In February 1971 our Unit was at Howard AFB and a RB-57F tail # 63-13298 was there and I got several pictures of it on the ramp. It had the 3,000 lb thrust J60 s mounted on pylons out board of the main TF-33 engines. That tail # is one of 3 flying with NASA now. When it took off the climb rate of almost 6,000 fpm was unreal with those huge 122 foot long wide cord wings. ! Initially total of 21 were built.
Just finished experiencing a total eclipse in person in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Had some thin cloud to deal with, but it thankfully wasn't thick enough to prevent an awesome extended view of the total eclipse. Amazing stuff.
Thanks Juan, this was awesome! I happen to live just south of Ellington Field, where the WB-57Fs are based. I always watch them when they fly over - beautiful birds! It's great to follow them on a mission.
Thanks for all these updates, Juan. Watched the live recording and it was really interesting. Thanks for showing us all who missed it. Being in Greece this was late at night here
I flew a Citation X for 18 years and just happen to fly in the path of the total eclipse in August of 2017. It was so dark I had to turn the cockpot lighting on in the cockpit. It lasted about 2 minutes.
My UPT 66C classmate at Reese AFB, Roger Zweig was a T-37 FAIP. After Reese he joined the Guard unit at Ellington and soon got hired by NASA as an IP and ultimately head T-38 IP for NASA. Roger became the ultimate T-38 jock and amassed what was probably a record in flying time in the Talon. Over 10,000 hrs. A lot when you figure 1+30 average mission lengths. One day in 2010 I stopped off at EFD to visit Roger and was surprised to see the WB-57’s sitting there on the ramp. They were flying research missions over the arctic circle all ye was to the North Pole. We had a Flt Commander KIA in a ground attack mission in 1967 in the B-57 in SEA. NASA pilots fly sone unysual missions in some awesome missions. Thanks for the Eclipse story Juan. We observed the eclipse out at the farm near Gilmer here in East Texas.
I was in Martin plant years ago when the B57s were being up graded with a longer wingspan. It improved the capabilities as a reconnaissance aircraft. Years after that I was in SAC Plattsburgh NY and there was an air guard unit operating RB57s out of Burlington Vt.
At totality my neighbor and I saw two stars to the right of the eclipse, and all the street lights came on for four minutes. Forgot to use my 20 X 50 binoculars. Am glad you took the trip along with the WB-57 jets. It seems to me they would use a faster aircraft for something like this.
WB-57...highly modified from the British Canberra and the US B-57 The Canberra first flew in 1949...one of the first jet aircraft. 75 years later the heavily modified Canberra design is still performing missions.
Fantastic to see the last of the -57Fs and crews still at it! A few of the tail --#s-- were prior RB-57Fs from my dad's old (AFSS) 556RS, at Yokota AB, 1966-70. They operated RC-130s, R/EB-57Es (short-wing), RB-57Fs (long-wing), and also recon drones from M/DC-130s from South Vietnam. At Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, 1979/80, three of them (same tail --#s--) came up to do photo survey work around Alaska -- still had USAF markings, but mostly "NASA Earth Survey" livery. I was privileged to take a few of the air & ground crew flying over some glaciers -- they had been great about letting me hang around and take photos of the ground/Mx work, for days. The jets have been pared way down since then (removed the two pod-mounted, outboard engines, etc.), but they are still unique and stunning to see in the air. Thank you Juan, and to each of the folks who contribute the outstanding tech support/links which keeps your channel the First Stop for credibility.
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Watched it with the old classic pinhole-in-cardboard rig here in Atlanta. About 60% totality.
Amazing a 1950's bomber is a NASA research aircraft, even in Oz they were retired in the 70's. Juan can you do a look into the many aircraft that are not registered, have N/A to N/A destinations. What we see in Australia is they get connected to 'geo engineering'. The aircraft fly high altitude letting off flares to stimulate the weather cycle. Just so spooky how the shadow affects the earth. And we have already seen earthquakes associated with this event. I bet there are more to come. Everything is connected.
Fort Worth, TX. Got to see it all, as the clouds parted. Factoid: the eclipse is traveling across the globe at 1,655 mph. The SR 71 could outrun it...until it needed more fuel.
