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Video should be titled "All about Wings" as that is what the presenter spends the most time talking about. There was a small Air Force base where I live while I was growing up (was put in place during the Cuban missile crisis of the early 1960's.) It was originally equipped with F-101's so I was rather disappointed it was skipped over in this video, especially since it set several records when it went into service. The One-O-Wonder and it's Witch Doctors will always have a soft spot in my heart.

That was great. Please bring Joe and the airplanes in the museum for more videos.

Anyone who starts by talking about how expensive the F35 shows there not talking about facts. The price for a new block 70 f16 is 121 million each , the new F15, while still very limited supply are 170 million each. The current block of F35s are 85 million each. No matter what math you use, the F35 is less expensive to buy, own, and operate than new versions of old platforms.

The fighter-that-can-also-do-CAS thingy worked well with the P-47 Thunderbolt, but the A-10 was designed for CAS. Fighters also became more specialized, so F-35s or F-18s or ... also-doing-CAS will be done less well.

Watching the film clips showing the windscreen and cockpit, the combiners on the Projection Unit (PU) look like what Kaiser Electronics was installing on the PU back in the late 70s, and possibly through the end of the production of the A-10. The "night filter" at that time was a sheet of red film that was pulled over the optics kind of like a window shade - low-tech, but it worked. The USAF was kind of slow in updating/upgrading the A-10 so I wonder if the birds still flying have the late 70s and early 80s PUs.

I went to Stowe Maries a couple of weeks ago and it was amazing. I can highly recommend it ❤

Another great video. Sounds like a place that defintely needs to be saved for future generations.

I like the JAS 39 Gripen

Just catching up! Another Great episode!

Go for it!

Did Mary ever interview June Cobb? That would seem a logical investigative step. what was the outcome of that?

You skiped the 101 ... there were two of them there an RF & ( i think ) a B model. Unforgivable. Unsuccessful huh ? Well the 100 was the first weasel , a great fast fac , and CAS platform . The Canadians flew the piss outta the 101 , was a great interceptor , and pretty decent reece bird. The 102 was revolutionary with it's radar and fire control systems that only got better with the 106 and their data link to the sage systems. The Thud excelled at a mission it wasn't designed to do , and still has more gun kills during the vietnam war than the " last gunfighter " ( F-8 ) , The 106 was finally fully replaced by the -15 in like 88 or 89 ( pretty sure Atlantic city NJ ANG flew them last ) the 104 ... well revolutionary and a man eater . ( by the way had the J79 ) .

US Military procurement is based on which US state the contractor and sub contractors are based in, and if it will translate into winning votes at the next election. Not on the the best option as for example the F-22 v F-23 which was political decision and not based on the thrust vectoring nozels of the f-22 which offer marginal benefit as we are told constantly when the Russian sukhoi's display its use.

How about the F111 it was also a century series fighter bomber jet and the F-4 Phantom for the airforce which started out as the F110 but thanks to the defence secretary MacNamarra he changed the aircraft designations before the first delivery of the F-110A

There was a guy that built from scratch an RC B-58 recently that used EDFs. It was a series on UA-cam. Anyway it met an unfortunate early end which was very sad. The cause was not 100% known but it was likely the ESC's overheated inducing asymmetric thrust. RC Geek channel.

Rather disappointed in the curt dismissal of the F-111. It was still in the older design philosophy of the 60's; purpose-built for one job. It was when it was shoehorned into other roles that it fell on its' face. When you left it to do its intended job, it performed admirably. Just ask the Iraqi tankers about it on "The Road of Death". The only comparable aircraft in mission type was the "Iron Tadpole" aka the Grumman A-6 Intruder. Both aircraft were all-weather day or night bombers, but the F-111 had almost double the weapons capacity, terrain following radar, much better bomb-nav suite, and almost 300 mph faster at sea level. No one complains about the A-6. I am slightly biased since I was a crew chief on F-111A's in the 80's. My bird, SN 67-0100 is a gate guard at Nellis.

Went from talking about the F-111 to the F-14 and F-15 and completely skipped the amazing F-4.

This one really saved me for enduring the day`s hardship in terms of what happening in the world now

An old friend's father was a B17 pilot and got shot down over France. Well after the war, he built a 7/8 scale (or 3/4?) Bf109. He flew it around his home in CT. The best part? His POW photo was so smug!

Another fascinating episode! 👏

Air Force politics doomed a very good aircraft, the B-58 Hustler, but I would be willing to bet that politics within the aerospace industry also had a hand. Boeing was the manufacturer of the B-52, whereas the Hustler was built by Convair. I'm sure Boeing had an army of lobbyists who had a hand in the B-58 decision.

great listen

This is what women’s rights were about until I became a man hating rights thing.

