In this live‑stream, pilot (SPEAKER A) documents a Pilots to the Rescue mission that flew from St. Mary’s Airport (MD) to a small airport south of Portland, Maine. The flight covered six states, lasted about 2 hours 47 minutes, and transported 18 rescued cats and one dog (Ralph). The broadcast pivots to a step‑by‑step demonstration of refueling the aircraft with 100 LL AvGas, including fuel‑type, tank capacities, static‑grounding safety, burn‑rate (≈20 gal/hr), total gallons used (≈58.7 gal), cost (~$250), and range calculations. Weather was gusty and cold, creating a bumpy ride. After landing, the pilot explains that the plane will be ferried to Poughkeepsie, NY for maintenance and upgrades, and that other pilots will continue rescue missions while it’s out of service. Guest influencer Adrienne Lauren shares her experience on the flight, describes her two rescue cats (Toby and Taz), and expresses enthusiasm for the animal‑saving effort. The stream blends aviation technical details with animal‑rescue storytelling and personal anecdotes.
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and one dog from, uh, St. Mary's Airport in California, Maryland up to here at Bitterford Airport, which is just south of Portland, Maine. We flew, uh, nearly— we're at the end of the day, will be nearly 6 hours of flight. We've gone through 6 states already, uh, New Jersey, uh, Maryland, then back up through New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, and now Maine. We had the pleasure of being interviewed by Fox TV. I don't know if you can see in the background there. I think you can all probably only get it online from wherever you're watching. But, uh, the only unfortunate part today is they had to take the cats and the dog away because they had a very long journey, and just in all the madness of everything, we were not able to get that in. So we figured today what we'll do in our live, uh, stream is I'm going to have Adrienne capture me refueling the plane, which is pretty cool, and then I'm going to switch it over to her to talk a little bit about her experience today. Okay, so we'll keep it brief and exciting as we can. Here we go.
Let's go.
So I'm going to flip this over.
Yep.
Bear with us. Here we are, beautiful Maine. It was gusty today, but beautiful day. Here's the plane, and I'm gonna switch over to Adrian.
Okay, got it.
Okay, you can see me? Yeah. Okay guys, so today I'm going to show you how to refuel a plane. It's a little different than fueling your car. I know you expected to see animals, but you get a little bit more aviation geek out today. So let's go! Here's our fuel pump. It looks tiny, but the fuel tank sits on the ground like at most gas stations. This price actually is about a dollar cheaper per gallon than, uh, New Jersey. So it's $4.49. The plane takes 100 low lead, so it has lead in it, but it's 100 octane. Now this plane burns about 20 gallons per hour, but you're flying pretty fast and carrying over 1,000 pounds. It's really efficient. And remember my cell number, but it says you can put up to 222 gallons. It only charges you for what you're use. So I just put 100 gallons in there even though I know I'm not going to use all that. Now you're in the tank switch on. Now what we do is we take this— this keeps static electricity. You don't want any sparks when you're filling, just like you really shouldn't use your cell phone when you're at the gas station. So we bring this over here. The gas— the exhaust right here. You have to be careful because this thing could be hot, but you want it on bare metal. That grounds the plane so there's no sparks or anything. You take off the fuel cap and you pull out the hose. Now, sometimes you fight with your hoses. They don't always wanna— they start retracting on you. Pull it out a little further. There we go. Now this plane has two tanks, the left and the right wing, and if you see here it says AvGas only, 100 low lead, and each tank holds 53.5 gallons or 51 gallons usable. The last 2.5 gallons in the tank are just not usable, they sit too low in the tank. So you do a quick calculation, That's 102 usable gallons. And if you know that you're burning about 20 gallons an hour, that's about a 5-hour range flying about 200 miles per hour. So that's 1,000 miles on a tank of gas. Thank you, see the gas going in. It's blue in color, and we'll see how many gallons we used from Maryland to Maine. About 2 hours and 47 minutes of flight. And again, we saved 18 cats and 1 dog today. One lucky dog, Ralph. Yeah, I don't know, it usually they have more dogs, but this time they just have one. And, uh, I don't know the back too much about Ralph, but I will tell you he was a real gentle dog and he did well considering there was 18 cats in there. But most of these dogs are owner surrenders or stray They came from Pennsylvania, Virginia originally. They drove them up to Maryland to meet us, save us a little flight time. Now this tank is pretty full. I can't read how many gallons we've used in this tank.