@HBSunsets-on2ke , Yep. It could track longer and at close to 100,000 feet it could have done tons more research. I guess Elon will do it for us one day. NASA is letting us down lately.
@@bogeys1242 Well, for lots more research you can of course launch a satellite, and that indeed was done. Probably that is why these plane chases get less attention these days. In 1973 the eclipse was chased for well over an hour by a prototype Concorde plane. It still exists, but not in airworthy condition anymore, and apparently nobody would spend the money to get it back.
Saw it in Jackman, Maine. Right in the crosshairs. Dead center of the umbra. Not a cloud in the sky from horizon to horizon. Beautiful woodland hills & sprawling snow-sheeted terrain. And the temp was up near the 60s before totality dropped it down by ~20 degrees. It was un-be-lievable. ❤
Niagara Canada was awesum. Total darkness, was surreal. You felt like uit was not real. Burds were all quuet. Sunset tiwards Toronto over niagara river.
I was in the woods of New Hampshire cleaning up storm debri that fell on a family cemetery I found a year ago when I finally bought my first and last house at 54 when everything got silent. Had lost track of time and made it to my shop just in time to see if my auto darkening welding mask would work. It worked perfectly so I shared it with neighbors as those cheap disposable glasses are dangerous as they do not block the wave lenghts that do permanent damage to your eyes.
As people are staring at the for, at the extreme, an hour, i very much doubt any quote "damaging wavelengths" that could make it through those sun shades will do any actual damage to anyone's eyes. 🙄
Drove about 11 hours to SE Missouri chasing clear skies. Cloud predictions even the morning of I'd say weren't totally accurate. But close. What amazed me is with over 90% of the sun covered you still couldn't tell any difference in day light. But you could tell the sun was looking smaller in the sky. Then at about 95% covered you could start to notice it getting darker. Then at totality it literally went dark in a split second. Like someone turned off the lights! It was worth it!
We were spoiled here in Greenville, SC…we had an amazing total solar eclipse on Aug 21, 2017 and yesterday (April 8, 2024) we had an 85% eclipse…sunny skies for both events 👍 🌞 🌖
Indeed, she is. However N747NA is poorly displayed...its situated behind several hangers, out in the dirt, with her mains sinking into the dirt and gravel. Got out there just last week, on Thursday, 11/4/24 - after viewing the Total Solar Eclipse from Mineola,Texas. I must say, I was disappointed in seeing her there. I’ve been aboard her in all 3 liveries, Pan Am (N536PA), United (N145UA) and NASA. Hopefully, the folks at Pima will find a more appropriate location for Clipper Lindbergh!!!
I would figure they gathered the data in the area that they made the previous hold. the previous hold would gather control data, the second pass through would gather the eclipse data.
53:49 Its considerably brighter in person, as i can now confirm! 😂 You can totally look at it, perfectly safely. But its a fair bit brighter than it looks here. Remarkably so really. EDIT: 1:04:20 Yup, exactly like that except completely sterile white.
Interesting modifications to the original English Electrics Canberra /Martin B-57. Increased wingspan for high altitudes, bigger more modern engines with nacelles protecting forward of the wing and therefore a much bigger vertical stabiliser (fin) to compensate. B737 did the same when re-engining the Jurassic to the Classic when Boeing had to add a dorsal in front of the original straight fin.
Umbra is the main dark shadow in the centre of the shadow track. pen-umbra is the narrow fuzzy partial shadow on each edge of the umbra caused by the size of the light source parallax with the shadowing object.
Boise here, we got nuthin! Didn't even go outside, just hunkered down! Juan, if you're mot careful, this could cause your channel to get a flood of exposure! A la, the 'dam' thing... (scuse my memory has left me!).😊
@@blancolirio A search suggests they were modified B57s built between 1953 and 1957! I wonder how many seventy year old airframes are still in harness?
Thanks!
Thanks Dana!!
In February 1971 our Unit was at Howard AFB and a RB-57F tail # 63-13298 was there and I got several pictures of it on the ramp. It had the 3,000 lb thrust J60 s mounted on pylons out board of the main TF-33 engines. That tail # is one of 3 flying with NASA now. When it took off the climb rate of almost 6,000 fpm was unreal with those huge 122 foot long wide cord wings. ! Initially total of 21 were built.
