The Damcasters - The Aviation History Podcast
The Damcasters - The Aviation History Podcast
The Aviation History Podcast brought to you in association with @PimaAirSpaceMuseum.
Every week, we will be taking a fresh look at the history of both civil and military flying, from the earliest days of people jumping off of rocks and hoping to survive to the latest in unmanned flight. While it is inevitable that we will we can get a bit avgeek-y, we aim to be as inclusive as possible so that if you have even a passing interest in flight, we will have something for you.
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Thank you for giving him back his youth....even if it was for just a moment or two......
A big Salute to Mr Reierson,--From here in Australia,!!--and thank you,Sir for your Service !!-you will always be remembered here !!
Hey !!--Iv'e been to that museum,--it is really great!!--plenty of great planes,-they even have B-36,there,-and a "mini-bus"-to take you around-outside--if your an "old-geezer"-like me !!
wow
Wow, that's what I call really cool
We don't call them the greatest generation for nothing.
The B-58 was also a favorite with model kit manufacturers and customers. The sleek, space age look really flew kits off the shelf.
It was the coolest looking airplane in the fleet whatever else you want to say. I loved it. Things changed quickly in that era.
Mary, very interesting stuff. I hope to read your book soon. During my research and writing my book "The Men on the Sixth Floor" I had opportunity to contact and interview Wayne January, who reported to the FBI that he had see LHO, a woman and another man at Red Bird Airport shorty before the JFK assassination. This was back in the 90s.
Jimmy Stuart, described his flight with the Convair B-58
"Jimmy Stuart, described his flight with the Convair B-58" No, he did not.
@@smark1180 homo sapiens ignoramus
In Fail Safe I think I remember that the cockpit had multiple pilots in a single chamber. I would like to find time to see the movie again.
In _Fail Safe_ the airplane was a Vindicator, not a Hustler.
The lady is probably very nice but that low monotone voice is very annoying..... aircraft is interesting 🤔
It is good to learn the B-36 will soon undergo some TLC to correct years of baking in the sun. Hopefully at that time the gun sighting blisters will be removed and replaced with the plugs that are stored inside the airplane. A full set of blisters was made at Fort Worth by the B-36 restoration team from the original molds and were to be shipped to the Air Force Museum to be installed on the B-36 there. Unfortunately, the B-36 was moved from Fort Worth to PIMA Museum with the new blisters still stored inside the airplane. All B-36J airplanes had no sighting blisters.
What a lad! My uncle flew Boomerangs in New Guinea and there was at least one squadron of ‘havocs’ flown by the RAAF.😊
Why is it stripped? There's others in museums that are intact as if they landed and rolled into the hangar.
That is how all F-117As arrive at museums. The coating and lead edges are still classified and rather toxic, so the Air Force remove them before delivery. The team at Pima are refabricating the 'pointy bits' and working out the right paint for the enviroment as, at the moment, there isn't any room inside one of the hangers for the aircraft.
@@damcasterspod thx. i wasn't aware that they de-mil it for museums. It's nice to see them being displayed and a shame they gotta be outside where the sun and weather can beat it up.
We had one that crash landed on our place out at nadzab in PNG. It bellied in. Had no engines or instruments or armament n was missing its outer wings!.....but hey! I did some great virtual flying in this old gal before dad sold her off for scrap
Pretty cool coverage on a mostly overlooked aircraft!
I don’t know, I just recently went into a Apple Store to have my phone serviced. Because, I could barely hear anything on KZread or even talking on the phone. And once they have cleared up the speaker, I can hear just fine, even better than when I first got the phone. I could hear the sound very good, you all have done a great job on this video. I love these old planes. The generation of people back then were amazing. My grandma worked for the North American Aircraft Company building the radiator scoops for the P-51 Mustangs back in the day. She was a hell of a great person. I only wish I could be able to help work on these planes to keep them flying or even take something and make anything happen to rebuild them. That would be a big dream to follow in my grandmother’s footsteps. I just hope that they find someone with the technical expertise to keep them alive.
Good interview !
My uncle was a radio repair specialist in the 89th Bombardment Squadron (Light) in New Guinea, part of the 3rd Bombardment Group (Light) and Mr. Reierson would surely have flown joint missions with the 89th. The 89th produced a 150 page unit history in hardcopy at the end of the war and the photo he shows of an A-20 just above the smokestack of a Japanese ship is also reproduced in the 89th's history. I have a copy which I am sure he would like to see so reply and I may be in his part of the country this year. In the 50's the commanding general of the 14th AF at Warner Robins had an A-20 as his personal plane and it was a beauty, converted to carry 2-3 passengers and painted gloss black. You could do that then when you were a two star General!!
That is facinating! Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting indeed 👍
I could sit and listen to Mr Reierson all day... enjoyed this video very much. Respect✊🏾
Thanks for listening! It gets even better in part 2 when we pop Bob back in an A-20.
They didn't call it "Hustler" for nothing. Just make surer you watch out for baby birds. A machine like that is a real chick magnet.
The more i hear/read about the "butcher" bird the more I like it
Very interesting! In our ex-baracks in Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe they found a DB-605 engine from a Me-109 and a radial engine from a Ju-52 in a not bad condition. We have stored them in a barn here. We try to get those engines for our army museum. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe! 🫡🪖😺💪😎👍🍀🪖🍺💙🐺
+@wolfganggugelweith8760 My reference list is only showing two DB engines on display in Austria. There is a BMW 801 with a propeller and a DB 603 in the Aviaticum in Theresienfeld. My list is probably out of date. And there are a surprising number of relics that are not documented in private collections and museum storage.
