Best flight of my flying career: back in 1965 at Willy, the chief scheduler walks in, looks around and sees only me sitting there reading a paper. All my syllabus rides were complete and I would get my wings later in the week. He says, “…get your gear, we have a T-38 we need to fly.” When I told him my syllabus rides were complete, he said “…I don’t care. Maintenance generated this airplane and it needs to fly for them to get credit”. He then told me “I don’t care what you do, just go fly that airplane”. I was then turned loose for a VFR flight into a MOA to do whatever I wanted in an almost new T-38. “Oh I have slipped the bonds of earth and danced the sky in laughter silvered wings..” …truer words were never written. Even after 57 years, 3000 AF flying hours, and an RF-4C combat tour, that flight still sticks in my mind…

@pigweed000

2 жыл бұрын

The Tallon and Phantom, ahh yes, The two most gorgeous planes to grace the runways at Shaw AFB. That's a great story, Danny.

@user-pn3im5sm7k

Жыл бұрын

High flight poem!

@Mrhedgehog_69

Жыл бұрын

Wow…that’s a great memory to have! Have you considered buying and restoring one?

@nickbillings8668

Жыл бұрын

That’s a great story. Thank you

@geofslagle410

8 ай бұрын

Put a smile on my face when I read that. My mind goes back to those precious memories of flying the t-38 also.

I’m a civilian maintainer and back in 2001 I was fortunate enough to take an incentive ride in a T-38. On take off we were cleared for unrestricted climb and it was freakin awesome!! Best ride of my life!!

@MrLongboarder87

2 жыл бұрын

@@kirkf4crewdawg604 every T-38 I’ve worked on has had two J85-GE-5 with afterburners.

@flowjoe37

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, all T-38’s at Laughlin had J85’s

@kirkf4crewdawg604

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrLongboarder87 You guys are all correct. It's been over 35 years since I worked T-38s and F-5s. I don't know where I got J 57 from (maybe I was thinking of the "Tweet"). Thanks for the correction, Guys.

@jamesbroomfield8503

2 жыл бұрын

@@kirkf4crewdawg604 was

@kirkf4crewdawg604

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesbroomfield8503 What was?

Remembering it like it was yesterday. But it's been over 50 years since I earned my USAF wings in that beautiful machine. Even today, the graceful lines of that tiny bird are a thing of incomparable beauty.

@GM-he3um

2 жыл бұрын

The wings are tiny! 😳

@freddarau

2 жыл бұрын

@@GM-he3um made off of the f-5 airframe. So they are going to be small

@mattg1847

2 жыл бұрын

@@GM-he3um don’t need much wing when ya got a dang rocket pushin ya from behind ;) the wings are there just for stability and control at this point lmao (Obviously I am being facetious, you need some form of lift, but not much in this case)

@mattg1847

2 жыл бұрын

CAVU, good sir. Thank you for your service.

@apedreus

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful planes, very elegant. I was stationed at NAS Cubi Pt in the 80s, and the Philippine air force had a bunch of F5s (the non-training variant of the T-38) they used to do low approaches at Cubi, and were apparently unaware of the speed restrictions, if you get my drift. Fun to watch, but I was always kind of alarmed to see them flying so fast when there was all kinds of air traffic around, including helicopters and fruit bats with 6' wingspan.

No Music ++++ No mislabeling as "vertical takeoff" ++++ Loud engines ++++. No three hours of taxing and preparation ++++. This video shows a T-38 trainer and should itself be a training video on how to make excellent takeoff videos. Bang on!

@twincitiesaviator

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the compliment!

I have 1700 hours in the T-38…and this was a beautiful reminder. Thanks.

i was a crew chief on T-38s back in 1969. i'm amazed they're still in service. the other planes i crewed were the F-100Ds and F-4Ds, long gone.

@apedreus

2 жыл бұрын

All very cool airplanes. The T-38 is just a good design. Must be a blast to fly. Rocket engine and tiny wings.

