U.S. AIR FORCE AIR DEFENSE COMMAND F-89 SCORPION INTERCEPTOR 1950s PROMOTIONAL FILM 54094
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Made by Northrop Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force Air Defense Command, this promotional film MRS. JONES, MEET YOUR PARTNERS features General Nathan F. Twining speaking about the group's mission: to protect the USA from enemy attack, especially nuclear attack. It also showcases the F-89 Scorpion interceptor. The film is a bit fragmentary but apparently featured a civilian housewife "Mrs. Jones", who has volunteered as a aircraft spotter with the Ground Observer Corps, touring the advanced USAF ADC infrastructure. At 55 seconds, the film shows the Air Defense Direction Center, the heart of the nation's air defense system. Here, the nation's skies are constantly scanned and then F-89D aircraft dispatched to intercept any hostile incoming aircraft. At 2:00, a large table is shown where markers are moved to indicate air patrols over various sectors, and information logged and coordinated. U.S. Navy and Army representatives are shown working at the center. At 3:00, Mrs. Jones visits a squadron of F-89D Scorpion interceptors, designed for all weather interception. At 3:30, the aircraft is shown in a cartoon shooting down an enemy bomber using some of its 104 wing-mounted rockets.
At 5:30, F-89 pilots are shown, and their training and regimen described. A magazine ad is seen stating "The Soviets now have ability to launch an atomic attack on us!" At 6:30, the film shows how Soviet bombers might operate low to evade radar detection. The film points out at 6:56, that due to these kind of evasion tactics, civilian spotters like Mrs. Jones are vital. A phone call quickly relays information to a regional center, and then up the chain of command until the aircraft can be intercepted. At 7:50, F-89s are scrambled and pilots race to their aircraft as part of the alert, with sirens going off. The jets race skyward while at 9:20, Army troops are seen racing for anti-aircraft guns, and at 9:50, U.S. Navy personnel go on alert. At 10:00, the Scorpions (including one with red wingtips indicating it might be a test or prototype aircraft) continue their pursuit. At 10:50, an interception of the bogie is made and confirmation sent by teletype. At 12:10, a command is given to destroy the incoming aircraft and at 12:35 slow-motion footage shows the Scorpion's rockets being fired and destroying an "enemy aircraft" (which appears to be a B-17, likely a drone from a test). The film ends praising the F-89-D Home Defender and thanking the 4771st Ground Observer Squadron and the Pasadena Filter Center.
The Northrop F-89 Scorpion was an American all-weather interceptor built during the 1950s, the first jet-powered aircraft designed as such from the outset to enter service. Though its straight wings limited its performance, it was among the first United States Air Force (USAF) jet fighters equipped with guided missiles and notably the first combat aircraft armed with air-to-air nuclear weapons (the unguided Genie rocket).
The Ground Observer Corps (GOC) traced its roots to World War II when 1.5 million civilian volunteers were enrolled by the Army Air Forces to man 14,000 observation posts positioned along the nation's coasts. In February 1950, Continental Air Command Commander General Ennis C. Whitehead proposed the formation of a 160,000 civilian volunteer GOC to operate 8,000 observation posts scattered in gaps between the proposed radar network sites. With the belief that the Korean War served as a precursor to a possible Soviet attack, ADC had little difficulty recruiting volunteers. In 1951, some 210,000 GOC volunteers manning 8,000 observation posts and twenty-six filter centers were tested for the first time in nationwide exercises. A plan dubbed "Operation SKYWATCH," was initiated on July 14, 1952. Eventually over 800,000 volunteers stood alternating shifts at 16,000 observation posts and seventy-three filter centers. By the late 1950s, deployment of the short-range AN/FPS-14 radar resolved the problem of detecting low-flying planes and the GOC was terminated on January 31, 1959.
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I had lunch with my 86 year old dad yesterday, who, in the early 1950s, was a USAF captain flying B17s used to control target/drone aircraft in early testing of A2A guided missiles. While flying over desert near Los Angeles, they lost contact with an F4F Wildcat flown remotely for target practice.