In Rockwall Texas we had 100% coverage . Pitch dark for a few minutes. We saw the flare on the lower right.
Just finished experiencing a total eclipse in person in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Had some thin cloud to deal with, but it thankfully wasn't thick enough to prevent an awesome extended view of the total eclipse. Amazing stuff.
Had a great view in Evansville,Indiana.
Thanks Juan, this was awesome! I happen to live just south of Ellington Field, where the WB-57Fs are based. I always watch them when they fly over - beautiful birds! It's great to follow them on a mission.
Clouds parted just enough for stunning view from DFW area! Amazing!
I saw the Diamond Ring and a solar flare on the lower right!
I was in Emory TX! Clouds parted just in time there too!
Partial eclipse here in Arizona. Still a wonderful experience
Thanks for all these updates, Juan. Watched the live recording and it was really interesting. Thanks for showing us all who missed it. Being in Greece this was late at night here
Juan, you are usually calm and collected, nice to see your enthusiasm and excitement !
I saw those NASA WB-57s operating out of Kandahar. Those big turbofans are TF-33's the same engines different series that were on the C-141.
Juan, this was really fun coverage to watch. I came by here on eclipse evening to see the rest of it. Really well done.
Well done, Juan. You managed to host a cracking stream! Well prepared as well!
I flew a Citation X for 18 years and just happen to fly in the path of the total eclipse in August of 2017. It was so dark I had to turn the cockpot lighting on in the cockpit. It lasted about 2 minutes.
Had a great show here in Southlake , TX
I live in DFW, the clouds cleared up just in time. So cool, It was almost completely dark, so we could see stars at 1:30 in the afternoon.
Bloody fantastic! Thanks JB!
My UPT 66C classmate at Reese AFB, Roger Zweig was a T-37 FAIP. After Reese he joined the Guard unit at Ellington and soon got hired by NASA as an IP and ultimately head T-38 IP for NASA. Roger became the ultimate T-38 jock and amassed what was probably a record in flying time in the Talon. Over 10,000 hrs. A lot when you figure 1+30 average mission lengths. One day in 2010 I stopped off at EFD to visit Roger and was surprised to see the WB-57’s sitting there on the ramp. They were flying research missions over the arctic circle all ye was to the North Pole. We had a Flt Commander KIA in a ground attack mission in 1967 in the B-57 in SEA. NASA pilots fly sone unysual missions in some awesome missions. Thanks for the Eclipse story Juan. We observed the eclipse out at the farm near Gilmer here in East Texas.
I was in Martin plant years ago when the B57s were being up graded with a longer wingspan. It improved the capabilities as a reconnaissance aircraft. Years after that I was in SAC Plattsburgh NY and there was an air guard unit operating RB57s out of Burlington Vt.
At totality my neighbor and I saw two stars to the right of the eclipse, and all the street lights came on for four minutes. Forgot to use my 20 X 50 binoculars. Am glad you took the trip along with the WB-57 jets. It seems to me they would use a faster aircraft for something like this.
Absolutely amazing view of the eclipse from the DFW area.
Juan, I couldn't watch live, but I
sure did after work. Excellent programming from you, as usual. Thank you!
It was really cool here in Chicagoland....CLEAR skies...cooled off a bit....then that really neat twilight effect
WB-57...highly modified from the British Canberra and the US B-57
The Canberra first flew in 1949...one of the first jet aircraft.
75 years later the heavily modified Canberra design is still performing missions.
Concorde chased totality for 74 minutes in 1973.
I'm about an hour north of Chicago!!! It's darkened a tad out by us. Can't wait am outside. Even got my 25 yr old out with me ❤
Used our viewing box in Walla Walla, WA. About 20% eclipse
Aloha eastern Washington
Fantastic to see the last of the -57Fs and crews still at it! A few of the tail --#s-- were prior RB-57Fs from my dad's old (AFSS) 556RS, at Yokota AB, 1966-70. They operated RC-130s, R/EB-57Es (short-wing), RB-57Fs (long-wing), and also recon drones from M/DC-130s from South Vietnam. At Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, 1979/80, three of them (same tail --#s--) came up to do photo survey work around Alaska -- still had USAF markings, but mostly "NASA Earth Survey" livery. I was privileged to take a few of the air & ground crew flying over some glaciers -- they had been great about letting me hang around and take photos of the ground/Mx work, for days. The jets have been pared way down since then (removed the two pod-mounted, outboard engines, etc.), but they are still unique and stunning to see in the air. Thank you Juan, and to each of the folks who contribute the outstanding tech support/links which keeps your channel the First Stop for credibility.