When I went through USAF UPT in 67-68, we did this on our dollar ride in the T-38. It made you determined that you would somehow complete the program, and earn your wings. I always felt that every taxpayer should get a dollar ride in the T-38. All these years later, and the T-38 is still performing.

@Wtsmyageagain

2 жыл бұрын

Very nice. I was an approach controller at Vance (not sure where you did UPT), and 38’s always made sequencing for arrival a bit tricky!

@MrTmac1945

2 жыл бұрын

@@Wtsmyageagain Laredo.

@davidinflorida6814

2 жыл бұрын

@@Wtsmyageagain my brother did his UPT at Vance in 68-69. :-)

@thanojon1

2 жыл бұрын

What did you track after 38s?

@cblanton42

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidinflorida6814 I was there 20 years later, class of 88-04. Loved my time in the T-38!

Reminded me of watching F-104s when I worked at Boeing for part of a summer in 1958. I was about 200 yards from the Larson AFB alert hangar. Two F-104s would come out of the hangar, pause for a few seconds while the ground crew did whatever they were doing, and them line up with the runway already hauling ass. The only thing better than this was the hundred-foot long streak of fire with shock rings in it when they lit the afterburner. I am sure I heard one pair blow past the sound barrier a few seconds after lifting off. One pair of those suckers passed over Fairchild or Geiger Field (Spokane) at 40 thousand feet seven minutes after starting the takeoff roll. That was a hot news item in Moses Lake. Love the sound of those planes.

Those B-2 guys/girls love to climb. That's the steepest pullup I've seen from a T-38 on takeoff.

@d3ltabrav0

2 жыл бұрын

I never saw them do this at SZL, only unrestricted climb I saw was when a F-18 would come through. We would coordinate with 42 then pile outside to watch it 😄

@90whatever

2 жыл бұрын

I flew them in UPT at Vance AFB...fun plane with crazy roll rate but you can see here even in full mil it takes a while to build up enough smash to yank it up to a near vertical climb.

@lordvader3538

2 жыл бұрын

@@90whatever as someone who will probably never fly a jet, what are some of the different characteristics of common planes?

@davidb6576

2 жыл бұрын

@@lordvader3538 Well, yeah - you're too busy flying the TIE Advanced...

One of the best flying and best looking jets made. It looks fast sitting still. ❤️

The little jet that could. Worked them mid 80’s. Great plane.

@kirkf4crewdawg604

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I worked them at Columbus AFB, 1985-88.

@gpdude22

2 жыл бұрын

The little jet that still does.

In 71 during USAF tech school at Sheppard AFB Texas, found out my 2nd cousin who I'd never met was the civilian Flight Line Superintendent for Fighter Jet Training Program. Great guy who scored me a ride in a T-38 Talon. A LT.Colonel Senior Training Instructor took me up. WOW!!!! .....is an understatement.

First flight 1959. A 65 year old design. I think of the way contemporary cars looked back then. The designers drove into work in these clunky machines and produced (with slide rules no less) this piece of art that looks like it could have been minted in 2024 - simply fantastic.

I liked flying T38s cross country in the 1970s. I remember cruise climbing to flight level 410 in 11 minutes. The typical length of the sortie, as I remember, was less than an hour and a 1/2, but you could fly around 700 miles in that time.

@vatandas1542

2 жыл бұрын

Question: did she use ground effect for speed?

@FFE-js2zp

2 жыл бұрын

You remember right, A long xc leg was a 1.5 stretching to a little over 700 miles. The 1960s era Wild West (I was busy being born) would stretch to 800+ by shutting down an engine. The best thing about T-38 xc was the transonic cruise speeds. In the high 20Ks 0.97 Mach cruise is not only achievable, but practical. You needed to call for your ride home, at your destination, while you were stepping to preflight the jet.

@rconawa

5 ай бұрын

I stretched one flight for a total 2.4 hours - very low on fuel at landing.

