a couple vents right here and then we have the mechanism that operates the wings and the landing gear. And then of course we have the wings themselves and these wings are designed to sweep back for high speed flight. Operate the wings by pushing this lever forward to sweep the wings back for a nice very sleek looking design. And that also raises the landing gear. Then pull the lever back to extend the wings. The landing gear are synchronized with the wings and they go up and back down. And we will take a closer look at the landing gear when I look at the underside of the sky striker. All along the wings and the rear horizontal stabilizers and different parts on the back of the sky striker, there are all these no step stickers. I count 37 no step stickers on the sky striker. And people have complained about these, but I think they're really important. I mean, suppose one of these no step stickers was missing and someone were to step on that spot, then you'd be sorry. On these tail fins we have the image that's probably most associated with the sky striker, this eagle with the red sun in the background. And this is very nice. It's images like this that make me love this vehicle even more. This is very good design. Now these fins are white, but we were promised black fins. Even in some of the printed material like this catalog insert, it shows the sky striker with black fins. Now I don't think the white fins look bad at all. I think that looks fine, but black would have looked even better. In the back we have these two engines and they are both removable and there's some detail on the inside. It looks like jet turbines there and they both have multiple stickers.  It has a rear air brake here that is affixed partially up and there's a little bit of detail underneath it. Under the air brake, there are these ridges and although they weren't designed for this purpose, it was for the service purpose. In 1985, the USS Flag aircraft carrier came with this piece and this is a tail hook. This tail hook allows the sky striker to use the arrester cable on the aircraft carrier and it can be just fitted under the air brake and it is held on with those ridges. You just slide that in there and it does hold on pretty well. It doesn't come out too easily. And of course it is now a working tail hook. You can look at the underside of the sky striker and there is plenty to see here including a lot of detail and features. This hole in the nose right here is just a screw hole but it also can serve a purpose. It fits the small taxi vehicle on the USS flag so the sky striker can be towed into position on the flight deck. This is a good time to look at the missiles and it came with six missiles, small, medium and large. It had two of these small missiles which the blueprints call Sight 5 Sidewinders and they're probably based on the real world Aim 7 Sparrow Missiles which are medium range, semi-active radar homing air-to-air missiles. This sparrow missile is very similar to the missile that came with the 1985 Transportable Tactical Battle Platform and in fact it looks like this just an update of the sky striker missile mold. And if you kind of, you can kind of man up and you can kind of man up and down and you can kind of man up and down and you can kind of man up and down and you can kind of man up and down and you can kind of man up and down and you can kind of make it fit on the sky striker if you wedge it a bit but you kind of have to be careful with that because the slot that it fits on is a different shape than the one on the sky striker missile. Finally we have the big one. We have two of these large missiles which the blueprints call Sight 32 Phoenix Missiles probably based on the real world Aim 54 Phoenix Missiles which are radar guided long range air-to-air missiles. The sky striker is armed to kill targets at short, medium and long range. We have this fuel drop tank which is often mistaken for a bomb but it's not a bomb, that's a fuel tank. Now this is glued on, it's not meant to be removable but I still see them removed from time to time. I guess kids just thought that should be removable and kept pulling on it until it came off. Let's talk about the landing gear. Now some kids including myself kind of wish that the landing gear was not tied to the wing mechanism because sometimes you wanted to fly the jet with the wings out but the landing gear up but you couldn't really do that. But as an adult collector I can kind of appreciate now all the effort that went into engineering the mechanism. I don't mind so much but there is one thing you have to keep in mind if you're going to display the sky striker with the landing gear down it takes up quite a bit more shelf space having those wings out. The landing gear has panels the front panel is attached to the front landing gear and the rear landing gear actually has doors that close when the landing gear goes up. That means that the landing gear is mostly concealed when it's in the up position and aesthetically that's very nice. This is what the landing gear looks