Disintegrating in Mid-Air | Deadly Competition Caught on Camera (Real Video)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- A Lockheed F-104N Starfighter operated by NASA collides with an Air Force North American XB-70 Valkyrie over California's high desert near Edwards. Six years later, the second production Tupolev Tu-144, a supersonic passenger airliner, disintegrates and crashes at the Paris Air Show in front of 250,000 people.
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Bragging, "just wait till you see us fly, then you'll see something."
Sure did.
The ground.
I remember a saying "There are old pilots and bold pilots, but there are "No " old bold pilots...
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It’s hilarious 😂😂😂
In my opinion the XB-70 is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built. I was 14 when this accident happened and I thought, what a waste of good men and aircraft.
An incredible waste of potential development. For supersonic flight, optimized for minimum fuel consumption, the amount of fuel consumed is proportional to the time spent flying supersonically.
The faster the aircraft, the lower the fuel per mile, while supersonic. The XB-70 honeycomb steel frame had the potential to fly at Mach 4, matching the fuel consumption of a 737, and potentially Mach 5, matching the fuel consumption of a Jumbo Jet. If Mach 6 could be achieved, a fuel consumption lower than modern high bypass jets would be achieved, allowing trans Pacific flights at costs lower than modern jets.
(Steel melts at 1500 Centigrade unlike the 1000 Centigrade of Aluminum, increasing the maximum air friction temperature tolerable by the aircraft by 500 Centigrade without cooling. A honeycomb making the transfer of heat away from hot spots possible.
For Fahrenheit users, 1000 C is 1800 F, and 1500 C is 2700 F. )
The Concorde used the fuel tank as a heat sink. Additional heat could be sunk into the fuel by using the latent heat of vaporization. (Precooling the fuel by refrigeration, would maximize the amount of heat which could be absorbed. )
Modern supersonic aircraft designs use electrical charges, and accurate shaping, to both neutralize and minimize the trailing sonic boom.
Having 2 XB-70 would allow the usage of 1 of them for experimental development.
I never really understood what happened in the XB-70 accident, now I understand finally what happened. Also, watching the Soviet SST fly I kept thinking of the nickname for it, "Concordski".
sad and unnecessary loss of life
Well i guess the Russian captain was right...we saw something
That is pure sexy!
This accident was caused by a French mirage that the UK and France sent up to take a closer look at the canards. The pilot of the mirage pulled a close manoeuvre to make the concord ski react to see the canards moving, sadly the mirage pilot got too close and the Russian pilot had to throw his big aircraft into a manoeuvre it was not designed to do. A subsequent secret investigation by the British found that the concord ski was so well built that it took double the loading it was designed for before failing. In the same report it was found that the UK French concord would have failed sooner due to the weaker design. But as with everything Cold War it was portrayed as a structural failure with no mention of the Mirages close pass.
Not really
sounds like copium
Bye, same stories again and again.
RIP to Joe Walker, probably America's greatest test pilot during this era. To die in a corporate, promotional photoshoot for General Electric is almost incomprehensible when compared to the achievements of this X-15 test pilot. The F-104 was a beast of an airplane and a favorite of the era's fighter jocks who wanted to fly faster and higher. An F-104 equipped with an auxiliary rocket in its tail almost killed Chuck Yeager during a test of high altitude capabilities and the German Airforce had a miserable experience with the Starfighter losing well over 300 planes to operational accidents. It had to be respected and flown the way it was designed to fly or it killed you faster than its Mach numbers. Luftwaffe officers called it "The Widowmaker".
True that, it was a widowmaker to more than just the Germans. Protocols were violated for the weekend promotional flight. He was not endorsed to be flying where he was. It's the complacency and overconfidence that will not forgive.
Wait first you say that the F-104 is a beast then say it sucked? Or maybe i'm just shot at reading
@@JSFGuy where you get the information? You just blaming him
Wow. You absolutely blew me away with your comment.
The reasons for the F-104's high loss rate in Luftwaffe hands are the miserable weather in Central Europe, and the fact that the Luftwaffe never flew any Mach-1 capable fighters before acquiring the F-104, having only flown Transonic fighters.