Well, the rogue Cat had to be destroyed in the air lest it run out of fuel over LA and crash into civilians. Cue the F-89 air defense system! Thus scrambled -- during daylight/VMC conditions -- a flight of 4 Scorpions streaked to the rescue! Upon intercepting the lone Wildcat, itself flying a circular, constant altitude profile, the F-89s attempted to splash the WW2 era fighter with their state-of-the-art weapons systems. After several attempts to gain adequate lock on the Cat, the F-89s returned to base without destroying the drone aircraft. Fortunately, the F4F ran out of fuel and crashed harmlessly into the desert. Based on that story, I'm going out on a limb and say this film might be a WEE BIT optimistic in its appraisal of the operational capabilities of the F-89 Scorpion and our ability at that time to deny Soviet bombers entry to our airspace. Maybe Mrs. Jones slept better believing otherwise....
The Battle of Palmdale gets better than that. The F-89s' targeting systems didn't work so they had to dumb-fire, with the results MAJ Kong (heh) above noted. 'Course, those rockets had to go somewhere, and that somewhere was Palmdale. Rockets bounced down roads, smashed into houses, blew up at least one truck, and set fires all over the area from Palmdale to Newhall. The resulting brush fires took a fair amount of effort to put out.
@@TimperialBroadcastingAgency 2 guys were eatinng their lunch in their truck. Then they decided to eat under the shade of a tree......Then their truck blew up
@@F4Wildcat so that shade protected them from more then just the sun lol
Drone was an F6F Hellcat
Two f-89's were sent
My father, Major Donald Adams, an Ace in the Korean War, was killed in an air show in Detroit two months after he came home from Korea when one of the wings came off his plane while performing a high speed maneuver. This was a misbegotten aircraft. The rocket pods placed too much stress on the wings.
May your father rest in peace. Thank you for your post.
My father was korean war veteran from Detroit. His Name was Norman Reeves. I am sorting out when and where he serveved. It was at least from around 1953 to 1958
Wow, I'm sorry to hear that Don. Your father served this great nation for many years and was a incredibly brave and selfless man. Losing a parent that early in life is tragic, but rest assured; you'll be reunited one day.
Spent a year as an F-89D jet engine mechanic in the 57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Keflavik, Iceland, 1956-57.
"This is Redcap leader. Splash one. He's burning. He's-- oh my God! He's one of ours! I've just killed the Memphis Belle! Aaaaaagh!!!!"
LOL.
To think, less than 15 years from this film, the XB70 and SR72/YF12/A12 is flying Mach 3+... It's amazing how fast this went from human hands command and control Ops to Radar guided, datalink intercept with mach 2 interceptors like the F4 and F106.
Tens years from that....F14, F15 F16 with digital weapon systems and accurate supersonic air to air missiles.
Unimaginable advancement in technology, it's almost like we reverse engineered future tech in the 1950s and just developed it until we got the Stealthy fighter/bombers of today...👽
I love the narration in these old films!
Supposedly the Pasadena Filter Center was very busy during the mid 1950s when the UFO flaps were happening. They were the main filter center for all of Southern California beginning sometime in 1954 and one unlucky individual who got stuck with their old phone number said that sometimes he would get calls at all hours of the night from people reporting UFOs.
Narration sounds as if the film is trying to sell Scorpions to the all the Mrs. Joneses of America.
In a sense, he is! Gotta sell it to the average taxpayer.
Deccelerons? thats awesome!
Norton AFB closed in 1994. I station there from 1980 to 1988. 1835th EIS , AFCC.
where was that located?
Still a better film than /The Starfighters/.
Castle Air Museum has one on display
One of the very first true all - weather interceptors...ahead of its time in technology...lots of teething troubles though, and a maintenance hog...
8:13 I've seen photos of this before but I still find it odd that they're using a ladder given that the Scorpion had built in kick steps. (Granted they take some familiarity before one is anywhere close to graceful getting up or down! It is a bit like Twister with the steps and hand holds labeled "right foot here" and so on. Start with the wrong foot and onlookers start laughing by the time you're halfway up!)
one shot one kill ? not even today.
I mean I dont know about you but I saw 104 shots 1 kill
Oh shit he shot down a B-17!!
Killing a B17 just for fun? Was a crime!