@@FiveCentsPlease You are correct. Officially those both engines are not in a list. It was discovered by the monument office (Denkmalamt) of Upperaustria not long times ago. We from the army museum have a good relationship to the people of this office. We will see what happens. Perhaps they will give us both engines. They even found a VW Kübelwagen but in a bad condition and much more. Sorry I wrote Ju-88 but it’s a Ju-52 radial engine. The Aviaticum museum near Wiener Neustadt got a new location just now. I was in the old location to visit the Me-109 when we had an exercise with the army years ago. I was signal officer in the 4. Panzergrenadierbrigade until 3 years ago and now I am retired. I have a question: Where You come from? England? USA? ………. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe! 😎👍🪖🫡🏔🍺💪💙🐺
GREAT VIDEO!!!
I flew this aircraft when I was a pilot at H&P
My step dad was on the ground crews that serviced this aircraft type during WW2, He worked on the electrical systems. He was based in San Diego California, Before that,, he worked at the Martin bomber plant in Omaha Nebraska,
Great interview and tour! But you have to increase the volume!
C135 Variants work well for air sampling and related monitoring.
My AFSC was 99125B Special Electronics Technician with a Q+ Clearance, who used Seismographs and Seismometers to measure seismic waves generated by nuclear detonations back in the 1970's. We could collect data and monitor detonations across a wide spectrum of emissions using a variety of equipment. Including collecting air samples.
The J79's in my F4E Phantom developed approx. 18,000 lbs Thrust each on full burner. You said 15,000 on the B-58's J79's. Why the lower thrust? Didn't the Hustler get upgrades?
B-58 had -5A or -5B. F4E had the -17.
@Damcasterspod - I am sure you are probably already familiar with him, but, Christoph Bergs, who runs the Military Aviation History KZread Channel, would be a valuable resource for this team on the Fw-190 and any other German WW2 aircraft as he has direct access to the various German & Luftwaffa archives and, of course speaks German & English. It was just a thought, considering their need for authentic, original data and information from those who originally designed & built the aircraft. I would not be at all surprised if he's already talked with them, since has made several trips over here for the purpose of seeing warbirds, visiting aviation museums, etc.
Before they could build an FW-190, they had to build the tooling to make one. That’s impressive!
+@Jones607 Flash back to the early 1990s when the original tooling for the Yak-3 fighters was discovered in Russia and was used build a series of brand-new Yak-3 airframes typed as Yak-3M aircraft.
Thanks for the video!
You're welcome!
The sister plane to this one is crashed up in the hills behind my house. It crashed in 78 fighting fires both crew members died
I had the fortune to see her at the end of a runway in Fort Worth in the mid 1970s while going to a band contest at Six Flags Over Texas.
It was war.
That is an overly simplistic response, there is far more to it than just "war". Might be worth the checking out the follow up episode we did for the 80th anniversary of the April 1944 raid on Aachen, which was termed by the RAF as a Blitz Raid. Language matters as it shows what the thinking was.
man that sound was so low I forgot how cranked up it was, until the first ad came on and blew my ears out for mint mobile.
Sorry about that! New editing software and a tricky recording environment on the day.
61 year old machinist,would love to learn sheet metal work if a lived closer
im from norway. and i know the story abought the fw 190 s. and the one that were suposedly restored in texsas fore norway it ,were a fucking disaster .ive seen the airchraft my self and talked to some of the museum staff inn norway.
A labor of love and MONEY to keep these old girls running after they no longer earn their keep.
Excellent. Thank you for posting. A flying treasure.
Thanks for this👍
Excellent tour! I don't want to sound whiney but the volume is very low. I can turn up the volume to max, but when the midroll ads kick in, those end up blowing my eardrums out!
I apologise! I'm learning Resolve and the record input is proving tricky to balance. I'll get better, promise!
@@damcasterspod I think the biggest problem is the ads on YT are WAY too loud. I have to boost my audio in the editor and they are still half the volume of the ads or that music that plays during the countdown for premieres. Keep up the great work.
Great show on a wonderful airplane. Appreciate the heck out of the Gosses’ dedication to historic aircraft.
Awesome tour! Loved it! 🛩
Wonderful video again guys, too bad that nova hit at 28:09 :) That PBY is awesome!
Having worked in an aircraft factory, most people don't appreciate all the effort necessary to shoot all those rivets, over and over and over. Absolutely the noisiest job in the world with high speed drill motors and rivet guns, and more rivet guns these aircraft workers were the unsung heroes of world war II....😮
You're right about the noise. Both my parents worked in the Curtis Wright war plant in Buffalo, New York during WWII and talked about the noise.
@@jimfesta8981 of course the pilots and ground crew that worked on the early Jets lost a lot of hearing. In fact my dad has to play Fox News at near full volume as he was a jet pilot for over 20 years with the Air Force.
..we had two guys cd who played 'liars poker' with the rivet gun in one hand and a dollar bill in the other .. shooting/bucking rivets...
@jimfesta8981 at Sikorsky, thr custom when someone retired was to "bang them out" of the hangar..making as much of a racket as possible with rivet guns, banging gamers on any available metal. Etc..just happened to a good buddy of mine this past February..he had 44 years with the company l...