The pilot of the Tupolev was of the same ilk as the hotshot B-52 pilot that crashed at Fairchild air base in 1994.
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One thing they proved, you can't fly a transport, and bomber aircraft, as if it were a fighter.
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That B 52 pilot of the plane ha been in trouble for showing off
YES, Pilot named EBA, Excessive Bank Angle.☠
Thanks, very scary video. I suspect the Tupolev was rushed into early flight to beat the Concorde and may not have been fully tested, the Concorde was much better looking.
Like a beautiful Swan in flight, especially looking at it face on !!
Both were awesome designs. Too bad they are not around today.
Watched Concorde taking off and the sight was amazing, just something about it that stood out.
@@dougaldouglas8842Concorde was a regular sight back in the 1970’s .. I live near Bristol where it was built. Just loved the sight of it and that sonic boom .
Not really
HEY FLIGHT CHANNEL - you got the F-4 and the T-38 mixed up. Switch the captions.
He's no longer here
I was going to say the same. You beat me to it. I've worked with both on the USS Kitty Hawk and NAS Chase Field Beeville, TX
@@Randomly_Browsing ???
@@jamesseabolt5915 The F-4 was carrier-capable.
@@jamesseabolt5915 the original owner of the channel is no longer here,so he'll not listening to them
Ironic that the Tu-144 and Concorde both essentially received their death blows on French soil.
At least the Concorde had a long service life, despite the activists in the states trying to ban it from every US airport.
I dont support any such activists but it seemed a matter of time before it would crash. There is a limit to human reaction time. You cant expect to travel at infinite speed and then expect pilots to react in time to prevent a potential crash. Ofcourse that crash in 2000 didn't involve this factor. But eventually it was bound to happen.
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The critical factor wasn't the crash, it was the pilot didn't land immediately in the fields around the airport. He wasn't aware of the extent of the fire. Had he been so aware he could have reacted appropriately and the passengers would have had a chance of evacuation.
Two XB-70's were made. One still exists and is on display at the museum at Wright Patterson in Dayton. The air intakes are tall enough and wide enough to hold a small cocktail party. It's one of my favorite planes to see every time I go there. Btw, admission is free and there are 4 enormous hangars of aircraft.
Just took the family last month! Always cool to see so many awesome aircraft, especially this one knowing it's the only one in the world left.
"wait til we fly, then you'll see something." Russian for "hold my beer."
What's Russian for "hold my internal organs, which are now splattered over half of Paris"?
If nothing else the Valkyrie is a serious work of aviation art.
It was stolen plans of the Concorde. Did you ever see their space shuttle? Looked just liked ours…it too couldn’t fly like their other knock off.
airplane + showoff = trouble
They are the key of a disaster
Unless you're not careful
On July 4th of 1976 I had the privilege of seeing the Concorde SST fly over on the Mall in Washington, DC as part of that day's
festivities. It was impressive.... this reminded me of it & that it happened exactly 48 years ago, today. I was 14yrs old. peace
The noise from the Concorde was so immense that it shouldn't have been allowed to fly over urban areas.
It was loud but they flew other Fighter Jets over the Mall in Washington, DC that day. It was one of those
days we all have where you remember almost everything. But there were several other groups of planes
that went over the people. They pulled out all the stops for that 200yr celebration & it was one for me.
peace
The mediocre demonstration won the contract.
Wow, I’ve read many accounts of the Valkyrie crash and this is the first time I’ve heard about the B-58. Makes sense that Walker might lose position a little while searching for the bomber.
You mixed up the captions for the F-4 and T-38, and it might have been helpful to note that the photoshoot was for a commercial for the manufacturer who made the engines for all the aircraft in the formation. But it’s a great video anyway.
He's no longer the owner
The loss of the Valkyrie is incredibly sad and unfortunate . An incredible flying machine and probably my favorite aircraft of all time.
Take a trip to Dayton and go to the National Museum of the USAF. The other XB-70 is on display there. It will blow you away to see it in person. Admission is free and they have 4 hangars of aircraft and countless displays. Plan to spend some serious time there if you love aviation.