Watched it with the old classic pinhole-in-cardboard rig here in Atlanta. About 60% totality.
Yes! That was method we back in '65!!
Hi
Here in Kingston, Canada it was a bit of a rip off - full cloud cover but got the darker of dark. Wow.
Watching from Florida Panhandle. We are only going to get 76%, and now its getting lighter. Went out and using a box got indirect views.
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Gotcha loud and clear in Mississippi
Got a great photo because of a passing cloud to get the 87-92% here in Wisconsin.
Great view at Wrightsville Beach NC but max of 68% or so.
You are live in New Brunswick Canada. We will have a minute to three here of total eclipse
Loud and clear in Michigan!
Amazing a 1950's bomber is a NASA research aircraft, even in Oz they were retired in the 70's. Juan can you do a look into the many aircraft that are not registered, have N/A to N/A destinations. What we see in Australia is they get connected to 'geo engineering'. The aircraft fly high altitude letting off flares to stimulate the weather cycle. Just so spooky how the shadow affects the earth. And we have already seen earthquakes associated with this event. I bet there are more to come. Everything is connected.
Fort Worth, TX. Got to see it all, as the clouds parted.
Factoid: the eclipse is traveling across the globe at 1,655 mph. The SR 71 could outrun it...until it needed more fuel.
@HBSunsets-on2ke , Yep. It could track longer and at close to 100,000 feet it could have done tons more research.
I guess Elon will do it for us one day. NASA is letting us down lately.
@@bogeys1242 Well, for lots more research you can of course launch a satellite, and that indeed was done.
Probably that is why these plane chases get less attention these days.
In 1973 the eclipse was chased for well over an hour by a prototype Concorde plane.
It still exists, but not in airworthy condition anymore, and apparently nobody would spend the money to get it back.
It’s 90% over in Akron Cleveland area Of Ohio
Saw it in Jackman, Maine. Right in the crosshairs. Dead center of the umbra.
Not a cloud in the sky from horizon to horizon. Beautiful woodland hills & sprawling snow-sheeted terrain. And the temp was up near the 60s before totality dropped it down by ~20 degrees.
It was un-be-lievable. ❤
Hamilton Texas was perfect. Great experience.
Yes - hello from Mobile, AL
Drove 10 hours to Missouri and had fantastic skies.
Had a great show with the clouds for dramatic effect in the metroplex
Darkened quite a bit here S. of St. Louis, MO
Even in Columbus, Ga, it’s much darker.
IM Over in your "area" thanks for the reporting Brownie
My brother is in Cleveland today
Saw the solar eclipse with my own eyes!
Its fine, only sex makes you go blind.
thank you for the work you do,
The birds are going crazy around Akron and Cleveland. They don’t know what’s happening.
Alfred Hitchcock returns!!
Akron Cleveland are almost all dark now
got cold n dark,215 to 3,like winter sun 430 Pm birds shut down go dormant,, no tweeting ,,humans tweeting like crazy man
We had overcast skies in Prescott, AZ. Wouldn’t have seen much here anyway.
Dramatic halo effect here in Independence Kansas.
The Sophia was donated to an air museum as government surplus last year
Niagara Canada was awesum. Total darkness, was surreal. You felt like uit was not real. Burds were all quuet. Sunset tiwards Toronto over niagara river.
I was in the woods of New Hampshire cleaning up storm debri that fell on a family cemetery I found a year ago when I finally bought my first and last house at 54 when everything got silent. Had lost track of time and made it to my shop just in time to see if my auto darkening welding mask would work. It worked perfectly so I shared it with neighbors as those cheap disposable glasses are dangerous as they do not block the wave lenghts that do permanent damage to your eyes.
As people are staring at the for, at the extreme, an hour, i very much doubt any quote "damaging wavelengths" that could make it through those sun shades will do any actual damage to anyone's eyes.
🙄
All clouds in Minneapolis
Able to see it in spite of the clouds in Dallas
Idk if you saw, Juan. But that Gulfstream at 47:15 was hanging around at FL45. Just 5k below the WB57s.
