F-100 Super Sabre Flight!
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Pretty awesome day to share with you all, the F-100F Super Sabre (tail number 56-3844) returning to the sky! She last flew in 2018. This flight was mainly a functional check flight. Pretty awesome hearing that burner light up!
Check out @JetJerod 's channel, he's got some nice flight videos on his over there! / @jetjerod
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Always great to see a vintage warbird restored to airworthiness.
The dedication it takes to keep this bad ass century series fighter flying is monumental. Fantastic!
I simply cannot imagine the amount of knowledge and skills needed to keep this AC in the air. Those F100's look like they're flying even when they're on the ground.
Dude, that was awesome. I think it's amazing that you guys can keep these complex beasts flying as civilian aircraft. Hats off to that 07.
LOL Timestamp 17:20 I can relate, I was a AF Parachute Rigger I have packed a few drag chutes... the B-52 drag chute was a beast.
Loved this jet! My dad flew the F-100 in the mid to late 60's with Kansas Air Nat'l Guard & in South Korea during USS Pueblo crisis
Was he at McConnell or Forbes?
@@johndjenssen McConnell/Wichita
My father was career USAF so I got to see the Thunderbirds when they were flying the HUNS then F-4's and then the T-38's. He served to tours in SEA as a crew and line chief on the D model F-105's and G model. It is great to see these old warhorses still flying. Wish an organization could get a Thud back to flying status. Great video and information!
My father flew F-100s. I was lucky enough as a child to see him fly on many occasions. Great to see one still flying.
That's awesome! She's one of two still flying, the other being up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Amazing work to get these birds back in the air where they belong! These were the fighters that shaped my youth: Phantom, F100, Voodoo, Thunderchief, F111, etc. - I'm so afraid that soon the only ones left will be on static display in a museum somewhere. Keep up the great work!!
Agreed. The best way to preserve a machine is to maintain it in servisable condition.
Jets belong in the sky, not collecting dust.
*Keep this fantastic birds flying, guys!* - What ever it takes!
I miss those days of the old jets flying, grew up on the California desert in the 70s. Saw many F-100, F-105, F-106, and the F-4s fly out of Edwards AFB, George AFB and China Lake. Too bad my father's flight instructor isn't around. His favorite aircraft in the USAF was the F-100, especially the D model with flaps. Flew multiple tours in Vietnam in the F-100 then O-1 Bird Dog, finishing in the South Vietnamese Air Force in the O-1. His career would have made an incredible book to read. I can't describe to my kids, that distinct smell of the old J-57, J-75 and J-79 engines on start up and taxi, no modern jet engine has that smell.
Because they changed the fuel to reduce smoke and be more efficient/eco friendly. If they used that same old fuel it would smell like you remember.
Did prior F-100 models not have flaps?? Must have had quite a high takeoff / approach speed if not!
They have flaps, yes. Procedure on landing is to retract them after touchdown, as that puts more weight on the wheels so the brakes are more effective.
@@jtkent28 The D model had enlarged wings for ground attack role and therefore larger more capable flaps.
@@wallyzworld7108 ah ok. very interesting. I wasn’t aware one model had larger wings than the others.
Good Day. Beautiful Aircraft. One of my favorite planes. Interesting that at one time these planes flew all the time. It was regular and no big deal. Today, they are rare and precious. I was stationed at Cannon AFB NM in 1974, 27th CES, Power & Airfield Lighting. F-111s when I was there. I saw the Thunderbirds there when they were flying F4s. So many beautiful and wonderful aircraft in our history. Thank You & Best Regards.
What an absolute beast and well done all involved! 👏 🏆 😎
My uncle, Scott Dotson, flew these beasts in Vietnam. First the D models then the F when he transitioned to the Misty FAC Squadron. He (Misty 110) and his backseater, Lee Gourley (Misty 106), went MIA over Laos on August 9, 1969. We never knew what happened to them until 2003 when they were finally recovered. While we did finally have closure, they were still unable to determine why the plane went down. I would love to see this bird fly in person.
There are MANY reasons why Misties went down, most of 'em involving slugging it out with their adversaries. Their mission was an exceptionally dangerous one.
I'm sorry that you lost your uncle, though glad your family got closure. I'm not certain, but there's a good chance that she'll fly at our local airshow, Wings Over Houston.
Good Day. Sad & Good. That you finally found out. I'm a USAF TAC Vietnam Veteran.
Peace & Best Regards. There have been and are a lot of good men & women in our military.
I could only imagine how insanely loud that cockpit is with the engine pulling all that air right beneath the pilots feet!