Probably the most crisp and clear heatwave mirage I've seen on video, awesome plane

Beautiful. She looks so svelte and quick next to all those commercial birds. The Tomcat is a beautiful marvel of engineering, the Eagle is amazing but the Talon, Freedom Fighter and Tigershark just look like what a fighter should be. The Viper is a close second to that image, it looks like the aftermath of the Eagle and the Tigershark spending a weekend at the coast with some wine and Barry White.

@kenmohler4081

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t agree more. Something about the shape of the vertical stabilizer just works for me.

@SgtJoeSmith

2 жыл бұрын

actually tiger 2 not tigershark. f5 a and b were freedom fighters and f5 e and f were tiger 2's. Or cf5a/b for canadair canadian air force versions. the f20 tigershark model that never went to production was based on the design but greatly updated. the t38 talons are in essence tiger 2 models.

@sparrowlt

2 жыл бұрын

@@SgtJoeSmith no they are not .. the T38 is sub-Freedom fighter actually... they have the less powerfull engines in the entire family and simpler wings with no leading edge extensions and not slats.. and if its a T-38A it has a fully analog cockpit (T-38Cs have the glass cockpit with HUD) very similar to the F-5A/B

@SgtJoeSmith

2 жыл бұрын

@@sparrowlt thanks for updated info. 91bravo in guard years ago.. didnt get to play with jets. just what i know from model kits and books and tv growing up. just knew tigershark was non production modern day spin off.

@delten-eleven1910

2 жыл бұрын

The T-38 looks like an undersized chicken hawk amongst a bunch of roosting hens.

One of the coolest/most interesting unrestricted climbs I've ever been a part of was a CRJ 700. It's always interesting to see what those big planes can actually do once you don't have to worry about what the passengers think

@miloswanson9646

Жыл бұрын

A neat airshow fly-by was also at Cleveland in the mid-'70s. United Airlines had just introduced the new 'rainbow' paint scheme and also were celebrating their new routes to Hawaii, as such, they had a 727-load of fresh pineapples flown in to the show, complete with grass-skirted employees. Just after Howie Keefe did his demonstration in his P-51D 'Miss America', the United crew did a demonstration using the 727! They made a high-speed pass down the runway, at maybe 60-75' altitude. The plane was already past the end of the runway when the sound hit the crowd. To see something THAT big, going THAT FAST just off the deck was incredible - and much faster than the P-51!!!!

I live right under where the Mo National Guard F-15s did these kind of climbs along with the Boeing test pilots from Lamber Saint Louis AP where every one of them is made (F-15s) The sound shakes the ground and all you can see is a little pin head in the sky. The power is absolutely insane.

@kenmohler4081

2 жыл бұрын

I saw those too. They were called “Viking Departures.” I’m pretty sure it was McDonnell Douglas, and many of those take-offs were to impress potential buyers. And the WERE impressive!

@integr8er66

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenmohler4081 Yes it began as McDonnell Douglas, but it is Boeing now, and has been for prob 20 years or more, they still do it once in a while, and they are definitely still making them. My son works there and get to see them in all states of construction. He also has a friend who is an engineer and work in the Phantom Works group. I think he knows stuff we never will. 😁

@kenmohler4081

2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty out-of-date on St. Louis. I lived there 40 years ago. I am amazed they are still making F-15s. They are beautiful aircraft.

@yrunaked4

2 жыл бұрын

F15 thrust to weight ratio is close to a ICBM lol. I loved watching them at Lambert too. the landings were just as cool too.

@drive9997

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome

One of the most beautiful airplanes made!

I LOVED flying that airplane. So much fun!

@joeymil219

2 жыл бұрын

67th?

@Night56Owl

2 жыл бұрын

25th FTS VAFB 1979-80 UPT then 85-88 as IP/Flight Commander/Chief of Academic Training.

@jason401.

2 жыл бұрын

I just wanna fly something..