like when they're up and as you can see those panels conceal the landing gear so it doesn't break up those smooth lines of the fuselage. These are rubber wheels not plastic and it's always a bonus when we get rubber wheels it has smaller wheels in the front and larger wheels in the back. Both the front and the back wheels are stamped sky striker GI Joe and that is a great detail and this is one of the reasons why GI Joe is so much better than other toy lines it's just small details like that. Let's take a look at the pilot ace and let's start by looking at his accessory he came with only one he came with this helmet and this helmet is clear plastic with white paint on the back this is a unique accessory it doesn't fit any other GI Joe action figure it has some texture there on the top it has some sculpting around here on the back very interesting accessory and it's designed to fit on the ring on ace's flight suit so that doesn't fit any other GI Joe action figure and this is a nice accessory that is really specifically designed to go with this figure. Let's take a look at the articulation and ace had the standard articulation for 1983 GI Joe action figures that means he could turn his head from left to right it may be a little bit difficult to turn his head because his head is recessed inside the ring he could move his arm up at the shoulder about so far and he could swivel at the shoulder all the way around he had a hinge at the elbow so he could move at the elbow about 90 degrees and he had a swivel at the bicep he could swivel his arm all the way around the figure was held together with a rubber O-ring that allowed him to move at the torso a little bit he could move his legs apart about so far he could move his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and he could bend at the knee about 90 degrees let's take a look at the sculpt to design and color of ace starting with his head and his head has brown hair and it has a very passive expression it's a pretty plain head sculpt this ace head sculpt is often mistaken for the heads on the 1982 flash and the 1982 stealer but it is not the same it is similar but that is a unique head sculpt the flight suit ace is wearing is a pressure suit designed for high altitude flight it's often worn by pilots of reconnaissance jets that fly at high altitudes it's not a typical fighter pilot's flight suit taking a closer look at the flight suit it has that ring that fits the helmet and it looks a bit better with the helmet on the helmet off it looks kind of like one of those cone collars that you put on dogs the chest has some unexpected detail it has this hose here probably for an oxygen system but it also has a knife and a pistol sculpted on there the back is pretty plain but it does have this sort of device thing here on the lower back the arms have these white puffy rings like the Michelin man we have some red pockets we have gray at the cuffs and we do have these white gloves and the white gloves have a bit of detail this waist piece is a bit different it does have the gray and it has a different color red here and it almost looks like it belongs on a different action figure but it does break up the monotony of the lighter color on the rest of the flight suit and it adds some color interest the legs feature those puffy rings like the arms a bit of gray here on the sides and then we have white and gray boots ace's flight suit looks more like an astronaut's space suit than it does a fighter pilot's flight suit let's take a look at the file card and this file card was not printed on the back of the box that the sky striker came in as we saw the back of the sky striker box was printed in two color and not full color so this was an insert inside the box and so it is plain on the back it has its faction as G.I. Joe and it has a nice portrait of ace here and this comes directly from the artwork on the front of the box it says he's a fighter pilot and his codename is ace this codename of ace is probably referring to a flying ace which is a title bestowed on fighter pilots who have shot down five or more enemy aircraft although this file card suggests a different origin for that codename his file name is Brad J. Armbruster his primary military specialty is fixed wing pilot single and multiple engine his secondary military specialty is intelligence operations his birthplace is Providence, Rhode Island and his grade is 03 Captain USAF that's United States Air Force and it's worth noting that ace is an Air Force pilot but the plane that he flies is based on the Navy plane this section says ace would rather fly than do anything else during high school he worked after school and weekends to pay for flying lessons spent one year flying pipelines in Alaska and two years stun flying for movies enlisted USAF age 22 duty most previous to G.I. Joe assignment senior instructor USAF fighter weapons squadron the aggressors in parentheses pilot combat training school the aggressors here is referring to a real world squadron the aggressors that was assigned to the USAF