I've flown in an F-100 twice and it's really not that loud inside the cockpit. You can hear the whirring sound of the compressor running below you. It's sort of like sitting on top of a vacuum cleaner. You don't hear the sound of the air going through the inlet duct under your seat. There is no roaring sound even in afterburner. With the helmet on mostly what you hear is the pilot on the intercom and the radio. Overall, it's a pretty quiet ride.
63-951 made her last flight out of Phu Cat before I got there, but during my year at that base I worked on her sisters. They were tough, honorable birds.
Thank you for keeping a Hun flying.
This is a real treat for me. We had F-100's at our ANG unit at Terre Haute, that being the 181st Tactical Wing, all through the 1970's before they switched to the F-4. So many times as a kid out there watching these exact scenes right there in front of me. So cool !!
I'm sure this plane can do aerobatics right along with the combat maneuvers it once did when in active service. It is a really cool aircraft
Awesome, another classic back in the skies.
I served in USAF in Warner Robin's AFB Ga. 65-66 and caught brand new F4s from the factory and prepared for their next flight to Europe! F4s was all camo from the factory. Used blush to fire them up back than. They were all able to cart start aswell. Sweet aircraft.
You guys are awesome. keep up the hard work and Fun! I love just about anything that flies.
I love the F-100. Love the POW when the burner lights.
F-100 being one of the coolest
Guys you are doing a good job!
I saw my one f-100 fly as little kid! The thunderbirds were flying them! They were up in battle creek and flew down to our little 1500ft runway Airport and put on a show! I think almost the whole town was out there ! They didn't land there! They finished their performance, went back to battle creek! I never forgot it ! Almost 60yrs ago! Speaking of the thunderbirds, I saw them in 73 at battle creek, in f-4's and in '88 or '89 flying f'16's ! I took my oldest daughter up to watch them! We were right across from the flightline! She screamed through most of performance! I liked f-100's so much that I built two plastic models of them!
Battle Creek always got the great air shows . Muskegon did, too. GRR was too busy.
@@johnhutchison9782 so did Kalamazoo! I used to go there before I ever about the balloon fest in battle creek! Kalamazoo's was always the the middle June! 30k people or both days! They used area school buses to transport people from remote parking areas ! During the show they shut down 94 by the airport!
@@johnhutchison9782 Kalamazoo petered out in mid 90's!
Wonderful. 6 years since the last flight...well done! Saw a mig-21 in a hangar background.
Quite the Vietnam collection in those hangars :)
Yep, that's the hangar Jerod works in. There is a MiG-21, TA-4, F-100, and Folland Gnat. You should check out his channel.
35th Wing , Phan Rang, Vietnam. F100s and Aussie B57s, 1967. Bad to the bone and fun to watch on their missions all around us. Good on y'all for the preservation!
We need more of these!
I grew up in Sunnyvale, ca. I can remember seeing these fly over our house as we were very close to Moffett Field AFB. They were right next to Lockheed, where my dad worked. Good memories.
That's a beaut!
HOLY CRAP YES!!!, FLY HIGH YOU BEAUTIFUL BIRD
I'll have to plan on getting out to you guys sometime. My service and aviation history started with OH-58 maintenance/crewchief and went on to get experience on several different helicopters. Anything flying is cool to me, really enjoy your content.
GOOD ! Very good ! Keep history alive ! Glad to see this. Hope to see it in Oshkosh in person. Best Regards from Alaska!
That TA-4 was NP, my old Airwing on CV-19, USS Hancock.
I'm an Old Brit and I can remember F100s being based at Lakenheath in the UK and the Boom of the burner ignition. Great video and good luck with all your aviation projects done in memory of our heroes. Thanks!
That's awesome that you got to see these fly back in their prime! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Videos like this make me really think about using my A&P again. I miss this type of work. Beautiful aircraft, wonderful job getting her in the air again! The century series of Jets truly deserves more love and affection.
I wish there were more of them flying too. To my knowledge, only two F-100’s and four F-104’s are flyable. Nothing else from the Century series can fly. The Foundation some years back tried to get a flyable Thud but were told no.
@@DieselThunderAviation that’s really a shame, the 105 is definitely one of my favorites, the most unique silhouette from the top or bottom of any jet that I know of. One of the reasons I wanted to get my A&P certificate was because I wanted to work on vintage aircraft like that. This is so cool!
@DieselThunderAviation All the century fighters come from foreign countries. The Thud was never sold to a foreign entity. I flew G model in Nam. I would love to see one fly again.
I believe our government should finance at least one flying replica of each and every aircraft that served this country.
