Fly with the Thunderbirds
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- A historic look at the world famous Thunderbilrds. This video was filmed back when the T-Birds were flying the T-38 Talon. It contains some very historic shots of the T-birds when they were flying other airframes like the F-80, F-4, and F-100.
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I loved the F4 Tbirds; for the same reasons people hated them.
It was so striking to see aerial ballet with such large and powerful aircraft.
I worked on the F-105, and it was OK, but the F-4 Phantom is one I worked on and did not like. It truly was a flying brick, lead sled, and at Nellis AFB 130 degree summers made that triangular door behind the canopies (door 19... 50 zeus fasteners) a hot one, which had to be opened with gloves during the summer to get the electronic altimeter out of or back into for repairs. I liked working on the altimeter, which most repairmen did not, but I never liked the looks or circumstances of the F-4. Their next plane was the T-38 Talon! That was my baby! I really liked that plane! Most guys couldn't work on its TACAN, but since I am a Corvair nut, and understand the curving fan belt which was very much like the channelling chain in the TACAN, I hit it off with it and enjoyed working on it! One day when the Thunderbird avionics repairman got sick, I was asked if I wanted to take his place. That was the delight of my life at that time! I almost got to work on an SR-71 also, but missed out. Working on the Thunderbirds T-38 helped make up for that disappointment! The T-38 is one neat little plane! Still my favorite of modern planes to this day! Still used by NASA for flight proficiency maintenance also.
I did r&d on the t38, 1965 1968 , at William AFB, in Arizona.
I was a teen at my first air show in the mid 70's and it featured these same T-38 Thunderbirds. It's probably why the T-38 is one of my favorite planes. It is sooooo sleek looking! I am also partial to the F-4 because it's pretty badass! All time favorite is the F/A-18. I've seen the Blue Angels fly 'em many times and just can't get enough of them!
Aerial ballet!..the T38 is sleek and chic! ..salute from down under✈️👍🇳🇿✈️
I saw the f4s, t38s, f16s. Somehow I joined the Army as a 67N Uh1H Crew Chief. I'm a IFR private pilot today because my dad was a pretty cool guy that took me to airshows.
I still love the style of films back in simpler days. They were flying Talons when I enlisted in 79.
Funny music - I like it. 😁
BABY BOOMER HERE I MISS THE TIME WHEN US MILITARY JETS WERE ALLOWED TO GO SUPER SONIC OVER THE UNITED STATES
"Hey look, a lady!"
We had 2-3 ladies working in the avionics shop, and there were others in radar and other shops. There was a lady in the sheet metal shop also. this was at Nellis during the mid 70s.
SAME FOR CREW AND FILM MAKERS AND FEATURED NARRATORS...🦅👑
D. L. Smith, haha, met him at a Thunderbirds show when I was a boy. He signed my Thunderbirds Program Brochure that we received that day. I still have it somewhere. I believe he passed away in an accident shortly after later that year.
Met who? I was based at Nellis and worked on the T-38s.
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I was there during the time frame when the first Black man became a Thunderbird pilot and would see him occasionally in the hangars.
That f4 was a fast sob
Magnificent!
ALL MY FLIERS, THUNDERBIRDS, BLUE ANGELS, ET. ETCETERA, ELITE OF THE ELITE JUST 1'S. ETERNALLY EVERLASTING INHERITANCE AND LOVE FOR EVER. 🦋🦅🐺🐏👑
I am building a recumbent trike with a fuselage and am going to paint it in Thunderbird color scheme.
Who really gives a flying fuck
Calm down idiot. This guy was THERE, when these planes were the shit. Let him have his legacy, clown. Grow some manners asshole. Quit being a shit stain, douchebag.
@1:44
Oh man 😐
Any of these guys died in the diamond formation?