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You know... when I flew the Cutlass, I knew it was unsafe. So I quit. I left the Navy and joined the Army and became a Deep Space Seal Ranger..

Would love to have seen a heavy gun variant. Oh wait... The Warthog. 😋

All the guys with their drafting tables, t-squares and slide rules. Really cool.

I was stationed at Carswell AFB in Texas in the '70s and 80's in a section that recovered and launched aircraft that were just passing through, usually to refuel. I soon learned that the F-106s passing through had a somewhat unique occasional requirement for starting the engine for launch...if the engine didn't start rotating on the first try, all of the pilots carried a little ballpein hammer in the leg pocket of their flight suits, which you would get from the pilot, then open a hinged panel at the right aft of the fuselage by the engine bay, then use the hammer to smack the engine starter housing. Never failed to work...pilot turned the start switch and by golly, engine fires up as advertised! Button up the panel, give the hammer back to the pilot, and marshal the jet out to the taxiway. Job well done!

engines too weak for the plane. and if it had foreplanes and a better brakes and vents it might of not been so bad. i wonder if they had upscaled the engine and gave it better intakes would of made it better. yeah i agree with design internals being bad but the design of air intakes and engines it self bu the airframe wasn't bad. isn't bad. its american engines of the era where rubbish the P80 did okay because there was no way for it to overheat and it was NOT on the afterburners which cause why most of the accidents and know its the over heating. i know this is 2 weeks old but i saw this already. also hygrolic issues where common across the board at that time and it was from corruption in airforce/navy manufacturing. my family was one of those germans who was taken from operation paper clip. and btw those engines where american engines anmd where always small and pathetic back then. and that was where the problems mainly where. that and pilots didn't know about low stall speed on swept wings which is why they went back to the older designs. most of which was out of ignorance.

Some things are just iconic shapes. Mac Donald sign, Silhouette of Mickey Mouse, First Ford Mustang, First Corvette, Coke bottle. And the F 84.

"Five Ah" -> It's Five A (AYE), bot face.

There was a T-37 at Grissom AFB near Peru here in Indiana when I was a resident in the VA Medical system in the late 80s/early 90s, and I was doing a rotation at the base clinic for primary care experience. The flight surgeon used it to get his flight hours in. I remember watching him take off one day, and wishing I could have been going up in it with him.

Ridiculous title. The B-58 was hard to fly, and had some bad habits, but the pilots didn't have to be"the bravest". USAF pilots flew what they were assigned to. It's not like any could (or would) have declined to fly it. Having said that, it was a good video about one us the USAF's most innovative aircraft.

0:45: "becoming the only European warbird to shatter the Mach 2 barrier": First there is no Mach 2 "barrier" and second, it's not true since the French first pre-production Mirage III reached Mach2 on October 24th, 1958 while the Drakken broke "only" the sound barrier (Mach 1) the same year ... The first serial Mirage entered service in July 1961 and was considered as the 1st European fighter capable of Mach 2+ in level flight. The Drakken entered service in March 1960, before the Mirage indeed but ... in its first version J35A not capable of Mach 2. The first Drakken capable of Mach 2 was the J35D which flew on December 27th, 1960 (prototype) and entered service in 1963 ... 1:53: "these ennemy bombers": I didn't know America was an ennemy to Sweden 9:29: "super-stalls" stemming from its tailless design": this instability allowing the "cobra" manoeuvre presented as an asset is not really relevant since the "cobra" is not only useless in dog fight (unless the opponent doesn't react at all, the aircraft losing too much energy) but it doesn't solve anything w.r.t the pitch instability. The Mirage was a tailless fighter as well but didn't face these issues: it's a matter of design quality, not related to the tailless concept. "Twice the manoeuvrability of other single-engine jets of its time" is not true either. I understand that you love the Drakken, I do too but it's not a good reason to say so much rubbish

The Crusaders are GORGEOUS. The heading is BS.

Concord did it and had a glass of champagne in hand .

GREAT Post.....I love your site!!! I am a USAF Brat; remembering the 102 and the 106 at Tyndall AFB FL

Remember seeing this model kit in a local drug store, way back when they had model airplanes. Thought it was a so abnormal yet cool. At the time, 30 or so years ago I didn't realize it was an actual military air craft. The reason I never bought it.