@@firestarter105G the G model that’s on display at my local air history museum is one of my favorite aircraft to visit. I can only imagine how amazing it was to see these aircraft in operation and fly them.
What an absolutely great view of the pilot's right leg ! We'll learn alot from that camera !
The mandatory Right Leg “Lift Off” camera angle discrepancies shall be listed on: MILFFM-272, -461.
Semper Fi
Yeah, a bit disappointing that a shaking leg is the majority of what we saw during takeoff
@@stevencramsie9172don’t worry, I have other great views from our other cameras I intend to also post! (I’m the fat guy whose shaky leg you had to stare at…)
@@JetJerod Lol!! I just posted one today from some of the other cameras 🙂
@@DieselThunderAviation sweet! I’ll go check it out! Also heard some more good news out of EFD happened today! Wahoo! Haha
Ah, the F-100F. Two fewer guns to look after. This video takes me back to 1961 and my gun-plumbing days at Spangdahlem AFB. At that time, the alert area was located very close to Runway 05, and I frequently stood there and watched as F-100s lit off afterburners for takeoff. One warm and quiet day when the noise seemed especially violent I looked down and found that my fatigue uniform was literally shaking with the sound. The F-105s that replaced the Hun definitely seemed to be less noisy than the F-100 on takeoff. A couple of times, however, an F-105 passing over the base went into what was known as afterburner screech, and that was perhaps the weirdest damn sound I ever heard. Some of the older troops said it sounded like a V1 buzz bomb going over.
One question for viewers: does anybody know why the start unit was referred to, back in the day, as a "'Ploosh' unit"? Everybody called it that, but nobody knew where the name originated. As for running a tug out of fuel, when the guy said, "Well, at least we know where usable fuel ends," I thought, okay, fellow aircraft mechanic identified. Always seeing the practical side of a situation.
One a' the earliest air starters in worldwide use was produced by the French company Turbomeca Palouste. (If you were at a Navy base, you'd see more of 'em there than on an AF base. The little bullet-shaped things.) All of those an' the ones of later manufacture by other companies were called Palouste Units.
As an Air Force wrench, YOU know as well as everyone else--probably better--how words an' their pronunciation evolve in the military. It was a short road from "Palouste" to "Ploosh".
@@davidrhoads3023 Thank you, David. After 60 years I have an answer. And, come to think of it, the 49th TFW had moved to Spangdahlem from a base in France not too long before I got there. No doubt the Palouste was used at that base.
Living so close to Houston, any chance of any of us former F-4 fixers will be able to witness it's first flight??
You could volunteer your time and knowledge to help it get in the air.
@@RedTail1-1 I live in Ft Worth, Texas. 5 hours away too far to volunteer. I do volunteer at the FW air museum and the F-4 there is being fixed up for static display only.
Awesome
The f-100 looks the best in that camo paint scheme
It also looks great in Thunderbirds livery.
👎👎👎 You would too, js.
Impressive accomplishment, successfully getting a project of this scale, to a point of actually flying.
Congratulations to all involved, and thanks for sharing.
You guys are amongst the luckiest people in the world. To be in such a huge and wonderful airport surrounded and working with these fabulous planes.
Deep envy here.
Hi and respect from the UK.
She's a beauty 🙂👍
Loved the video! It was great to see the F100 phlying again.
Awesome to see beyond static display.
To kool for words! Thanks for the memories!
Its so awesome to see that F100 fly! Great work!. There are 2 F100s (Tail numbers 56-3916 and 56-3971 ) that have been here at the airport for over 2 decades in Belgrade, MT. I dont know who owns them both but they are pretty much abandoned at this point. They have been parked outside the entire time. Other than being moved a few times for airport construction reasons, they havent done anything with them. I hope someone can some day put them in a hanger and get them flyable again. Its sad to see them just sit out there, just rotting away in our hot summers and cold and snowy winters.
Fun fact: F-100's flew more sorties during the Vietnam War than all other USAF aircraft combined.
That was fantastic! Thanks for sharing the video with the rest of us.
Our pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!
There is an F104 parked on the tarmac at Easton Airport in Easton MD.
love it, next get an A6 INTRUDER
Great seeing a F-100 get back in the air again. I used to see them constantly in the skies over Tucson thanks to Davis Monthan AFB. Later in the years I saw them with the Orange paint as they were reduced to QF-100s. The boneyard once had row upon row of 100s. They were expended as targets or scrapped. I think the yard only has 2-3 left spared for Museum use. I wonder how you are getting the parts to keep her airborne , especially her engine and hydraulics.