I can go look.
Yeah, sure.
All right, let's go look. Gallons, we use 25.023. I don't know if you guys can see it. It says 25.03.
Ah, so only 25 gallons. So only about an hour on that tank. Let's see this one. Playing Song of War with the, uh, the— it's cold up here in Maine.
It is very cold.
And, uh, gusty. Oh, hey Cheryl, remember the last time you were up here in Maine with me? It's just as cold, maybe colder. And it was bumpy, like the time you went with, with me. The cats were good. They're a little smelly, you know, but it's all worth it. Airport just south of Portland. Um, it's pretty gusty today, so not everybody feels comfortable flying in these conditions. You can see the windsock. You see that? I don't know, the orange cone, that's a windsock, and you can see it's pretty much fully, uh, extended, so it's quite a bit of wind. I think we have more gallons in this one. So guys, after this flight, we're flying it to Poughkeepsie, New York. This plane is getting, uh, some maintenance on it, some upgrades. So hopefully we won't be out too long. I'm gonna try to get some other pilots to do some flights while the plane's out. So we can continue our life-saving mission. And after I finish this up, I'm going to switch to Adrienne so she can tell you a little bit about her experience today. And we'll keep it brief today because I know you wanted to see the animals. Sorry about that. But Adrienne can tell you a little bit from her perspective about today's flight. 19 animals isn't bad though. So now that we finished This thing should do its work and recoil back. There we go. Nice. It is windy out here. Now you turn the tank off. We took 58.69 gallons, almost 60 gallons, which makes sense. 50, uh, I said 20 gallons per hour, 2 hours 47 minutes, almost 60 gallons, 20 gallons per hour. And then 60 times $4.50, what's that, like $250 for the gas? That's that.
That's that.
Okay, get you playing in the background if you want. Okay, okay guys, now we have Adrian Lauren.
Hi guys, I'm Adrian. It's great to meet you. Um, I had the pleasure of going on a flight today and with Pilots to the Rescue and rescuing 19 animals. I mean, that's a great day if you ask me. Um, I'm really happy to be here. We had, um, lovely passengers. Ralph is awesome. Um, yeah, and I've been looking forward to this for a while, and I've never been to Maine, so here I am. Um, yeah, I had a great time. I am myself, I'm an actress and influencer online, and I'm really happy to be here and to, um, you know, save these animals and now they have a chance at a better life and a good home.
Okay, I'm gonna get closer. Or maybe— yeah, so we're out of the wind. Here, let's go this way. Did you get any of that or no? Okay, here we go.
So again, I'm Adrian, um, and, uh, yeah, we rested 19 hours today. I'm really happy. I really can only say great things. The flight was great. I love being on the— on a plane in general, and Yeah, a little bumpy, but didn't bother me. And I think we had a great time. And it's just like, again, it's great knowing, uh, what's going on here and what we're doing and what they're doing. And for myself to be a part of it, it's really quite amazing. Like I said, 19 animals today, and now they all have a better chance at life and a good home. And that's really an amazing thing.
Tell us about your two cats.
So I have two rescues of my own. Um, one's Toby, my first rescue. He's a tabby. And my second one that we just— I just got recently, he's 10 weeks old and his name is Taz, and he's a little tuxedo cat. So I have two little rescues of my own who are monsters, but they're great and I love them so much.
Awesome. Yeah. All right, well, unless you guys have any more questions, Adrian and I are going to fly to Poughkeepsie now, and the plane's gonna go in for some upgrades and maintenance. And we look forward to getting back to our rescues.