Silly title but good documentary- at the time Convair build the fastest bomber, fighter and airliner…amazing (B-58, F-106, CV990)

I have a complaint: I subscribed to OnlyPlanes a month ago, and I **STILL** don't see any hard core content! No Plane-on-Plane, no instructors punishing naughty student pilots who don't perform their walkarounds -- NOTHING! What's the deal? Also, it's all the same old planes every time. Where's the New Hotness? You're leaving me unfulfilled and frustrated. This was NOT my idea of grabbing my stick and making good things happen.

AT-2 with VA-97 on the Carl Vinson, then shore tour with VA-122 at Lemoore. Sent off the last West Coast SLUFs to Davis-Monthan. Not the gyaru of aircraft design, perhaps, but capable and dependable, and in capable hands, quite graceful. IMO, they were gone too soon. Gotta agree with the numerous comments about Mr. Roboreader - kind of reminds me of an instructor we had in Millington for electronics training - the guy was so monotone that the entire class (about 15 of us) were searching for *any* legal means of staying awake - to the point of crushing No-Doz and snorting 'em! (worked well for about 5 minutes, but ripped up our sinuses pretty good - not recommended 😛)

The big reason why the A-7, capable as it was, was finally replaced was that both the F-16 and F-18 fighters were designed to carry a lot of air-to-ground munitions from the start.

Having seen one of these in person multiple times I can say that this video does the beauty of this plane zero justice

The Swedish F-104. A helluva plane. But its placement and use was quite different.

I was in the Navy when the A-7 was still in service. It wasn’t ugly at all. USN 85-91.

My favorite plane of all time.

Finally, the thumbnail shows a J37 Viggen, not the 35. I would call that clickbait, but it does not make sense. So let's call it just the worst research you could ever do.

This is-a-beast !!!

At 9:26, that is an F-16 being shown when talking about the A-7s state of the art systems. I'm not going to finish watching this because I can't trust anything in this video!

1:54 is a B-36 Peacemaker, not a TU-95. The B-36 is an American plane. What a fail you are.

God I wish I could watch these videos with a human narrating them.

One of the dumbest mistakes people can make right at the start: Lightyears ahead. This ahead thing is a time-related expression. A lightyear describes a certain distance. So to say that something is lightyears ahead is just plain stupid.

Sorry but... the angle attack augments, don't decrease.

It's a tweetie bird

They ALL began as "Experimental Designs"-

The T-37 Converter... It Converted fuel into noise!

Great aircraft. Worth every penny. Would you have purchased it if part of the cost had been deducted from your paycheck? Oh hell no.

@06:06. That looks an awful lot like a Taylor helmet?

My dad was a HH-43 rescue pilot. We moved to Bunker Hill AFB in fall of 1966 after he completed a remote tour at Korat in Thailand. I was 11 and we lived on base, which was a fantastic experience. I remember waking up in the middle of the night and listening to more than a dozen B-58s taking off with full afterburners. Lots of my friends' dads were NCOs, pilots, navigators, and DSOs. Unfortunately, there were crashes (3 while I was there if I remember correctly), one of my neighbors on the block included. I remember one while we were going walking home from school for lunch and there was a big cloud of black smoke towards the flight line. I was there when Bunker Hill became Grissom AFB - there was huge airshow and my boy scout troop (369) served a lot of refreshments.

The B36 was an enemy bomber? Since when?

Once the war was over... the military got rid of these planes because they were cheap and effective. Not your typical govt boondoggle that has tens of thousands of jobs scattered across 15 states and 3 countries. RIP Super Tweet

They should have kept them and updated them with new engines, avionics, computers, electronic warfare suite, and aesa radar.

This plane looks like a problem...20% crashed?

Looking for a notice.

Plus, it's sexy looks helped.

I always think of the anime/mange/videogame Area 88 when the A7 gets mentioned

I love beautiful aircraft and she is one cutie.

Like an oversized MiG-21, Convair's award-winning 'hot rod' B-58 Hustler was THE bad-ass bomber beauty of its time. I know because my uncle, a B-58 DSO (LtCol retired), told me so.

Growing up in North Little Rock, Arkansas, I used to see the Hustlers flying overhead.

I like how in the comments everyone's father was a pilot or engineer on this project. sure jan. ok.

F-4 Cosair??? That was an F-8 Cosair, it was a pure gun/dog fighter. Ground attacking F-8??? Invasion?

At 4:16 you are showing the Gloster E.28/39, not a Meteor. This aircraft was built as a testbed for development of Whittle jet engines.

A VC10 can get to mach .98. That's an airliner.

Seems like it sort of set the table as a precursor to the A10.