Can't say i really like the look of this bird. Compared to the proper Privateer is looks weird.

the F 106 is the most beautiful Plane ever made in my opinion

I just went to see this at pima today and without this video i probably never would have found it even going there since none of the volunteers actually knew about the location of where it is. On the off chance anyone is going to be visiting this museum if u go to the right of the 747 SOFIA and walk all the way to the end by the p-3 u will see it. The other way is theres a bridge by the civil aviation section across from the old barracks hope on the off chance someone finds comment that it helps.

When speaking of the 60s the F4 phantom can’t be forgotten

The F-106's variable intake ramp is called a vari-ramp, by the way. It's variable in movement via the air data computer in the nose wheel well, which gets its data from the pitot tube(s).

Anyone young enough to have missed the Shuttle era and feel a bit at a loss. Consider this. Go into your history books and look at what the STS was promised to do, then go look at the launch history and launch capacity of the Falcon 9 program. :) Falcon 9 is the STS that was promised to Americans in the build up to first flight in 1981. What we see today with Space X's 100 launches per year, reuse, heavy payloads, etc is what we thought the mid to late 80's and 90's would look like.

F-105 and F-106 being the best at what they were designed to do: low level tactical nuclear delivery and strategic interception respectively.

The author and I are the same age. He went to a pub. Being a 17 yo American, I went HOME! Hhahahahah! The UK was more enlightened by far!

I never noticed it before. Take the F-102's intake and turn it 90 degrees, and voila! you have the F-16's undernose intake/inlet.

Again do your research the D-21was later released from B-52s it didn't need to be supersonic to be launched

Oops forgot to mention you suck you didn't give alot info or credit to her,and P.S.the 105 had the same engine as the 106 due some research you missed alot

And Minot was the last active duty unit to fly her not a guard unit that unit was in Fargo flying F-4s

The F-106 tail number 90003 was stationed with me at Minot before it was retired the last one left Mar-April 1984 it was a cold and rainy day like Minot was crying for loosing her the F-15 was a pig to compared her

Bill Sweetman🙄

F106 lasted into the 80s, as did the F105, F104 lasted into the 2000s, F101 lasted until 1984, I'm not sure what you mean with short service lives? 🤷‍♂️

You missed out F110 (there was one in the background disguised as an F4) & F111, both of which are century series.

The F104s blown flap was also problematic when only 1 of the valves opened (there was one for each side). That had a tendency to flip the plane over and dive it into the ground.

First swept wing fighter? Me262 & Me163 would like a word......

My dad flew the hump as flight engineer (and copilot when necessary) from early on thru the end of 1943. He was only 20 yrs old when he was sent to India and soon found himself sleeping on the ground, eating only rice and curry and suffering from malaria. When not working on the planes, he flew aircrew. Once he had a Zero, out of ammo, on his wingtip. Once he crashed on takeoff with drums of fuel on board, when an inexperienced pilot pulled the gear before they lifted off. He broke his nose on the instrument panel and had to push the unconscious pilot out the hatch. I believe he was also on one of three planes rescuing villagers from Fort Hertz as the enemy were on the outskirts of town. He was awarded the air medal with oak leaf cluster for his efforts to establish navigational aids for future hump flight crews. When General Edward Alexander piloted a C47 from Chabua to Calcutta and NewDelhi in the fall of 1943, he chose ship 336. My dad will always be my hero.

The last time i touched that beautiful bird was in the early 80s in FW,TX ✈️♥️

Visited the plane in Fort Worth in the early Sixties. A very memorable experience for a pre-teen obsessed with military aircaft. My father nearly fell out of the blister opening on the port side of the nose, I was able to travel through the tunnel, and I received a nasty cut on my hand while sitting at the Flight Engineer's position, when another visitor, seated in the pilot's seat, slammed the engine control levers forward and back while my hand was on the Engineer's set. I followed the aircrafts history after it was disassembled, and always feared it was just too large and that it would ultimately be lost. Thankfully, the efforts of the volunteers in Texas and the visionaries in Pima have had a very happy outcome!

thank you for bringing Bill Sweetman on.😊

Interesting thanks. I guess the unasked question is where to from here?

49:10 "FCAS" who would choose that accronym after MCAS 😅

When the USA has a military requirement they invite competitors to submit designs which are then evaluated to find the winner. That market competition should result in a good product for a good price huh? Not always. A frontline fighter has a long service life if it is chosen to make up the bulk of an air force. That often means decades of production, upgrade blocks, and spare parts etc. The winning bid effectively secures a monopoly over most of that for the entire service life of the product. Monopoly prices etc. There is also so called pork barrel spending and other political influences on the process. There's also the theory going around that western military products do not exist to fulfill military functions as much as they exist to line shareholder pockets. Whether or not they perform their military function well, they definitely line those pockets. That risks choice being made for business reasons, rather than for making sure the product can do its job.

Many people had their hands dipped into the pie on this project. Year after year after year..