Thats surprisingly close.
We’re about 20mins out and in Cleveland
I looked at the sun and then saud to myself.. oh jeez i guess you cant look directly at the sun 😂😅
Drove about 11 hours to SE Missouri chasing clear skies. Cloud predictions even the morning of I'd say weren't totally accurate. But close. What amazed me is with over 90% of the sun covered you still couldn't tell any difference in day light. But you could tell the sun was looking smaller in the sky. Then at about 95% covered you could start to notice it getting darker. Then at totality it literally went dark in a split second. Like someone turned off the lights! It was worth it!
We were spoiled here in Greenville, SC…we had an amazing total solar eclipse on Aug 21, 2017 and yesterday (April 8, 2024) we had an 85% eclipse…sunny skies for both events 👍 🌞 🌖
At about the 4 o'clock position of the sun at 55 min 46 sec. Is that a solar flare?! Thank you anyone for clarification.
DFW area broke cloud cover about 1/2 hr before beginning thru totality, next event will be severe weather watch later this afternoon.
Sofia is in the Pima air musem
Indeed, she is. However N747NA is poorly displayed...its situated behind several hangers, out in the dirt, with her mains sinking into the dirt and gravel. Got out there just last week, on Thursday, 11/4/24 - after viewing the Total Solar Eclipse from Mineola,Texas. I must say, I was disappointed in seeing her there. I’ve been aboard her in all 3 liveries, Pan Am (N536PA), United (N145UA) and NASA. Hopefully, the folks at Pima will find a more appropriate location for Clipper Lindbergh!!!
The ISS view was the best!!!
I see and hear you
The street lights might come on here in N.C. I've seen it before.
It didn't happen this time. I was kind of a non-event. I did get a good shot of the sun having to shoot through my safety glasses with my Canon RP,
It's not total, until it's total.
Loud and clear
Great job thanks so cool
Hi,
Are the research jets able to air refuel?
Thx.
Nope.
I would figure they gathered the data in the area that they made the previous hold. the previous hold would gather control data, the second pass through would gather the eclipse data.
Thanks, Juan! Saved me the trouble of being concerned about that which I've previously seen in 1963!
PS Coronas are for drinking IMHO!
Hi
Loud and clear
53:49
Its considerably brighter in person, as i can now confirm! 😂
You can totally look at it, perfectly safely.
But its a fair bit brighter than it looks here.
Remarkably so really.
EDIT: 1:04:20
Yup, exactly like that except completely sterile white.
I ALWAYS get a window seat. Can't take my eyes away from outside.
The eclipse was eclipsed by thin high clouds here in Phoenix
load and clear
Interesting modifications to the original English Electrics Canberra /Martin B-57. Increased wingspan for high altitudes, bigger more modern engines with nacelles protecting forward of the wing and therefore a much bigger vertical stabiliser (fin) to compensate. B737 did the same when re-engining the Jurassic to the Classic when Boeing had to add a dorsal in front of the original straight fin.
Umbra is the main dark shadow in the centre of the shadow track. pen-umbra is the narrow fuzzy partial shadow on each edge of the umbra caused by the size of the light source parallax with the shadowing object.
Watch out for those Triffids
Concorde looks fantastic at Boeing field Seattle
It was good in SW Ohio...!
Signal is 5x5
I here you 😅
What eclipse? I stare up at the sun and all I see is my cornea melting? 🤷♂😂😂🌞👀
Yep, did that in1963, haven't seen anything since!!
Boise here, we got nuthin! Didn't even go outside, just hunkered down!
Juan, if you're mot careful, this could cause your channel to get a flood of exposure! A la, the 'dam' thing...
(scuse my memory has left me!).😊
What year were those airframes?
64?
@@blancolirio A search suggests they were modified B57s built between 1953 and 1957! I wonder how many seventy year old airframes are still in harness?
Eclipse excursion on runway 8C at O’Hare
MUST get your comments on the "female United Airlines Pilot makes a scene" Can't believe what I just watched.
I see an airprox …
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5 x 5
Yuppers
Those passengers arent gonna see much, with these tiny little hand-sized windows modern airliners have.
English Elecric
We can hear you loud and clear