Yes definitely sad it got lost even worst part about it was this was the one that was going to be the speed model they made it so it had more tilt on the wings
@@btzimmer I live about an hour and a half from there, and I go every two or three years. It is one absolutely stunning aircraft.
Joseph Walker was a close friend of Neil Armstrong. Both were test pilots for the X-15.
Sad at the loss of life due to these accidents. May the souls of the American and Russian pilots rest in peace.
Being inside the cabin of a passenger jet going down must be crazy terrifying, but being in the front seat watching the ground come to meet you as you do anything you can to stop it, must be truly insane to experience.
I imagine that it would not seem real as it unfolds.
That damn Concorde crew and their whole, “let’s do a flight demo that doesn’t get us killed” attitude. Damn them.
It's not Concord
It is Tu-144 aka the "Concordski" that disintegrated in middair, not the Concorde
@@SkyW0lf_ yes
@@SkyW0lf_ he's referring to the more restrained flight demo that the Concorde crew gave before the Tu-144...
That's us Brits ! ! ! "Now steady on, chaps !"🤣🤣🤣
It’s very easy to sit behind a screen (most never having piloted anything that flies let alone an experimental supersonic jet) and watch some cheap graphics and hurl insults but what’s not considered or talked about is the Soviet proclivity for severe punishment for failure and the extreme desire by the communist leaders to outdo the West at all costs, I believe the Tupolev crew were victims of this ridiculous rivalry more so than of showboating - ultimately the captain is responsible for his aircraft but just like the “getthereitus” phenomenon has fatally affected crews in commercial aviation so too this rivalry pushed a crew and a not fully tested airframe to breaking point
Although the XB-70, or its passenger plane derivative, never came to fruition, the aerodynamics pioneering of N.A.A. lives on in the future supersonic passenger plane from Hermeus in the form of the Halcyon.
I'm no pilot. As a matter of fact, I've only flown once when I was a small child and it was in a Piper Cub. Nevertheless, I've loved aircraft my whole life and own many different books on military and civilian aircraft. I've watched many videos as well. So, forgive me if I sound a little ignorant. What I've noticed, in this vid and many others, is that the bigger the aircraft, recovering from a stall gets exponentially more difficult. True? RIP to all who have paid the ultimate price in "writing" the story of aviation and space travel. Not to sound crass, but going from "first flight" to the surface of the Moon in less than 75yrs is pretty damn impressive.
The background information is .... disgusting. I mean what America and Russia were doing at the time. Spending billions or trillions on trivial projects and then calling them off within a few years. Could have done so many positive things for humanity, choosing instead to play stupid war games.
The situation has gotten even worse since.
never heard of that 1st crash with frank sinatras plane filming 📹
Watching this on my lunch break at work. Sad and scary stuff.
This channel has the whiniest subscribers ever 🤣...would rather whine than unsubscribe 🤔
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I'm not a bot. Be grateful to watch these great vids twice.
@@gardengirl6799 no,you just delusional like the rest
BECAUSE of a *(&%#&$% DOLLAR, America couldn't have the SST! And the F-104-get it TO the far left of the formation I KNEW THAT in the 60's(Dad flew the "U" designated aircraft).
While listing the pilot of the T-38 the camara is on the F-4. When the camara transitions to the T-38 the pilot of the F-4 is listed. Juz say'n.
The best highest quality sim re-creations of real incidents and accidents, along with Green Dot Aviation.
you messed up the T-38 and the F-4 with the wrong planes being captioned
Because he's not making it
HOW SAD
The Tupolev Concordeski. Failed to depart for 5 of its first 6 scheduled flights. Eventually became the fastest freight hauler ever - when it could be convinced to fly.
It's hard to believe the Concorde has already been out of service for 21 years. I only got to see one take off once, at Dulles in 1994. Such a beautiful thoroughbred of an aircraft. A work of art. I hope I get to see Boom's Overture maiden flight in Greensboro whenever that day will be.
Can't even match the aircraft with the captions 😂 what a joke of a channel. Just copy and paste from Wikipedia, eh?