@rconawa

5 ай бұрын

Do you miss it as much as I do? I loved my time in the back of a T-38 and that was nearly 50 years ago. @@Night56Owl

I was a raft guide in the 80's and one of my customers was a T38 Instructor. We immediately bonded over the T38 since I grew up next to Ellington Field. (I actually dated the daughter of the coronel responsible for moving the shuttle via 747 between coasts- no idea why I mentioned that. since the therapist said not to ever.) Anyway, As part of my tip, he gave me his info for a ride and I FRIGGIN LOST IT!!! A year ago we moved "for the last time" again and I found it. What a huge deal that would have been. OMG I love that aircraft. Thanks for the video.

Absolutely gorgeous piece of equipment. After being around these countless times, it never gets old looking at them. It's always possible that I could take one for a sortie one day.

Always thought these are a great looking aircraft. Didn't realise they had that good a climb rate but suppose as the Thunderbirds used them they must have been quite an impressive machine. Great filming 👍.

I work a few miles from Eglin AFB and this is a practically a daily thing here. They have a couple of black T-38’s that I think they must use to play “the bad guys”, they’ll usually tear out there first and then a few minutes later you’ll see the F35’s or F15’s taking off and passing overhead. I never get tired of watching them do that. The F35 sounds like a rocket flying overhead. Unbelievably loud.

The T38 has to be one of the most elegant trainer in existence.

WM. Whiteman AFB, MO. The Companion Trainer Program (CTP) allows Jr B-2A pilots to get proficiency training. Back when I was in, it was called the Acceleration Copilot Enrichment (ACE) for the copilots and junior pilots to log more hours, proficiency, and basically go anywhere they wanted to go (smile).

Used to go out to the perimeter road and watch Tweets and Talons taking off and landing when I was stationed at Columbus AFB, MS from 86-88. Fun planes to watch

@stevelong7638

2 жыл бұрын

Was also there from 84 to 88 loved it.

@rconawa

5 ай бұрын

75-05 and then back as a FAIP in the T-38 @@stevelong7638

As a USAF Academy nominee waaaay back in the mid-'70s, I loved (and still do) the T-38! One of the prettiest Mach-capable jets - designed even before I was born! I'd give my left one (or maybe even both) to fly in one. As a side note, I attended an airshow at Lake Erie level (KBKL - Burke Lakefront Airport)in about 1974-5 in Cleveland OH, where a then-new F-15 performed a 'max-performance-takeoff', going from a standing start to straight up to 35,000' in less than 60 seconds, before tipping over to head to it's next destination. Back then I was taking flying lessons in a Cessna 150 that could do maybe 600fpm climb rate!

@utjay2008

2 жыл бұрын

I’m a fellow nominee. I feel the exact same way 20 years later.

@headdownharris

2 жыл бұрын

nice.

@yingnyang2889

2 жыл бұрын

So you’re not a eunuch yet? 😂

@crash4687

2 жыл бұрын

It would have had to be 1975. I saw the first F-15 delivered to the Air Force in December of 1974 at Luke AFB, AZ with then new president Ford in attendance.

@miloswanson9646

2 жыл бұрын

@@yingnyang2889 Nobody has offered me a flight in one! I've flown aerobatics in a AT-6/SNJ four times, so that's about as close as I have gotten.

Think this one of the most Iconic and beautiful of jet designs. It's clean, sleek lines evoke thoughts of speed while sitting parked on the runway.

Awesome catch mate! Would you be okay with me featuring this in an episode of Weekly Dose of Aviation? Of course you will be credited both in the video and in the description.

@twincitiesaviator

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Absolutely!

@WHATSAHANDLEIDKIDK

Жыл бұрын

Hi lucaas

I was stationed at Ellington AFB from 66 to 69. The astronauts used fly out of there. One afternoon I was near the flight line and there were 3 or 4 of them doing touch and goes. It was like a race between them as they were roaring around in the pattern. It was beautiful watching them in their T-38s . They must have been having the time of there lives.