weapon school qualified expert F5E F15, F16 XP14F and of course the XP14F is the sky striker this bottom section says ace has one major character flaw cutthroat poker a predilection for gambling would ordinarily disqualify an applicant for the G.I. Joe team but in Armbruster's case you can hardly call it gambling since he never loses that's why they call him ace so gambling only disqualifies you if you lose that sounds sketchy the sky striker was all over G.I. Joe media in the cartoon series it appeared in the very first episode of that first mini series in 1983 and it appeared many many times thereafter in the cartoon though the sky striker is often not piloted by ace it seems like in the cartoon any Joe could just jump in a sky striker and fly it in fact the first time we see the sky striker it is flown by scarlet in the comic book the sky striker first appears in issue number 14 it is not a very spectacular or noteworthy first appearance the sky striker got a chance to shine in issue number 34 titled shakedown in which it went head-to-head against the cobra rattler even though that issue is a standalone story and did nothing to move the overall plot forward I still really like it and it's one of my favorite issues now I have the opportunity to do something that I don't often do and that is compare the vintage G.I. Joe toy to its modern equivalent this is the silent strike from the 2015 50th anniversary line and as you can see it is pretty much a copy of the sky striker other than the color it is essentially the same toy although it is very similar to the vintage toy there are some significant differences the body for the silent strike is broken up into sections whereas the body for the sky striker was all one solid piece also on the silent strike the wings needed to be assembled out of the box whereas on the sky striker those wings came already assembled the most significant differences in the cockpit which is a lot more detailed than the original sky striker but instead of being a two-seater it is now a one-seater and this is 50th anniversary ace looking a lot more like a fighter pilot than version one of ace version one of ace still looking more like an astronaut as with a lot of modern figures he comes with some unnecessary accessories but this does look like a nice update he looks appropriate for the sky striker I like the jumpsuit really good looking action figure I still prefer vintage figures over modern figures but I would have been very happy as a kid to get an ace that looked more like a fighter pilot looking at the sky striker overall of course this is a fantastic toy it's not perfect but it's pretty darn close of course I'd like to have a more detailed cockpit and it would be nice if the landing gear were independent of the wing mechanism and of course we'd really like to get those black fins we did finally get the black fins in a modern sky striker but never in the vintage line the sky striker was GI Joe's first jet and it was their best I don't think any of the planes that came after quite measured up to the sky striker even the Phantom X-19 which was comparable in size I don't think quite matched up with the sky striker the ace action figure does leave something to be desired he does not look like a fighter pilot he looks more like an astronaut and as a kid that's something that always kind of bothered me it doesn't bother me as much as an adult collector but it's not my favorite figure despite my misgivings about the figure I cannot recommend this set highly enough it's fantastic it looks wonderful and if you can get your hands on the original box the box artwork looks great and it makes a fantastic display that was my review of the 1983 sky striker and the pilot ace I hope you enjoyed it if you did make sure you leave it a thumbs up on youtube and don't forget to subscribe that's what keeps this channel going and don't forget to like me on facebook and follow me on twitter you get a lot of updates there you don't get anywhere else thanks for watching and I'll see you next week with another vintage GI Joe toy review he'll fight for freedom wherever there's trouble GI Joe is there GI Joe striker ace the airborne let's get those turkeys we're gonna get cobra this time or call that gender on the way hey check my missiles they're a-okay great I'm going to have a closer look way to go Joe GI Joe sky striker comes with ace and two parachutes other figures sold separately from this is ace and the sky striker to USS flag I am flying above the storm I am en route to provide air support to base OG 13 I've got a blip on radar that's not likely to be a commercial aircraft it's probably a hostile somebody's trying to contact me on channel 5 weasel you old dog you survived our first encounter not many pilots can say that out of respect I offer you an opportunity to turn back now and avoid destruction I'll think about that in the meantime the cobra wrestler is more maneuverable than this I've lost him on radar switching to thermal scanners you won't get away that easily where are you ace