Thank you amigos for keeping the ladies flying.
Semper Fi
Our pleasure!
Cool video! Great flow to everything. Conversational tone and phenomenal restoration of magnificent machines. Breathe deep and fly straight!
My Late Brother Bob was at Luke Air Force base in Phoenix in 1959 working as a Weapon Mechanic on that bird in the days.
Still have one on Display in front of Base I believe.
After Leaving the Service in 1963 He spent 33 years working for Lockheed.
Wow!!!! so cool
So great to see an F100F flying! One of my favorite aircraft, certainly ahead of it's time in 1955.
Thank you for the privilege of seeing this iconic aircraft fly. I never thought I would see one fly. Hopefully this is a later model F-100 so you don't have to worry about the Saber Dance as much.
just gorgeous ! she's still got it goin' on !!
There is an F 100 Super Sabre mounted at the entrance to the municipal airport in Grand Haven, MI. The sight and sound of this iconic aircraft in flight is inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
I had no idea one was airworthy!!
You hang out with the right crowd.
As a kid I saw these planes over Soesterberg, the Netherlands. The USAF 32 TFS was based there. Thank you for posting.
You're pulling my leg, "GoPro's overheat in a hot environment", I was sure GoPro's overheat in a cold environment
I recall a couple years ago at Oshkosh there was a bare metal F-100 that had Red ,White , Blue Diagonal strips was charging down the runway on take-off..... I did not think It was going to get airborne .... It Did ... but It id look like it was struggling.... !!
The last place I saw these was at the test pilot school at Mojave.... 20 years back in 2004.
Keep these beautiful Bird's Fed, Watered and flying..... !
So so awesome! would love to see an F-105 brought back to life sometime.
They tried years ago like the early 2000s. Congress even passed a resolution for it. But the Air Force didn't want them to have a flying one and destroyed the ones that could have been air worthy. Atleast thats the story I remeber.
Yeah, I think they broke them in a way to keep them from ever being airworthy, but still keep them on static .display
Great video and congratulations on the successful flight. Gotta love the AB. It’s a turbo money to noise converter ! 😁
Another beautiful warbird that’s often overlooked as a major player in Vietnam. We all need to salute you for the work and money it takes to keep bees aircraft flying.
Beautiful on the ground, she looked even better in the air!
Absolutely beautiful! Hopefully we'll see the Phantom take to the skies alongside the F-100 soon.
Great job everyone!!!
the Gnat always reminds me of Hot Shots
You got to do it again with good video equipment. F-100s are super cool. Our National Guard F-100s had afterburners that would boom when lit. A very loud boom & off they went fast down the runway. We lived 8 miles from the airport & new when the guard was flying. Very cool stuff. Thanks for posting and best wishes for future flights.
Seeing this in formation with Dean Cutshall's F-100 would've been epic. At least I got to see his when he brought it to EAA.
I used to sit by the end of the runway as a kid at a local ANG base as these did touch and go's. Getting covered in black smoke was part of the fun. 50+ years later, I'm still around!
Nitric oxide is good for building muscles, right? That's why I got muscles after I started farming
My old man worked on the F-100D and he also later was a mech on the RF-101 Voodoo in Vietnam.
In the mid eighties I was working at Davis-Monthan in Arizona. One of the main projects I did was pulling F-100’s out of the desert and preparing them for conversion to drones. I wonder if I worked on this beauty.
I don't think this one ever made it to the Boneyard. Her tail number is 56-3844
Semper Fi.
We were stationed there in ‘72 for Pop’s F-4 training.
I hate to imagine how hot the flight lines are at MCAS Yuma nowadays!
I knew a nam vet that was a tech / mechanic/ ground crew of this airframe. Keep them flying ! 👍
This is also ex Danish as GT-844. I saw it flying at Skrydstrup in 1982!
i think i saw this bird do a show chasing a mig at toledo airshow around 2017 - 2018 its so cool to see
Quite possibly you did! 2018 was the last year she flew before last weekend. If it was a silver F-100 that you saw, that one was Dean Cutshall's F-100, based out of Fort Wayne.
It sounds amazing when he lights the can. If this is the A4 F4 and the F100 out of Ellington field in Houston I was lucky enough to see all 3 of them fly. Oh yeah and I think that mig 21 also . Great video thanks for sharing
Great video, dude! And thanks so much for the plug and such for my little tiny channel! So glad the flight went well and we hope to fly it again soon! Ps..we ran the CF TA4 yesterday for the first time in a few years, found a couple of issue that need to be fixed but progress is progress! Keep em flyin!