@billhale9740

2 жыл бұрын

It's referred to as banging the stick I believe

@jedironin380

2 жыл бұрын

My uncle, Dr. Joseph Allen might have been one of those astronauts! He flew the Talon many times and loved it. He went up on Space Shuttles twice.

@mpjopatv401

Жыл бұрын

I hear them doing touch and goes at Ellington at my CAP meetings, always very cool

It's amazing to see this from outside the aircraft. To experience it from the inside is next level stuff! I'll never forget flying this wonderful machine.

@figgy4

Жыл бұрын

I would die.

@twincitiesaviator

Жыл бұрын

🤣

What an elegant, lean and streamlined design. Awesome!

Was stationed at Beale AFB in 67-68. We would watch the SR71 with a T38 in chase takeoff and climb. The T38 would eventually fall off the climb as the SR71 would continue to max altitude.

@REALfish1552

2 жыл бұрын

I got to see an SR-71 take off one time while in Korea. No idea what it was doing at the Army airfield when the Air Base was just north of there by a minute or two of it's flight time (mechanical issue I'm guessing), but I heard a noise that definitely wasn't the normal rotary wing aircraft we had, looked over and saw this aircraft shoot damn near straight up. The person beside me was Air Force said it was a SR-71. This was sometime around 1997? It was something I'll never forget.

@ProBioMech

2 жыл бұрын

Beale in the 90s and was doing the same! Civilians did most of the work on them so I hardly had to touch them but they were beautiful

@ProBioMech

2 жыл бұрын

@@REALfish1552 I got to spend 2 years working on the SR and I still mark it as one of the greatest privileges of my life. Love that aircraft.

@measl

2 жыл бұрын

@@REALfish1552 *Just think, in '97 (and probably today as well), the SR-71 was doing things no other aircraft could even contemplate, and it was designed in the 1950s!. If they designed it today it would never get built - too many risks. The SR-71 exemplifies everything great about what **_used_** t be called "American Ingenuity".*

Awesome!! I saw it taxiing, but was trying to escort several people around the airfield at the time and couldn't stop to watch. Wish I would have seen the climb!

@twincitiesaviator

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😖

My favorite aircraft of all time! What a majestic hot rod!!

That aircraft design is at least 60 years old. I never would have expected a trainer to be able to do this! Fantastic.

Where never lark, or ever eagle flew - And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

@retiredpd

2 жыл бұрын

Every morning they played that video (or evening?) before TV was 24/7

@davesnothere.5528

2 жыл бұрын

@@retiredpd I remember seeing it at night, when the channel was shutting down for the night p.s. my Pappy was a F-86 Driver

Worked on The Little White Rocket during my tour in the 70's! Beautifully flying aircraft!!!!

That is what makes flying fun. Straight and level is sleepy time.

What a nice aeroplane! Beautiful. Can be a handful to fly; keep the speed up. CAVU skies to all aviators; RAFVR, here.

Back in’93 I was working the ramp on the G sometime in late October at MSP. All of a sudden the field got whisper quiet. I looked to East and there she was all lit up and ready for launch. This was F-16 solo and it executed the same mini air show as the T-38 above. Whata great sky high moment.

@twincitiesaviator

2 жыл бұрын

Epic!

Stationed at Moody AFB 73-76. Loved watching these fly.

Worked in the control tower at Moody AFB in 1969-70. Test pilots would fly T-38’s that had to be certified after a problem had been corrected. Quite frequently they would ask clearance for a max climb to 45,000 ft. and then they would corkscrew it on the way up.

@normd6475

2 жыл бұрын

I was in class 70-04 at Moody, basically all of '69. You might have been in the tower the day my IP and I lost both engines just after liftoff in a 2-ship flight.

Just got to see one out of Vance AFB at Northwest Arkansas National. I forgot how loud these things are! Lotta bang for such a small airframe.

I've been in and out of MSP to Signature Aviation about 50 times in the last 15 years. We usually departed from 30L as our destination was to the west. They never cleared us to anything higher than 5000' Of course a PA-31, even with the Colemill Panther conversion didn't climb quite like a T-38 😂😂 Very nice video JA! Thanks. I'll check out more of your vids.