The channel seems to have been sold
@@Blast6926 it's been like this for a long time
Honestly… This is the most scariest thing that could happen in the air. Everyone was just expecting a normal race.. I just can’t believe all the lives that were lost on those planes. RIP everyone❤
There's no race
A race? wdym
There's scarier things in the air.
@@brucelee4996 I have scarier stuff in my closet .... hmmmmmmmm!
“Most scariest?”
OMFG. Try again, Sunshine.
Just found this channel. Very informative, educational and brilliantly portrayed! That is a lot of work researching and making this video. I am very impressed. Thank you!
6:14 Why is a NASA ‘Chase Plane’ armed with Sidewinder Missiles?
Pride commeth before the fall
the first warthunder tactics ever
Beautiful and instructive video !! Thanks ! Why you don't mention André Turcat, the pilot (and also main collaborator during the conception of the plane) of the Concorde test flight?
They called the demo flight of the Concorde 'Mediocre'? Maybe that was because the damned thing wasn't meant to do aerial stunts like fighter planes. It's fatal flaw was revealed in the crash that took so many lives and ended the SST era. The TU=144 was due to a design flaw (like Condorde) and a hot shot pilot who over stressed the plane.
The Valkyrie was a beautiful aircraft and it was a pity that it was made superfluous by the Soviets S.A.M system, however I was wondering why they couldn’t have used the Valkyrie at high speed to approach the target area and then drop to low level to infiltrate the enemy airspace and then either employ a “lob toss” release of its ordinance whilst climbing back to altitude and getting out of the area at the predicted Mach 3 ?, although, as with the B-52 crews the Valkyrie would probably be on a one way mission, but they might have been able to get further away before being hit by the blast from their weapon or running out of fuel, maybe even making it to friendly territory before they had to eject/abandon the aircraft.
R.I.P the two pilots who died in this tragic accident, loosing their lives in combat is one thing but to die in the way they did is very sad indeed. Per Ardua Ad Astra.
10:15 Nice video, but the animation shows Le Bourget Airport with the new control tower that was built only 20 years later, in 1993. The old tower (15 meters high) is located in the upper part of the terminal building. The new tower (30 meters) is located in the northern part of the airport.
Got the two planes on the left mixed up!
As for the Concorde and Tupolev facng off against each other. WTH! These are designed as airliners not fighters or acrobatic planes. If I am an airline executive I am not interested in extreme maneuvers that are going to make passengers sick. Sorry to say but the Russian pilot paid the price for his ill advised showmanship.
I heard about the Tu-144's crash and am glad to see a video on it.
Me too.
It's funny that when you copied information from another YT XB-70 crash video that you copied their mistake.
Never even knew the U.S. plane existed before, excuse my spelling. RIP All Pilot's.
I wish y'all would stop w/engine noises, they're distracting and frankly give me a headache, so a lot of times I can't finish the video.
This is Avery said thing when it should be a fun ride on the sst and the cruse when I came in from out side and the news was on and didn’t have an thing to say I I that ind couldn’t beehive it😧😧😧😧 all those poor people was going to see how there life was going to end. 😿😿😿😿😿😿😹😹😹
The t-38A and F-4B are displayed wrong, u did the t38 as an f4B and F4B as an t38 (4:37). But I like the vid tho
You can't be too critical all things considered. It's better if you have edited and created videos of your own before casting criticisms. It's a fair recreation of the event.
@@JSFGuy bro it's the truth, I just corrected it, also, I once made vids like this, it takes some effort tho, I know. Don't think I'm criticizing, just want to people get it right, since this channel tells about what has happened, it needs to be accurate.
@@JSFGuy You're just embarassed that you didn't notice the error yourself.
@@JSFGuy cope
@@JSFGuyCan't give positive criticism or compliments without also having edited and created videos personally.
The double edged sword means bad logic.
Why are you uploading the same stories? Atleast other aviation content creators cover other stories like Allec Joshua Ibay.
I’m sorry but I do not watch a video to read if you can’t find an announcer try AI they’re not good with numbers but the words they’re all right with.
These are tedious to watch -- I have to keep pausing to read. Please consider narrating them..!
You have the description of the T-38 and F-4 reversed with the pictures of the aircraft.
8/6/2066
Encore!