Damn, that is pure gold! That jet turbine has a an incredible whine.
The J57 engine, the first two spool jet engine to see service, and also the first over 10,000 lbs of thrust!
Nice cockpit shot.
Precioso diseño.
Great to see her back in the sky! Saw her fly at the WOH 2014 airshow.
There’s a possibility she’ll fly for WOH 2024!
Diesel - what a great day for you guys!! Thanks for posting this, it was awesome. I would love to see this fly. After Dean Cutshall announced that he probably wouldn’t be flying his 100F anymore I dispaired of ever getting to see a Hun in flight, but now there’s hope! 😊. We have a 100D on static display (I volunteer at the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum in Titusville, FL) and it’s one of my favorite airplanes in our collection. Would love to see yours strutting its stuff. Will Collings be taking it to any airshows? Sure hope so! Thanks again for making my day! Regards, Rob Shaw
I remember seeing the red arrows flying the gnats in the early 70s.
I used to have a MA1A cart at my local airport. Had to use it to start some ERJ-135s a few times. I did one when it was late afternoon, getting near dark. All the passengers on the right side of the plane were watching when I started the cart. A 4ft flame shot out of the exhaust, making quite the show. Everyone's eyes got real big and saw a lot of "holy $#!T" expressions. It was awesome. But yeah that thing was very loud, and you'd be deaf if you didn't wear hearing protection!
Hot Shots jet!!
Right!
Never thought I'd see an F-100 in the air again! 😁
Great job Collins Foundation and everyone involved!
My dad worked on them at Luke and at Clark (67/68) during 'Nam.
Col Charles Yeagar was his wing commander, and took him up (Pops was a Maint Chief) in a 2 seater, just like that one, and broke the sound barrier. 🤗
Gave him a cool 'Mach Buster' card that I gave to one of my Air Force nephews.......that he promptly lost $#%@&^. kids....grrr.
When I was finishing up my Marine Air enlistment at Beaufort MCAS we went down to Savanah and did a 2 v 1 with our F-4J's against the Guard and their Huns.
Sorry AF....it was not pretty... haha 😉
That must have been a real treat for your dad, to get to experience the jet in its natural environment, after sweating and bleeding to maintain them in tip top contition. I was a Phantom maintainer - structural, I would have given my back teath to fly in one.
Gee, that's strange. My Guard Hun outfit never had much trouble dealing with Phantoms flown by ANY outfit. Including Beaufort.
It was Always great having Marines visit for DACT, though, and Always great to deploy where you guys were. Warriors, an' No Doubt.
@@davidrhoads3023 Then you remember when we switched Jersies at the rifle range. You guys shot like 50 yards and couldn't hit squat. The head NCO wasn't thrilled, but it was all in good fun. Things were different back then. 🙂
btw, we had just gotten off a 7 month deployment on the brand new USS Nimitz, and were the Navy/USMC's spearhead against the red menace. I consider us and VF-74 to be the best aviators in the world.
but, oh well....we were all on the same side.
@@joeblow5037 Hey, No Fair! Every Marine is a Rifleman. Where's that leave Air Force?
@@davidrhoads3023 Like the Navy....Transport us where we need to go....lol
fyi, my pops was career AF...so are my 2 nephews. Only my Sis (squid) and I were the oddballs.
I guess a solution for the go pro is to record a few seconds just so you can see what the camera sees and make the necessary adjustments. You could also have the pilots check the go pro before takeoff just to verify they're on and recording
The “leg” view was a last ditch effort to get good footage of the engine instruments and panel, not a lot of options there. As for messing with cameras after we fire up, not ideal, plenty of other stuff we have our mind on at that point!
Awesome!!! Congrats 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Folding the drag bag. Lots of fun! Congrats on the flight 👍
Sooooo cool.
I knew it was condensation, but my next thing was cool interior IFR cockpit LOL Nice flight and it must have been awesome to feel the power.
Loved finding this presentation! When I took my first lessons in a C-152 which was NEW in 1978, I was introduced to my instructor. He flew 100's with the 104th Fighter Wing here at KBAF in that year.
Really an honor to have such an instructor in the right seat from my very first hour in that light aircraft! Happily, I have great photos from the day. It all started with the first PRE-flight inspection, AND, his signature is all over my log book 😊👍.
I do miss the flight line. B-52, F-16
Hello 👋 I knew a man who flew the F100 as a test pilot for NASA ! Cam Patterson. Awesome Gentleman 😊
Originated the term "Century Fighter". 👍
Really kool ❤