@twincitiesaviator

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! 🤣. Thank you!

Such a gorgeous jet.

i remember a couple years ago i was touring a b17 and there was 4 of these t38s and i got to watch them start up and take off and they could be so quiet and the so loud, it was crazy to me and i watched them do 2 man formation takeoffs and it was so cool to me

Remember those jets well from fighter lead-in training at Holloman AFB. Used to call them "pocket rockets". Great plane for low level down the canyons of the Colorado River.

@Deathmastertx

2 жыл бұрын

They'll never match a T-38 but watch passenger and cargo aircraft when they're empty or relatively light. They have some seriously powerful engines.

At one time i was the purchasing manager for buying support and replacments for this plane ,made me very proud to be a small part of it.

It is amazing that these antiques still fly.

My dad worked at Randolph AFB and I would go to work with him and watch the T-38's at lunch. Great memories.

I love flying the 38. Such a nimble bird.

I was in Golden Gate Park for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass watching Los Lobos cover BERTHA when one of the Blue Angels, in town for Fleet Week, zoomed into the park, did a tail stand right over my head then rocketed straight up for ten thousand feet with me looking over the pilot's shoulder. Totally amazing... Los Lobos didn't miss a beat....

I worked these for 5 years and loved them.

Little T-38 gettin some! Looked awesome.

Haha. That little T-38 def needed the time to accelerate. Those little engines were working overtime on that climb. 👍🏼

My hometown airport. Nice to see this video, especially with my favorite military aircraft :)

It looks like that one belongs to Whiteman, which has older T-38A models. It never gets old seeing an unrestricted climb!

Always fun to watch these take off!

@joenenninger971

2 жыл бұрын

Wish they would have let us do that in ATC back in the 70s when the T38 was still new :-(

I saw four of those bad boys land a couple weeks ago. Pretty sweet.

Just oozes speed sitting on the runway. Beautiful bird.

I had the good fortune to fly this sleek aircraft and achieve 1.2 mach!

I'm glad that I was able to see the Thunderbirds back when they were flying T-38's

Nice looking plane snd the F5 looks even better

First time I watched - nice - as described!

TAKE NOTE KZreadRS: THIS is how to do a military aviation video. No stupid music drowning out the Sound of Freedom! No constant interruptions for lame begging for ads, likes and subs, fat guys with huge cameras, or to show off still photos. And thank you for NOT including 20 minutes of the airplane sitting in the chocks while the crew does the Before Engine Start Checklist or taxiing at four miles per hour to the opposite end of the runway! Well done!

Today at Langley AFB, I watched five F-22's and five T-38's taking off. The F-22 was wicked loud compared to the T-38, but both were very cool to watch.

Loved flying that aircraft in UPT, a long time ago.

I love that gut wrenching feeling

Hard to believe it first flew in 1959

Damn, that was cool. I see the T-38's fly ever day here in CA out of Beale AFB (BB) near my home. Bad ass jet.

T-38 are BEAUTIFUL little planes.

Beautiful!

In 1986 I was in a debriefing at a strip called Miramar were a Navy pilot named "Mavric" reported a classified incident (some information was left out for OPSEC) with one of these, he and his RIO "Goose" had communicated a foreign relations gesture. "Goose" Even had an image of the event. Moments after that we were all on the flight line about to take off in the F-14 for a training mission.

My good friend a retired Colonel flew a1 in Nam, taught T38 training then moved to the A10 he retired then did another full career flying commercial. he’s been AGL almost as much as he’s been down on the deck with the rest of us

@twincitiesaviator

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome

There was a retired USAF colonel (Thornton) who had purchased a T-38 and registered it as a general aviation aircraft (N38TC). You may recall this particular aircraft appeared (flown by Col. Thornton) in the movie, Dragnet. You may recall the scene where it pulled up alongside a Lear jet. The T-38 can definitely catch a Lear jet. 😎

@Hawker900XP

11 ай бұрын

That T-38 is still there at Thornton Aviation, Van Nuys, CA.