4:35 You got the clips for the F-4 and T-38 backwards. Maybe fix and re-upload?
Yes
I prefer just commercial aviation
Then you should only watch videos that pertain to commercial aviation.
The 2nd case did concern commercial aviation
You got the captions for the F-4 and T-38 reversed
Can you make a video Vietjet air flight 356 pls?
Did the Soviet "Concord" look anything like the Anglo/French Concord by design or accident? Kind of like today's China's copying of American stealth fighters. Both the Soviets and China are/were really good at theft.
No, not an accident at all. I'm sure it was very much copied from smuggled trade secrets.
Congrats to Koslov. We all def saw something alright. 🤦♂
I still say something stinks here the XB-70 was a Mach 3 plus bomber and they were worried about Sam's taking it out yet we had the SR-71 and that was no problem the Sams didn't worry them I mean it's the same math for both planes so something's not adding up here
Altitude, or service ceiling.
You have the F4 & the T38 photos switched and in the wrong order
As I recall the XB-70 photoshoot was arranged for GE, which made the engines for all the aircraft in the flight.
Yes
My father was a design engineer on the program. He told us about the crash and I specifically heard that the GE photographer in the F-104 wanted to get close up pictures of the afterburner and kept prodding the pilot to approach closer, to which, the other pilots kept telling them to back off and stay away from the wake stream off the wing tips. Their attempt was to do a slow crossing sweep behind and above the engines for picture purposes. Never hear anything about striking a wing or loosing visual contact with the b-58.
I use to see the concord every year at liverpool grand national horse race ..it use to fly around liverpool very low.
It was over when the word “Soviet” was brought into the dialogue….
“Just wait and see us fly”. Yes, into terrain.
I never saw this so thanks for showing it again
You're probably new here
I've seen this exact viseo on this channel at least 5 times within a year
Is it me or did the T38 look a lot like an F4 Phantom
"thereuploadchannel" 😂😂😂
F-4 and T-38 are wrong captioned.
Great video! You got your T-38 and F4 backwards.
Is that satire?
@@Randomly_Browsing No, pardon me. I thought the video was informative. However, when he mentioned the T-38 the Phantom was on screen and when he mentioned the Phantom the T-38 was on screen; no biggie!
@@tmanwattsutube it's not him that make this video, It's someone else,so the quality is different
@@Randomly_Browsing ok!
Absolutely! When talking about the T-38 he was showing the F4, and vice-versa.
You mixed up the F-4 and the T-38.
You got the f4 ant the t38 mixed up
The Soviet Onion
why does the graphics on your terrain look so muddy?
Mind boggling to think about the amount of money and resources we put into things only designed to end human life.
Thought the same thing.
Sick Channel. Re upload channel
There's one other thing I like to point out the HP 70 and the X-15 we're both made by North American Aviation and they were both done without computers and then you have the SR-71 which is built around the same time and North American also built the shuttle with 60 technology going into the 70s so you're telling me with all the material technology advancements we've had since 1970 to now we haven't built something faster
(real video) sure but where
This video has one factual error amid generally good analysis. There was no French Mirage in the vicinity. That was a story concoted by the Soviet government to excuse the colossal stupidity of the Charger's pilots.
I was hiking in the mountains just south of the crash site of the XB-70 that morning. I have pictures of the very large/tall colum of black smoke rising from that crash site.
When Sinatra was performing in Las Vegas he sent the Lear to Palm Springs to pickup his mom and bring her to the show. On departure the pilots turned the wrong way comming out of Palm Springs and flew into the side of Mt San Gorgonio. They actually turned the wrong on the departure SID and turned NW and not SE, thus creating a smoking hole in the ground.
nice video
Another reason for the f-104s high loss rate was so slender was pushing itself around and then also you had to be careful because it would all eject from the top or it might eject from the bottom when you punched out
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Can confirm, she is a beautiful plane. I get to see her whenever I want. I live near the museum where she rests.
Got your super-titles crossed on the T-38 and F-4.
The XB-70's wingtips should have been in the mid down position in this depiction.
Real video?
Pilot error
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😂 Commie really showed us something. 😂