OMG that music I remember as a child
All the Scorpion needed...was a couple J-79's replacing those J-35's to make it come "alive" LOL
J-79 did not significantly increase the preformance of the F-89 due to its straight wing areodinamics being capped
A cool classic from the '50's.... That looked like a B-17 drone, that they hit with the rockets... Did those rockets have basic guidance equipment or even remote control?
unguided rockets with horrible accuracy
The Battle of Palmdale.
I think that was some Jonny Quest animation.
Bus boy that was a civilian airliner over. Commence operation cover up.
Yay the war is over, We won!!... It's a good thing they only sent one bomber.
0:20 Nathan Farragut Twining.
It carried two single-barrelled shotguns.
anyone know more about the firing of the actual rockets, could they fire as little as one at a time or were there minimums etc
A little late on my comment, but those Mighty Mouse rockets were very inaccurate. They were designed to be fired into a formation of Soviet bombers in the hopes of hitting something, so they were probably launched in salvo. But I could be wrong.
@@crypto118 I did further research at the time and they were capable of firing bursts but not singles or anything, I forget what the options all were
question: what was Buttercup's (Ms. Jones job in the movie). from the movie if they fired all 104 rockets. t hen they didn't have any thing but their guns. they couldn't just one or two rockets at a time.(all of them went when you pushed the button). I r ead that the comm between the ground and the aircraft was not all that good back in those days. (when t he fighter arrive where the ground controll sent them the enemy would be up to 50 miles away from the fighters). I didn't know we had ground look out during peace time?
If an F-89D fired all its rockets then it had nothing. They didn't have to go in one shot as they could choose between one, two or three salvos. The A,B and C models had the cannons. The H had 21 rockets and three Falcons tucked (very neatly) into each wingtip pod and could also carry three more falcons under each wing although this was seldom done. (The H looked pretty impressive when it had the Falcons popped out of the pods!) The J carried two Genies and four Falcons on pylons.
May have been a bad interceptor but I bet it would have been a great ground attack plane! Strafe them with rockets!
I mean for the time it was a hell of an interceptor
It was heavily armed and could keep up with bombers
Its deadliest version was the H model with 12 Falcon missiles and 42 rockets
Way, way, way too many annoying ads.
Thank to this we have the most cancer op planes at 7.7
What the heck with that grid system...
who wrote that music? wow
Amazing this pile of shit my grandpa flew was in service as long as it was. He fired two live Genie rockets. The nuclear detonation blasted him and his plane with intense radiation. The brass didn't care. Probably what caused him to pass away from cancer at 65.
The universal hope for peace will be realized when America stops meddling in the affairs of other nations.
Ok vlad
Why a B 17, why??????........ you monsters!
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We used them as drone targets for A2A guided missile testing in the early 1950s. Dangerous work back then as the missiles didn't discriminate among heat/radar signatures.
A POS, like many of our a/c of the fifties. Rocket pods and little else. I don't know if they fired them ripple, salvo, or pairs, or shoot the wad at once. We didn't have much else to work with at the time.
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The F-89 was a pile of crap
F-89D could take out the Raptor.
The raptor is superior in every conceivable way
What are you talking about?
It would be close, but the F-22 might have an edge at higher altitudes. The F-35 on the other hand...sheesh!
@@Mjr._Kong You should be interned into a mental institute if you think an F-89D has anywhere near a fart of a prayers shot of beating an F-22
The F-35 would also just toy with an F-89D
These are Americas 4th Gen fighters if the F-89 had anywhere near their capabilities we would just use them instead
@@Starwarsgeek-98 don't minimize the power of a well done fart...
The big question is: why so much armament and so much military deployment against whom? against Russia? China?or is it that the cold war continues, the Soviet Union is not there anymore, the Russians say that they arm themselves to defend themselves and not to attack, the Chinese the same or is it that you have to arm yourself to test weapons in fabricated wars: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Siria or to tell the world we are powerful and whoever is not with us is going to do very badly, sanctions, blockades and finally attack, while there is hunger, disease and poverty in the world and climate change It is taking its toll on us: hurricanes, cyclones, floods, heavy snowfalls, high temperatures, torrential rains, the greenhouse effect, Billions are spent on creating weapons and for what just for the pleasure of arming yourself.