What beautiful airplane!

Beautiful aircraft

When I lived in southern oregon I would see a black t38 flying low over my town every couple months. Cool little jet.

Retired USAF crew chief of one of the time to climb record T38 60400 out of Columbus AFB, Mississippi in 1977, still gives me goosebumps today. FLEW 2 different incentive flights in the T38 Talon, Go Air Force

@buttsnorkeler9756

Жыл бұрын

I live in Huntsville, AL. I watch the t38s from Columbus on the flight radar app often. A few of them usually come up and do touch and goes at KHSV then head back down to Columbus. I work on Redstone Arsenal, near the airport so I’ll see them in the distance sometimes but not as often as I’d like.

@stevelong7638

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like the Air Force Air Craft, sure has trained a group of great USAF pilots. Thanks for the comment, Go USAF 👍 😀 🙂 😊

Me and my brother loving seeing t-38s we see them every once and a while go near our house

Good God, how I love that jet!

Most awesome aircraft ever.

What a beautiful site!

saw gene cernan (last man on the moon) do this in nasa t-38. shaw afb sc 1980ish. had just given him wx brief, ops guy told me who he was, and was going to do max performance takeoff. never got more than 6ft entire length of runway then straight up to 35000. rip col.

Absolutely beautiful 😎😁👍

Loved flying the T38. I was in class 69-04 at Vance and was pipeline Viet Nam in the U10B (low and slow) 😀

@randleleewhitney6343

2 жыл бұрын

Hello classmate. Randle (Whit) Whitney

@kchof8817

2 жыл бұрын

Whit, looked you up in class yearbook. I was in the other section. Some things are like yesterday but some seem like a lifetime ago.

Awesome video mate 😃👍🏻

@twincitiesaviator

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

It’s interesting that ACE jets never got the PMP mod since it was performed in 2003, primarily for safety.

I work these T38s out of Vance AFB climbing unrestricted to a block altitude FL250-FL450 on occasion. Specific profile they fly. Must be quite a ride! I’m a center controller.

The White rocket…. Just not white anymore. But truth said he was about out of speed. The aircraft rolled out pretty sloppy for a 38. My favorite aircraft I’ve ever flown, and my first baby as an instructor. Glad these guys are having fun.

My ears popped just watching that!😵‍💫

I’m not a pilot, but I love aviation and plane watching. My initial amateur interpretation of the clip was an aircraft gaining airspeed but unable to gain altitude. I was very relieved to see that beautiful climb at the end!

Awesome I can only imagine what that would feel like

sooo sick!

@twincitiesaviator

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I've watched so many F-14s, 15s, 16s, 18s and 22s do this over the years. It is always an awesome experience! I wonder if the T-38's entire fuselage is a fuel tank? This plane is just straight up sexy! That being said, it was interesting to note how long it took to get enough airspeed to start that climb. The first planes I mentioned would have been going straight up in half the distance, or less.

@kirkf4crewdawg604

2 жыл бұрын

@@Koji-888 No, just no afterburner on those J-57s.

@gpdude22

2 жыл бұрын

@@kirkf4crewdawg604 Those are GE-J85-5s, and they are using the ABs.

@yingnyang2889

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, for a plane that’s over 50 yrs old why does that surprise you? Yes I know the math was around, but not able to be calculated manually. You have computers and flow dynamics that weren’t even thought of to help in the design. You forget, they used paper and pencil to draft the airplanes.

@sacredcreationz

2 жыл бұрын

check out the viperjetmrkII then. the T-38 grown-up

@whitenoise509

2 жыл бұрын

@@yingnyang2889 The problem isn't aerodynamic, it's thrust to weight. There are plenty of 50 year old birds capable of a faster unrestricted climb than this one.

Great stuff

Pure vertical thrust at it's best.

I saw 3 Phantoms do that together - loudest sound of freedom I ever hear